Princess Diana - The African Mirror

May

2023

From ‘Rottweiler’ to queen – the reinvention of King Charles’ wife Camilla

MICHAEL HOLDEN and SARAH MILLS AFTER years of being depicted as the most hated woman in Britain, Camilla, the second wife of King Charles, will be crowned queen on Saturday, capping a remarkable turnaround in public acceptance few would have thought possible. When Charles' divorced first wife, the popular, glamorous Princess Diana, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, Camilla bore the brunt of media hostility. Some declared the couple could never wed. But marry they did eight years later, and since then she has come to be recognised, albeit still grudgingly by some, as a key member…

Dec

2022

By The African Mirror

Harry and Meghan decry “pain and suffering” of women brought into UK royal family

WORLD

MICHAEL HOLDEN PRINCE Harry said the British royal family had dismissed race-related hounding of his wife Meghan by the press as a rite of passage as the couple delivered a fierce attack on the media in their Netflix documentary series released. Harry also drew comparisons between how papers had treated Meghan and the intense media intrusion that his mother Princess Diana had suffered. Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 as her limousine sped away from chasing paparazzi photographers. Harry, who along with Meghan stepped down from royal duties two years ago, said it was his…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

‘Pain of Diana’s death pushed me to drink, drugs’

WORLD

PRINCE Harry said he abused alcohol to numb the pain of his mother Diana's death in 1997 and accused the British royal family of neglecting him and his wife Meghan as she contemplated suicide. Harry, now 36, has spoken before about the trauma of losing Diana in a Paris car crash and then having to walk as a 12-year-old behind his mother's coffin in her funeral cortege under the glare of the world's media. "I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Haunted by Diana’s death, Prince Harry talks of how he feared losing Meghan, too

WORLD

JILL SERJEANT FROM the sound of horses' hooves on the day of Princess Diana's funeral, to chases by paparazzi when he was a child in the back of a car, Prince Harry is still haunted by the trauma of losing his mother. Speaking in detail of how he failed to deal with her loss for more than a decade, Harry says in a new TV documentary series that the fear of also losing his wife Meghan was one of the main reasons the couple quit their royal duties and moved to California last year. "My mother was chased to her…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Prince William says BBC failed Diana with interview deceit

WORLD

ALISTAIR SMOUT and MICHAEL HOLDEN BRITAIN'S Prince William accused the BBC of failing his mother Princess Diana and poisoning her relationship with Prince Charles after an inquiry found a journalist for the broadcaster deceitfully obtained an interview with her in 1995. William's astonishing rebuke to the public broadcaster comes after a report said the inquiry found that BBC journalist Martin Bashir used deceit to win a sensational 1995 interview with Diana, and that the broadcaster covered up the deception. During the "Panorama" interview, watched by more than 20 million viewers in Britain, Diana shocked the nation by admitting to an…

Feb

2021

By The African Mirror

First look: actress Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana for new biopic

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

MPHO RANTAO PRINCESS DIANA - celebrated worlwide as the real queen of hearts - is heading for our screens. Her life is a major feature in a new biographical film on the British Royal family. American actress Kristen Stewart has been cast to play the late Welsh Princess Diana in a film titled Spencer. Images released to the public show Stewart with an uncanny resemblance portraying the late Princess in a red blazer and a black hat with a veil, with the Princess’ classic blonde feathered bob. https://twitter.com/neonrated/status/1354428951842721793?s=20 The story of Spencer, written by Steven Knight and directed by Pablo…