"DIANA WOULD BE ALIVE IF I HAD NOT GIVEN UP THE REAL SCHOOL." THE SHOCKING WORDS OF HER FRIEND TINA BROWN
Diana of Wales would be alive if she had not given up her royal escort as the personnel protecting her were actually spying on her. This is what Tina Brown, a good friend of Princess Diana and former director of Vanity Fair USA, has told the British newspaper The Express on the occasion of the investigation that the BBC has opened, supported by Boris Johnson and demanded by Earl Spencer - brother of the deceased Diana -, to clarify if the princess was manipulated to grant the famous interview to Martin Bashir on the Panorama program.
The possibility has been raised that Bashir, intending to persuade the princess to give him the interview, showed false bank statements about alleged UK intelligence payments to her employees to spy on her. The BBC interview conducted in 1995 from Kensington Palace, in which the princess offered statements as harsh as the one so remembered "there were three of us in my marriage" - referring to her, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles -, accelerated the divorce of Diana and the heir to the British throne. 25 years after its broadcast, Tina Brown believes that if that interview had not taken place, if Bashir had not shown those alleged false extracts, Diana would still be alive today.
As she has said, the princess renounced her protection because she believed that she was being spied on, and the accident could have been avoided if she had not made that decision: "She had decided that she did not want any of the royal protection officers because she thought that she they were spying, probably thanks to Martin Bashir, "he pointed out. In Paris, "I was at the mercy of an off-duty drunk driver who worked for (Mohamed Al) Fayed. If I had had a real escort, I would still be alive today." Brown, author of The Diana Chronicle, believes that an employee of the British royal household "would never have driven in such a reckless manner, it just (the accident) would not have happened."
She has told The Telegraph that a month before the fatal accident on August 31, 1997, Diana had lunch with her and [Anna Wintour], director of Vogue USA, (http://www.revistavanityfair.es/tags/anna -wintour / 1241) in the restaurant of the Four Seasons hotel in New York and told them that, despite the divorce and the scandal that it entailed, the ex-partner had managed to forge a good relationship, although she had returned with the prince "in the and close my eyes "if he had wanted her.
But Diana of Wales, whom the biographer has described as someone who felt "desperately lonely", ended up accepting that Camilla was the person the prince was in love with. The princess went to that appointment with a mint green Chanel suit, Brown recalled "as if it were yesterday."
"She was definitely calming down, the boys were older," and she and the prince managed to quietly talk about philanthropy over tea and some laughs in Kensington. The journalist has revealed that Diana aspired to help in the Irish peace process and to become something similar to what Nelson Mandela was. And he also remembered the incredible dance of Lady Di with Wayne Sleepen at the Royal Opera House in London in December 1985, with which the princess wanted to surprise Prince Charles, although it achieved the opposite effect: the heir disliked the prominence of his wife . "Can you imagine Kate doing that, or even Meghan?" Brown wondered. The answer seems obvious.
