Two decades after the death of Princess Diana, her loyal driver still recalls the moment that made him crumple with grief in her Paris hospital room.
Following the princess’s death in a car crash on August 31, 1997, Colin Tebbutt was one of two of Diana’s staffers who were dispatched to Paris to prepare to bring her body home to Britain.
Upon finding the room at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital bustling with medics and other people – including the then-French President coming and going — Tebbutt helped secure it and ordered fans to cool the stiflingly hot late-summer temperatures.
“I plugged the fans...
Following the princess’s death in a car crash on August 31, 1997, Colin Tebbutt was one of two of Diana’s staffers who were dispatched to Paris to prepare to bring her body home to Britain.
Upon finding the room at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital bustling with medics and other people – including the then-French President coming and going — Tebbutt helped secure it and ordered fans to cool the stiflingly hot late-summer temperatures.
“I plugged the fans...
- 7/28/2017
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
In the years just before and after her separation from Prince Charles, Princess Diana was weighing a tough decision.
The royal — who had been privately struggling with bulimia, depression and her husband’s longtime affair with his eventual wife, Camilla (then Parker-Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall) — wanted to open up about the mistreatment she felt she’d been subject to throughout her marriage.
And as it became clear that her marriage was unraveling, she grew concerned about losing everything. Her friend James Colthurst, tells People in this week’s cover story that she feared that her children, Prince William and Prince Harry,...
The royal — who had been privately struggling with bulimia, depression and her husband’s longtime affair with his eventual wife, Camilla (then Parker-Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall) — wanted to open up about the mistreatment she felt she’d been subject to throughout her marriage.
And as it became clear that her marriage was unraveling, she grew concerned about losing everything. Her friend James Colthurst, tells People in this week’s cover story that she feared that her children, Prince William and Prince Harry,...
- 7/27/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
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