In some ways, Diana, 33, had been prepared for the fact that tale tellers were monitoring her relationship with Hewitt (who volunteered to teach her riding after they met at a 1986 party). In 1991—about five years after Hewitt claims the affair began—his ex-girlfriend Emma Stewardson told the press that she was "torn apart" by his relationship with Di. That same year, The Sun reported that Di and Hewitt had met secretly at a house in London and that he had bragged to a friend about their "physical relationship." And in September 1992, Hewitt's groom, Lance Cpl. Malcolm Leete, revealed that he had spied the two in an embrace in the riding-school arena at Windsor in the fall of 1988.