Princess Diana has been dubbed “the architect of the pity fest” in a withering put down by royal commentator Lady Colin Campbell.
It comes amid further revelations about Diana’s relationship with King Charles in a series of previously unheard tapes.
A recording, made when Diana was speaking to James Colthurst in the 1990s, saw Diana claim that Charles was “disappointed” with Prince Harry’s birth as he “wanted a girl”.
The clips were released just one day after the 26th anniversary of her death in a car crash, featuring in the documentary Diana: The Rest of Her Story.
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In the recording, Diana makes the claim that Charles told her stepmother, Raine Spencer, at Harry’s christening: “we’re so disappointed, we wanted a girl.”
Diana added that Spencer “snapped his head off”, letting Charles know that he “should realise you are lucky to have a child”.
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In response the the bombshell revelations, Lady Colin Campbell hit out at the late Princess, saying she “had a chip on her shoulder”.
“It’s ludicrous. Diana was the architect of the pity fest”, she said on GB News.
“Because her father wanted a boy, she had a chip on her shoulder.”
Lady Campbell added that she believes the issue has been overblown, with many parents ending up with a child of the gender they did not want.
Unheard tapes of Princess Diana saying that Charles told her stepmother that he was "so disappointed" when Prince Harry was born as they had "wanted a girl" have been revealed for the first time.PA“He simply said he preferred a girl”, she told Dan Wootton.
“Diana knew she was having a boy and she refused to let him know, which shows a degree of withholding information, which led him to believe that there was possibly going to be a girl.”
Diana comments in the tapes that Charles had regular falling outs with her stepmother, commenting that he “won’t even talk to mummy”.
The tapes also reveal that Diana felt her own relationship with her stepmother was strained.
She explained: “I was so angry. I said ‘I hate you so much. If you only knew how much we all hated you for what you’ve done.
“You ruined the house. You spent daddy’s money. I have said everything I possibly could. Raine said: ‘You have no idea how much pain your mother put your father through.’
“I said: ‘Pain, Raine? It’s one word you don’t even know how to relate to. In my job, I see people suffer like you never see. You call that pain?’ I said: ‘You’ve got a lot to learn.’ I remember really going for her gullet.”
The upcoming documentary is said to be a follow-up to the 2017 documentary Diana: In Her Own Words.
The producer of both documentaries, Tom Jennings, told ABC that the productions are an “important” part of Diana’s legacy.
