HOW CHARLES TURNED TO TRUSTED MENTOR AND SENT FOR THE ‘DREAM DOCTOR’

A WORRIED Prince Charles was compelled to seek help after he saw Diana in distress over the recurring nightmares of sea monsters that she suffered just a few months after William was born in 1982. He turned to his close friend and mentor Sir Laurens Van der Post, the explorer and writer (circled, above, at William’s christening, next to fellow godparent Lady Hussey). Van der Post recommended his friend Dr Alan McGlashan, an eminent psychiatrist and renowned dream interpreter, who Prince Charles called to ask him to see his wife.

Dr McGlashan (who, writing to Van der Post, called Prince Charles ‘the young man’) saw Princess Diana and found her to be a ‘normal girl’ after – according to his account – other doctors had feared a ‘dynastic disaster’ and ‘dosed’ her with anti-depressants.