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Eventful Lives Podcast

#111. Princess Diana's Bodyguard - Lee Sansum

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5857 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Series 5 of the Netflix Smash Series, The Crown, is released today, and it covers the final years of Princess Diana’s life.


As a close protection expert, Lee Sansum was once responsible for guarding Diana as she navigated life outside of the royal family, and the paparazzi continued to hound her.


Lee is an ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and was employed by Mohamed Al-Fayed to protect his family.  


He formed a close bond with Diana and the young princes, and it was only by a stroke of luck that he was not in the car the night Diana died. 


He has a truly unique insight into the life of the most famous woman in the world.


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0:00.0

When you were on the yacht at that time, obviously Fasarchi got murdered.

0:04.6

How was Princess Diana when she heard that news?

0:07.6

She was looking out the window.

0:09.1

So I walked in and I was like, whoa.

0:11.3

And she turned around and she was obviously crying and very upset.

0:14.1

And she said, asked me, had I heard about her friend?

0:17.3

And I said, yes, I had.

0:19.3

And, you know, what do you think happened?

0:21.5

And I said, oh oh I don't know but you obviously the police will find out and I'm just trying to comfort her and she was

0:25.5

coming close to me and you know you just want to give someone a hook yeah you know they want

0:30.6

yeah and she wanted to feel safe I didn't do it I would never do that by the way but it crossed

0:36.1

my mind and I thought if a paparazzi

0:38.8

got a photograph through that glass of this, can you imagine what they would write?

0:43.2

It wouldn't be bodyguard comforts Princess Diane in a moment of need.

0:47.0

You know what they'd write, don't you?

0:48.3

Yeah, absolutely.

0:49.3

And I was like, so I'm stepping back and she said, do you think they'll do that to me?

1:01.8

Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the CEO and founder of the

1:07.2

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1:11.7

events course. On this podcast, I speak to fascinating people who have all lived eventful lives.

1:18.9

So if you want to hear more like this, make sure you subscribe, leave us a glowing review,

1:23.3

and you can follow me on Instagram at Dodge Woodall. I reply to every single message.

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