What is the veracity of the article published by the Sunday Express titled Did Robert Palmer have an affair with Princess Diana The info does not seem right and it is amateurish Any info on this?

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Yes, there is. The article "Did Robert Palmer Have An Affair With Princess Diana" was written by Camilla Tomely in 2010 and published in the Sunday Express. It was predicated on a blog posted by Ian Halperin, a professional Canadian Blogger, who posted this rumor on his web site. No affair ever took place between Robert Palmer and Princess Diana, per his publicist from the nineties, Suzanne Parkes. The alleged affair was to have taken place in 1994. Per Parkes, Robert Palmer had asked her to try and make an arrangement for him to meet Princess Diana socially. Parkes tried, but was unable to do so, stating that invitations to events with Princess Diana in attendence were extremely difficult to get invitations to, compounded by the fact that personnel representing the Royal House had final approval over all guest lists. Robert Palmer never did get to meet Princess Diana, per Parkes statement. There was no meeting and no affair. It was just a rumor. The article in general was ridden with errors throughout. The article states that Robert Palmer was living with Mary Ambrose, a past casual girlfriend of his in 1988. In 1988, Mary Ambrose was eleven years old. In addition to that, Robert Palmer was married to Susan Eileen Thatcher, his second wife, from 1979 till 1999. Mary Ambrose's family as well as Robert Palmer's friends and family have clearly stated that Robert Palmer met Mary Ambrose socially in 1995 in San Diego, California. Palmer and Ambrose dated on an informal basis from 2000 to early 2003, per both of Robert Palmer's publicists, Suzanne Parkes and Elizabeth Freud. Ambrose's family has also corroborated that information, as well as Palmer's family. Tomily then refers to Mary Ambrose as 'Robert Palmer's second wife and widow', following that up with a statement that Mary Ambrose had to take down her Facebook Account "amid allegations." As noted earlier, Susan Eileen Thatcher was Robert Palmer's second wife. Quite obviously, Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose were never married. Both Suzanne Parkes and Elizabeth Freud have also publicly stated that Robert Palmer had ended his relationship with Mary Ambrose by early 2003, and that he was engaged to Geraldine Edwards, who he had been dating since his 1999 divorce from his second wife at the time of his death. This information was also corroborated by Ambrose's family as well as Palmer's. And according to Michael Ambrose, Mary Ambrose's brother, who was attempting to ameliorate some of the misreports about his sister, of which there were many, Mary Ambrose never had a Facebook account to take down. According to him, with no offense intended, Mary Ambrose is not computer literate, and had no original Facebook account to remove. The final line of the article is 'Mary Ambrose was unavailable for comment last night.' According to Michael Ambrose, Mary Ambrose was by then living with their mother in Coronado, California with her three children and in fact no attempt was made to contact his sister for comment to start with. The veracity of this article is poor, the information provided in the article mainly incorrect, from beginning to end. Elizabeth Freud has publicly debunked this article posthoumously on behalf of her late client, Robert Palmer.