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<\/p>\nDiana, Princess of Wales, was more “predatory and skilled” than her husband as they waged war with each other in the media in the 1990s, an official claimed at the time. <\/p>\n
Staff who worked for her “devoted a great deal of time to finding ways and means of upstaging St James’ Palace”, they added.<\/p>\n
The assessment from 1995, while the royal couple were separated before divorcing a year later, has been made public as part of an annual release of documents from the National Archives of Ireland.<\/p>\n
The then Prince – now King – Charles, visited Ireland in June 1995 as part of a strategy to give him a more positive public profile.<\/p>\n
His team regarded the trip as a success, calling it the “best public outing the Prince has had in a very long time”.<\/p>\n
Department of Foreign Affairs official Joe Hayes wrote that the prince’s press secretary, Sandy Henney, told him she expected Diana’s team would shortly be in touch to arrange a trip of her own.<\/p>\n
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\n Charles with Ireland’s president Mary Robinson on the trip in 1995.<\/p>\n
“I took this as a joke until she repeated it and assured me that in the media battle between the two, the Princess was by far the more predatory and skilled and her staff devoted a great deal of time to finding ways and means of upstaging St James’ Palace,” he added.<\/p>\n
At the time there was an intense briefing war between the separated couple. In 1995 Diana gave a BBC interview in which she declared there were “three of us in this marriage,” a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles, now Queen Camilla, who married the King in 2005.<\/p>\n
Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diana, Princess of Wales, was more “predatory and skilled” than her husband as they waged war with each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-657291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115790026176111296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657291","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=657291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}