9 secrets of Princess Diana that the world has learned after her death
'27.08.2020'
Source: NewsRoyal
Many scandalous facts from the life of Diana and the entire royal family became known only after her death. It was then that the world heard the audio recordings that the princess made during her lifetime, says NewsRoyal.
Even 20 years after her untimely death, we still learn shocking and even gloomy facts about the personal life of a truly people's princess.
Recorded my thoughts on tape
Much of what we know about the personal life of Princess Diana became known thanks to audio tapes that she recorded herself. Once Lady Dee found out that her marriage to Prince Charles was falling apart, she documented her side of the story on a tape recorder and handed the tapes over to her close friend, Dr. James Colthurst.
He passed them on to journalist Andrew Morton so that her words could go public. From these tapes, Morton published a biography of Diana in 1992. No one knew that the princess had a hand in the production of the book even before her death.
Her sister dated Prince Charles
There are certain ways to improve your relationship with your older sister, but not necessarily having a boyfriend in common is one of them. Before Diana and Charles began living together, he dated her sister Sarah. Sarah introduced Diana and Charles to each other when Diana was just 16 years old and later called herself their Cupid.
On the subject: Princess Diana's sister could have become the wife of Prince Charles, but ruined everything in one interview.
Her grandmother worked for the queen
One of the most intriguing little things is that the Queen Mother was a close friend of Princess Diana's grandmother, Ruth Ferma. She was one of Her Majesty's maids of honor and later bore the title of woman in the bedchamber, that is, she was the queen's right hand and helped in important social affairs.
Diana and Charles had blood ties
The royal family tree can be quite complex. Lady Dee and Prince Charles were distant cousins. They are both descendants of the House of Tudors through Henry VII in England.
There was no passion in a relationship with Charles.
In her tapes, Princess Diana spoke in detail about her family life, even called her wedding day "the worst day in her life."
In particular, she talked for a long time about the lack of a full-fledged intimate life, they say, she and her husband had sex, but it was "very strange." By the time she made the notes, their love life had been cracked for seven years. Diana said: “He did not need sex ... It seems like just three weeks ... and I thought everything was going according to the template. is he met his lady Camilla every three weeks before we got married. "
She ruined her wedding vows
Diana broke with tradition when she refused to utter the word “obey” during her wedding vows with Charles.
In hindsight, Princess Diana assumed that she had ruined her wedding vows, which may be why her marriage was doomed to failure. But in reality, Lady Dee was just shaking with excitement on her wedding day. Also during the vows, she named her husband “Philip Charles” instead of “Charles Philip”.
Diana ate in the kitchen with a servant
It was against royal family etiquette to eat in the kitchen with co-workers, not in the dining room, but Princess Diana was no stranger to breaking protocol. Her personal chef, Darren McGrady, said she would just walk into the kitchen and eat at the table while he tidied up, which was unheard of for any royal. She even made coffee for the two of them.
The princess tried to commit suicide
One of the most disturbing revelations from Princess Diana's audio tapes was that she battled depression and even tried to commit suicide.
“I was so depressed that I tried to cut my wrists with razor blades,” Diana said in her notes.
She also talked about bulimia and how the eating disorder started after Prince Charles put his hand on her waist and said, "A little chubby here, isn't it?"
Her children suffered from paparazzi attention to their mother
In three documentaries, Prince William and Prince Harry revealed their memories of their mother. Some cheer up, like how she got them involved in her charity work. But far more disturbing are their memories of Diana and her relationship with the paparazzi.
As Prince William says in the documentary Our Mom: Her Life and Legacy: “Imagine you are the Princess of Wales and you are the mother. You are being chased by 30 guys on motorcycles who block your path, thereby spitting on you to get a reaction and make the woman scream and cry in public for the sake of the corresponding photo. Harry and I had to get over it. "
