The Queen exclaimed ‘Someone must have greased the brakes’ in reaction to hearing about Princess Diana’s car crash, according to Ingrid Seward’s new book, ‘An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words’
Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana are said to have had an ‘extraordinary and complex’ relationship Credit: Photo: Getty Images
The Queen’s initial reaction to news of Princess Diana’s car crash was that ‘someone must have greased the brakes’, it has been claimed.
Diana was killed in August 1997, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, when the car they were travelling in crashed in Paris.
As news of the accident reached the Royal Family, before it was realised Diana had died, Her Majesty reportedly issued the remark.
The claims were made in Ingrid Seward’s new book, ‘An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words’.
The Royal biographer said the comment hinted at the ‘extraordinary and complex’ relationship between the two women.
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Writing in the Daily Mail, she said: “At first it was thought that, though the car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel was serious, Diana had not been killed.’
CCTV footage of Princess Diana leaving the Ritz hotel in Paris on the night of the `accident` [Inverted commas my emphasis]
