Princess Diana
New book reveals their “dangerous strategy” to escape security
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It is no secret that Princess Diana and Prince Charles had an unhappy marriage. But what the royal risked in order to find happiness apart from their bleak love affair remained unknown – until now.
How far did Princess Diana, † 36, go to escape her royal life in Kensington Palace? In the book “The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana”, the two authors Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac get to the bottom of this and other questions and shed light on the connection between the royal family and the secret services. Her research is said to have brought to light, among other things, the dangerous carelessness of Prince Charles’ first wife. Diana was a master at escaping.
Princess Diana made life a torture for her security guards
Whether to see her lover James Hewitt, 63, with whom Lady Di had an affair until 1992, or to live out her freedom on a walk through London: According to the book, Princess Diana missed no opportunity to escape the palace walls. To the displeasure of your security. “Diana was the worst. Early on in their marriage, she became pretty good at defrauding her own security agents,” read a passage from The Secret Royals.
“Like a secret service agent, she knew how to evade her tail. That regularly caused panic when the royal lackeys noticed that she had snuck into King’s Road to shop, only protected by fashionable sunglasses,” “Mail quoted Online “the Royal Authors. Her plan may sound like an adventure, but Richard Aldrich is certain that Diana’s “reckless” behavior ultimately led to her death.
Richard Aldrich: “Your decision to remove the security forces had a fatal consequence”
“One of the things that we find most fascinating is how dangerous the life of the royal family really is,” said the historian in an interview with WGN News. Despite all the attempted attacks and kidnapping maneuvers on Prince Charles, 72, or Princess Anne, 71, Diana kept sneaking away. She is said to have even jumped from the first floor during a visit to Austria to escape her bodyguards. Her thirst for freedom was so great that after her divorce from Charles she refused to be supervised and protected by security.
“Your decision in 1993 to deliberately dismiss the security forces had a fatal consequence, as we know,” said Aldrich. He asserts that Diana’s car accident in Paris in 1997 would never have been possible if the Royal Bodyguards had been by her side.
Sources used: mirror.co.uk, WGN News, theguardian.com