New Idea – July 29, 2019

AUSSIE GIRLFRIEND

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THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF

OF PRINCE CHARLES’

KANGA – THE ONLY

WOMAN SAID TO

UNDERSTAND THE

FUTURE KING – IS AT

THE CENTRE OF AN

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED

MURDER COVER-UP

Instantly taken by her

fun-loving personality and her

girl-next-door good looks,

Charles became smitten with

Kanga, as he nicknamed her.

Although Charles had yet to

meet Diana then, he was already

enjoying a flirtatious relationship

with Camilla, who was married

to Andrew Parker Bowles. But

once Kanga entered Charles’

radar, the two women entered a

tug-of-war for the future king’s

affection. It was the “first time

Camilla has a serious rival”,

according to 2008 documentary

Prince Charles’ Other Mistress.

The documentary details

the bizarre circumstances

surrounding the love triangle.

When either of the married

women became pregnant, the

other would be favoured by

Charles. And when Camilla and

Kanga gave birth, both women

honoured Charles by naming

their sons after him. In fact, the

prince even became godfather to

both his mistresses’ boys.

The Daily Mail reports both

women knew about each other

and had a ‘pathological’ hatred

of one another. Unperturbed,

a then single Prince Charles

“happily bounced from the bed of

Camilla to that of Lady Tryon,

then back again”, before meeting

his first wife, Lady Diana.

However, Kanga’s

alleged indiscretions soon

saw her fall out of favour

with Charles and the British

royal family. She is reported

to have let slip information

about her dalliances with

Charles whenever she

wanted to drum up publicity

for her ‘Kanga’ fashion line.

In 1985 when Princess

Diana – whose four-year

marriage to Charles was

already floundering – wore

one of Kanga’s designs, the

rivalry between Kanga and

Camilla peaked. While it

would be Camilla who

eventually won Charles’

heart after Kanga’s life took

a tragic downturn, her

welcome into the royal

family had a rocky start.

And still today Camilla

faces challenges. A royal

insider revealed Camilla

recently confessed to having

secret meetings with Diana

during the lowest points in her

marriage to Charles, news that

has shaken the family to its core.

But while Charles and

Camilla’s marriage has survived,

sadly, Kanga’s marriage to Baron

Tryon crumbled, before her

health deteriorated with the

re-occurrence of a childhood

disease followed by a uterine

cancer diagnosis.

After winning her battle with

cancer, Kanga checked herself

into Farm Place rehab clinic in

1996 to tackle her dependency

on painkillers – a result of her

cancer treatment. But in a

terrifying twist, during her time

at the clinic she fell from a high

window, shattering her spine,

Kanga’s physical

and mental

health declined

in later life.

and was never to walk again.

Although it’s been suggested

Kanga jumped, claims were

made in British documentary

High Society that she was pushed.

Just weeks later, Kanga

learned her husband was filing

for divorce and she was detained,

then sectioned under the Mental

Health Act, with friends stating

she had started fantasising that

someone was trying to kill her.

After recovering from the

trauma, she went on a trip

to Australia and India. On

returning to the UK she was

admitted to hospital but

contracted septicaemia and

died, shortly before her 50th

birthday and just months after

Diana was killed.

While her family and ex-

husband have denied allegations

she was pushed, her death

remains one of the most tragic

events to this day surrounding

the British royal family.

F

or decades, every detail

of Prince Charles’ affair

with now wife Camilla

Parker Bowles was

splashed across the

media. But little is known

about the Prince of Wales’

secret Australian mistress,

Kanga Tryon, who died just

months after his first wife,

Princess Diana, in alarmingly

mysterious circumstances.

Now, New Idea can

exclusively reveal the story of the

Aussie woman, once described

as “the only woman who ever

understood” Charles, who

became the focus of an alleged

attempted murder cover-up.

Born 1948 in Melbourne,

Dale Harper relocated to

London in 1972 and within

weeks had met her future

husband, Anthony Tryon, 3rd

Baron Tryon.

As Baroness Tryon, the

Aussie native was thrust into the

world of the British aristocracy,

where she was quickly

introduced to Prince Charles

• who happened to be good
  friends with her husband.

Diana

wore one

of Kanga’s

designs.

“KANGA WAS DETAINED,

THEN SECTIONED UNDER THE

MENTAL HEALTH ACT”