Princess Diana’s former driver wishes he was at the wheel on the day she died in a car crash.
Colin Tebbutt has opened up about the Princess of Wales’ tragic death in a Paris collision in 1997, admitting he still feels responsible for not being her driver that day and it is something which he "always" thinks about.
When asked if he felt a "strange sense of responsibility" and "wished [he] was driving that day", he replied: "Yes, you always do that, you always do that. That is not good to have in the mind."
Colin – who worked for Diana for two years until she passed away aged 36 – also constantly thinks of one instance when he arrived at a Paris hospital and saw Diana’s eyelashes and hair move, before noticing it was because of a nearby fan.
In his first live TV interview since her death, he told ‘Good Morning Britain’: "I was taken to help, I went to the hospital and arrived and there was lots of people about. There was a lot of people
"It was very difficult and emotional to see someone laying on a bed, not a mortuary. I could see people standing on a roof, that worried me because there were no curtains, so I got some blankets along the windows which made it hotter in the room.
"I went and got some fans to cool the room down. That was the one moment in my life when my professionalism was lacking a little bit, because as I turned around, the eyelashes and the hair of the princess were moving, caused by the fan. That just stuck with me.
"I had to turn away, think about it and get on with what I was doing."
Princess Diana’s driver reveals regrets
