Episode Details

A princess spent her final year caught between private love, public myth and the cameras that never seemed to stop. Princess Diana had left royal life behind, but not the world’s obsession with her. From her relationship with Hasnat Khan to the intense summer with Dodi Fayed, her final months became a collision of romance, celebrity, paparazzi pressure and royal history.

This episode follows Princess Diana through the last chapter of her life: the work with the Halo Trust, the press fascination around Diana and Dodi, Mohamed Al-Fayed’s role in the story, the Ritz Hotel, the Pont de l’Alma tunnel and the 1997 Paris crash that stunned the world. We explore the fatal chase, the last goodbye, the funeral, the public grief and the conspiracy theories that followed, including the claims around MI6, Operation Tay Bridge and the wider Diana death theories.

Part documentary podcast, part history podcast and part royal scandal, Princess Diana remains one of the defining modern stories of fame, grief and media obsession. For listeners interested in celebrity scandals, royal scandals, media scandals, historical figures, real life mysteries and what really happened behind famous lives, this is the story of the final year that turned a woman into a legend.

Topics Include

• Diana’s relationship with Hasnat Khan
• Her summer with Dodi Fayed
• Paparazzi pressure and public fascination
• The crash in Paris
• The conspiracies and legacy that followed

Resources and Further Reading

• Diana’s childhood and family background - Britannica
• Diana’s struggles with bulimia and mental health - Vogue
• Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words - by Andre Morton
• The Diana Chronicles - by Tina Brown

Host & Show Info

• Hosts: Kyle Risi & Adam Cox
• Intro Music: Alice in dark Wonderland

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