Campbell reveals fears for Charles at Diana’s funeral

PRINCE William was asked to walk behind his mother’s coffin at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, because of fears his father might be attacked if he was alone, Alastair Campbell claimed in extracts from his diaries published yesterday.

The former Downing Street director of communications wrote that a palace official was sent to Balmoral to ask William to join Prince Charles behind the coffin.

But he said that William — aged 15 at the time — was “consumed by a total hatred of the media” because of the way his mother had been pursued, and suspected that the plan was designed to appeal to the press.