Diana posed as man in gay bar
Princess Diana was once taken inside a gay bar dressed as a
man by Queen star Freddie Mercury. She later sent a note saying: “We must do it
again!” Cleo Rocos, who went with the princess, said Diana looked like a male
model, media reported.
Disguised Diana was delighted when she was served in the bar
without being recognized. She was wearing a camouflage army jacket, black
leather cap and aviator sunglasses. The princess had a wine and a beer.
“When we walked in, we felt she would be discovered at any
minute. But people just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. She loved
it,” TV star Rocos said. Diana was a fan of gay funnyman Kenny Everett.
Keen to escape her stuffy royal life, she earlier met him
and Rocos for lunch in London’s Kensington. They had peach and champagne
cocktails and went to Kenny’s penthouse. Everett called over Queen Singer and
neighbour Freddie Mercury and the four spent the afternoon downing more
champagne in front of TV reruns of a US comedy.
They improvised the characters’ voices, “but with a much
naughtier storyline”. Diana asked about their plans for the evening and Kenny
said the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in South London was not for her.
“It’s full of hairy gay men. Sometimes there are fights
outside’. “We pleaded, ‘what would be the headline if you were caught in a gay
bar brawl?’ But Diana was in full mischief mode. Freddie said, ‘Go on, let the
girl have some fun’,” Rocos said.
“She did look like a beautiful young man. She was always a
very fit girl, so they might have thought, ‘There’s a nice young man with pert
buttocks’,” Rocos says in her new book “The Power of Positive Drinking”.
They got to the bar and left 20 minutes later. Next day,
Diana sent a note saying: “We must do it again!” The night-out reportedly took
place in 1988, when her marriage to Prince Charles was already on the rocks.
Diana died aged 36 in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
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