“Cold, taciturn, distant, except in the presence of the paparazzi.” That’s how King Juan Carlos of Spain describes Princess Diana in his long-awaited memoir, Reconciliation , which is due out next month.

For an interview in Le Figaro Magazine , journalist Charles Jaigu traveled to the former monarch’s residence in Abu Dhabi to discuss the memoir, which was written in collaboration with French writer Laurence Debray. He also denied ever having a relationship with Diana, whom he got to know when she spent summers at Marivent Palace with King Charles III, her then husband, and their two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.

The late princess’s marriage to Charles had already begun to founder by the time they first visited Marivent, and Diana might have found an ally in Kin

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