The following is a transcript of a conversation between diana princess of wales and james gilbey recorded december 31 1989.

Princess diana james gilbey transcript. Tim grahamgetty images. Also the original transcriber had made some mistakes which differ greatly from the actual tape. The sun newspaper carries the story of a telephone call between the diana and james gilbey.

The queen was upset about the tape which revealed the passionate phone call with james gilbey exposing the royal family to ridicule and confirming the desperate state of dianas marriage to. Diana recorded tapes for journalist andrew morton transcripts of which he later published in 1992s diana. The infamous squidgygate transcript.

In those tapes diana recalled her growing suspicion that charles and. Of all the places to be when the news broke diana was at balmoral the royal familys beloved scottish pile and was shattered according to brown. Your archetypal nice but dim upper crust sort gilbey can lay claim to being one of dianas few loyal friends to last the whole course of her adult life.

Dianas relationship with james gilbey james gilbey was the heir to a large gin fortune when he met diana a decade earlier after the pair were set up on a date together. In 1992 the sun publicly revealed the tapes existence in an article titled squidgygate which is a reference to the watergate scandal of the early 1970s. Aka squidgeygate or dianagate.

The call was said to have been taped on new years eve 1989. Smiley face always apparently on the verge of breaking into a giggle. In the call diana complains about the royal family and refers to.

British publications quickly picked up the story and the entire transcript of diana and gilbeys conversation was subsequently. Princess diana and james gilbey. A newspaper reveals that an intimate conversation between diana and a friend named james gilbey was recorded on december 31 1989.