Princess Diana Shaken By Gianni Versace S Murder Bodyguard Says Do You Think They Re Going To Kill Me

Princess Diana was disturbed by the assassination of Gianni Versace, which happened a month before he was killed in a car accident. It was July 1997 and the British royal was spending the summer with her boyfriend, Egyptian millionaire film producer Dodi Al Fayed, in Saint Tropez on the French Riviera. There he learned that the Italian fashion designer had been shot dead on the steps outside his Miami mansion. Andrew Cunanan, who was suspected of killing four gay men from Minneapolis to New Jersey, shot him twice in the head at point-blank range. It was 50. Before his death, Versace had formed a friendship with the princess, whose divorce from Prince Charles was finalized in 1996. FRENCH DOCTOR REMEMBERS PEOPLE’S PRINCESS LAST MOMENTS ON ‘TRAGIC NIGHT’ Diana, Princess of Wales leaves Gianni Versace’s memorial service in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Tim Ockenden – PA Images via Getty Images) “The security team was discussing it as everyone was in security,” says Lee Sansum, a bodyguard employed by Al Fayed’s father, Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed. He told Fox News Digital, “At the time, we thought it was a commercial success the way it was done. Then it turned out not to be.” On the 25th anniversary of the royal family’s death, the former military policeman has penned a memoir, Protecting Diana: The Bodyguard’s Story, detailing how he became part of the security guard that looked after her and her sons, Princes William and Harry. , about what would be her last summer alive. The king’s vacation took place on the yacht named Jonikal. After the news of Versace’s death, Sansom said he ran into Diana while the rest of the security team was having breakfast. REMEMBERING PRINCESS DIANA: A LOOK AT THE LIFE OF THE SUPER-ROYAL IN PICTURES Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered a month before Princess Diana was killed in a car accident. (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images) “I went to the stern of the boat,” Sansum recalls. “The princess was there in this rather large room with all the windows at the back. So you could see over the sea. She was the only one there, and she had her back to me. When I came in, I turned around, and she was crying. She came to my place and she was talking about Versace. She was very agitated. And then she was asking me what [I thought] it has happened. I was talking to her, trying to play it down a lot. And they were really, really tears.” CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE RECREATION NEWSLETTER Sansum said that Diana was so upset that he wanted to hug her. “But it was inappropriate, one, because of my position and two, she was a princess, and three, if the paparazzi had taken a picture of me hugging the princess through the window, can you imagine?” he said. “It would be horrible for her [would have] it was horrible for me. So, against all my instincts, I kind of caved in.” Lee Sansum has written a new book called ‘Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard’s Story’. (Diversion Books) Sansum said Diana looked him in the eye. “He asked me, ‘Do you think they’re going to kill me?’ Sansum claimed. “She was very, very concerned about the potential risks to her life at the time. I said, ‘You’re safe here. You have great security. We’re not going to let anything happen to you.” [I] he just tried to give her some reassurance that she was safe… She stopped crying but she was really upset… [And] I made a quick exit.” PRINCESS DIANA TRIED TO SAVE PRINCE HARRY FROM ‘SPARE PARTS’ LABEL, JAMES PATTERSON SAYS: ‘THIS HAPPENED TO HER’ Sansum said Diana came across “as a normal person, like you and me”, which proved to be “a breath of fresh air”. However, protecting the royal family as they enjoyed a holiday with her new beau was no easy feat. Paparazzi swarmed the yacht every day, desperately trying to get pictures of Diana. Lee Sansum, a former private military contractor, was hired to protect Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed during their last summer together. (Courtesy of Lee Sansum) “It was a very complex and complicated situation,” Sansum said. “The paparazzi at that time could do almost anything they wanted… Some of the pictures the paparazzi took of her would sell for a million euros. So the stakes were high for the paparazzi. It wasn’t particularly the pictures that we were afraid of because they were going to take pictures everywhere you went, but it was the amount of paparazzi and the measures they were ready to take. [take] and follow us, chase us… and get as close as they can.” Lee Sansum said Diana tried to negotiate with the rogue paparazzi. (Courtesy of Lee Sansum) “It was just crazy,” he continued. “There were hundreds of them around us. We could see boats everywhere. There was even a helicopter to try and shoot… The princess was used to all this, but we weren’t. Mohammed Al Fayed was a very high-profile man in the UK, so we were used to having the press around us, but they took it to the next level. When we were on the jet ski, they were also in the sea… It was dangerous at times. There were times when I had to say, ‘You can’t go out today”… We did everything we could to make sure everyone had a great holiday.” According to Sansum, Diana told him there was nothing he could do about the relentless paparazzi in the UK. However, she was thinking about her future and the possibility of moving to the United States where she could “get away from it all.” PRINCE CHARLES MARRIAGE TO PRINCESS DIANA ‘WILL ALWAYS MAKE HIM’, AUTHOR SAYS: ‘REMEMBERED FOR ONE THING’ Diana, Princess of Wales and son Prince William are seen holidaying with Dodi Al Fayed (not pictured) in St Tropez in the summer of 1997, shortly before Diana and Dodi were killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31 1997. (Photo by Michel Dufour/WireImage) “Doddy had a place in California,” Sansum explained. “We were under the impression that’s where he was going. Not necessarily to stay with him, but in the same area. Before the trip, we understood that there would be work out there as well. I put my name down to go to I have a lot of family in the states. I thought that it would have been a great opportunity for me to go there, but obviously, that didn’t happen.” After her messy divorce from Prince Charles, Princess Diana was looking forward to a fresh start in her life. (VINCENT AMALVY/AFP via Getty Images) “He talked to me about moving to the states,” she shared. “She said the press hated her in the UK. She didn’t know why, but in the states, people loved her there, the press loved her there. She felt safe there. She felt welcome there. And that’s where she had Then I asked her, ‘What what about boys Will you be able to take them with you?” He said, “No, they’ll never let me do that. I’ll just have to see them during school, school holidays, vacations, things like that.” Media scrutiny only worsened during Diana’s escape. Sansum said she worked with the security team to arrange a time when paparazzi could take pictures for a certain amount of time in hopes they would disappear for the day. At first, the plan worked. But in the end, Sansum said, “there was just too much going on.” She also described how the British press would criticize Diana, insisting she was just seeking attention and sympathy after her divorce from Charles. Dodi Al Fayed had a house in California. At the time of her death, Princess Diana was considering moving to the United States to escape the British tabloids. (Getty Images) One tabloid went so far as to publish a flattering photo of Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom Charles had an affair during his marriage to Diana. PRINCESS DIANA’S BROTHER, EARL SPENCER, SAYS MARTIN BASHIR ‘BEAUTIFUL’ HIM TO SECURE ‘GIVEAWAY’ INTERVIEW “I think the headline was something like ‘Prince Charles left this for this,’” Sansum said. “And next to Camilla was this beautiful picture of Princess Diana. At that time, no one was safe from the paparazzi… I remember one of the lads, who was working, said to her, “What do you think about that?” He simply said, “Well, it’s his choice.” And then he moved on. I thought it took a lot of confidence not to bother her.” After the trip, Sansum said he received a thoughtful note from Diana personally thanking him for helping keep her and her sons safe during their vacation. Diana, Princess of Wales (R) and her bodyguard Trevor Rhys-Jones (L) are seen in St Tropez in the summer of 1997. Rhys Jones was the sole survivor of the car crash that killed Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and guide. (Photo by Michel Dufour/WireImage) According to Sansum, he was not assigned to look after Al Fayed when he went to Paris with Diana. Instead, his friend Trevor Rees-Jones, who was part of the security in Saint-Tropez, took the job. He was seriously injured in the traffic accident that killed the couple, as well as the driver Henri Paul. At that time the vehicle was speeding as the paparazzi chased it. “The debate of the time [before the accident] was, ‘We have to step this up,’” Sansum said. “The boys were saying, ‘We’ve got to send more kids’. But the trip had to be low-key.” PRINCESS DIANA DID WHAM! “CANCEL” STAR: “HE DID NOT WANT TO EXPLOIT HER” Sansum said he, along with the rest of the world, was shocked to hear about the fatal crash. He doesn’t believe the numerous conspiracy theories that have emerged over the years, but wonders what could have been done differently to prevent such a tragic accident. Princess Diana, 36, and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed, 42, were killed in a car crash in Paris on…

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