For six years, fitness coach Jenni was more than just one coach Princess Diana; She was her trusted trust.
From emotional revelations to royal routines, opened up the vulnerable, lively and private side of the Princess of Wales and offers a rare insight into the woman behind the crown.
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The day Princess Diana didn’t come back

It was at the end of August 1997 when Princess Diana handed over her coach, Jenni Rivett, a brief marked with her training schedule in September.
She was about to go to St. Tropez for a holiday with Dodi al-Fayed. Diana Log. She was looking forward to the sun, the break and possibly the love that bloomed.
But ripped to remember something else.
“She was excited to get away, she needed a break and she loved being in the sun, but there were a lot of things happening to her,” Jenni told The Daily mail. “A lot of sadness too. While she was always amazing fun, a great sense of humor, I always got this feeling of underlying grief about her.”
Diana would never return from that trip. Her death in a car accident days later shocked the world and crushed those who knew her best.
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Ried, on vacation in Turkey at that time, got the news during the early hours. “It wasn’t just the loss of a client. It was the loss of someone I deeply cared for,” she shared.
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Princess Diana’s struggle was deeper than people knew

When her marriage to Prince Charles crumbled, Diana’s emotional world also made.
Between 1991 and 1997, widely known as “The War of Windsors”, the Princess found refuge in her workout. With ripped up she could be herself.
“Sometimes Diana would tell me things so personal that I would ask her: ‘Please don’t say any more because if it ends up in the newspapers tomorrow, you will think it was me.’
Although Diana was the most photographed woman on the planet, remembered someone who longed for integrity and authenticity.
Fitness coach said, “She didn’t want this life. She didn’t want any of it. All she ever wanted was to be a good wife and mom.”
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Rivett also said that Diana would have been heartbroken over the current rift between Prince William and Prince Harry. She noted, “Diana loved her boys; they were all to her. She would have been destroyed by what is happening between them today.”
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Exercise Princess Diana was unlike anything else

When Diana first met with the Harbor Club in Chelsea, she bounced into the room and joking, “Now, what can you do with this body?”
That openness defined their relationship.
Diana trained three times a week, loved “stiff” aerobics and focused strongly on posture and core strength. “With Diana it was about the technology. She liked to get things right,” shared ripped.
She was also practical, often discovered gymnastics who made exercises mistakes and asked to correct them. When they were not inside, Diana loved rollerblading in Kensington Gardens, dressed in a baseball cap in a most pointless attempt to avoid paparazzi.
In fact, it was Diana’s idea to wear the same sweater, a Blue Virgin Atlantic, so that photographers would not make money from new pictures.
That sweater, later talented to Riveted, was sold at auction for over £ 40,000. Riveted donated the money to help his gardener son go to school. She revealed, “I wanted it to mean something. Diana would have wanted it.”
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The side of the Diana world rarely saw
Remored Diana remembers as warm and nourishing.
When she became pregnant in 1993, Diana gave her a cardigan and a hearty card that read, “something small for your package if it came when I’m gone, love Diana.”
Rivett would sometimes bring her daughter Kirsti to a training session at Kensington Palace. William and Harry would complicate who could hold the child, even if Diana was not afraid to scold them when they disturbed sessions.
The princess loved ballet, stretched at the bars and made cardio on elliptical. She even asked to teach her to rollerblade.
In 1995, the tabloids called her “Princess of Wheels” after a set of sneaky photos hit the press.
“She had this youthful energy and curiosity,” said ripped. “And even when she developed into a global humanitarian icon, she never stopped being real.”
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How Diana may have aged today
Rivett often reflects on how Princess Diana would be 63 years old if she had lived.
She noted, “Diana was dedicated to her education and equally interested in nutrition. I think she would have aged extremely well.”
If she trained her today, said that she would recommend strength training, mobility exercises, walks, high -intensity interval training and a protein -rich Mediterranean style. Supplements such as Omega 3, Vitamin D and Magnesium would be included, as well as deliberate daily gratitude or prayer.
Above all, believe in balance. “If you can’t withstand that cake or chocolate, get it … Go ahead. Do your workout and forget it. Don’t think it’s over,” she said.
Rivett still visits the gates in Kensington Palace when she is in the UK. She shared, “What griefs me is that Diana never knew how much she was loved.”
She remembered to put down flowers the day after the princess died and whispered, “Do you believe in me now; how much people loved you?”