Adam Boulton wife: Prince Philip’s furious phone call over Diana funeral – ‘F*** off!'

Adam Boulton, 60, has been married to Anji Hunter, 64, since 2006. Adam is Sky News’ political editor, while Anji is a PR advisor who worked for Tony Blair. She was a close advisor of the then-prime minster when Princess Diana died in 1997 in a horrific car accident in Paris, leaving behind her two sons Prince William and Prince Harry.

The media scrutiny around Diana had been intense during her life, and after her death, there was a sense behind palace walls that her sons needed protecting.

However, such was the public outpouring of grief at the loss of the ‘People’s Princess’, that the young brothers were exposed to the prying eyes of the world.

Debates raged in Buckingham Palace about whether the boys should walk behind the coffin in the public funeral procession.

In his 2008 book, Tony’s Ten Years: Memoirs of the Blair Administration, Adam wrote about the tensions overheard by his wife Anji Hunter

He wrote: “The events of that week in September 1997 were very sad, but as the spinners from Downing Street came to Buckingham Palace and started to kick around what roles Harry and William should play in the funeral, the Queen had relished the moment when Philip had bellowed over the speakerphone from Balmoral: ‘F*** off!’

“’We are talking about two boys who have lost their mother’.”

Anji recalled the moment she heard the furious exchange in a 2017 Channel 5 documentary on Diana’s funeral, 7 Days.

She said: “I can remember – it sends a tingle up my back.

In the same Channel 5 documentary, Prince William, who was 15 at the time, said walking behind his mother’s coffin was “one of the hardest things I’ve ever done”.

He said he recalled using his fringe as a “safety blanket” during the “very long, lonely walk”.

Adam Bouton will participate in Pointless Celebrities alongside Owen Jones, Paris Lees, Kay Burley, Carole Malone, Quentin Letts, Amol Rajan and Victoria Derbyshire.

The episode will air at 6.20pm on BBC on Saturday, September 21.

source: express.co.uk