Share Tweet Pin Email By Katherine Tinsley 5:07pm PDT, Oct 1, 2025 _ Princess Diana's former hairdresser revealed the royal used to sneak tabloid magazines into the palace to read rumors about herself. Keep reading for the details...

MORE: Follow Wonderwall on MSN for more top news _ "One of the hairdressers smuggled them in. Did I say that? They were smuggled in, but it's not to do with me," Richard Dalton told People."She used to say, 'Richard, can you bring them in for me?' Nobody questioned it because nobody knew," Dalton continued. "Once I'd got through security and into the pantry, it was all plain sailing from there." _ Princess Diana was a fixture in the news, especially since she was greatly impacted by people claiming Prince Harry wasn't her son due to his red hair. "They always [went] on about, 'Is Charles the father of Harry?'" Richard Dalton said about the rumors. "Of course he is." _ Prince Harry's flaming red hair surprised royal watchers, but the gene runs in Princess Diana's family. "Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, when I used to cut his hair, his hair was bright red. Lady Sarah, also red," Richard Dalton highlighted. "The Spencers definitely had red hair. But at that time, I wasn't in a position to actually say, 'Hello, Charles Spencer's hair was red.'" _ The hearsay also affected Prince Harry. "Pa liked telling stories, and this was one of the best in his repertoire," Harry wrote in Spare. "'Who knows if I'm really the Prince of Wales? Who knows if I'm even your real father? Maybe your real father is in Broadmoor, darling boy!'" _ Prince Harry noted that the joke made King Charles III "laugh and laugh," but the duke thought it was "a remarkably unfunny joke, given the rumor circulating just then that my actual father was one of Mommy's former lovers: Major James Hewitt." Gavin Kent / Mirrorpix/Newscom/The Mega Agency Kent Gavin/Mirrorpix/Newscom/The Mega Agency MEGA Keith Mayhew/Landmark Media / Landmark Media/Newscom/The Mega Agency Up Next The post Diana smuggled controversial reading materials into the palace appeared first on Wonderwall.com.