Why Did Kevin Costner Feud with Royal Family?

Kevin Costner reveals his “ugly” feud with the royal family over Princess Diana’s involvement in a Bodyguard sequel following “Di’s” death in a car crash.

Yellowstone star Kevin Costner recently disclosed he had an “ugly” feud with the royal family after they “turned on him” following his claims that Princess Diana was in discussions to appear in a sequel to The Bodyguard shortly before her tragic death in 1997.

The Oscar-winner actor revealed that the royal family was sceptical about Diana’s alleged agreement to star in the follow-up to the 1992 film, which originally featured Costner alongside Whitney Houston.

While sitting for The Howard Stern Show interview, Costner shared, “When Diana passed, about a year later it had leaked out that I was prepping ‘Bodyguard 2’ with her.

And what happened was, the royal family kind of turned on me a little bit. Like, ‘No, that’s not true.’ And it got actually kind of ugly. And I let it go for a while. It just got uglier and uglier.”

The 69-year-old recounted how he sought assistance from Sarah, Duchess of York, who had actually introduced him to Princess Diana. “Finally I called up Sarah, and said, ‘Sarah, you need to tell me who is leading the charge there on this thing.’

She goes, ‘No, no, no, Kev, you don’t want to talk to them.’ I said, ‘Yes I do.’”