Princess Diana's former bodyguard reveals Camilla fears

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Ken Wharfe made comments in upcoming The Life and Death of Princess Diana
Two-hour show, featuring wide ranging interviews, airs on NBC on Friday 5 May
Wharfe said only the queen could have persuaded Diana to keep security
Was also concerned about being sidelined by Camilla Parker Bowles

Published: 17:39 EDT, 2 May 2017 | Updated: 10:47 EDT, 3 May 2017

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Princess Diana's close confidante has revealed how the late royal was deeply worried about Camilla becoming a substitute mother to her sons after divorcing Prince Charles.

In a TV interview, Dr James Colthurst recalls her worries, saying: 'Her big fear was that this is not a substitute mother for the boys. That they would try to sideline Diana and that Camilla might use her post.'

Baronet's son Dr Colthurst became close friends with Diana during the period she worked as a nanny before her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981.

He was the go-between who ferried tapes of Diana's confessions to author Andrew Morton for his blockbusting book of revelations, Diana: Her True Story.

He was rumoured to have made £1 million from his part in the creation of the book, but these days he makes a living in Hungerford, Berkshire, as a homeopathic GP.

Dr Colthurst makes the revelation of Diana's fears over Camilla in a two-hour documentary airing this Friday The Life and Death of Princess Diana: A Dateline Investigation.

Princess Diana did not want Camilla to be seen as a substitute mother to her sons, her former confidante reveals

Her former bodyguard Ken Wharfe is also interviewed for the show, in which he claims Diana would still be alive today if she hadn't given up her royal security team after her divorce.

Recalling advice he gave the Princess, he says: 'Whatever you want to do, you will always be Diana, the princess of Wales. The one thing that you shouldn’t give up is your security. I urge you strongly not to do that.

He adds: 'There’s only one person that could – in my view – that could have insisted that she retain her security, and that would have been the queen herself.

'If the queen had insisted that she retain that security then we wouldn’t be having this discussion because Diana, in my view, would have been alive today.'

Former royal bodyguard Ken Wharfe has revealed his belief that Princess Diana would still be alive today if she hadn't given up her security after divorcing Prince Charles

The episode will examine Diana's troubled marriage to Prince Charles, her subsequent love affairs and her tragic death and the investigation that followed.

Paris police chief Martine Monteil, forensic scientist Patrick Touron and former French diplomat Sami Nair, will be interviewed about the aftermath of her death.

Diana’s friend Simone Simmons, lead UK investigator Lord John Stevens, photographer Pierre Suu and reporter Richard Kay will also provide insights.

The late Diana, Princess of Wales, arriving at an Aids Information kiosk in Paris with her bodyguard Inspector Ken Wharfe in 1992

Diana and her bodyguard and close confidante Ken Wharfe, pictured together in 1993

Back in August 1997 Princess Diana was staying in Paris with her then boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, following a summer holiday to the South of France, while her children were with the Queen at Balmoral.

The couple had taken up residence in a suite at the Ritz, owned by Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al Fayed, when they were killed in a car driven by the hotel’s acting head of security, Henri Paul, who an inquest later found to be drunk and speeding as they entered the Alma Tunnel.

The inquest found he had lost control of the car and crashed into a pillar, killing himself, Diana and Dodi. Only Dodi’s bodyguard survived.

Her former close confidante reveals she was worried about being sidelined by Camilla Parker Bowles who was in a relationship with her ex-husband

Today it was revealed that Princess William and Harry will share intimate memories of their mother in another upcoming documentary to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.

The pair will speak openly about how her influence shaped their lives in the Oxford Films produced programme, as well as her charity and humanitarian work in many fields, including landmines, HIV and homelessness in a documentary, which will air on HBO in the US and ITV in the UK.

ITV's Jo Clinton-Davis, Controller of Factual, said the film would shed new light on Diana's life through rare insight from her son's and friends who have been before been interviewed.

'This new ITV film will offer viewers a fresh and revealing insight into Princess Diana through the personal and intimate reflections of her two sons and of her friends and family, many of whom have never spoken before, to bring together a definitive portrait of a unique person who touched the lives of millions,' she explained.

PRINCESS DIANA'S DEATH IN PARIS

Diana arrived in Paris on 30 August 1997 with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed after spending nine days together on his father Mohammed Al-Fayed's yacht in Sardinia.

They pair dined at the Ritz hotel, owned by Dodi's father, and left after midnight to travel to an apartment in in Rue Arsène Houssaye, just off the Champs Elysees.

The Ritz's deputy head of security Henri Paul was tasked with driving a black Mercedes away from the main entrance of the hotel on Place Vendôme to fool the waiting papparazzi, while Diana and Dodi exited via the rear entrance on Rue Cambon.

Trevor Rees-Jones of the Fayed family's secturity team was driving the couple and took them into the Place de l'Alma underpass.

Photographers pursued them into the underpass and Paul, who was under the influence of alcohol and speeding, lost control of the Mercedes 280S while trying to outrun the press pack and careered into a support pillar.

Henri Paul and Dodi Fayed were killed instantly, but Diana was still alive and was removed from the wreckage

She suffered a cardiac arrest and died in hospital several hours later.

An inquest concluded that Diana's death was 'caused, or contributed to, by the speed and manner of the driver of the Mercedes and the speed and manner of the following vehicles'.

The Flame of Liberty, a replica of part of the Statue of Liberty, which stands on the Place de l’Alma has become an unofficial monument to the Princess, and is still visited by royal fans who lay pictures and flowers beside it.