You can get in touch with James by emailing Crawford-Smith is a Newsweek Royal Reporter, based in London, U.K. He is a graduate of University College London and Central Saint Martins, where he studied fashion history. He also undertook private research projects with the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. He also spent a number of years working with the curatorial department at Historic Royal Palaces, based at Kensington Palace, and contributed to the exhibitions Fashion Rules: Restyled (2016) and Diana: Her Fashion Story (2017). James joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously contributed to titles such as The Lady, Majesty Magazine and Drapers. He has covered contemporary and historic issues facing King Charles III, Queen Camilla, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, the late Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana. His focus is reporting on the British royal family and royal fashion. James Crawford-Smith is a Newsweek Royal Reporter, based in London, U.K. She used to describe him as 'my little wise old man.'Ģ022 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, who at the age of 36 was killed in a car crash in Paris' Pont de l'Alma tunnel. By his early teens, he was his mother's most trusted confidant. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them. 'William understood Diana more but idealized her less. 'Prince Harry idolized Diana more and understood her less. In response to this, Brown claims that the princess's two sons therefore have come to regard their mother differently. 'This is classic, authentic Diana,' Brown writes, 'tricky, seductive, playing a double game.'īrown's book details many of the ways in which Diana interacted with the press and how she increasingly relied on Prince William as a 'stand in and buffer' after her separation and eventual divorce from Prince Charles. She often tips off about where she'll be.'' Princess Diana's Most Enduring Style Legacyĭespite the condition that there be no publicity for the event, members of the paparazzi were waiting outside the Condé Nast offices for Diana anyway.īrown writes that when Coleridge rang the news desk of a large tabloid to find out how the information that the princess was at the office was leaked, he was told ''Diana rang herself from her car, on her way to lunch.Prince William Had Diana Love Rival's Picture on His Dartboard-Book.Prince Harry Idolized Diana More Than William but Understood Her Less: Book.The whole event is used by Brown to show just how Diana could beguile members of the press and blur the lines between her personal and public life. The conversation was closed by Diana who said, 'Thank you, Nicholas. Are my breasts too small, do you think?'Ī breathless Coleridge then responded, 'Er, Your Royal Highness, in as much as I can see under your suit, they seem, um.perfect to me. 'Nicholas, please be frank, I want to know your real view. He said some of the other boys were teasing him, saying my tits are too small,' Diana replied.

In response Coleridge writes that he told her, 'Um, Your Royal Highness, yes, we get all the newspapers in my office.

Did you see the photograph of me in the Daily Mirror? The topless one?'' 'She said, 'Nicholas, can I ask you something? Please be truthful. He writes that the princess approached him and engaged in a private conversation: The account given by Coleridge in his book The Glossy Years, cited by Brown, tells how Diana, looking 'fabulous,' shocked the publishing boss by bringing up the subject everyone had been expecting her to avoid. Princess Diana confided in magazine publisher Nicholas Coleridge following topless photographs of her being published in a British newspaper.

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