Princess Diana: Commentator says history must not be 'rewritten'

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The Princess of Wales entered the Royal Family after she married Prince Charles in 1981. The couple went on to have two children together – Prince William and Prince Harry.

But according to an insider, Princess Diana struggled to keep up with one particular royal rule.

Sir William Heseltine, a former Private Secretary to the Queen, said the late princess felt “agony” over long formal royal dinners and hours of small talk.

In an interview for royal expert Juliet Rieden’s book, ‘The Royals in Australia’, Sir William said: “For Diana the long royal evenings were agony.

“There’d be an hour or so in the sitting room of everyone sitting around making conversation, and nobody felt it right to go to bed before the Queen did.

“And Diana was driven to such extremes that she’d excuse herself and go to bed, which was thought to be rather bad form, going to bed before the Queen.”

Zarife Hardy, a coach from the Australian School of Etiquette, also told Harper’s Bazaar about the royal bedtime rule.

He told the magazine: “Guests cannot go to bed before the Queen, who reportedly tucks in at midnight.”

Sir William served as the Queen’s Private Secretary from 1986 to 1990.

He also spent 30 years working for the Royal Family, in which he began to know Princess Diana.

Speaking about the Prince and Princess of Wales, Sir William said: “It was obvious that the marriage was under strain.

“I said, ‘How are you?’

“And she said well, it was difficult, ‘but I’m going to stick it out’.”

Sir William said he frequently advised the late princess to go to the Queen about any problems.

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He added: “By the time I was leaving, Diana was getting a bit eccentric and the Queen a bit critical.”

Princess Diana later divorced from her husband Prince Charles in 1996.

She was tragically killed in a car crash in Paris the following year.

Last August marked 23 years since Princess Diana died due to the crash.

This year, a statue of the late Princess of Wales commissioned by Prince Harry and Prince William is expected to be installed to mark what would have been her 60th birthday.

Kensington Palace previously said the sculpture will be placed in the garden of the London palace on July 1, 2021.

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