Princess Diana's Romance Suggestion

2 months ago 22nd Sep 14:00

A former French president has suggested he had an affair with Britain's Princess Diana.

Valery Giscard d'Estaing's steamy novel 'The Princess and the President' has been leaked to the French press and the book's two main characters are apparently based on himself and the late Princess of Wales

In the book, the princess tells how her future husband had confessed to an affair which he intended to continue when they were married

The 83-year-old statesman, who was president of France from 1974 to 1981, tells how a fictional president called Jacques-Henri Lambertye falls in love with a British princess from Cardiff named Patricia.

She is described as "very pretty, always in the media, and unhappy at home".

In the book, the princess tells how her future husband had confessed to an affair which he intended to continue when they were married.

She tells him: "Ten days before my marriage, my future husband told me he had a mistress and he was going to carry on seeing her after our marriage."

Diana, who died in 1997, gave a famous interview to British show 'Panorama', which she claimed there were three people in her marriage - a reference to Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles.

Diana - who was one of the world's most photographed women - and Charles separated in 1992 and divorced in 1995 and Charles is now married to Camilla.