A bodyguard of Princess Diana claims she should never have been in Paris on the day of her death
On July 1, Lady Di would have turned 60, and on that date both different media and people close to her are giving details of her last moments
On July 1, Diana of Wales would have turned 60. That is why these days many of those who surrounded her are encouraged to speak in interviews, documentaries or podcasts to remember the deceased princess and moments of her life with her. Unpublished revelations from many people showing previously unknown details of the princess.
That is the case of one of her bodyguards, named Colin Tebbutt, who has spoken with the British media Daily Mail about the last days of the princess, in which he was in charge of taking care of her. And he has revealed that Diana should never have been in Paris that fateful August 31, 1997 in which she lost her life in a traffic accident in the French capital. According to him, the princess was supposed to be back in London three days before.
Tebutt - who had already worked for Anne of England or for Princes Michael of Kent - then served as an assistant, driver and bodyguard for the princess in the United Kingdom, because she had lost her Royal Highness status upon divorce and, therefore , the security provided by the royal house. According to Tebutt, Diana was due to return from her vacation on the Côte d'Azur on the 28th, but at the last moment she stayed on Dodi Al Fayed's ship, the Jonikal, and then flew to Paris. The reason was that she had suffered political attacks, in this case from the British Conservatives. The Tory party accused her of taking advantage of trips in which she made known the importance of eliminating anti-personnel mines in order to promote herself.
“She did not return on Thursday as planned because the Tories were against her over the issue of the mines. She was accused of using the campaign to enhance her own image, which was very unpleasant and caused her great anger. So she got in touch with us and told us that she didn't want all the hassle that awaited her when she returned to the UK and that she would be back for the weekend, "says Tebutt, who leaves in the air the fact that Diana might continue Long live if that hadn't happened.
The problem with this issue had started a few months ago, in a visit that Diana made in January 1997 to Angola in which she called for an international ban on antipersonnel mines, but that the conservatives attacked: the Minister of Defense called it "unpredictable "And" uninformed ", while another deputy said that he did not pay attention to" more complex arguments "and ridiculed her when comparing her way of facing the debate with that of Brigitte Bardot and her" defense of cats. " The issue escalated that summer because Diana spoke with the French newspaper Le Monde about that government, which in May had lost the elections in favor of Tony Blair's list. "The former was incompetent," she said, assuring that Blair's was a government that was doing "a fabulous job." In fact, in early August the princess went to Bosnia on an official mission fully supported by Blair's cabinet to give visibility to the scourge of mines, something that the conservatives did not like.
This newspaper picked up that political and at the same time real controversy three days before Diana's death. Then the then Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that he was happy with the recognition of the princess that "the Government fully shares her concern", while Tories such as David Wilshire said: "It is seriously dangerous to drag the royal family to the political arena. I believe that we should not allow a young woman who already shoots a middle-aged woman to alter the British Constitution on her own.
The change of mind of Diana and Dodi Al Fayed - always according to the version of this collaborator - when it comes to returning to the United Kingdom and extending their holidays, with the consequences that this decision could have entailed, is one more of the revelations that They are taking place on this very round date, especially at a time when the tensions between the children of the late princess and also in her in-laws do not stop growing.
On the occasion of this anniversary, many media claim to have news about Diana these days. For example, author Ingrid Seward has told the tabloid The Sun how she met her princess that past summer. Ella seward tells how she was struck by Diana's flawless and relaxed image, but also by her insecurity. She told the writer about her children, always at the center of the conversation, or about her incipient romance with Al Fayed. She also told him that she did not want to do anything to upset the monarchy, because all this was her son's inheritance, and that she had felt that Carlos had loved her for a while and that to say otherwise was to make him a a disservice to children.
Also in a documentary on the ITV network, Richard Kay, a close friend of Diana's and who claims to be one of the last people who spoke with her, has given the testimony of her. "The police told me that mine was her last call," he says. “I was desperate to try and get a fresh start and do something different, explore a different kind of royalty. And I was looking forward to coming home to see her boys, ”says Kay in the footage, which will be released on June 24.
