Meanwhile, she had a nagging fear that, at any moment, her enemies in the Palace would have her classified as mentally ill and locked away.
There were two problems with this: she wouldn’t have been allowed to keep them there, and the public would have considered her behaviour irrational and hysterical. Her first thought was to pack her bags and flee to Australia with her young sons. In short, she was coming to realise that unless she took drastic action, she faced a life sentence of unhappiness and dishonesty. Then she’d talked to the Queen, but it was like facing a blank wall. The princess would send snippets of information to the journalist, which he would turn into news storiesĭiana had spoken with Charles about his mistress and been dismissed. As her friend, of course, James was well aware that her marriage had failed and that her husband was having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.ĭiana sent the information to Andrew via a go-between, Dr James Colthurst. Gradually, James and I became friendly, enjoying games of squash. An Old Etonian and the son of a baronet, I discovered he had known Diana since she was 17. The key, it turned out, was Dr James Colthurst, whom I met in 1986 when the Princess opened a new CT scanner in his X-ray department at St Thomas’ hospital in Central London, where he worked as a junior doctor.Īfterwards, over tea and biscuits, I questioned him about Diana’s visit. So why did she trust me with the true story of her marriage?
But our conversations had seldom ventured beyond comments about my loud ties. He wrote: 'She was pouring out a tale of woe in a rapid stream of consciousness.' Pictured on her honeymoon in 1981Īs a journalist who chronicled the work of the Royal Family, I’d met the Prince and Princess on many occasions. Princess Diana made a series of recordings for Andrew Morton where she described her sense of betrayal, her suicide attempts and her struggle with bulimia.
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