Betraying Diana
Andrew wasn’t the one palace cover-up throughout the queen’s reign.
Within the days after Princess Diana’s loss of life in 1997, Elizabeth watched the nation grieve whereas she herself remained publicly silent. That silence would, in line with palace insiders, hang-out the monarch for the remainder of her life.
Behind closed doorways, Elizabeth ultimately got here to consider she had misjudged [Princess] Diana. A supply mentioned the queen later acknowledged that Diana had been handled unfairly throughout her marriage to Prince Charles and, most painfully, throughout the divorce that stripped her of her HRH title and palace safety.
“However appearances are every little thing to the Agency, so the queen by no means publicly admitted she was incorrect about Diana,” mentioned the supply. “It was a merciless betrayal, as a result of Diana suffered a lot. Had the queen embraced her, perhaps historical past would have turned out otherwise.”
By all of it, although, “the queen would at all times say she did the issues she did out of affection. Nobody would dare problem her. She was the queen, in spite of everything.”