When the photos hit the newsstands, Sarah was immediately summoned home to Buckingham Palace to face the music.
But Prince Philip was resolute: he had no desire to see her again.
He regarded reticence as a virtue and self-control as a quality to be admired.
Photographers took pictures f her as she lay dying They left by a back exit, again followed by paparazzi, and Diana, who was 36, and Fayed, 41, died after the Mercedes S280 in which they were travelling ran head-on into the central reservation of the Alma underpass.
Philip did not tune in.
Prince Charles faced his own naked embarrassment in 1994 when a German tabloid published a nude photo of the Prince vacationing in southern France.