The Bodyguard

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Howard admitted that Lee’s explanation of the events that night has left him in no doubt that it was an accident, and no conspiracy was involved. After a delay of more than four months, Lee Sansum's book The Bodyguard, detailing his time watching over some of the world's most famous names – most notably Princess Diana – was published on August 31. She was quite adamant that in America, the press liked her. The people liked her, and she liked the place,” he told Us. “I know a lot of people have said she was depressed. She was anxious. She was paranoid. Well, you know what? I kind of get why. She couldn’t enjoy her life. Things weren’t normal. She had no one to turn to.” Diana knew she would have to leave her sons behind if she moved to the US, but Sansum writes that it would have freed them from the paparazzi attention they got while with their mother. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

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The book offers Lee's account of what it's like to work with the rich and famous in a high-pressure job where lives are at stake.Lee protected Princess Diana and her sons in St Tropez during the summer of 1997, the tragic incidents that followed in Paris would be the catalyst for his close quarter combat system of training to be developed. Sansum) says (that) in his private conversations with Princess Diana, she told him all sorts of things: That she was really concerned that her friend Gianni Versace had been murdered, she felt that could have happened to her and she was very nervous and that she wanted to leave the UK,” Myers said. A multi-colored sea of floral tributes to Diana, Princess of Wales. Credit: Liba Taylor /Corbis via Getty Images In the years since the accident, conspiracy theorists have suggested Diana was murdered, with Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, claiming the crash was orchestrated by MI6. Diana was almost always able to put herself in someone else’s shoes, it is one of the reasons why she was so highly regarded. There may be another book signing to follow, with a documentary covering Lee's work as bodyguard for Princess Diana coming later this year.

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But I had seen her in tears too, when she learned of the murder of her friend, the fashion designer Gianni Versace. She confided in me her own fears that she might one day be assassinated. Lee had a very good theory about what happened and it would satisfy the people who believe there was a cover up. Why did Diana get in the car? Why did she not wear a seatbelt?” Diana and Dodi Fayed, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones and driver Henri Paul shortly before the fatal crash. Credit: Langevin Jacques /Sygma via Getty Images Conspiracy theory I am thankful to you for covering the inquest and including how there was a cover-up. The sole survivor, what a heaviness you have taken on. Diana would not want you to carry that load.Princess Diana died on August 31, 1997, after a car accident in Paris. (Image: PA Archive/PA Images) Lee took an instant shine to young princes William and Harry, who he says were down to earth and friendly, like their mother. William was 15 when Diana died and Harry 12.