However, Charles reportedly ignored this and used the royal plane to bring Diana\u2019s body back to the UK.<\/p>\n
As reported by The Mirror,<\/a> journalist Richard Kay, who was friends with Diana, said on the documentary Diana: 7 Days That Shook the Windsors: “This was a surprising and brave move.<\/p>\n \u201cHe (Charles) was an ex-husband, he had no right to be there other than as the father of her sons.<\/p>\n \u201cCharles wanted to take the royal flight to Paris but the Queen wouldn’t allow it. Charles fought harder for Diana than he had ever fought for her in her lifetime.”<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the documentary, Tina Brown – who was also friends with Diana – said “Charles \u201cwas absolutely distraught\u201d when he found out Diana had died, and \u201cfell apart\u201d.<\/p>\n He also had the difficult task of telling Prince William<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a>, his young sons, who were enjoying the summer holidays at Balmoral at the time.<\/a><\/p>\n It is believed that Charles did all he could to support his sons, along with the rest of the Royal Family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, Charles reportedly ignored this and used the royal plane to bring Diana\u2019s body back to the UK.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,1412,133857,133855,111234,133856,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-386070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-princess-diana","13":"tag-princess-diana-car-crash","14":"tag-princess-diana-death","15":"tag-princess-diana-king-charles","16":"tag-princess-diana-paris","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115120582558831907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}