More than 27 years after Princess Diana’s death, her former chauffeur Steve Davies gave his first interview in which he spoke about something that has haunted him ever since.
The journalist of with the BBC, Martin Bashir ended his royal career as Diana’s personal driver, Davies. However, a quarter of a century had to pass before Davies discovered it and learned the truth by chance from the episode “The Crown”.
The driver was fired at the end of 1995 without any explanation, he writes Dailymail.”It happened overnight. I was banned from driving her car. After the Christmas holidays they told me she didn’t want me around her, they wouldn’t even let me wash her car. I was still on her payroll, but the whole thing was weird. I could sit in the garage for ten hours a day, doing nothing, and then go home, I was broke, humiliated,” he said.
He didn’t know it at the time, but it was the collateral damage of Bashir’s corrupt plot that led the princess to the most difficult interview in the history of the royal family, her appearance on the Panorama show in November 1995.
In a secret meeting with the princess and her brother Charles Spencer in September that year, Bashir claimed that Diana’s close friends and associates were all part of a deep state conspiracy against her. The reporter specifically named Steve as a newspaper spy and warned Diana that her car was being followed and bugged.
“The consequence for me was that I was forced to leave the work I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Royal service means having faith and being loyal, showing prudence, having a sense of duty,” he said.
He then shared what angers him the most at the moment.
“I’m not the type of person to waste time and energy on resentment or anger, but she died believing I cheated on her and that’s something I can never forget or forgive,” he said.
Princess Diana tragically died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997. Davies believes Princess Diana would still be alive today if he had been driving her car that fateful night.
“I believe Diana would be alive today if I had driven her to Paris. I would never have let things happen the way they did that night. I have always taken extra precautions when it comes to her safety. I’ve taken it to different situations and I’ve always paid attention to every little thing, I’ve always insisted on wearing a seat belt and I’ve carefully checked all the conditions before going anywhere by car”, he concluded. /Telegraph/
