Diana, Princess of Wales, has ruled out suggestions that she is about to remarry. In a magazine interview, Princess Diana is reported as saying: ``I haven't taken such a long time to get out of one bad marriage to get into another one.''

The remark was made to Taki Theodoracopulos, a columnist in the Spectator magazine of London, amid speculation about the princess's relationship with Dodi Fayed. His father, Mohamed Al Fayed. is owner of the famous London store Harods.

Youngsters in Lower Pilsley, a village in Derbyshire, northern England, are coming to terms with a little-known side of the Princess of Wales a tongue-lashing and a right royal brush-off -- after they beat the paparazzi to snap a world exclusive a few yards from their homes.

Andrew Pickering, aged 14, and Emma Radford, 11, stumbled across the princess and Dodi Fayed as they touched down in a helicopter beside Lower Pilsley for a private visit.

Spotting an unwelcome party of holidaying children, the couple made clear they wanted no photographs, while Diana told them: ``Go away.'' But like Fleet Street's finest, the youngsters stuck with the story and finally cornered the couple.

They had flown 160 miles for a consultation with mystic-cum-clairvoyant Rita Rogers, unofficial counsellor to the princess, who is said to turn to her for advice in difficult times after a recommendation from the Duchess of York.

As a small group marvelled at the sight of the couple arriving in the Harrods helicopter an aide of Rita's obligingly lit a bonfire to guide the pilot -- the youngsters dashed home for Emma's fixed-lens camera, which cost £15.99.

Then they waited for Diana and Dodi to return to the landing field beside Rogers's house. After an hour they duly obliged but were horrified by the sight of the camera-slinging youngsters preparing to get the first pictures of the couple since they were photographed on a yachting holiday in the Mediterranean last week.

Emma recalled: ``Diana got very cross and started shouting at us to go away. We were trying to scramble over barbed wire to get a better picture and in the end got within 30 feet of them.''

Tiffany Renshaw, a fellow conspirator, added: ``The princess just came to the gate leading to the field. We (had) heard them say `See you' and everything, and when she saw us she hid behind a bush.

``Dodi came round the side of the helicopter like he wasn't really bothered about us taking photos. Diana just ran across to the helicopter and got in. Then she saw us all with cameras and told us all to go away.''

Sue Pickering, mother of Andrew, said the children were ``really excited when they got back home. I couldn't believe it''.

Rogers, whose front room is said to be adorned with greetings cards from the princess, was staying quiet. She once said: ``There is no way I discuss my clients. My job is like being a priestess.''

Emma's parents were toasting their daughter's initiative around £3,000 better off courtesy of The Daily Mirror, a tabloid, which bought the pictures. The paper got a bargain. Last week it paid a reported £2 million for long-lens snaps of Diana and Dodi on holiday.

The Observer News Service

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