Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
DIANA DOCUMENTARY
sessions thought to have been a practice for Diana’s 1995 Panorama interview, in which admitted that she had been unfaithful to Charles.
Ms Seward added: “I don’t think she would ever have thought they would get out like this. But I think one of her friends told her ‘you need to be a bit careful, one day this guy will make his pension out of this’.”
There was no sign of Mr Settelen at his four-bedroom detached home in South West London yesterday. Among the topics discussed, Diana mocked Charles’ courting technique, saying the future king was “like a rash, he was all over me”.
When she confronted Charles over Camilla, Diana claimed she was told: “I refuse to be the Prince of Wales that never had a mistress.” And when Diana sought counsel from the Queen as the marriage fell apart, she says the response was “I don’t know what you should do...charles is hopeless”.
Viewers will see the sadness in her eyes when she speaks about her love for protection officer Mannakee, who died in a motorbike crash in 1987. Diana even makes the astonishing claim that he was bumped off.
Award-winning director Kevin Sim adapted the confessions, filmed inside Kensington Palace, for a planned 2007 BBC documentary.
But it was shelved amid concerns it would upset the royals, with the corporation saying it did not “add” to Diana’s story after she died 10 years earlier in a Paris car crash.
Ahead of the broadcast of Diana: In Her Own Words, Channel 4 said: “We carefully considered all the material used and the subjects covered are a matter of public record and provide a unique insight into the preparations Diana undertook to gain a public voice.”
This is using Diana to make money and that’s what killed her in the end INGRID SEWARD AUTHOR OF DIANA: THE LAST WORDS