The REAL reason Princess Diana agreed to a secret hotel meeting with JFK Jr. revealed - and the intimate letter she wrote him after their private get-together

In 1995, Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy Jr. were 2 of nan astir closely-watched group connected nan satellite - truthful organizing a concealed gathering betwixt nan 2 of them was nary easy feat. 

But that is precisely what their respective staffers managed to orchestrate during a little travel that Diana made to New York City, nan specifications of which person been kept mostly nether wraps. Until now. 

The gathering was initially arranged astatine nan behest of JFK Jr. who had hoped to person nan newly-separated Diana to look connected nan cover of his magazine, George. However a caller curriculum vitae detailing nan life of nan governmental scion has now revealed that her existent reasons for agreeing to nan meet-up whitethorn person been acold little formal. 

'It was ne'er made nationalist truthful that made it rather fun, actually,' Diana's backstage secretary, Patrick Jephson, recalls successful nan pages of JFK Jr: An Intimate Oral Biography, written by RoseMarie Terenzio, Kennedy's erstwhile executive assistant, and Liz McNeil.

'Diana wanted it to beryllium discreet because it had each nan makings of a awesome rumors story, didn't it? World's astir eligible bachelor… and she had conscionable sewage unmarried aliases was successful nan process of getting unmarried. It would've been a alternatively intriguing point to dream about.

'She didn't want that, but she was funny to meet him. Partly, I think, because Sarah Ferguson had nan hots for him and Diana wanted to, I think, do 1 up connected her.'

RoseMarie, Kennedy's erstwhile executive adjunct and main of unit astatine George, writes that Diana was owed to beryllium staying astatine nan Carlyle hotel, and she'd arranged for a gathering pinch nan princess connected a weekday day to talk nan imaginable cover.

'There was each this worry,' she recalls. 'Should he spell successful nan beforehand door? Should he deterioration a disguise: because won't location beryllium rumors that he's having an matter pinch her? … They were nan 2 astir celebrated group connected nan planet.'

In nan end, he walked correct done nan beforehand doorway without being noticed, avoiding nan paparazzi who were waiting astir nan broadside for Diana.

Jephson met Kennedy extracurricular nan hotel's Bemelmans Bar successful a 'rather acheronian passageway' and took him up to nan penthouse, wherever Diana was staying.

'He was smart. And she was smart,' he recalls. 'It was a moving meeting. Business attire.'

However, Jephson says Kennedy seemed successful awe of nan beautiful female sitting other him, explaining that he was 'not uncomfortable but he surely seemed to beryllium connected his champion behavior. 

'He alternatively sat connected nan separator of his chair and looked nervously astatine her,' he continues. 

'She was very cool - and jolly, you know, and smiley and welcoming.'

He made his transportation for nan screen and Diana respectfully declined, pinch Cindy Crawford yet going connected to service arsenic Kennedy's screen star, but nan brace continued talking until their allotted clip was over.

'I can't retrieve nan words,' says Jephson, 'but location was a grade of sympathy. I deliberation she mightiness person spoken astir nan celebrated image of him arsenic a small boy. 

'And she had sympathy for him increasing up pinch nan sanction and being nan entity of nationalist fascination. These were things that she could subordinate to.

'She didn't spot him arsenic nan remainder of nan world saw him. As this big, famous, handsome guy. She saw him, I think, arsenic alternatively susceptible because he had grown up successful public.

'She saw successful him a chap victim… of life successful nan nationalist oculus and trouble knowing who to trust. And I deliberation that that did create a relationship betwixt them.'

Terenzio reveals that Diana and JFK Jr stayed successful touch, and he asked her again for an question and reply 2 years later.

'On February 3, 1997, she wrote John a statement from Kensington Palace. I still person a transcript of it,' she writes

'She said "regrettably" she must diminution his connection and that she would get backmost successful touch erstwhile nan clip was right. At nan end, she wrote: "I hope" - and she underlined "hope" - 'the media are leaving some you and Carolyn alone. I cognize really difficult it is, but judge it aliases not, nan worst paparazzi are present successful Europe.'

Matt Berman, nan imaginative head of George, reflected connected nan heavy irony of that first gathering astatine nan Carlyle: 'I sent him complete pinch a bunch of covers. I would tie sketches - Magic Marker connected tracing paper. 

'I did 1 of her successful a limousine pinch paparazzi flash bulbs - it was her successful nan backmost pinch nan windows half up.

'How weird is that? They were some not gonna beryllium astir successful nan adjacent fewer years. Who would've called that one?'

JFK Jr: An Intimate Oral Biography by RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil, is published by Gallery Books