Princess Diana ‘drove around London at night to check on the homeless’ | Royal | News
Princess Diana used to escape Kensington Palace to hand out money to sex workers and check in on the homeless at the dead of night, a former royal press secretary has claimed. The Princess felt it was a duty she “had to do,” while also passing the boredom and loneliness, according to Dickie Arbiter. He worked as her and Charles’ press secretary from 1988 until Diana’s funeral in 1997, taking them through their public separation and divorce. Now aged 86, Arbiter said that Diana was “desperate to find things to do” in the evenings. While she entertained at lunch, she was often at a loss at night, and she felt lonely because her friends had to jump through security hoops to see her, he said. Speaking to the Daily Mail’s Palace Confidential, he said: “She would try to escape, telling her protection officer: ‘I’m not going anywhere tonight. You can have the night off.’ Lo and behold, the car would come anyway and she’d drive around Paddington. “Not just to hand money to sex workers, …
