“‘Thank you very much’, she said, and then she put her hand over her mouth and she said ‘there was a terrible row last night between Charles and me. It had been his stag party’. In that girly way of hers she repeated it. What the row was about she didn’t go in.” In true fashion of a journalist, John revealed what happened in the newsroom and the next day the story became the Mirror’s front page.
The headline read: The Royal Tiff. The story began: Lady Diana Spencer joked yesterday about a few cross words from her husband-to-be on his stag night. Chatting to a group of guests at a Buckingham Palace garden party, Lady Diana said: “Where’s Prince Charles. Oh, there he is. He was very cross with me last night.
“If he comes over here, ask him why.” The Prince preferred to talk about the weather. John said: “I’ve covered some pretty big stories in my life, but a little tiff between Charles and Diana – that’s how it ended up. That’s what 7m readers of the Daily Mirror read the next morning.”
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