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The Naked and the Dead.(Princess Diana; The Royal Family)

The New Yorker

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At the time of her death, on August 31, 1997, Princess Diana had come to have no privacy whatsoever. Take this recording of a private phone conversation with James Gilbey. The lovers' chat featured the following exchange:

GILBEY: I haven't played with myself . . . for a full forty-eight hours. (musingly) Not for a full forty-eight hours. . . ., DIANA (sounding vague): I watched "East Enders" today.

The tape in question seems to have been rebroadcast on a cellular frequency, where amateur scanners could encounter it, and several copies were handed to the newspapers. It has been argued that the recording must have been made by members of the British ...

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