Princess Diana's wild night out with Freddie Mercury

She was the loose cannon of the royal family, who sensationally revealed everything about her relationship with Prince Charles in a tell-all interview, shook hands with a HIV positive patient in 1987 and flipped the conversation about mental health.

And it seems Princess Diana was also fond of going against royal protocol, by partying in clubs with some of her A-list mates – and who could blame her when those friends included Freddie Mercury, Elton John and George Michael.

Comedian Cleo Rocos formerly revealed in her book The Power of Positive Drinking, that Freddie Mercury, fellow comedian Kenny Everett and herself, dressed Diana as a man for a night out at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, in London.

Somehow, Princess Diana managed to go totally unnoticed on the night, dressed in an army jacket, shades and a cap.

“When we walked in… we felt she was obviously Princess Diana and would be discovered at any minute., Rocos wrote in her book.

“But people just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. But she loved it.”

Despite being on the cover of every newspaper in the 1980’s, Diana is said to have ordered drinks at the bar and danced the night away without anybody noticing who she was.

Royal Vauxhall’s creator and writer Desmond O’Connor spoke out in 2017 about what happened on the night two of the most famous people in the world went out on the town together.

“I think she had great empathy with that community because they were very much made to feel like outsiders too,” he told The Telegraph.

“She was someone in the public eye who was living in a very closeted existence.

“She was desperately unhappy, she was really struggling with fame and with royal life, and I guess that just echoed the plight of a lot of very well known gay men in that era.”

Over the weekend, at the SAG Awards, actor Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, even addressed the famous night.

“There was one moment that I hear he took Princess Diana and disguised her as a man and took her into a bar, just so they could have their own fun moment without anybody else being aware,” he told People.

“ Now, I don’t know if that’s true, this might be an urban legend.”

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