Princess Diana's mother sets record straight

Princess Diana's mother has relived the nightmare of her daughter's death in order to put the record straight about their stormy relationship.

The pair did not talk in the four months before Diana was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997, and the silence has since been painted as an irretrievable rift between mother and daughter.

But Frances Shand Kydd argues in an authorised biography, Frances: The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Mother, that nothing could be further from the truth.

"Of course we argued. Who wants a wishy-washy mum," she told authors Max Riddington and Gavan Naden.

But Shand Kydd says she never looked on their differences as more than a hiccup in their relationship that sadly became permanent with Diana's sudden death.