A royal biographer has revealed that the Prince of Wales believed he might be murdered during the funeral procession of Diana, Princess of Wales due to the public anger towards him.
Speaking at the Henley Literary Festival, veteran royal correspondent Ingrid Seward said the prince was “fatalistic” about the possibility of a gunman shooting him as he followed the coffin to Westminster Abbey in 1997.
She told the audience “Prince Charles was extremely nervous because he was public enemy number one. He thought, if someone takes a gun out and shoots me, that's it. The streets of London were very quite. You could hear everything the crowd was a saying. They were saying ‘Look at him, look at him’. They were being quite nasty. The whole way round he could hear this abuse and he didn't think he would make it the whole way around.”
She did not disclose her source of this insight.
