Remember when Princess Diana dragged up for a night at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern?
By Josh Lee
It’s been 19 years since Princess Diana tragically died in a car crash. Across the world, people are remembering the woman who’s relentless desire to help the less fortunate, particularly those living with HIV and AIDS and children impacted by war, made her one of the most popular royals of all time.
But as well as being a Princess for the people and international humanitarian, she was also known to let her hair down and party once in a while – including a dragged up night at a famous London gay club.
In Cleo Rocos’ book The Power of Positive Drinking, Rocos talks about how she, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett went to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern with Princess Diana dressed up to conceal her identity.
In the book Roco says that the princess dressed up in a cap, sunglasses and army jacket. She went unnoticed as Mercury and Everett were the ones getting all the attention, saying ‘People just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. But she loved it’.
She added: ‘She did look like a beautiful young man’.
Diana died in a car crash on 31st August 1997, after launching England’s first ward specializing in HIV and AIDS treatment in 1989.