Diana in love with Charles when she died

London, Jan 18 (UNI) Princess Diana was still in love with Prince Charles when she died, a close friend told her inquest.

Fashion impresario Roberto Devorik said yesterday Diana was distraught when she realised she had lost her husband to Camilla Parker Bowles.

She had said to him, ''I've been loved by white people, black people, gay people, Jewish people. The one man I really loved in my life has not loved me.'' The Daily Mail quoted Devorik as telling the inquest that despite her other lovers, Diana remained devoted to Charles until her death in the 1997 Paris car crash.

''It's my belief that the man she loved until she closed her eyes was the Prince of Wales.

After Diana realised that she had lost the Prince of Wales to Camilla Parker Bowles it was devastating for her. Absolutely devastating,'' he added.

He told how she defended Charles from criticism after their split. ''Once at my house during lunch somebody had the bad taste to criticise the Prince of Wales. I would not have liked to have been that person in the way she turned,'' he said.

''She said, 'He is the father of my children and the future King of England and if I have a difference with him that is my problem.

Nobody should make a mockery of him','' Devorik quoted her as saying.

But he also told how Diana spoke of her problems with Charles and the Royal Family.

He said the Princess also repeatedly told him of her fears that Prince Philip was plotting to have her killed.

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