United Kingdom, Sept. 30 -- Princess Diana is said to have secretly arranged to have tabloid newspapers delivered to her inside the royal residences.

According to the tragic royal's longtime hairdresser Richard Dalton, who first met Diana in 1978 and worked as her official hairdresser from 1981 to 1990, she asked him to help bypass palace restrictions so she could read gossip.

He told People: "She wasn't allowed to see the tabloid newspapers."

Richard then joked: "One of the hairdressers smuggled them in. Did I say that? They were smuggled in, but it's not to do with me."

He added: "She used to say, 'Richard, can you bring them in for me?'

"Nobody questioned it because nobody knew. Once I'd got through security and into the pantry, i...