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\n Diana, 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.\n <\/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
“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
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