Lady Diana and her double: this is how the princess deceived the paparazzi

Lady Dianaeven when he went on vacation, he was perpetually pursued by the paparazzi. The princess, however, had found an ingenious trick to make fun of them: he made friends with women very similar to her and persuaded them to switch clothes. Result: often i photographers followed the doubles instead of the real Diana. The anecdote was told to Insider by Hannes Schneider, owner of the five-star hotel “Arlberg” where the wife of Charles of England stayed when she went skiing in Lechin the Austrian Alps.

In the 1990s Diana went to Lech with her children William and Harry for five years in a row. And so she became friends with Schneider to whom she one day confided, all amused, her anti-paparazzo strategy: “Staying here for five long years, she often met the same people,” said the hotelier. “Women at that time were all trying to be Diana. Same hair, same style“. The princess decided to take advantage of the situation. During one of her stays, in particular, Diana met two women, one German, the other American, who were “the same age, the same size as her.” Like this proposed to the tourists that all three dress in the same clothes to deceive the paparazzi who had followed her from the UK. “They had a lot of fun walking out of the hotel at the same time“. And «i photographers in one in three cases followed the wrong person“.

This was certainly not the only stratagem devised by the princess to free herself from the paparazzi, ready to surprise her and put her on the front page every time she set foot outside the palace. For example a couple of years ago Jenni RivettDiana’s former personal trainer, recounted that in London the princess “he was always jogging in the same sweatshirt“. At that point the photos that the agencies rushed to bring in the editorial offices of newspapers gossip lost interest. Indeed, it was born I suspect they weren’t even current.

Lady Diana, after her engagement to Carlo (she was only 19 at the time) has long been Britain’s most hunted person. She had the photographers on your heels even when died in a car accident in Paris in 1997, aged just 36. A tragedy that has forever marked the children William And Harry. Princes have always accused photographers of death from the motherwho escaped by car their assault on that tragic Parisian night: “The hardest thing to deal with,” the two brothers told the BBC a few years ago, “is that the paparazzi who had chased her into the tunnel were the same ones who, instead of rescuing her, took pictures of her as she died“.