- LONDON (Reuters) - In a new book by her psychic healer, Princess Diana
is portrayed in a new book as a telephone addict who nursed a vindictive
streak against Britain's royal family and gave up wearing underwear to
avoid being photographed with VPL - visible panty line.
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- The book by confidante Simone Simmons
feeds public craving for ever more intimate details about the life of one
of the most glamorous women in the world. Extracts appeared in this weekend's
Sunday Mirror.
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- Simmons, who first met Diana in 1993
following her formal separation from Prince Charles, said the late princess
carried around four mobile phones so she could keep in touch with her friends.
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- Her resentment of the royal family, whom
she portrayed as her enemies, extended to her voting 250 times in a 1997
television telephone poll to scrap the monarchy.
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- "Diana was one of the first to register
her vote on the phone-in. Throughout the evening, she kept pressing her
redial button registering something like 250 votes against the monarchy,"
wrote Simmons.
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- Simmons said Diana also wrecked secret
plans last year for the royals to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 70th birthday
with a private dinner in an exclusive restaurant.
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- " 'Do you want to hear something
really funny?' Diana asked me. 'I've tipped off the Press."' Simmons
wrote. The meal had to be canceled at the last minute.
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- Simmons said she spoke at length -- sometimes
for eight hours a day -- with Diana on the telephone during their four
year friendship on everything from the trivial to the deeply personal.
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- She said Diana had offered to go and
work with the late Mother Teresa among the poor of Calcutta but had been
turned down. "The missionary felt that the princess was still too
needy herself to work effectively."
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- She confirmed previous reports that Diana
had conducted a passionate 18-month affair with Pakistani-born heart surgeon
Hasnat Khan in 1995 and 1996 and said the princess put on wigs and disguises
to go out to jazz clubs in London with him. The relationship ended because
Khan was not comfortable about taking on a highly public role with the
princess and her young sons.
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- Diana loved cleaning but didn't appear
to have a clue about cooking even such a simple food as pasta and thought
all salads were bought ready prepared in cellophane packs.
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- She was famous for her elegant outfits,
but the world didn't know the secret that lurked underneath, according
to Simmons.
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- "She dreaded that she might show
the 'VPL' -- visible panty line. So she stopped wearing panties. ... I
think there was something girlishly mischievous about it. It was definitely
something beyond Diana's wish to show her clothes to their best advantage,"
Simmons said.
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