Princess Diana secretly attended gay bar party disguised as drag queen with longtime friend Freddie Mercury, reveals memoir

While Royal Vauxhall was known for its rough crowd and bar fights, and the media would have a field day if they caught Diana there, the princess was persistent
UPDATED DEC 4, 2018

While Queen's rock music is widely regarded by millions of fans across the globe as a passport to a world with zero judgment and catchy chants, Princess Diana considered their music as a literal escape into a different world, one that included drag queens, reruns of 'Golden Girls', and gay bars, Yahoo reports.

Back in the mid-'80s, when "People's Princess" Diana's every move was heavily monitored by the media, she became close friends with Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. He and the princess were sipping champagne and watching reruns of 'Golden Girls' at the home of comedian Kenny Everett one evening, according to a memoir by actress Cleo Racos titled 'The Power of Positive Drinking'. During that evening, the trio created their own subplots for the sitcom with a "much naughtier storyline".

The Princess of Wales (1961 - 1997, later Diana, Princess of Wales) at Aintree racecourse for the Grand National, 3rd April 1982. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The Princess of Wales (1961 - 1997, later Diana, Princess of Wales) at Aintree racecourse for the Grand National, 3rd April 1982. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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