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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Princess Diana’s Former Bodyguard Compares the Royal Family to "Traveling Theater" and Shares How She Coped With Her "Performance"

Princess Diana shaking hands with a fan as others take photos of her.

Before Instagram and TikTok analyzed every detail of the Royal Family’s lives, the public had to rely on daily newspapers to get their royal fix. For Princess Diana, the news coverage was “relentless,” per her former bodyguard Ken Wharfe, and he tells Marie Claire how the late royal was able to handle the level of interest in her life.

Wharfe, who protected Prince William and Prince Harry before becoming Diana’s protection officer in 1987, shares that the princess “was constantly pursued by the media.”

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