The New York Times bestseller, which was first published in 1992, is the only authorized biography about Princess Diana. “Barry Mannakee was a protection officer in our team and I started to notice her behavior was unusual when we were anywhere near Barry Mannakee, which was certainly indicating that something may have happened between them so I decided to talk to her about it,” Peters said.įor more about Princess Diana, read Andrew Morton’s biography, Diana: Her True Story - In Her Words. In the docuseries, Peters recalled a time he confronted Diana about her romance with Mannakee, where she admitted that she was in love with him. I should never have played with fire and I did. I just sat there all day going through this huge high-profile visit to Cannes, just devastated. And Charles, though he knew but he never had any proof, and he just jumped it on me like that and I wasn’t able to do anything. The death was ruled an accident, but Diana believed at the times he may have been “bumped off.” “Charles said to me, ‘He was killed in a motorbike accident’ and that was the biggest blow of my life I must say. He died in a car crash months later in 1987 while riding pillion on the back of a motorcyle. “My father-in-law said to my husband, ‘Uh, if your marriage doesn’t work out you can always go back to her after five years,’ which is exactly, I mean for real I know that it happened after five, I knew something was happening before that,” Diana told Settelen in tapes.Īccording to the docuseries, Mannakee was let go of his job as Diana’s bodyguard in 1986 once their affair was discovered. The docuseries reported that Diana told Settelen that she knew that Charles-who first dated Camilla in 1970-had gone back to his ex five years after their wedding, which would be 1986, though Diana suspected their affair earlier than that.
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