The seductive side of Diana: this is the game she had invented to classify her (many) lovers

In the infamous 1995 BBC interview – which will be told by the fifth season of The Crown – lady Diana he defined his marriage to Charlesit causes Camilla Parker Bowles, “a little too crowded.” Even the princess, however, had numerous lovers. And according to the royal biographer Andrew Morton, he enjoyed “classifying” them with a little game: “He kept a diary in which he wrote details about all of his men. And with his hairdresser and butler Paul Burrell he enjoyed dividing them into categories“. Diana imagined that diary, Morton continues, as a sort of “racecourse“. In which “her lovers, according to her moods, gained or lost positions”.

If Morton is telling the truth, Diana with her racecourse diary must have been very busy. Because her list of lovers is long. The first of her was his bodyguard Barry Mannakee: the relationship began in 1985a few months after the Harry’s birth, and ended a year later. It was Barry who left the princess, so as not to get into serious trouble, after they were discovered in very intimate attitudes in 1986. Then in Diana’s heart came the Major James HewittFor years pointed out as Harry’s real father (a rumor denied by Hewitt himself in 2017). The eldest was Diana’s riding instructor, and the two, who met in 1986 (five years after the royal wedding with Carlo) would have been together, intermittently, for almost six years. In the 1995 BBC interview, the princess confessed that she loved him very much.

In 1990, however, Diana also had an affair with James Jilbey, heir to Gin Gilbey’s and salesman of Lotus sports cars. The story came out only two years later, when the Sun published parts of a telephone conversation between the two lovers, recorded by a radio amateur. In her phone call, Diana expressed concern about getting pregnant with her and Gilbey reassured her. Other parts of the conversation, extremely explicit and spicy, were not published even by the most unscrupulous London tabloids. In comparison, the “I would like to be your Tampax »said by Carlo to Camilla in another famous phone call, published in newspapers in 1993, it sounded like an interview between boarders.

But the list of Diana’s men certainly does not end there. Come on Davisthe former London Metropolitan Police officer who for three years (from 1995 to 1998) commanded the 450 people charged with protecting the Windsors, said that after the separation from Charles Princess “he had at least twenty lovers “. The most famous? The champion of the national rugby team Will Carling, John Kennedy Juniorsinger Bryan Adamsthe American billionaire Theodore Forstman And Dodi Al Fayedwho died with the princess in the tragic accident in Paris in 1997.

In the last years of her life, however, Diana would really love only one man: Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. The first meeting between the two, in a hospital in London to which the princess had gone to visit, happened by chance in 1995. Two years of a love story followed which, as Diana’s close friends have assured, was the only true and important after her marriage to Carlo. “She was madly in love with him, above all she wanted to marry him, even if to succeed he had to go and live in Pakistan ». Lady D had begun to study the Qur’an and was longing to convert to Islam, but Hasnat Khan’s parents in Lahore were opposed to marrying a woman that was talked about so much. For this reason, the heart surgeon, in 1997, decided to end the relationship. Breaking Diana’s heart, that in his diary-ranking, as Andrew Morton reveals, “he had always reserved the first place for Khan”.

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