Princess Diana's former bodyguard Lee Sansum is opening up about how the royal reportedly spent her last summer vacation in Saint-Tropez. Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Al-Fayed, died only weeks after the trip.
Diana was in Saint-Tropez with her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, in July 1997. The family were relentlessly pursued by paparazzi, who all hoped to get a photo of Diana and Dodi together.
The paparazzi were reportedly weighing heavily on Diana's mind. As Sansum writes in his book Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard's Story, "The press were the bane of her life everywhere, not just in St. Tropez. And she said to me, ‘There is nothing I can do in the UK. The papers there attack me no matter what I do.’ Then she told me, ‘I want to go to the US and live there so I can get away from it all. At least in America they like me and will leave me alone.'"
After Sansum asked if Diana would be able to take her sons with her, she shared that she would likely only be able to see them on school breaks. However, she seemed to feel that not living in the UK with her sons would offer them respite from the near-constant media attention that surrounded her.
He continues, "You could tell Diana was a wonderful mother, so loving and attentive to her two boys but it looked as if she might have to leave them both behind in the UK to escape from the press, who hounded her relentlessly every single day of her life."
You can find out more about her plans in the video below.
