The royals - Kitty Kelley [291]
“You won’t make it come out too nasty, will you?” Cole asked. “I’ve got enough problems at the moment.”
On February 20, 1998, Michael Cole, fifty-five, quit his job as the public face of Harrods. After ten years as spokesman for Mohamed al-Fayed, Cole said he was taking early retirement. He admitted he had become the “lightning conductor” as claim followed counter-claim about what really happened the night Diana and Dodi were killed in Paris. Michael Cole told the press he was leaving his job with “great sadness.”
AFTERWORD: The Monarchy and the Millennium
Documents: Transcript, “The Panorama Interview” (November 1995), www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/diana/panorama.html; “Report to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales” (re rape accusation, Burrell trial, bribes, and tax fraud) by Sir Michael Peat and Edmund Lawson QC, March 13, 2003, www.princeofwales.org.uk/content/documents/peat_report.pdf; Transcripts, “Coroner’s Inquests into the Deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Mr. Dodi Al-Fayed,” September 17, 2007, to April 7, 2008, www.scottbaker-inquests.gov.uk/hearing_transcripts/index.htm.
Articles: “My Husband Is Planning an Accident” by Jane Kerr, Mirror, January 6, 2004; “Diana Trysts Were ‘Dates’ with Death” by Dareh Gregorain, New York Post, October 3, 1999; “Silent No More” by Jill Smolowe, People, March 20, 2000; “Publishing Shocker” by Doreen Carvajal, New York Times, March 13, 2000; “Dark Side of Diana Described by Ex-Aide” by Stephen Bates, Guardian, September 25, 2000; “Diana Redux” by Michelle Tauber et al., People, October 9, 2000; “Charles, Earl Spencer” by David Plotz, Slate, September 14, 1997; “The Aristo-Cad” by Geoffrey Levy, Daily Mail, June 30, 2008; “Traitor with Two Faces” by Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy, Daily Mail, October 23, 2003; “ ‘The Princes Are Kept From Me,’ Says Spencer” by Michael Seamark, Daily Mail, July 17, 2002; “Speaking His Mind” by Michelle Tauber et al., People, October 16, 2000; “The Diana Videotapes: The Story She Wanted Told” by Alan Rimmer, Sunday Mirror, March 30, 2003; “Book of the Month,” WWD, August 28, 2002; “Diana Unguarded,” People, September 2, 2002; “A 13M Fiasco” by Richard Pendlebury, Daily Mail, August 22, 2007; “The Betrayal of Diana,” Daily Mail, February 28, 2007; “Princess Margaret Dies,” news.bbc.co.uk, February 9, 2002; “For Margaret, Cremation, as She Wished” by Alan Cowell, New York Times, February 16, 2002; “From St. James Palace to Slough Crematorium” by Alan Hamilton et al., Times, February 13, 2002; “A Letter Unsent, a Royal Marriage Not Made,” New York Times, January 3, 2004; “Peter Townsend Dies at 80” by Sarah Lyall, New York Times, June 21, 1995; “The Unrepentant Lothario: Lord Snowdon and His Insatiable Appetite for Sex” by Anne De Courcy, Daily Mail, June 5, 2008; “Blood Tells, So Does Burke’s” by Mitchell Owens, New York Times, June 27, 1999; “The Furious Spencers” by Ross Benson, Daily Mail, November 6, 2002; “Paul Burrell: A Timeline,” news.bbc.co.uk, November 1, 2002; “Still Looking Out for Diana” by Judy Stoffman, Toronto Star, November 18, 2003; “The Spencers: A Family in Turmoil” by Richard Kay, Daily Mail, November 4, 2002; “Royal Butler Trial Collapses,” news.bbc.co.uk, November 1, 2002; “Could a Tape Destroy the Royal Family?” by Geoffrey Levy and Richard Kay, Daily Mail, October 29, 2003; “Charles Embroiled in Rapidly Growing Sex Scandal” by Anne Oldenburg, USA Today, November 10, 2003; “Paul Burrell: I Lied to Di Inquest” by Emily Smith, Sun, February 18, 2008; “The Call That Left Charles Staggered” by Richard Kay, Daily Mail, June 5, 2000; “Orchestrating Camilla Parker Bowles” by Christopher Mason, New York Times, September 26, 1999; “Brooke Astor’s Prince Charles ‘Mistress’ Crack to Camilla Parker Bowles Proof of Her Own Crack-Up” by Melissa Grace and Corky Siemaszko, New York Daily News, May 19, 2009; “The Kids Will Be There But the Queen to Miss the Big Day,” Gold Coast Bulletin,