She has said that her book, titled The Showgirl and the Prince, will document their former romance, starting with its secretive beginnings and visits to Buckingham Palace to having tea at Windsor with the late Queen Elizabeth II. It remains unknown whether Buckingham Palace have been given a preview of the book.
The five-time Olivier winner claimed that she had been inspired to write it after finding boxes of memorabilia as she cleared out her garage five years ago.
As reported by The Telegraph, she said: “I found old diaries which I began writing in the 1980s and then found all my letters from Prince Edward, and I was struck by how precious this time in my life was.
“I was on the West End stage – my dream since I was a girl – and shared a love with a man very few people even know.
“If this was someone else’s story, I would think they had made it up. So here it is – a look behind the curtain of a crazy life in musical theatre and what happens next when a showgirl falls in love with a prince.”
Speaking of Edward, Henshall said that she fell for the prince because he was “kind and thoughtful,” adding that while she was “not like anyone he’s dated before”.
She is thought to have remained on “good terms” with Prince Edward and his wife, even attending their wedding in 1999.
She said that she “genuinely fell in love with him [Prince Edward] and added about the royals: “I have nothing but nice things to say about them all.
“The Queen, in particular, was lovely. Here I was, this chorus girl dating her son – it must have been her worst nightmare!”
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