A newly published book, "The Kennedys and the Windsors" by Caroline Hallemann, reveals fresh details of a secret meeting between Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy Jr. at New York's Carlyle Hotel in December 1995. Kennedy Jr., then editor of his political magazine George, sought to persuade Diana to appear on its cover, hoping her global fame would boost the publication's profile. The rendezvous, kept out of public view at the time, has since become a source of enduring speculation about the relationship between two of the era's most photographed figures.

According to the book, Diana ultimately turned down Kennedy Jr.'s request to feature on the magazine's cover, though the precise reasons and further specifics of their exchange are explored in the new account. The meeting's secrecy, combined with the pair's celebrity status, helped fuel decades of rumours about a possible romantic connection between them, claims the author's research seeks to address using previously unreported details.