Footage of the late princess Diana pouring her heart out about her failed marriage with Prince Charles will air on British television for the first time, Channel 4 confirmed on Sunday.
Before the 20th anniversary of her death in a car crash in Paris, Channel 4 will broadcast Diana: In Her Own Words on August 6, despite a report in The Mail on Sunday newspaper that her brother Charles Spencer is unhappy with the decision.
The tapes show the late princess of Wales speaking frankly to her voice coach about her loveless marriage to the heir to the British throne and his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, now his wife.
Diana also discusses her struggle with bulimia and an unconsummated romance with a mystery man, widely believed to be her bodyguard Barry Mannakee, who died in a motorbike accident.
“At 24, I fell deeply in love with someone who was part of all this and that was all found out and he was chucked out and then he was killed. And that was the deepest blow in my life,” she says in the footage.