| Run, Baby(kins), Run! |
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| Written by Joanne Leyland | |
| Sunday, 27 April 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 In the years following her December 1992 separation from the Prince of Wales, Diana was regularly photographed wearing a favourite range of sweatshirts and tight-clinging Lycra shorts as she made the short walk from her car to the entrance of the Chelsea Harbour Club in London. The princess’s almost daily appearance at the same gym was, quite simply, a photographer’s dream. 
First she was romantically linked to the married England rugby star Will Carling. It was an episode which caused huge damage to the princess's reputation at a time when she was embarked on a prolonged battle with her estranged husband Prince Charles. Now, for the first time, Diana too - as with Camilla Parker Bowles before her - was (rightly or wrongly) depicted as 'the other woman' in a once happy union. As previously documented here, more unwelcome headlines were to come as photographers camped out at the gym focused in on the princess’s legs, resulting in cruel jibes and analysis as to whether the thirty-something princess was suffering from cellulite. Diana reacted to what was a truly cruel front page report about her supposedly "chunky" legs by saying in response to the Sunday newspaper article in April 1996: "I have not got cellulite. It was just the marks on my legs from the leather car seat - and a trick of the light". 
It was a level of analysis of his mother that Prince William was to recall many years later. |
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