Diana: Story of a Princess by Tim Clayton & Phil Craig

Author:Tim Clayton & Phil Craig [Clayton, Tim & Craig, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Retail, Royalty
ISBN: 9781439118030
Google: bX98AQAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2013-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

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James Hewitt had been trying to forget Diana and had not spoken to her for more than a year. He was still based in Germany when the decision was made to send British troops to the Gulf, part of a force intended to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Hewitt was told that his tank squadron would be travelling to the desert soon.

She suddenly rang me out of the blue. She was wondering whether I was going. So I said yes I was and she said she’d like to see me before I went out there, so I said, fine, I’m coming back for my sister’s wedding, to which she had got an invitation but she didn’t go. I saw her after the wedding, before I flew back out to Germany to get things moving in readiness for going to the Middle East.

Then from Germany I went out to Canada to watch some army manoeuvres because it’s very open and apart from it being a prairie it’s quite like the desert and they were using the latest tactics. But there was a stopover in England and I stayed the night at Highgrove.

So after quite a lengthy period of being out of touch we took up really where we left off without an ‘if’ or a ‘but’. Again, you know, I didn’t want to be questioning. And then this amazing affair was rekindled really.

Diana had invited Hewitt’s mother and his sister, so that they could all see him before he left for the Gulf. Not for the first time Mrs Hewitt felt a sense of unreality descend upon her, as a servant parked her car and she was ushered into the Prince of Wales’s house. She felt as if she was someone else. But Diana resumed family life with the Hewitts as if there had been no interruption.

During the weekend James Hewitt discovered that Diana was now determined to leave the Royal Family.

I know that Diana did not want to be Queen of England. ‘I will never be Queen’ – she was quite determined. She wanted to get out of the marriage, so for that reason alone she had no desire to be Queen.

Hewitt flew out to Saudi Arabia on Boxing Day, 1990.

She wrote to me every day I was out there, sometimes twice a day. And very occasionally I was able to speak to her. But on the satellite phone. At that stage we didn’t know how ‘the mother of all wars’ was going to turn out. So we were worried that it could have been a fairly bloody and nasty situation.

She said, ‘I know you’ll be fantastic.’ She was trying to be supportive in everything she said and she was obviously concerned that I might die. But we didn’t speak about that – at great length, anyway. She was terribly interested in what morale was like and what was happening – what life was like being stuck in the desert. She wanted to know what I needed

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