Donald Trump pursued Princess Diana after the breakup of her marriage to Prince Charles, “bombarding” her with flowers, a journalist claims in Britain’s Sunday Times.
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“Trump clearly saw Diana as the ultimate trophy wife.”
But Seward said as the princess became nervous and the queen’s concerns about the increased press attention grew, their relationship turned cold. However, Scott said that Trump had told her before despite previously telling Ms Scott that he was on Charles’ side because Diana “sounds a handful”.
Following the divorce of Princess Charles and his former wife, things seemed to get worst for the pair, with the next-in-line to the throne describing her as “mad, mad, mad”, and the royals were convinced Diana was trying to destroy them. In his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote, “I met her on a number of occasions. He gives me the creeps”. It is not known who sent the DVD, but Trump called Scott “a third-class journalist” who had “faded into obscurity where she belongs”.
If Donald Trump had managed to sweep Princess Diana off her feet years ago, perhaps the beloved royal would still be alive and doing her part to convince Americans that the real estate mogul would make a great president. She lit up the room with her charm, her presence. “She was a genuine princess, a dream lady”.
“What’s going on? I’m on Charles’s side, Diana sounds a handful”.
Unfortunately for the man with the most ridiculous comb-over since Bobby Charlton, the portrait that emerged proved to be a devastating exposé.
He also accused her of being “desperate for a man”, “totally uptight and insecure… not at all very smart” and “obnoxious”.
In 2009, the dispute reignited after councilors in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where Trump wanted to build a golf resort, were anonymously sent a DVD of the documentary in the post.
He also resumed his poison-pen correspondence and the letters only stopped after Scott threatened to get lawyers involved.
Diana’s untimely death triggered national mourning, and the Queen faced some initial criticism from the public for not leaving her holiday retreat at Balmoral and returning to London immediately.
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In excerpts printed by the Daily Mail, Seward wrote the greased brakes remark “reveals something of the extraordinary and complex relationship between her and Diana”. There is low maintenance. She just didn’t know how to handle this emotional young woman.
