A “tearful” Diana told a pack of photographers this during the last summer of her life.
As a boy, Prince William was often a counselor for his mother Princess Diana as she dealt with the struggles of a failing marriage and a life lived in the public eye. And it was the Princess of Wales’ eldest son who told his mother that she should leave her home base of the U.K. to escape suffocating press attention, a royal photographer told a documentary.
During Diana’s last summer in 1997, the most photographed woman in the world was photographed even more than normal thanks to her budding romance with Dodi Al-Fayed. Photographers followed their every move, and eventually Diana decided enough was enough, The Sun’s longstanding royal photographer Arthur Edwards said in the documentary“Suddenly, she strode down some steps and very rapidly got into a boat,” he said. “I remember picking up the camera, and she said, ‘No pictures.
William’s close observation of his mother’s hounding by the British press pushed him to learn from the mistakes of the past with his own wife, Kate Middleton, said Katie Nicholl in her book“[William] had seen firsthand how his mother had been harassed by the paparazzi and was determined that Kate not be subjected to the same treatment,” Nicholl wrote.
And, in a twist likely no one saw coming in 1997, it wouldn’t be Diana but instead her younger son, Harry, who left the U.K. for life elsewhere.Rachel Burchfield is a freelance writer whose primary interests are fashion and beauty, society and culture, and, most especially, the British Royal Family.
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