A former bodyguard of British Princess Diana revealed plans, weeks before her death on the evening of August 31, 1997, in a car accident in Paris, to move to the United States and live there without her two sons, Princes William and Harry, according to what was stated in the memoirs issued last Tuesday entitled Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard’s Story to mark the 25th anniversary of her passing.
In “Protecting Diana: The Story of a Bodyguard,” Briton Lee Sansum tells how, at the time, the 36-year-old, about to tell the paparazzi of her plans to leave London in an attempt to protect her two young children from the press, while she was vacationing in July 1997 in the resort of St Tropez in the south of France, And “Lee Sansom” was protecting her with her Egyptian boyfriend Imad Al-Fayed, or “Dodi”, son of the former owner of “Harrods” Mohamed Al-Fayed, “where she enjoyed a romantic vacation with him on a luxury yacht owned by his father, while photographers were monitoring her daily life with her new boyfriend. ” like he said.
He also wrote, that the press was ruining the life of the princess everywhere, not just in St. Tropez “and she said to me: There is nothing I can do in the UK. The newspapers there attack me no matter what I do (..) I want to move to the US to live and get away from Everything, they at least love me and will leave me alone,” Sansom recalls from his conversation with her.
escaping the press
He also mentions, that he asked her if her two children Princes would move with her, and she replied that the family of her ex-husband, the British Crown Prince Charles, would never allow her to take them from their royal duties, and she said: “If I moved without them, I would probably be able to see them only on school holidays. “.
Then the former guard described the princess as “she was a wonderful and very loving mother and caring for her two children, but it seemed that she would have to leave them, to escape the press that was relentlessly harassing her every day,” according to what he wrote in his memoirs, which affected “Al-Arabiya.net”, including its report. It was published by the British newspaper “Daily Mail” yesterday, Thursday, in which it was stated that Diana had already decided to inform journalists of her intention to leave the United Kingdom forever.
In the elevator was her last picture with Al-Fayed alive, and a picture before her of the two in the French resort of Saint Tropez.
Sansom also wrote that the princess “despite her complaints and grumblings with the press, she was known for her collaboration with her favorite reporters and photographers, and would often tell them where she was if she wanted to be photographed. She went to speak to the press that day, but said nothing about a possible move to United States,” he said.
As August 31 approaches,
Then the former military contractor denied that Diana was mentally unstable in the weeks leading up to her death in the car accident in which her friend Imad Al-Fayed also died, as well as her driver Henry Paul, while a guard who was with them was seriously injured, after paparazzi chased them on motorcycles, and their car collided. A column in a tunnel near the Alma Bridge in Paris, at a time when Queen Elizabeth II, with her husband Prince Philip, and their son, Crown Prince Charles, in addition to his two sons, Princes William and Harry, were spending the summer at the Queen’s residence in Scotland, where Balmoral Castle covered with its commons 50,000 squares acres, over 202 square kilometers.
The princess and the book and its author
As for Diana’s relationship with Imad Al-Fayed, Sansom wrote: “They were affectionate with each other. And because you don’t see kisses between them in public, so some people misunderstood what was not a romantic relationship,” then described the princess in his book as “one of the most wonderful The people I have ever met in my life.. She was beautiful, an ordinary person who loves his children.” That is why the British called her “People’s Princess” and recall her story more as August 31 approaches their memory.