Princess Diana recorded some tapes with a therapist and they are now public. Philip Hammond (Photo: AP) It is the summer holidays, after all — and so the tourists are here and the Londoners are abroad. Theresa May is on her walking holiday in the mountains, Jeremy Corbyn was spotted in Croatia. Meanwhile, the ministers left behind to hold the fort are quarrelling about Brexit. The Conservative Party is divided among the soft Brexit advocates such as the Chancellor Philip Hammond while Boris Johnson is for hard Brexit. This will run longer than Les Miserables… Given the vacuum in political news, the tabloids have gone back to their hardy favourites. Princess Diana recorded some tapes with a therapist and they are now public. Among other things we already know is the nugget that she fell in love with one of the guards and wanted to elope. But the royal family have many spying eyes and long arms. The loved one was sacked and subsequently died, perhaps killed, or at least that is what Diana had apparently implied.Many of Diana’s problems were caused by the “other woman” Camilla, who ultimately did marry Charles (so perhaps Diana was not completely deluded about Camilla’s intentions).
However, now these much-awaited tapes are finally going on air from this weekend — so expect a lot of angst and worry about how the two sons of Diana are going to react. That has been one of the reasons why the tapes found in the home of a former butler who served in the royal household were never aired before. It is rather painful no doubt for the children to watch their mother speak about difficulties with her marriage to their father, but then it is a free press out here and everyone does all they can to rehash a royal scandal!However, it is rather revealing at how traumatised and lonely she must have been if she confided her secrets to her voice coach, her bodyguard and her dance instructor. Anyone who listened to her in fact!Keeping with the royal theme, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, finally retired from his ceremonial duties and charity work. He is 94 and has been out and about on more than 20,000 occasions on his own or accompanying the Queen.