Diana first met Colthurst at a chalet in the French Alps when she was a 17-year-old socialite and he was still in medical school. The pair maintained their sibling-like relationship until they had a falling out prior to Diana’s fatal car crash in August 1997. According to journalist Tina Brown’s 2007 book, The Diana Chronicles, in light of all the controversy, the princess “exiled everyone associated with helping her produce the Morton book,” including Colthurst in 1995. However, Colthurst wrote in a 2021 Telegraph column that they’d smoothed things over and spoke on the phone “not long before her death.” Saunders, Emmeline; Kindon, Frances (20 December 2017). " 'I'm so excited I could burst!' Georgia 'Toff' Toffolo CONFIRMS This Morning gig and gives fans sneak peek at secret project". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 22 December 2017. She is emphatic in her protocol for how delivery should take place and more so about the need for at least six weeks of tender care for new mothers after birth to avoid post- natal depression, and a subsequent lifetime of imbalance. She dresses like a fashion designer and talks like a nun - and at the age of 72 she has written a memoir which, more than most, deserves the title of "life story". Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo grew up in Leitrim in the 1930s. She became a nun at 16, trained as a nurse and was sent to India to care for the elderly, working alongside Mother Teresa in the slums of Calcutta. She became ill herself, was diagnosed with bowel cancer and given six months to live. In October 2019, she appeared in Celebrity Hunted – Stand Up to Cancer, partnering with Stanley Johnson ( Boris Johnson’s father).

Disillusioned by in-fighting in the convent and bolstered by her newfound interest in midwifery, Shanley-Toffolo wrote to the Pope for permission to leave the congregation on the grounds of ill health. Within six months she was enrolled at a London maternity hospital, tearing around to deliver babies on her bicycle - "proof that if you are ill, the best remedy is to study something new", as she puts it. The following year, she met the man she would eventually marry, Joseph Toffolo. That was 40 years ago. Since then she has nursed the Duke of Windsor, married, studied acupuncture in China and been photographed by Lord Snowdon. Oh, and did I mention her friendship with Princess Diana? In person Shanley-Toffolo is bird-like - petite, polite, her conversation punctuated by totally unselfconscious references to matters which, one can only assume, are rarely discussed in the dining-room of the Shelbourne Hotel nowadays: magic, fairies, love and God.

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I'm A Celebrity Unveils Line-Up For Upcoming All Stars Series In South Africa". HuffPost UK. 26 March 2023 . Retrieved 26 March 2023. Dr. Khan said in his statement in the inquiry into Diana's death that he knew about the princess' intentions to marry him but was not a fan of the idea.

The bio is from Shelley's "Portrait of Diana's Healer: Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo: Royal Medicine Woman." In 2013, Jemima Khan, a close friend of Diana and the former wife of Hasnat's distant cousin, Imran Khan, told Vanity Fair: "Diana was madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him, even if that meant living in Pakistan, and that's one of the reasons why we became friends." At the age of 29 she went to India. Bombay first, then Calcutta. Being mendicants, the nuns had to beg for alms, in streets already teeming with beggars. Diana and her girlfriends would often pop in and, when I had finished my rounds, they would join me for a chat. They were all very friendly people," he said. "Over a period of time, we became good friends." Spoilers ahead: If y ou don't want anything spoiled about the new season of The Crown , stop reading now.

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He added: "I told her that the only way I could see us having a vaguely normal life together would be if we went to Pakistan, as the press don't bother you there." At one point, Diana would go on to welcome spirituality and astrology into her world, too. She worked closely with astrologist Felix Lyle, as well as Debbie Frank, whose method combined general counseling and analysis concerning the present and the future with Diana's birth time and date. "I listen to it but I don’t believe it totally," Diana allegedly said, according to Morton's book. "It’s a direction and a suggestion rather than it’s definitely going to happen. She’s been sweet, particularly when I was going through a rough patch... She just said you’ve got to hang on because things will get brighter but she never forced me with information at all." Diana was very protective towards me and wanted to shield me from the attention," Khan said. "I told her that the only way I could see us having a vaguely normal life together would be if we went to Pakistan, as the press don’t bother you there." Khan shared details about their 1997 breakup