Diana driver breaks his silence on fateful crash

Princess Diana’s driver, and one of her most faithful aides, has spoken out about the crash that she was killed in.

20 years after Diana’s death, Colin Tebbut told the media that he wished he’d been driving on the fateful night. Speaking on TV show Good Morning Britain, Tebbutt said 'I think they went in too fast but in the inquest that was sorted out, I've driven through the tunnel myself.”

In May, Tebbutt appeared on camera for the first time in documentary Diana: 7 Days That Shook The Windsors. He did not offer his professional opinion on the crash, but spoke of how he visited the Princess in hospital and took care of her body. 

“I was worried about the room, which was very, very hot,” he said.

“We looked up at the window above the Princess's bed and could see people on rooftops, trying to take photos.

“It didn't seem as if they knew which room to look for at that stage, and I asked for blankets to hang up at the window, so nobody could see in.”

On Good Morning Britain he spoke further about how it felt to find Diana’s body in hospital:

“It's very difficult and emotional to see a person lying in a bed and not in a mortuary,” he explained.

“I went and got some fans to cool the room down. As I turned around, the eyelashes and hair of the princess were moving caused by the fan and that just struck me. 

“I had to turn away, think about it and then grip myself back and get on with what I was doing.”

Tebbutt also spoke of the princess as an employer, telling the hosts that she had a “tremendous sense of humour.”

"I never had a cross word in two years," he said.