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Princess Diana’s guard says three mistakes led to the royal’s death
Princess Diana’s bodyguard claims three crucial mistakes led to the royal family’s death – and could have been avoided.
On the 27th anniversary of Diana’s death, RadarOnline.com can reveal that her personal protection officer, Ken Wharfe, believes three accidents occurred in the lead-up to the fatal car crash.
First, the security guard-turned-commentator insisted that his former employer might still be alive if Ritz security chief Henri Paul had not been drunk behind the wheel.
Wharfe claimed: ‘The only thing that would have saved Diana’s life that night would have been if they had kicked the driver out and Rees-Jones had driven.’
Diana, who was 36 when she died, was also in the vehicle with Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed, 42, Paul and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones.
However, Wharfe believes Rees-Jones “couldn’t have” given that order because he was at the “bottom of the pyramid” and it was “very difficult for him to tell others what to do and what not to do.” Doing”.
He added: “And that’s a shame because if Rees-Jones had taken over that command, if he had made the decision to take out Henri Paul, you and I wouldn’t be having this discussion.”
Rees-Jones was the only survivor of the crash.
Wharfe also believes the Princess of Wales and her security team made a mistake by alienating local police and making an enemy of the media.
He told the sun: “The security also failed due to their inexperience to involve the local police, to have a relationship with the assembled paparazzi.
“You can’t treat the paparazzi or the media as an enemy, that doesn’t work.”
Wharfe recalled befriending the media while he was working, telling the press that the press was there “to photograph Diana” and “not to kill her”.
He added: “And that was the failure of the Fayed security service. And that is a tragedy.”
Wharfe was Diana’s personal protection officer from 1988 to 1993 and remained with the Royal Protection Squad until 2002.
The royal insider claimed that the third and biggest mistake the security team made was when Diana decided to disband her Scotland Yard security.
After her divorce from Prince (now King) Charles in 1992, she decided to cut ties completely as a way to start her “new life,” Wharfe said.
But it wasn’t just Diana’s decision. Wharfe – who urged Diana to maintain security – claimed the royal family’s complacency in dropping security details was making matters dire.
Wharfe said: “If the Queen had insisted that Diana retain her Scotland Yard security, Diana would have accepted.”
Wharfe recalled a conversation between the royal family and himself in which Diana had asked him for advice after his departure.
The retired officer said: “I said, look, I don’t know what you’re going to do, where you’re going. But you need us (Scotland Yard). Even if you change gender, you will always be Diana, Princess of Wales.”
He continued: “So I said, I urge you, I urge you not to lose the security of Scotland Yard because we gave you that freedom, we broke the rules to give you normality to have what you desire, and there is no reason why that shouldn’t continue even now that I’m gone.”
“Four weeks later she left the entire security.”
