Princess Diana's driver, Stephen Davies, found out that he was fired from watching an episode of 'The Crown' where BBC interview Martin Bashir suggested he leaked Diana's personal information to the press.
Starr is a News Writer for InStyle. She has worked in pop culture and entertainment since 2017 and has been with InStyle since 2024.. Princess Diana's former chauffeur, Stephen Davies, worked for her from 1989 to 1995 and was formally let go in May of 1996. He never knew why Diana fired him—that is, until he watched an episode of. “From driving her everywhere I was banned from the wheel of her car.
Until being fired the following year, Davies explained "all I could do was sit in the garage for ten hours a day, my official shift, doing nothing, and then go home. I was heartbroken, humiliated. She shunned me." As for the moment when the driver received the news of his termination, “someone ushered me into her drawing room at Kensington Palace. She said, ‘Bye Steve, thanks for everything,’ shook my hand and walked out.
"It was excruciating to watch but solved the mystery for me," Davies recalled. The driver would later sue BBC for slander, and he reached a settlement with the broadcasting company in May. "The BBC accepts that the allegation was likely to have caused HRH the Princess of Wales to doubt the claimant’s loyalty and professionalism and may well have contributed to the claimant’s redundancy six months later," the lawsuit concluded.
Diana's story ultimately ended as a result of her car crash in Paris the year after Davies's firing in 1996, and he thinks if he was driving her at the time, she would still be alive: "She died believing I had betrayed her and that’s something I can’t ever forget or forgive.
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