London: Princess Diana wanted to run away with a bodyguard with whom she had fallen “in love” to escape her loveless marriage with Prince Charles, according to Diana’s privately recorded videos with her voice coach which are set to be aired for the first time in the UK.
The former Princess of Wales, who has killed in a car crash in Paris 20 years ago, had recorded the tapes with Peter Settelen at Kensington Palace in 1992-1993.
They are now set to be aired for the first time as part of a documentary on the UK’s Channel 4 next week.
She admits her love with Barry Mannakee and also discloses her conversations with Charles over his affair with then Camilla Parker-Bowles.
“When I was 24 or 25 I fell deeply in love with someone who worked in this environment. I was quite happy to give all this up. Just to go off and live. He [Mannakee] kept saying he thought it a good idea too,” she is heard saying in excerpts published in ‘The Sunday Times’.
“I just needed someone to tell me I was all right and he mentally kicked me outside and made me go and do my engagements because I used to scream in this room [in Kensington Palace]. I should never have played with fire and I did and I got burnt,” she says.
However, Lady Dianadenies that it was a sexual relationship and says that “it was all found out and he was chucked out and then he was killed [in a motorbike accident] and that was the biggest blow of my life”.
In the tapes, she also describes the blunt response by Charles on being confronted about his affair as, “I refuse to be the only Prince of Wales who never had a mistress”.
