Prince Charles

Geoffrey Bignell, who handled Charles's financial affairs for more than a decade until 1996, told The Sunday Telegraph that Charles was forced to sell his entire investment portfolio to pay Diana.

"Princess Diana took every penny he had," Bignell told the paper. "I was told to liquidate everything, all his investments, so that he could give her the cash. That's why I stopped being his personal financial adviser because he had no personal wealth left. She took him to the cleaners."

Princess Diana

As part of the divorce in July 1996, Diana reportedly received a lump sum of £17.5 million ($32 million) and an allowance for her private office.

Queen Elizabeth II also allowed her and the couple's two sons, princes William and Harry, to continue living in Kensington Palace in central London.

Diana, 36, was killed in a car accident in Paris in August 1997, a year after her divorce from Charles was decreed final.

The Japan Times Weekly: July 31, 2004
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