Princess Diana is said to have secretly arranged to have tabloid newspapers delivered to her inside the royal residences.<\/p>\n
According to the tragic royal\u2019s longtime hairdresser Richard Dalton, who first met Diana in 1978 and worked as her official hairdresser from 1981 to 1990, she asked him to help bypass palace restrictions so she could read gossip.<\/p>\n
He told People: \u201cShe wasn\u2019t allowed to see the tabloid newspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard then joked: \u201cOne of the hairdressers smuggled them in. Did I say that? They were smuggled in, but it\u2019s not to do with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cShe used to say, \u2018Richard, can you bring them in for me?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody questioned it because nobody knew. Once I\u2019d got through security and into the pantry, it was all plain sailing from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hairdresser said Diana would often flick through the papers while he worked.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI\u2019d be doing her hair, she\u2019d be flipping through the pages (of a tabloid), and she\u2019d go, \u2018Ugh\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen another one comes along and then (she\u2019d go), \u2018Ohhhhhh\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the most painful rumours about the princess in the media, according to Richard, centred on the parentage of Diana\u2019s youngest son, Prince Harry, 41.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThey always (went) on about, \u2018Is Charles the father of Harry?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course he is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speculation persisted during Diana\u2019s lifetime Major James Hewitt \u2013 with whom she had an affair years after Harry\u2019s birth \u2013 was the prince\u2019s father because both shared red hair.<\/p>\n
Richard dismissed the claim, pointing out that red hair was common in Diana\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cDiana\u2019s brother, Charles Spencer, when I used to cut his hair, his hair was bright red. Lady Sarah, also red. The Spencers definitely had red hair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard has been encouraged to share his memories by his friend Renae Plant, who co-authored his 2024 memoir It\u2019s All About the Hair \u2013\u00a0My Decade with Diana.<\/p>\n
Renae, who founded the Princess Diana Museum, said: \u201cI felt like she was being whitewashed from history really quickly to make way for Camilla. I feel like that\u2019s when I got the motivation to really try to honour her life and legacy in a way where no one else seemed to be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added she informed Prince William, 43, and Prince Harry about her plans, saying: \u201cThey wrote back and said, \u2018Thank you\u2019, and kind of gave me their blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Princess Diana Museum launched online in 2019 and contains more than 2,700 items linked to Diana.<\/p>\n
It will stage its first physical exhibition in Los Angeles in November 2026 before touring internationally, with Renae hoping to establish a permanent site in Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Diana is said to have secretly arranged to have tabloid newspapers delivered to her inside the royal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1500,7709,7730,7731,4044,5686,5681,1760,12,5683,5682,5684,7710,519,5685,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-461835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-daily-news","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-inkl","15":"tag-king-charles","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-news-app","18":"tag-news-headlines","19":"tag-news-today","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-today-news","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115290644458320039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461835","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=461835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}