Britain’s Prince Charles feared being shot dead during his ex-wife Diana’s funeral in 1997 because he had become “public enemy number one” after her death, a royal biographer has claimed
Charles at the funeral with William and Harry. Pic/AFP
London: Britain’s Prince Charles feared being shot dead during his ex-wife Diana’s funeral in 1997 because he had become “public enemy number one” after her death, a royal biographer has claimed.
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Ingrid Seward, a veteran royal correspondent, said that the 67-year-old heir to Britain’s throne was “fatalistic” about the possibility that a gunman would take a shot as he followed Princess Diana’s coffin to Westminster Abbey after she was killed in a car crash in Paris, The Times reports.
“Prince Charles was extremely nervous because he was public enemy number one,” Seward told the audience yesterday during the Henley Literary Festival at Henley-on-Thames. “He thought, ‘If someone takes a gun out and shoots me, that’s it’. The streets of London were very quiet. You could hear a pin drop. You could hear everything the crowd was saying. They were saying, ‘Look at him, look at him’. They were being quite nasty. The whole way round he could hear this abuse and he didn’t think he would make it the whole way round,” she said, without disclosing her sources.
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