Princess Diana used PR to put down King Charles, says insider

Princess Diana cleverly planned to upstage King Charles during their split, says an insider.

An official reveals Diana wanted to have better PR than King Charles in a war for public life.

Staff who worked for her "devoted a great deal of time to finding ways and means of upstaging St James' Palace", said the insider

Meanwhile, Department of Foreign Affairs official Joe Hayes reveals that Diana’s press secretary, Sandy Henney, wanted a trip of her own after His Majesty’s successful tour of Ireland in 1995.

"I took this as a joke until she repeated it and assured me that in the media battle between the two, the Princess was by far the more predatory and skilled and her staff devoted a great deal of time to finding ways and means of upstaging St James' Palace," he added.

The former Princess of Wales and first wife of King Charles, Diana spoke in her infamous 1990s BBC interview about her work for humanity.

Speaking with Martin Bashir on Panorama, Diana noted: “I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give — I’m very happy to do that and I want to do that.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Diana added: “Well, it took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship.”

“But then I, during the years you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you,” she noted.