Princess Diana was a longtime dance enthusiast, and although she had taken some ballet and tap classes as a child, it wasn't until she had married into the Royal Family that she pursued her love of dancing in a more formal way. In the new book Dancing With Diana, her former instructor Anne Allan revealed plenty of inside stories about working with the late royal, including the time she managed to hide Diana backstage during one surprising performance.
In the memoir, Allan wrote how she was approached by a lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Wales—who had just married Prince Charles two months prior—in September 1981 and asked if she would give private dance lessons to the royal. Their lessons were held in secret and Allan didn't even tell her own husband at first, but the two grew close over time and Diana began to confide in her dance teacher about her marriage with Prince Charles.
