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Lady Diana “was madly in love with George Michael”

More than five years after the death of George Michaelwho passed away on December 25, 2016, the spotlight on the life of the singer is rekindled, especially on alleged relationship with Lady Diana. Ancient history, which every now and then jumps back to the headlines. This time it’s a book of James Gavin to bring it back to the surface, a biography entitled George Michael: A Life, which will be released on July 7th. George and Diana, writes the author, “they were very fond of each other“. But for Diana, friendship soon turned into something more.

At the end of the eighties, when with Carlo was already at loggerheads, Diana called George at home “at any time”he invited him “often to lunch at Kensington Palace», And in her presence acted like ‘a hysterical girl“. The singer at the time he hadn’t come out yet, but the gossip about his homosexuality had been around for some time. Some rumors must have reached the princess, if it is true that she once said: “Isn’t it a pity that he doesn’t like ladies?“. In any case, she remained firm in the public definition that she had given of the singer: gorgeousvery beautiful. This was followed by George’s thanks: “Thank you, ma’am – you are fabulous“. The bond between the two was strengthened when Michael attended the first concert organized by Diana to raise funds for the fight against AIDS.

Lady Diana and George Michael at the World Aids Day Concert in 1993

Princess Diana Archive / Getty Images

“They spent a lot of time together and told each other secrets,” Gavin continues. “They called each other between meetings to exchange advice, they went out to go to the theater or to a concert, and he called her My darling“. At one point George realized that Diana had a crush on him and, to protect her, he tried to keep her at a distance. However, their friendship was only broken by the death of the princess in 1997. The following year, in a famous interview with CnnMichael bluntly said that Diana was “attracted to him.”

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Source: Vanity Fair

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