Princess Diana Once Fled From This Intimidating Royal

If one takes away their titles, castles and palaces, the royal family is just like any other family — they also bicker and quarrel among themselves. Princess Diana’s entry into the fold was not welcomed by everyone, especially by a particular high-ranking royal.

In her book “Prince Edward,” which was published in 1995, biographer Ingrid Seward revealed that Princess Anne did not warm up to Princess Diana. “Anne was indifferent to Diana from the very beginning,” the author wrote.

The author also added that the older royal even had a few not-so-nice things to say about the recent addition to the family. “She treated the woman, who by marriage to her elder brother might have become her Queen, with withering disdain,” Seward added. “She called her ‘a silly girl’.”

The young princess still tried her best to befriend Prince Charles’ sister. In one occasion, Seward shared how Diana went to the nursery at the Queens Tower where Princess Anne was keeping an eye on Peter, her then three-year-old son, and Zara, who was just four weeks old at that time.

“Diana, still only a Lady, gave the Princess the benefit of a full curtsey and declared: ‘Ma’am, how wonderful to see you,’” the author narrated.

However, Diana’s attempt at getting closer to Anne had the opposite effect. “Anne is contemptuous of pretension at the best of times,” the biographer wrote. “When she was struggling with two small children she had no time for it at all. She looked up at Diana — and looked straight through her.”

Anne’s action must have terrified the younger royal as Seward wrote that the latter had to extricate herself from the room immediately. “Diana, confronted by the searing force of Anne’s scorn, fled the room,” the author added.

It was not only Seward who noted of Princess Diana’s frosty relationship with Princess Anne and how the former tried to evade the latter. “If Anne’s there, I’m off,” Diana reportedly once said according to Jeremy Paxman on his show “Paxman On The Queen's Children.”

Paxman also talked about Anne’s dislike for Diana’s high media visibility. “Princess Anne, she had no time for Diana she didn't like the way she went about her duty and the way she used the cameras and the media to promote herself in her eyes,” he said on the show.