Princess Diana had a lifelong love of dance, and from 1981 to 1989, she found a rare sense of "freedom" by taking secret lessons from professional dancer Anne Allan. The dance teacher chronicled her time working with the then-Princess of Wales in her memoir, Dancing With Diana, and among the humorous and heartfelt stories in the book, she shared some thoughts on Princess Diana's famous dance with John Travolta—and how it compared to the royal's dance moves with Prince Charles.
Diana started weekly private lessons with Allan shortly after her 1981 wedding and continued with them up through 1989, when the dance teacher moved to Scotland. In her memoir, Allan wrote that in 1985, Princess Diana and Prince Charles headed on a tour of Australia, sending her a postcard that read: "Our jet leg is quite awful and still after week we are walking around in a haze! I miss my dancing a lot and my boys."
