Diana tapes to be shown on US TV
The late Princess Diana claimed she had sex with her husband just once every three weeks, it has been reported.
American TV channel NBC will broadcast unseen interviews, including the princess discussing intimate details of her marriage during one of its most difficult periods.
The interviews refer to conversations the princess had with the Queen as her marriage to the Prince of Wales began to collapse. They come from eight video tapes made at Kensington Palace in 1992 and 1993, which were recorded by the princess's voice coach to help improve her public speaking.
Talking of her sex life, the princess says: "There was never a requirement for it from him. Once every three weeks about, and I kept thinking it followed a pattern."
She adds: "He used to see his lady once every three weeks before we got married."
The princess says they met just 13 times before they were married. She says: "He'd ring me up every day for a week and then he wouldn't speak to me for three weeks. Very odd. I thought 'Fine. Well, he knows where I am if he wants me'. And the thrill when he used to ring up was so immense and intense."
The tapes also show the princess discussing what is believed to be her former lover and royal protection officer, who later died in a road accident. Mysteriously, she does not mention him by name but casts doubt on whether his death was an accident.
Barry Mannakee allegedly had an affair with the princess in 1985 and was subsequently moved from duties at Kensington Palace. In 1987, he was killed in a motorcycle accident as he rode pillion with a fellow officer.
Appearing to question whether his death was an accident, the princess says: "It was all found out and he was chucked out. And then he was killed.
"And I think he was bumped off. But, um, there we are. I don't... we'll never know... he was greatest fella I've ever had."
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