Princess Diana overheard Prince Charles talking dirty to mistress Camilla Parker Bowles while sitting on the loo, bombshell tapes reveal in documentary
PRINCESS Diana claimed she once spied on Prince Charles on the loo having “phone sex talk” with Camilla.
She also said that Camilla was the “raunchier of the two” after listening in on some of her husband’s phone calls to his mistress.
Her claims emerged in 12 hours of footage filmed by a handpicked BBC cameraman five months before her death in 1997.
They are separate to the tapes made by her voice coach Peter Settelen, which are due to be broadcast on Channel 4 tonight.
The cameraman, who has not been named, was secretly summoned to Kensington Palace by Diana in March 1997.
Over seven recording sessions, she offloaded years of anger with the Royal Family, including how she caught Charles red-handed — or “de flagrante” — talking with his mistress.
The cameraman kept a diary of the sessions in which he wrote: “She caught Charles and Camilla de flagrante after listening in to his phone calls.
“She described how she came to listen to their phone calls. In one, Charles was sitting on the toilet seat when she caught him.”
He said she described their conversation as phone sex talk, and claimed “Camilla was the raunchier of the two. She gives examples”.
In another of the recordings, which were made in ten-minute segments, she vowed to stop Charles becoming king, instead pushing their son William to the throne.
The cameraman wrote: “She makes it clear that she would do everything possible to make sure Charles never became King.
“She wanted William to succeed to the throne when the Queen died. Diana clearly saw her role as the power behind William.
“She had this somewhat romantic idea of being a king-maker, the mother behind the monarch.”
In another tape she says of her affair with James Hewitt: “I entered into a relationship with James. Charles knew about it and didn’t care.
“He said it gave him the freedom to run his own life”.
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The cameraman, who is still alive and thought to be living in America, also described arriving at Kensington Palace in a cab and being waved through by police.
He was paid £5,000 for the sessions after documentary maker Desmond Wilcox, the late husband of Esther Rantzen, put him in touch with Diana.
But he is said to have bought two untraceable non-contract phones amid fears that the Secret Service could eavesdrop on their conversations.
In a book which later detailed parts of the diary, Wilcox claims he was approached by MI5 agents about the TV recordings, which have never been found.
The Sun on Sunday can reveal they may have been recovered in a police raid on Diana’s butler Paul Burrell’s house — together with the tapes from the Settelen sessions.
Those recordings, which detail the collapse of her marriage, form the basis of the controversial C4 documentary Diana: In Her Own Words, due to be shown tonight.
Setellen was eventually given his tapes back after a court battle with the Spencer family but at least five were missing.
Pals close to the former actor say he asked to see another box of tapes which were seized in the police raid but was firmly rebuffed.
The friend said: “When Peter was trying to get his tapes back he wanted to know what happened to all the others that were missing so he started asking the police what else they found.
"He was given an evidence log with thousands of things on it and there were these audio tapes and some video tapes.
“He asked to see the other tapes because he thought they might be his but the police said: ‘You can’t look at them, they’re nothing to do with you’.”
It is feared they could be the BBC cameraman’s recordings which may have since been destroyed — along with Settelen’s missing tapes.
The friend said: “Peter has always wondered what on earth has happened to the rest of the recordings. He doesn’t have them.
“They could have been destroyed by Diana or the Spencer family could have found them and either destroyed them or kept them.
“The most likely possibility is that either they were at the palace and scooped up and quickly disposed of before anyone had the chance to see them or Diana destroyed them herself.”
Settelen was hired by the princess to build her confidence in public speaking but in the process recorded her no-holds-barred confessions about the royals.
He later became locked in a copyright battle with Earl Spencer and eventually won, financially backed by NBC who wanted to broadcast the tapes.
Channel 4 viewers will tonight hear Diana claim that Charles told her he “refused to be the only Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.”
She also alleges that the Queen refused to help her, while Prince Philip gave Charles permission to cheat.