few things about inner royal threats, but no more than any one faction within the family would say in defence of common interests. They were quite adamant that the plot, if there was one, did not come from those quarters with the voluntary contribution that “save for one or two, most were well above such malice”. Of those two, one was ingenuous and the other, simply out of touch with reality. None, at the time, ever volunteered to say that Diana had mentioned threats of an accident and an end to her resistance. It came as a surprise to most, therefore, when the letter which appeared to attest to Diana´s concern, was published and the authenticiy of the document established.
The dangers from outside
To understand the potential threat of a security service unwilling to allow the destabilisation of the Royal system, it is important also, to understand the Royals themselves. The Key figures at least. The relationship that Princess Diana had with them differed in various quarters. The outer Royals were probably more antagonistic than the very obvious inner ones and the relationship the Princess had with both the Queen and the Duke was better than she had with her own husband. It is now obvious that the Duke of Edinburgh himself admired her personality and saw what he had always suspected, that his own son was not up to many things. The relationship between them, was not a father and son one in the sentimental role of the phrase. Very few people have correctly interpreted the kind of man Prince Phillip has always been or the counterbalance he represented as a vociferous and often startlingly direct consort. His support of Charles therefore was not one easily identified with blind admiration. Diana´s