Dusk was falling on a brisk mid-March evening as Princess Diana arrived unannounced at Heathrow.
When so much of her everyday life was tracked and telegraphed, even reaching the security of the airport VIP lounge undetected was something of a minor triumph.
She was booked on a night flight and travelling alone under an assumed name.
Her destination was Cape Town where she was to spend time visiting her brother Charles, Earl Spencer, who had moved his family to South Africa two years earlier.
The significance of that brief visit was still fresh in his mind when, just a few months later, Spencer delivered the
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