<p id=”par-1_44″>Princess Diana <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/princess-diana-closest-friend.html/”>touched the lives of many people</a>, including Liza Minnelli. Minnelli said she ran into Diana many times at events, and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/george-michael-liza-minnelli-said-princess-diana-made-feel-way.html/”>they formed a friendship</a>. Both women were under pressure from outside forces, and Minnelli said her instinct was always to protect Diana.</p>
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<p id=”par-2_25″>Minnelli has been surrounded by <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/liza-minnelli-rejected-frank-sinatras-help-moved-new-york-16.html/”>famous people since childhood,</a> and her career in the film industry ultimately brought her into the same room as Diana.</p>
<p id=”par-3_54″>“I met Princess Diana at movie premieres, fundraisers and the like, and we became friends,” she wrote in her book <em>Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! </em>(via <a href=”https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/liza-minnelli-extract-memoir-family-addiction-hplcrjmhf?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeIcJwIE9ESa_dEZSKToZIGvZ2eGx8R17vRuDxjxqVU2a2IblIr6kw58lzTxgE%3D&gaa_ts=6999c00c&gaa_sig=5jgJPe_L2QRaiirAbV-GSW_TFkB7xjYFpdSLgNf7U41EkFrllZsabK4gRpcsT0MFz4-mYIppMJHPsPM2XSDJ9w%3D%3D” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>The Times</a>). “She and I fiercely guarded each other’s privacy. We’d catch up and meet for tea. Sometimes she’d come to my hotel and we’d have lunch.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_19″>Minnelli said she understood the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/princess-diana-pain-battle-doomed-marriage-charles.html/”>pressure Diana was under</a> from the royal family, and she wanted to protect her.</p>
<p id=”par-5_34″>“My instinct was always to protect her,” she wrote. “She was a great lady, under siege from the moment she entered the royal family. We talked girl talk, and could have spent weeks together.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_14″>She believed that the pressures they both faced helped them better understand each other.</p>
<p id=”par-7_39″>“Diana spoke candidly about the pressures she was facing, in her married life and as a member of the royal family,” she wrote. “I told her about my own experiences. It was honest and real. We understood each other.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_20″>Minnelli said that <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/world-leaders-reacted-princess-diana-death-called-peoples-princess-first.html/”>after Diana’s death</a>, she learned that a picture of the two of them was on her mantelpiece.</p>