Princess Diana was still in love with ex-husband Prince Charles when she died, her inquest was told yesterday (17.01.08).


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Interior designer Roberto Devorik, a close friend of the late princess, claims Diana – who was killed in a Paris car crash on August 31, 1997, with her lover Dodi Fayed – never got over Charles and was devastated she “lost him” to Charles Camilla Parker Bowles.

Devorik told the jury at London’s High Court: “It’s my belief that the man she loved until she closed her eyes was the Prince of Wales. After Diana realised that she had lost the Prince of Wales to Camilla Parker Bowles it was devastating for her. Absolutely devastating.

“Once at my house during lunch somebody had the bad taste to criticise the Prince of Wales. I would not have liked to have been that person in the way she turned.

“She said, ‘He is the father of my children and the future King of England and if I have a difference with him that is my problem. Nobody should make a mockery of him.’ ”

He added the princess – who split from Charles in 1992 four years before their divorce was finalised in 1996 – once told him: “I’ve been loved by white people, black people, gay people, Jewish people. The one man I really loved in my life has not loved me.”

The fashion impresario also told the court Diana singled out her former father-in-law, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, as one of three people who hated her the most, saying he even wanted her dead.

Devorik said the princess confided in him soon after her November 1995 Panorama TV interview in which she spoke openly about her marriage and its
breakdown.

Diana told him Prince Philip was involved in the security services and referring to the interview said: “After this they are going to get rid of me.”

On another occasion Devorik said she pointed to a picture of Philip in a VIP airport lounge and said: “He really hates me and wants me to disappear.”

He also said the princess refused to go to a play about Mary, Queen of Scots because she feared she would end up like the 16th century queen and be “chopped” – or beheaded.