It's no secret that Princess Diana had a rocky relationship with the paparazzi before her tragic death in the summer of '97. Per a Washington Post article published just days after Diana died, she had been "hounded and pursued" by Parisian photographers relentlessly during her entire trip to France with her lover Dodi Fayed before the car crash in a tunnel near the Pont de l'Alma that killed Diana, Fayed, and chauffeur Henri Paul. But according to the 2022 royal biography "The Palace Papers" by Tina Brown, as reported by the Daily Mail , Diana sometimes tipped off the paparazzi to her whereabouts in hopes that photos of her out with other men would make lovers jealous.

"Time and time again, as we have seen, Diana chose to invade her own privacy, often for the capricious reason

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