He said: ‘You do realize that one day you will be Queen.’ And a voice said to me inside: ‘You won’t be Queen but you’ll have a tough role.’ So I thought: ‘OK’, so I said: ‘Yes.’ I said: ‘I love you so much, I love you so much.’ He said: ‘Whatever love means.’ He said it then. I remember thinking: ‘This is a joke’, and I said: ‘Yeah, OK’, and laughed. 'He said: ‘Will you marry me?’ and I laughed. In the book 'The Diana Chronicles,' Tina Brown recounted the lengths Diana went to convince publishers her stories were true - especially regarding her marriage. The publisher had to be convinced Diana's allegations were real “I was never face-to-face with Diana, so that we could give her deniability,” Morton said in 2017 to the Belfast Telegraph. “Initially, I sat and I read out the questions, but that was too slow for Diana. She snatched the questions away from me and then clipped the microphone on to herself and the tape recorder was on and away she went,” Colthurst said.Ĭolthurst then delivered the tapes back to Morton. He would “peddle in” to Kensington Palace with a briefcase, containing Morton’s questions in a briefcase in the bicycle basket. Speaking to NBC, Colthurst explained how the process worked. Hogan / Getty Images Morton and Diana never met, instead communicating through tapes delivered by James Colthurst A friend of hers summoned him to a working-class pub in the northwest London suburb of Ruislip and reported her interest, saying she had been impressed by his fairness in articles and books he had written during his years as the royal correspondent for two national tabloids.' Andrew Morton has written books about Queen Elizabeth II and Meghan Markle. Morton said he was asked to become the conduit for her story after Diana learned he was preparing a biography of her. A 1997 story in the New York Times backs up Colthurst’s account: “Mr.

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