Our fun and games on a red London Routemaster were all part of Diana's desire for her and her boys to be as normal as possible. She would take them on the Underground and in London taxis too. As her personal protection officer I did my best to facilitate her wishes, and most of the time we got away with it.
Speaking to Marie Claire, for example, former royal chef Darren McGrady (played by Sean Harris in Spencer) revealed that Diana would take her two boys away for trips to a fast food restaurant. However, in reality, this was McDonald's, and not KFC as seen in the movie.
It's true that Princess Diana didn't like hunting (and especially didn't like her sons taking part). However, there's no evidence that she ever walked out into the middle of the men hunting on Boxing Day and demanded her sons come with her like she does in Spencer.
Prince Harry recalls how father King Charles told him his mother Princess Diana had died. The 38-year-old looks back on the difficult conversation in his new memoir, "Spare."
Spencer is not based on the true story of Princess Diana directly, but was rather inspired by her life.
Like, it appears that Diana's curtains being sewn shut is also not based on any real fact, and Diana's childhood home wasn't dilapidated like the movie makes it seem.
In Spencer, Diana is horrified (though seemingly unsurprised) to discover her husband gave her the same pearl necklace he gave to his then-mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles. There's no evidence to suggest this gift-giving snafu ever happened (or that she ate them at the dinner table).
After Princess Diana died in 1997, Charles, then the Prince of Wales, wore a navy suit to her funeral. At the time, royal watchers read his outfit choice as a tribute to the late princess; Diana was said to have preferred men in navy.
King Charles III's reaction to the death of his former wife Princess Diana in 1997 reportedly shocked royal aides, with an expert claiming that he 'collapsed' and cried uncontrollably despite his differences with Diana.
In a 2017 interview with ITV News that was released Sunday in the wake of Queen Elizabeth's death, Anne backed her mother's decision to keep the boys in Scotland following the Princess of Wales' unexpected death. "My mother did exactly the right thing," Anne said, speaking to ITV News.
When Princess Diana passed away in 1997, even Queen Elizabeth bowed her head to Princess. Diana's coffin. But Princess. Margaret chose not to bow her head in respect.
The trial on theft charges of the former royal butler Paul Burrell collapsed today when it emerged he had told the Queen he was keeping some of Princess Diana's possessions. Mr Burrell, 44, faced three charges of theft involving 310 items from the late princess's estate, and also from Prince Charles and Prince William.
And no one had a more in-depth look into her life than biographer Andrew Morton. Morton, who penned the 1992 biography, Diana: Her True Story, crafted the book using a series of secret recordings Diana made that were delivered to him by her friend, James Colthurst.
It's true that Princess Diana didn't like hunting (and especially didn't like her sons taking part). However, there's no evidence that she ever walked out into the middle of the men hunting on Boxing Day and demanded her sons come with her like she does in Spencer.
A simple meal without pretension
"I think it was a pressed leek terrine and her main course was sea bass," Ramsay recalled, sharing that his main takeaway was the complete lack of pretension the Princess showed, making no demands and ditching her security detail at the door.
Speaking previously to HELLO! Online, the royal chef said that although he never thought of himself as “a friend” but rather “the chef”, he did develop a natural bond with Diana. He said: “I was always there, so sometimes she'd come in and vent about things she wasn't happy with.
“It was horrid,” Camilla admitted in a rare interview, of the media scrutiny that imprisoned her in her home after the shocking death of Diana, Princess of Wales. “I wouldn't want to put my worst enemy through it.”
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
Above all we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister, the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.
TheTalko website revealed how Margaret took her disdain for Diana to the late Princess' funeral, refusing to bow her head as the hearse drove past. The publication claimed: "Even though the story was true, Margaret could never forgive Diana for making the family look bad.
"But that day, it is Elizabeth who bowed her head as a sign of respect for the passage of Diana's coffin, the woman who wore more than anyone else had defied the conventions of the palace."
Diana was buried later that day in a private ceremony in Althorp Park, the Spencer family estate. She was wearing a black woolen long-sleeved cocktail dress by Catherine Walker that she had ordered only weeks before she died, and holding a set of rosary beads that were a gift from Mother Theresa.
After the princess' death, most of her personal jewelry was inherited by her two sons Princes William and Harry, with pieces loaned to her during her lifetime being returned to Queen Elizabeth II, where they are most likely to have been inherited by King Charles in 2022.
According to Camilla: From Outcast To Future Queen Consort author Angela Levin, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Diana's grandmother, Lady Fermoy, had a huge part to play in it, as did the fact that Princess Diana was much younger than Camilla and therefore, in theory, more likely to give birth to the heir to the ...
On 22 February, Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen would not attend the wedding ceremony, but would attend the church blessing and host the reception afterwards. The reason stated by the palace was the couple wanted to keep the occasion low key.