He was Diana's steadfast chauffer who shared her darkest days. Now STEVE DAVIES breaks his silence and says: 'If I'd been driving Diana in Paris she would still be here.' By SARAH OLIVER Published: 01:32, 10 November 2024 | Updated: 01:46, 10 November 2024 e-mail 3 View comments It was rogue BBC journalist Martin Bashir who ended the royal career of Diana’s personal chauffeur Steve Davies.
But it would take a quarter of a century before he discovered that, learning the truth by chance from an episode of The Crown. The driver was frozen out of the Princess’s inner circle at Kensington Palace in late 1995. ‘It happened overnight,’ he says.
‘From driving her everywhere I was banned from the wheel of her car. After the Christmas break I was told she didn’t want me near it, I wasn’t even allowed to wash or hoover it. ‘I was still on her payroll but all I could do was sit in the garage for ten hours a day, my official shift, doing nothing, and then go home.
I was heartbroken, humiliated. She shunned me.’ Steve was made redundant in March 1996.
He did not know it at the time but he was the collateral damage in Bashir’s corrupt plot to persuade Diana to give the most devastating interview in royal history – her Panorama appearance of November 1995. Steve Davies was frozen out of the Princess’s inner circle at Kensington Palace in late 1995. ‘It happened overnight,’ he says.
‘From driving her everywhere I was banned from the wheel of her car.' Pictured dr.
