Princess Diana’s concert photos were blocked by the Palace over serious concerns, says a photographer.
The Princess of Wales, who was dating James Hewitt at the time, was restricted to publish photos from a David Bowie concert.
Music photographer Denis O’ Regan says in David Bowie by Denis O’Regan: “So the next day, my agent got a call from [the] palace, saying don’t use the pictures because word had gone out about James Hewitt. So that’s when it kind of erupted,” O’Regan told the Telegraph. “It was interesting, on a number of levels.”
“They just didn’t want Diana in the press,” O’Regan told the Telegraph. “It was really [that] they didn’t want to fuel the fire.”
“So the more pictures that weren’t out there, the better, because someone would have said: ‘This is her at the show that she turned up to with James Hewitt, even though I didn’t get the multi-million dollar shot of the two of them together, because no one knew who he was,” he noted.
