Princess Diana's relationship with journalists discussed by Seward

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Princess Diana always invited journalists for coffee or lunch in order to “make her mark”, according to a royal biographer. The late Princess of Wales received unprecedented media attention during her marriage and subsequent divorce to Prince Charles, and made attempts to control her public image by personally reaching out to journalists and royal commentators. 

Royal biographer Ingrid Seward told talkRadio of the time she was invited to Kensington Palace to speak to Diana, after she published a scandalous tabloid article about the Princess. 

She said, “It wasn’t really an interview, it was what she called a girly chat. She invited me to Kensington Palace because I’d written something in the Daily Mail that she didn’t like at all.” 

“That was very typical Diana, she would always confront people – she was very good at that.” 

“She made friends with journalists, she invited them to lunch or for coffee and she really made her mark that way.” 

“It was very clever and very brave of her really. She obviously felt that it worked that way and it certainly did.”

Ingrid Seward had published an article that revealed Princess Diana had a male admirer who was being smuggled in and out of Kensington Palace in the boot of a car. 

During the eighties and nineties, Princess Diana was the centre of intense media speculation. 

The public breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles was a source of controversy for the Royal Family, as both parties admitted to having affairs. 

In 1992, Princess Diana secretly assisted biographer Andrew Morton with his book ‘Diana – Her True Story’.

The book detailed Diana’s bulimia, her unhappy childhood and her husband’s long-term affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles. 

Whilst she denied her role in the writing of the book, after her death Andrew Morton released the secret tape recordings she had sent him which detailed the breakdown of her marriage. 

Prince Charles and Diana separated in 1992 after leading separate lives for several years. 

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In 1995, the Princess participated in an explosive Panorama interview with BBC journalist Martin Bashir. 

During the interview, Diana spoke at length about her mental health struggles, the emotional coldness of the Royal Family and admitted to her own infidelities. She also spoke about Prince Charles and Camilla, saying that “there were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.” 

The interview caused a national scandal and shortly after, the Queen wrote to Charles and Diana requesting them to divorce. 

Princess Diana died in 1997 at the age of 36, after her car lost control whilst driving through a tunnel in Paris. She and her partner Dodi Fayed were being pursued by the paparazzi. 

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