Good fun, bright and mischievous, it was hard not to hit it off with Diana straight away, and so began the friendship she and I maintained for the rest of her short, eventful life," he wrote on what would have been her 60th birthday.ĭiana, Princess of Wales visiting St Thomas Hospital, where Colthurst worked, in May 1991. "She knew several of the friends I was with, and they brought her back to our apartment when she twisted her ankle, telling her I would look at it as I was a medical student at the time. They initially met in Val Claret, France, when Diana hurt her ankle, and remained close for years.
Colthurst was a close friend of Princess Diana's. James Colthurst features in season five of The Crown, so naturally, viewers may be interested to learn more about Diana's doctor friend. The two became lifelong friends, and he played a critical role in the writing of Andrew Morton's book, Diana: Her True Story, bringing Morton's questions to the princess and delivering tapes she recorded for the author. “Morton’s view is that his version would at least give you some control.” Though there was no ‘hatchet job’ on the immediate horizon in 1992, Prince Charles did cooperate with Jonathan Dimbleby on a 1994 biography which detailed in part how the prince had been forced into a loveless marriage with the Princess of Wales.James Colthurst met a young Princess Diana on a skiing trip when she was 17 years old. He thinks there’s another book coming about you that’s likely to be a bit of a hatchet job based on sources close to the Prince of Wales,” Colthurst tells Diana. Described as a ‘minor aristocrat’, Colthurst was educated at Eton and came from a wealthy family.Ĭolthurst later spoke of how Diana was "enormously enthusiastic" to tell her story. They had been friends since before Diana’s marriage into the royal family, when she was still Lady Diana Spencer, working as a nanny in London.
Born in Ireland in 1957, James Colthurst was a close friend of Diana, and became the ‘middleman’ between the Princess of Wales and her biographer, Andrew Morton, in 1991–2.
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