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It should come as little surprise that the People’s Princess had a wide circle of friends.
But Di opted to do good with her privileged status.
Notably, she excitedly confided in them when King Charles III popped the question.
“I came back [to the flat] and sat on my bed.
‘Girls, guess what?'”
she recounted in “Diana: Her True Story In Her Own Words.”
“They said: ‘He asked you.
What did you say?’
They screamed and howled and we went for a drive around London with our secret.”
In a1981 interviewfollowing Charles and Diana’s engagement, the girls enthused about their roomie’s upcoming nuptials.
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And Burrell also confided in Diana.
“But at the time she was the only woman he felt he could tell.”
But some questioned whether Burrell himself had forged the letter to gain notoriety.
Later in the inquest, the ex-butler was exposed for fabricating stories about Di, perReuters.
The singer first met Diana at Prince Andrew’s 21st birthday party in 1981.
“She said, ‘would you like to dance?'”
John recalled toLarry King.
The two hit it off immediately and quickly became friends.
But their relationship was also fraught at times.
However, the friends reconciled in the aftermath of Versace’s death.
To this day, Diana holds a special place in John’s heart.
“There is a kind of serenity,” Versace poignantly reflected.
“I had a fitting with her last week for new suits… and she is so serene.
In July 1997, Versace was murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
The iconic designer died just one month before Diana was killed in a car crash.
“Diana was in tears and looked very distressed,” he recalled.
The tragedy led to the princess reportedly pondering whether she, too, would meet a similar fate.
“She had this incredible power, beauty and magnetism,” she toldStack World.
“I will never forget the experience of being with her.
I feel so honored,” she mused.
The year was 1985 and the first Live Aid concert was being held in London.
The hotly anticipated event was attended by the then Prince and Princess of Wales.
King Charles III may have been famed for his wandering eye, but two can play at that game.
Di was positively smitten with the “Wham!”
star, admitting that she found him “gorgeous.”
“Thank you, ma’amyou’re pretty smashing yourself,” replied George.
Therefore, considering Di’s regal status at the time, theirs was an unusually intimate friendship.
When Diana died, Michael was inconsolable.
“Diana was the only person that I knew who made me feel like an ordinary person.
That’s what I thought was so amazing about her,” he toldThe Mirror.
But the pair’s bond was as close as it was complicated.
“We were just there for people to make a lot of money.
At the time we both didn’t realize that.”
Unfortunately, the two were unable to mend the rift prior to Diana’s death.
The day before the princess died, she was apparently looking to reconcile their estranged friendship.
“I really miss Diana.
I loved her so much,” the duchess toldHarper’s Bazaar.
“We started laughing together,” Samuel told theDaily Mail.
“There was something about her and something about me that just worked.
It was a lovely thing.”
But the whole spectacle made Samuel deeply uncomfortable.
“I felt angry,” she reflected.
“I was angry that she died, and shocked and I couldn’t really understand it all.
I mean, I understand it better now.
I understand that people felt they really knew and loved her.
But I still feel sad today.”
Consequently, the pair bonded over both being thrust into the limelight at such young ages.
“All my life, I’ve had bowing and scraping.
I haven’t encouraged it.
That’s just how it’s been,” she said, perThe Telegraph.
“Well, Princess Di got pretty used to people bowing and scraping.
So it was a relief to both of us that we could just be ourselves around each other.”
“We’d fall into conversation then we’d meet for tea,” she recalled.
I think she liked that.
My instinct was to protect her.
We talked about everything under the sun.”
As Monckton is the mother of a disabled child, these qualities were invaluable to her.
As Monckton recounted to Sunday Night (viaThe Irish Mirror), she suffered a stillbirth in 1993.
With Diana’s help, she was able to bury the baby’s body at Kensington Palace.
“It was an extraordinary thing to do,” Monckton conceded.
The princess frequently confided in Colthurst about her unhappy marriage, calling him up to ten times a day.
The doctor’s involvement in the book apparently led to Diana fearing for his personal safety.
“And I don’t think that was directly imposed by the role she was in.
I think that’s the extraordinary lady she was.”
“It was just a feeling she had.
Another time she thought the CIA wanted to bump her off.”
Simmons blames this paranoia on Martin Bashir.
Diana frequently wrote detailed letters to the couple, seemingly finding solace in divulging her deepest anxieties.
I’m not used to that!"
Her electrifying presence transcends time."
The letters were sold at auction in 2023, fetching a whopping $170,000.
