ROSA’S PLEA FOR DI TAPES U-TURN
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PRINCESS Diana’s closest friend has made a last-minute plea for Channel 4 to halt the screening of the tragic royal’s private tapes.
Rosa Monckton joined Diana’s brother Earl Spencer in calling for the show Diana: In Her Own Words, due to be screened tomorrow, to be stopped.
The Earl says the recordings will harm his nephews William and Harry.
But Channel 4 bosses are refusing to back down and say they are “an important historical source”.
Ms Monckton says the decision is “entirely motivated by money” and that “there are some things that should never see the light of day”. She said: “Nobody should look at them. Nobody should be discussing them. “They should just be packaged up and sent around to Kensington Palace. I feel very strongly that I owe it to my memory of Diana to fight on her behalf.” But the charity campaigner conceded there was a “zero per cent” chance the channel would back down. Instead, she urged the public not to watch the tapes, which she describes as an immensely private form of “therapy” for her friend. She said: “Diana absolutely saw a distinction in her life between her private life and her public persona and there was a very firm line for her and I think that this crosses it absolutely.”
She asked Channel 4 bosses if they would like their own wife or daughter’s therapy sessions being “suddenly exposed to the nation”.
She added: “We should be looking at her legacy as Princess of Wales, at her legacy as a world stage humanitarian.
“We shouldn’t be having this prurient look at her private life and her private anguish.
“What was extraordinary about her was that she overcame all of these things while in the public eye.
“She was an extraordinary woman and that’s what she should be remembered for – the power of her spirit.”