According to Jephson, there was also a “flirtatious” element to the encounter. He alleged Diana sat down with hunk JFK Jr., in part, to make sister-in-law Sarah Ferguson jealous. Still, Jephson insists Di “didn’t see him as the rest of the world saw him. As this big, famous, handsome guy. She saw him, I think, as rather vulnerable.”
Despite Diana turning down his magazine offer during their 90-minute get-together, JFK Jr. was left with a positive impression too, reportedly calling the blond beauty “lovely” and “demure” to close confidantes.
In The Kennedys and the Windsors, author Caroline Hallemann reports the editor-in-chief also gave his staffers a rundown of the special encounter. “Well, she said no,” John allegedly recalled. “But she had a great pair of legs.”
Sources said now-77-year-old Charles, who finalized his divorce from Di in 1996, didn’t know much about her hush-hush interaction with the American heartthrob and didn’t care to know. It’s perhaps surprising considering the communication between the twosome didn’t stop after their meetup.