Why won't the British royal family consent to a DNA test for prince Harry?

Question

Is it because they know that he is the son of James Hewitt, and they are trying to protect Charles from the shame of having been cockooled?
By the way, the gene for red hair is recessive. It has to be inherited from both parents. Any redheads in the royal family?

Answer 1

Why should they worry about DNA tests? Does it matter? Why should Charles be worried about Diana sleeping around when he was doing the same thing? Mind you, had it happened a few hundred years ago, Diana would have been beheaded or burnt at the stake for treason.

Answer 2

Firstly, why should the British royal family have Harry's DNA tested? Your statement is quite libelous, and if you looked at the TV interview the other night, the boys are looking more and more alike. Harry has curly hair, Wills has straight hair, but their features are very similar.
The gene for red hair does not have to be inherited from both parents. It can be a recessive gene but, like blue eyes that pop up in a brown eyed family, can be the deciding factor. Everything doesn't go by Mendel's charts! Humans are not beans or peas that are bred true for generation after generation. They are an admixture that draws from hundreds of very varied sources.
And just to answer your last question, yes, there are redheads in the royal family.

Answer 3

Since both of the Duke of York's daughters have Red Hair that proves that there is a red hair gene in the Royal family. Therefore it follows that Charles may have inherited it as well and passed it on to Harry as Diana definitely had it in her genes (her father was red-haired when he was young).

Harry looks amazingly like Prince Philip (except for the hair colour) and James Hewitt has stated a number of times that he and Diana didn't start having an affairuntil after harry had been born (by two years or so).

Stop looking for a scandal where there isn't one.

Answer 4

Just food for thought.

Red hair is a recessive gene, but if a gene mutates... which is more common than you think. It is possible to get a different color hair.

And... maybe the infidelity wasn't with Diana... but rather somewhere else down the royal line... and because Red is recessive, it has been passed down secretly in the royal blood line.

AND most importantly... don't you think this is a private matter that should be discussed and handled by the family, and not the public. How would you feel if the whole world was questioning your genetic relations to his only known father.

In conclusion... I think you should mind your own business. Harrys a big boy now, if he questioned his genetic relations he could get the DNA test done. And if HE doesn't question it, then you shouldn't. So... :P.

Answer 5

Well, I can think of 3 perfectly good reasons:

1. There is no reason to doubt that Harry is Charles' son. As many here have pointed out, Diana's family, the Spencers, have many redheads (in varying degrees of red), including her father, brother and sister. Also, Harry not only clearly resembles his maternal family, but is very reminiscent of several of his father's relatives, including his grandfather. Furthermore, according to reports of those both sympathetic and unsympathetic to Diana, she did not meet Hewitt until after Harry was born.

2. It is irrelevant - whether the public believes Harry is the son of Charles or not, he bears Charles' name and is accepted by Charles and his family. If they had doubts, I'm sure they would have a way of finding out, but ultimately, Harry is not the heir presumptive, William is, and no one doubts his parentage. Charles has raised Harry as his son for years, so in the end, whether he is biologically and genetically related to Charles, he is his son. And since Harry does not actually stand to inherit the throne, barring disaster, it is not any of the public's business. With the Civil List curtailed, only a few members of the Royal Family receive an income from the government, and it is unlikely that Harry will be among those who do (I believe only the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Charles still receive funds, but I might be mistaken). Therefore, anything he does inherit as a result of his supposed parentage will be no more of public concern than the inheritance of any other millionaire's son.

3. A DNA test for a member of a Royal Family is unheard of....you have to remember, neither Charles nor Diana were the first royals to have affairs. There are many cases in history of questionable parentage- Edward III was widely rumored to be the son of a man other than Edward II, although these claims are now disputed. And ultimately, whether a hypothetical test proved Harry was Charles' son or not, the Windsors still loose. If it proves his isn't Charles' son, obviously there would be a terrible scandal, one that surely Harry wouldn't want as it would only bismirch his mother's reputation. However, even if it proved that Harry was legitimate, it would be clear that the doubt was there. Also, what signal would it send to poor Harry - despite the fact that you have been a member of this family for all your life, if your mother cheated and you were the result, we no longer want you - quite a statement.

I think the Royal Family will and should deal with this as they always do....keep family matters that are not relevant to their duties to the country private and personal. However well we may think we know them, we don't even begin to comprehend, so for heaven's sake, lets just let them alone. Surely with her many years of service to Britain, Elizabeth has earned that.

Answer 6

Admittedly, red hair comes from a recessive gene that both parents have to inherit, but that doesn't necessarily mean that either both parents themselves, or even their parents, have to have red hair. Case in point: Both my brother and sister-in-law have blond hair, but their youngest son (out of four children) is a red head. Neither my mother nor dad had red hair either; they had blond and brown hair respectively. But my maternal grandmother as well as two of my mother's five siblings had red or auburn hair, and three out of my nine maternal cousins have either auburn or strawberry blond hair as well. I don't know that much about my sister-in-law's family, but I only recall seeing blond or light brown hair.

Similarly, I don't know about the hair color of past Windsors, Mountbattens, or Bowes-Lyons, but certainly the Spencers have inherited the red-haired gene since Diana's younger brother, Charles, 9th Earl Spencer is a red head. Of course, part of the rational behind not seeking a DNA test for Harry might be that other Royals might have their legitimacy called into question.

Answer 7

At least one of Harry's cousins (either Eugenie or Beatrice, possibly both) is a redhead, so either there is a red hair gene in the royal family, or James Hewitt was an extremely busy boy back in the 80s.

Answer 8

Yes, there has been redheads in the royal family and the most famous would be King Henry VIII and his daughter Queen Elisabeth the 1st. I also believe Queen Victoria was a red head , not sure about Diannas family but possibly - so yes, Harry can still be the son of Charles.

Answer 9

you could be right on that but the reason for the DNA test not consenting is due to the missing king of England you see if you traced the Hanover family tree you will find the queens conection is via to female which where not Queens Elizabeth Stuart and Sophia Hanover decended from James I stuart.

and the missing kings family tree is Beaumont then Campbell And then to james I stuart Earl of moray son of James V and lady Margret who is daughter of Henry VII
and the Campbell's Archibald Douglas 8th side connects to 3 of James I including his son James II and including King David I
and a lot of other kings

this makes the royal family invalid as claimants to the thrown even if you add prince Philip into it as he lost all of his rights when wed to Elizabeth

so a DNA test done on the royals would be messy to connect to James I stuart
via male line this is why Elizabeth had to wed Prince Philip from his German DNA connection if you whereto investigate the Hanover family before Victoria and albert you are not likely to not find a male YDNA match to royalty
you will need to excluded any German descendants Mountbatten

so the royals do not wish a DNA investigation into any of there siblings as it may end up as a investigation into the whole family and Elizabeth being no more than a cousin of the missing king who would be English and Scottish and Irish.

Answer 10

There is no need to, he is Charles' son. The British upper class have an unwritten code where the woman breeds 2 children in the first 5 years of marriage or so with her husband to retain the lineage. After that it is open season and fun fest begins.....many males revert back to bisexuality from their boarding school habits, and the neglected females are ready to by wooed by the young bucks...Every body has a jolly good time.

Answer 11

Zara Phillips has blonde hair neither of her parents do.Beatrice is a Redhead and Harry looks exactly like a male version of Diana's sister Sarah.There is more chance of Camilla's children being Charles than the other way round and look at Prince Andrew he doesn't look like any of his siblings but that doesn't mean he is not their brother.