Selina Scott

'Michael Shea, the Queen's press secretary, asked me if I would befriend Diana and guide her through the pitfalls of the media jungle,' presenter wrote.

He wrote in his memoir [that the smell of Princess Diana’s perfume helped him cope with her death](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-harry-diana-perfume-spare-b2260607.html). At the start of our session, I lifted the lid, took a deep sniff. [The Duke of Sussex expressed his feelings of grief ](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-harry-diana-perfume-spare-b2260607.html)after his mother died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, at the age of 36. Like a tab of LSD,” he wrote. Explaining why she declined the palace’s offer, Scott wrote that she had her “hands full” with her own life at the time. ‘Michael Shea, the Queen’s press secretary, asked me if I would befriend Diana and guide her through the pitfalls of the media jungle,’ presenter wrote