How many lovers Diana of Wales actually had: we have the complete list (and some will surprise you)
The older James Hewitt was the first and best known and is the one who comes out in the fourth season of "The Crown." But Diana had other lovers, quite a few more, even more important ones.
Diana Spencer was not yet 20 years old when she married Charles of England. From the beginning the relationship was not very affectionate and his feeling of heartbreak and abandonment inconsolable after discovering that Carlos was still seeing his longtime girlfriend, Camila Parker-Bowles and that his entire family, including Queen Elizabeth II (who just lost almost all his corgis), they were aware of it. Despite her youth and naivety, Diana did not stay locked up during the 15 years that her marriage to Charles of England lasted. From the first years, she looked for love in a rosary of lovers and close friends who, according to different testimonies, keep a bittersweet memory of a woman in need, above all, of affection.
One of her most discreet lovers, and of whom the public knows little, was Oliver Hoare, who died two years ago in France from cancer. He was 73 years old and took with him the secret of his relationship with Diana, apparently full of turbulence. Diana, Carlos, Hoare and his wife Diane agreed Ascot. He and the Prince of Wales were close friends. Hoare was a man of exquisite education, an expert gallery owner in Islamic art, a collector, and a connoisseur of Arabic and Persian.
He and Diana met when the princess was 24 years old, at a party at Windsor Castle on the occasion of the Ascot races. He was 16 years older, dark and handsome, cultured and friendly, and a good connoisseur of the aristocracy. He was educated at Eton College and married Diane, a wealthy French heiress, with whom he had three children. They stayed together until the end, despite his alleged infidelities.
He always denied his supposed relationship with Diana, although he never made it entirely clear whether or not they had been together. An anecdote relates that he, on one occasion, had to hide naked behind a flowerpot in the garden of Kensington Castle, so as not to be discovered. Lady Di even planned to break up her marriage and run away with him. But the romance came to an end shortly after it started. Hoare never thought of abandoning his wife.
After the breakup, he received up to 300 silent calls at his house, but ended up withdrawing the police report when it was discovered that many of them came from Diana's cell phones. Carlos and Hoare resumed their friendship after the death of the princess. The gallery owner always defended Carlos, who never understood how his ex-wife could have attracted the attention of Hoare, such a cultured and refined man.
The best known of Diana's lovers was the first, the elder James Hewitt, who was said to be the father of Prince William because of his enormous resemblance. He vehemently denied it. They met at a party in London and he taught her to ride a horse and became very close to Princes William and Henry as well. She revealed the romance in an interview for the BBC in 1995. And she admitted having been very much in love with him and having discovered that sex could be like "fireworks".
For him, Diana was a person who lacked love. Despite the respect he felt for her, Hewitt tried to sell several of the letters Diana sent him during her relationship for 140,000 euros. Red-haired and handsome, he was the princess's lover for five years, between 1986 and 1991, while she was still married. He recounted all the details in 1994 and called the princess "a sad woman." Diana accused him of treason. The relationship ended when he was sent to Germany. His character comes out in the fourth season of "The Crown."
Before James Hewitt, when she was 24, Lady Diana confessed to falling in love with her bodyguard, Barry Mannakee. According to her, it was "her greatest fun" of hers. The complicity between the two was such that, although they never became lovers, Buckingham Palace withdrew Mannakee from service. The bodyguard died shortly after in a motorcycle accident.
One of Diana's deepest relationships, although it is not known exactly how long it lasted after her divorce in 1992, was the one she had with Pakistani surgeon and cardiologist Hasnat Khan. The princess even considered converting to Islam to marry him. She came to visit her family in Lahore and they were willing to bless the prospective courtship.
Diana deeply admired Khany and felt understood by him. The persecution of the media ended up taking him away from her. Some say that her relationship with Dodi Al Fayed was a way to put the cardiologist out of his mind. Years later, Hasnat acknowledged, in an interview, that he still missed Diana and that the loss of her had been devastating to him.
The billionaire heir Dodi Al Fayed, son of the multi-millionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of the legendary Harrods department store, Fulham Football Club and the historic Ritz hotel, had a relationship of just a few months with Diana, but he was the only man with the one who was seen in public after his divorce from Carlos. The accident in which both lost their lives, in Paris, triggered all kinds of speculation about a possible pregnancy for Diana and the possibility that they were going to get engaged that same night, in the mansion on the outskirts of Paris to which they were heading when they collided. against a pillar on the Alma Bridge. The jeweler Alberto Repossi went so far as to affirm that Dodi had ordered an engagement ring and that that night he was going to show it to Diana.
Speculation about Diana and her potential lovers never ceased, especially after her divorce. On the list there are businessmen, singers or athletes. However, and despite the testimonies that have appeared in dozens of unauthorized biographies, most were fabrications to feed the headlines of the English tabloid press. Relationships with names like singer Bryan Adams, rugby player James Carling, driver and businessman James Gilbey - with whom she allegedly had heated conversations just after her divorce in 1992 - or even John John Kennedy seem more like inventions. . One more trail of stories created to amuse the public.
