Did you know?: Princess Di 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!” Comedy actor Cleo Rocos, who went with the princess, said Diana looked like a male model, The Sun reported. 

Disguised Diana was delighted when she was served in the bar without being recognised. She was wearing a camouflage army jacket, black leather cap and aviator sunglasses. The princess had some wine and 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. The night-out reportedly took place in 1988, when her marriage to Prince Charles was already on the rocks. Diana died at the age of 36 in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 3^rd, 2013.

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