Philip told Charles to go back to Camillia

happy to give all this up... to go off and live with him. I can’t believe it.

“He kept saying it was a good idea. I just needed someone to tell me I was alright. He mentally kicked me outside and made me do my engagements, because I used to scream in this room.

“Charles thought he knew but he never had any proof. I should never have played with fire, and I did and I got very burnt.

“It got so difficult. People got so jealous and bitchy in this house, so eventually he had to go.

“Three weeks after he left he was killed in a motorbike accident. And he was the greatest fun I’ve ever had. And that was a real killer.”

Recorded after Diana and Charles split in 1992, the princess’s helplessness at the lack of support from the Queen and Prince Philip over Camilla is obvious in the tapes.

“I remember saying to my husband, ‘Why is this lady around?’ He said, ‘I refuse to be the Prince of Wales that never had a mistress’. My father- in- law [ Philip] lip] said to my husband thatat if your marriage doesn’t’t work you can always go backck to her [Camilla] after five years. ars.

“Which iss exactly, for real. I kneww something was happeningning before that, but the fifth year I had confirmation.ation.

Hopeless less

“I went to o the top lady. I was sobbing obbing and I said, ‘Whatt do I do, I’m coming g to you, what do I do?’ o?’

“She said,, ‘I don’t know what at you should do, Charles is hopeless’, andnd that’s it. That was help.”

Diana: In Her Own Words is onn Channel 4 next Sunday,ay, August 6, at 8pm.