Paula Yates once bumped into Princess Diana in a boutique on the Kings Road. “I love it when you’re on the front page because it means I’ve got the day off,” the Princess of Wales said to Yates.
Between the mid-Eighties and Nineties, Yates and Diana jostled for the unenviable (depending on how you looked at it) position of most famous woman in the UK. Both became known more for the men they were with than their own talent. Both were pursued doggedly by the tabloids and had their lives cut short in bleak and avoidable circumstances.
