on theunhappy marriage between Charles and Diana, which culminated in separation in 1992 (the divorce became official four years later), rivers of ink have been spilled. Yet twenty-five years after the death of the princess, new indiscretions continue to emerge. The latest have come from the mouth of Patrick Jephson, press secretary of at the time lady d. The 68-year-old in the new podcast The Scandal Mongers (available on Spotify starting next week) said that Carlo’s staff, between the end of the eighties and the beginning of the nineties, plotted to make Diana look insane: «Those courtiers, some of whom are still in the service of the now king of England Charles III, they made Diana’s life hell by spreading lies that she suffered from a mental illness».
According to Jephson, it was not mere gossip, but «systematic smear campaigns on the princess’s mental health.’ Orchestrated right at the time when «the affair between Carlo and Camilla Parker Bowles, at the Palazzo, was an open secret». Decades have passed since then, «but these facts cannot be buried. Because the people involved are still around, and the man they were rooting for now is our king.”
The former press officer has no evidence to support that Carlo was the instigator of those defamatory campaigns. But one thing is certain: Diana has never shown signs of imbalance. Indeed, “when one is realized that the courtiers were trying to tarnish her with allegations of mental instability, he began to public speaking of his eating disorders»: «I can’t think of a better definition of sanity. There are people who accuse you of being crazy, and you stand up and talk about your bulimia, explaining that it affects many people, especially young women. I think it was a sign of extraordinary strength that revealed all the meanness of those who slandered Diana.
Even today, continues Jephson, there are people convinced that Diana was mentally disturbed: «To these people I say: “I knew Princess Diana better than many others. Considering the life she’s lived, considering the pressures she’s been under, I can safely say that He was one of the sanest people I’ve ever met.”».
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Source: Vanity Fair
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