How Diana called Sophie 'Miss Goody Two Shoes' - and reduced her to floods of tears by staring malevolently at her over dinner, intimate new biography of the Duchess of Edinburgh reveals
Sophie Rhys-Jones wasn't shy, but she admitted to being a 'bit nervous' when she was unexpectedly called in to help launch a charity challenge fronted by Prince Edward in the summer of 1993.
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