We did not see each other very often-well, she was busy wasn’t she, being a princess, but we did not need to. We had a natural empathy. We were very close. We had so much in common and I suppose many of the things we had in common-we were both highly sensitive women in our 30s-helped bring us together. I thank my lucky stars that, despite all her many engagements, we were able to spend the little time together that we did so that I can write this now and set the record straight. I feel I owe it to the world and I know Diana would have wanted me to. I can almost hear her ringing and asking if I have posted it off yet.
Oh, the endless telephone calls, the girlish chatter! What a lot we had in common. We were both victims of our times, of course, and our shared experience and compatible star signs undoubtedly brought us together in the face of so much shared adversity.
There is no denying that our lives were very different. She, after all, was the Queen’s daughter-in-law, the Queen Mother’s grand-daughter-in-law, ex-wife and mother (and possibly grandmother and great grandmother and so on) of future kings of England-while I, I am just a jobbing writer.
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