In his book (via Page Six), bodyguard Lee Sansum reveals what he claims would have been Princess Diana's next life-changing decision, had she survived her car crash. Sansum accompanied Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed, and Princes William and Harry on a July 1997 St. Tropez yacht trip, where paparazzi persistently followed. The bodyguard wrote that Diana confided in him, "There is nothing I can do in the UK. The papers there attack me no matter what I do. ... I want to go to the US and live there so I can get away from it all. At least in America they like me and will leave me alone." Her plan would require leaving her sons behind, only seeing them on school holidays. And, according to the book, she was so determined to follow this plan that she even threatened to directly notify the press that she would be leaving the UK.
Diana's dream of moving abroad may seem questionable, given that she would have been abandoning her two children. But, as quoted by Newsweek, Sansum points out that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a similar move, citing the "toxic" British media as the reason they left the UK for California (per NBC News). The Duke of Sussex may be living out the life Diana had imagined, telling People, "I honor my mother in everything I do. I am my mother's son."
