Princess Diana wanted to ‘run away with bodyguard’ to escape ‘loveless marriage’ with Prince Charles

Princess Diana wanted to run away with a bodyguard with whom she had fallen “deeply 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 was 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.

In the recordings, she admits falling in love with her bodyguard 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 …read more