Diana Tells of ‘Biggest Role’ in Latest Alleged Transcript

LONDON — Two tabloids published Thursday what they called another taped conversation involving Princess Diana--further proof, they said, that the Royal Family is being bugged by British intelligence.

In transcripts in the Sun and the archrival Daily Mirror, a woman reported to be the princess tells an unidentified girlfriend that she is “acting the biggest role of my career” as the wife of Prince Charles.

The government Thursday rejected calls by the opposition Labor Party for an investigation of the transcripts. Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke called the request “utterly absurd.”

No one was immediately available at Buckingham Palace to comment on the newest tape, which the Sun said was recorded two years ago.

In the latest transcript, two women talk about actor Richard Gere and his wife, model Cindy Crawford.

“That film with Richard Gere, that’s what I love,” says a woman who the papers say is Princess Diana.

“Ah, he’s married,” says an unidentified woman.

“I know. Did you see to who?”

“Aah, no way.”

“Is she an actress?”

“No, I don’t think she is even a model--just a celebrity,” says the other woman, apparently unaware of the supermodel status of Gere’s wife.

A moment later, the woman the paper claims is Diana says, “I should be in movies.”

“Oh, what experience have you got?” the other woman replies.

“I have been acting the biggest role of my career for 10 years. That must put me in line for something.”

Toward the end of the conversation, the other woman asks, “How’s it going?”

“Bad,” said the woman the paper claims is Diana.

“What will happen now, then?”

“It makes no difference, I’m going, so are the boys. It’s an impossible situation. Everybody thinks they know everything about us, and yet nobody.”

The couple formally separated on Dec. 9, after 11 years of marriage. They divide time with their sons, Prince William, 10, and Prince Harry, 8.