Unique – Diana would nonetheless be right here if I’d been on obligation, ex-bodyguard claims

HE is the bodyguard who Princess Diana nicknamed Rambo and with whom she had a number of heart-to-hearts revealing her largest fears and future plans.

And 25 years on from her demise, Lee Sansum says he’s adamant she could be alive in the present day if he had been along with her on the night time she died alongside Dodi Fayed in a Paris automobile crash on August 31, 1997.

In an unique interview, Lee has advised how safety guards drew straws to accompany bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones within the automobile, and he misplaced.

He additionally reveals the enjoyable bets he had with a younger Prince and the way he treasures a letter from Diana thanking him for making her remaining sunshine vacation in St Tropez “magical” — and her fears she could also be assassinated.

Lee, now 60, mentioned: “It might have been me in that automobile.

“We drew straws to see who could be accompanying Trevor that weekend. I pulled a match and it was a protracted one.

“Once I discovered they weren’t sporting seatbelts within the crash I understood why they didn’t survive. That shouldn’t have occurred.

“It was commonplace observe for the household to put on seatbelts. It was an order despatched down from the boss, Dodi’s dad Mohamed Fayed. Dodi, specifically, hated sporting seatbelts and I all the time insisted on it.”