The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Diana‘leaked information to press’
PRINCESS DIA NA leaked information about the Prince of Wales to “an ally” in the press in order to “take on” her estranged husband, former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman told the phone hacking trial.
Goodman said Diana, who separated from her husband in 1992 after 11 years of marriage, passed him information relating to the royal household and staff in an envelope sent to his office in Wapping.
The n ow -defunct tabloid’s former royal editor, of Addlestone, said: “She was going through a very, very difficult time.
“She told me she wanted me to see the scale of her husband’s staff and household, compared with others.
“She felt she was being swamped by people close to his household.
“She was looking for an ally to take him on — to show there were forces that would rage against him.”
Goodman, 56, denies two counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.
Diana and Charles divorced in 1996.
She was killed in a car crash in Paris a year later.
Goodman said he used “Green Books” and internal telephone directories (ITDs), containing contact numbers for royal staff and senior members of the household, for stories.
A sked by his counsel David Spens QC how he received them, he recalled how one Green Book was given to him in 1992 by the Princess of Wales.
The court has already heard how Rebekah Brooks offered Goodman a backroom job in 2007 following his release from prison for his part in phone hacking. He declined the job offer. Goodman and six other defendants deny all charges.
The trial continues.