The Lady-in-Waiting Who Warned Diana — And Was Never Believed

The Lady-in-Waiting Who Warned Diana — And Was Never Believed Diana had never even met the woman the Palace chose to be her lady-in-waiting. Anne Beckwith-Smith was handed the job in 1981, months before the wedding, and spent the next sixteen years closer to Diana than almost anyone else in the royal household. She was there on the honeymoon cruise. She was there for the Australia tour that made Diana a global phenomenon. She watched the weight loss, the isolation, the marriage falling apart in private while it had to perform in public, and she tried, in the limited ways a Palace employee could, to say something was wrong. Nobody listened. Not because the warning wasn't clear, but because the institution around Diana had no real system for treating a person's wellbeing as more urgent than a scheduling conflict. This is the story of the woman who saw it first and stayed anyway, through the interview, the divorce, and the final phone call from Paris in 1997. Anne Beckwith-Smith, Princess Diana, Diana lady in waiting, Diana bulimia, royal family secrets, Diana Spencer documentary, Buckingham Palace secrets, Princess of Wales, Diana Morton tapes, Diana Panorama interview, royal household staff, Diana untold story, Diana biography, Prince Charles Diana marriage, royal family documentary, Diana 1997, Diana eating disorder, royal insider secrets, Windsor family secrets, Diana warning signs