Prince Philip<\/strong> may have been one of the few people inside Buckingham Palace who saw through Princess Diana<\/strong>\u2018s denials about Andrew Morton<\/strong>\u2018s bombshell royal biography from the very beginning, according to accounts from two authors \u2014 former royal butler Paul Burrell<\/strong> and historian Hugo Vickers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Long before Diana\u2019s secret cooperation with Morton became public knowledge, the late Duke of Edinburgh suspected she had played a role in the explosive 1992 bestseller Diana: Her True Story<\/em> \u2014 a book that exposed intimate details about her troubled marriage to King Charles III<\/strong> and her struggles within the royal family.<\/p>\n In a 2026 royal biography, historian Hugo Vickers wrote that in cooperating with author Andrew Morton, Princess Diana \u201claid every grievance she could muster against her hapless husband,\u201d King Charles III, and confirmed that the former Camilla Parker Bowles was \u201cthe other woman in his life.\u201d By: Phil Loftus\/Capital Pictures \/ MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n The publication of Morton\u2019s bestseller sent shockwaves through royal circles when it hit bookshelves in 1992.<\/p>\n At the time, both Diana and Morton denied that the Princess of Wales had directly assisted with the project. It wasn\u2019t until after Diana\u2019s tragic 1997 death that Morton revealed she had secretly been the book\u2019s primary source.<\/p>\n Diana recorded about five hours of material in 1991 that was passed to Morton through a trusted friend and used as the foundation of the biography.<\/p>\n The tapes detailed Diana\u2019s deeply personal struggles, including the collapse of her marriage to then-Prince Charles and his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, his longtime mistress and now-wife, Queen Camilla<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Author Andrew Morton\u2019s 1992 international bestseller, \u201cDiana: Her True Story: In Her Own Words\u201d \u2014 which exposed Princess Diana\u2019s isolation, bulimia and the collapse of her marriage \u2014 forever changed public perception of the British monarchy. By: JM\/Capital Pictures \/ MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n According to Burrell, Diana\u2019s longtime butler and close confidant, Philip voiced his concerns directly to the Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n In his 2003 memoir, A Royal Duty<\/em>, Burrell described the royal family\u2019s reaction to the book\u2019s publication and recalled conversations between Diana and the Duke of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n \u201cAt Windsor, Prince Philip made it clear that everyone was upset by the biased account in the Morton book,\u201d Burrell wrote, as reported by Britain\u2019s Daily Express<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Burrell wrote that Philip left little doubt about where he believed the information had come from. \u201cHe told [Diana] that everyone was suspicious of her involvement,\u201d Burrell claimed.<\/p>\n Yet Diana continued to deny helping Morton. \u201cThe princess, by then in denial, insisted that she had not assisted the author,\u201d Burrell wrote. \u201cI honestly believe that she was taken aback by the scale of what she had unleashed.\u201d<\/p>\n The controversy placed enormous strain on an already fragile situation inside the House of Windsor and delivered another blow to Charles and Diana\u2019s marriage, which officially unraveled later that year when the palace announced their formal separation. Their divorce was finalized in 1996 \u2014 just one year before Diana\u2019s death.<\/p>\n The book exposed deeply personal details about Diana\u2019s life and intensified scrutiny of the royal family at a particularly turbulent moment.<\/p>\nPalace fallout<\/h2>\n
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A family under pressure<\/h2>\n