The Diana tapes revealed: Princess says getting married to Charles was ‘ridiculous’, that he ‘wanted a girl’ instead of Prince Harry and how she ‘hated’ her step-mother in bombshell recordings released 26 years after her death
• Audio was recorded by Diana in early 1990s for her biographer Andrew Morton
Unheard tapes of Princess Diana claiming getting married to King Charles was ‘ridiculous’, that he ‘wanted a girl’ instead of Price Harry and how she ‘hated’ her step-mother have been revealed in bombshell recordings.
The audio was recorded by Diana in the 1990s for her biographer Andrew Morton, who went on to publish the bestselling book Diana: Her True Story.
Snippets of the clips, which are set to air in an upcoming documentary and have been released just a day after the 26th anniversary of Diana’s death in a car crash, have been released in the US.
Diana claims in the recording that Charles told her mother Frances Shand Kydd at Prince Harry’s christening in 1984: ‘We’re so disappointed, we thought it would be a girl’.
Frances then ‘snapped his head off’ and told him he should ‘realise you are lucky to have a child’, Diana added.
The release of the clips could be particularly damaging for King Charles because they come just a week before the first anniversary of the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
After John’s death in 1992, Raine left the family seat of Althorp due to the strained relationship she had with Charles and Diana. Diana is heard saying: ‘I was so angry. I told her, “I hate you so much. If only you knew how much we all hated you for what you’ve done.
“You’ve ruined the house, you’ve spent Daddy’s money.” I said everything I possibly could and Raine said, “you have no idea how much pain mother put your father through.”
‘I said, “Pain, Raine? That’s one word you don’t even know how to relate to.”
“In my job and in my role, I see people suffer like you’ve never seen. And you call that pain?” I said, “you’ve got a lot to learn.”‘
Diana and her siblings are said to have referred to their stepmother as ‘Acid Raine’ and often sang ‘Raine, Raine, go away!’