The Bodyguard

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There are so many stories from his life, including his time in Northern Ireland and almost losing his life in Somalia and Libya.

Book: Former Bodyguard Details Princess Diana ‘Protecting Diana’ Book: Former Bodyguard Details Princess Diana

Over the course of his career, Lee has worked with the rich and famous, such as Hollywood stars Tom & Nicole, Pele and Sylvester Stallone, and he gives a candid account of what it’s like to work in a job where lives are literally at stake. We start the book with Lee helping Trevor to visit Dodi Fayed’s grave in the mausoleum on the Al-Fayed estate. Trevor was the only person to survive the crash but can’t remember what happened. According to the author, Diana planned to relocate to America prior to her death to get away from the U.K. media. Protecting Diana’ Book Revelations: Former Bodyguard Details Princess Diana’s Plan to Move to the U.S. and MoreI can tell you that I spent ten days close to her and she was one of the most balanced people I have ever met,” he writes. “I ought to know. I am trained to spot if someone is unbalanced. It’s part of my job. You look for signs that people give off when they are under stress because it means they might be about to do something. Diana wasn’t excessively angry or out of control. She was normal and very deliberate.” On the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, a royal bodyguard opens up about protecting and befriending the most famous woman in the world, bonding with the young princes—Harry and William—and the details of the night Diana died.

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A lot of the book is set in a Tudor mansion, and the inspiration came from watching a documentary that showed priest holes and tunnels used to hide priest during the 1500s. I thought it would be amazing to have someone go to one of these to investigate something that happened 36 years ago.” He also dismisses reports that Dodi Al-Fayed was just a summer fling designed to make Diana’s ex-boyfriend Dr. Hasnat Khan jealous. She used to, you know, [take] delight in watching him get up to his little antics and spraying the paparazzi with his jet ski, which I taught him to do,” Sansum said. “It was clear that she loved her boys.”A look behind the curtain. Former bodyguard Lee Sansum shared stories about his time working for Princess Diana in his new book, Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard’s Story. A young woman will inherit everything from her eccentric and wealthy aunt, but on one condition, she has to solve the murder of her aunt’s best friend and bring the killer to justice in just six months. Lee Sansum 6th Dan, specialist soldier, Northern Ireland war veteran and famous body guard, teaches internationally on the subjects of personal awareness, self protection and the martial arts. My time with the princess, it was only a short period in my life, but it had a bigger impact on my life forever,” Sansum exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the Tuesday, August 30, release. ”I think because of the 25th anniversary of her death coming up soon, people are just interested in the princess all over the world.”