- I've come to the
conclusion that really, it would've been far easier
to have had two wives to have covered both
sides of the street, (audience laughing) and I could have
walked down the middle, directing the operation. (audience laughing) - [Reporter] Did it cross
either of your minds that, in three years' time you would
be announcing your engagement for you to be married? - Not at all, no.
- No. - [Newscaster]
Hello, good morning. Well, the big day has arrived. In four hours' time, Charles Phillip Arthur
George Mountbatten Windsor marries Diana Frances Spencer,
and Britain and the world will celebrate the
wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales. - At the end of a very
long red carpeted corridor, I noticed this ball of
white racing towards me, and I realized it
was Princess Diana. She'd rolled her
train up into a ball, tucked it under her arm. She had her slippers in one
hand and she was racing down this corridor lined with
windows and the diamonds of the Spencer family tiara
were glinting in sunshine. What a picture of hope
and happiness and love. She had it all. - [Reporter] Do you find it
a very daunting experience that yesterday you were a
nanny looking after children? Now you are about to
marry the Prince of Wales, and one day you would in
all likelihood be queen. It's a tremendous change for
someone, I may say, of 19 to make all of a
sudden, the transition. - It is, but I've had a small
run up to the last six months and next to Prince Charles
I know I can't go wrong. (children yelling) - It was difficult for
me to tread the path between Prince Charles
and Princess Diana, and now Diana arrived
every weekend with the boys on Friday afternoon
and left every Sunday, but someone else occupied
that space in between, and I learned to serve
two Royal mistresses. (glass crumpling) (crowd laughing) Now, if you watch
that piece of footage, when Prince Charles is
asked, are you in love, sir? - [Reporter] And
I suppose in love? - Of course. Whatever in love means.
(Diana giggling) - Yes. - And she looks as
him as if to say, what are you talking about? Don't you know what love is? That was the problem
from the beginning. Charles didn't really
know what love was. He never really wanted a lover. He wanted a mother. - [Correspondent]
The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles
about to come out now. (paparazzi clamoring) The Prince of Wales and
Camilla Parker Bowles seen together in public,
quite clearly coming down the steps of the Ritz
after the party for the 50th birthday party
for Camilla's sister. No secret about their
relationship now. None possible at all. The photograph the people
have waited so long, the picture the people
have waited so long to see. - [Narrator] The princess was
locked in a loveless marriage, hurt by her husband's
continued friendship with an old flame,
Camilla Parker Bowles. (dramatic music) - [Paul] One, Princess of Wales and the other,
Mrs. Parker Bowles. - It was 1977 that Charles
came to stay as friend of my sister, Sarah
at, for shoot. We sort of met in
a plowed field. - Well, I remember thinking,
what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16 year old
she was and having great fun and bouncy and full of
life and everything, and I don't know what
you thought of me. - Pretty amazing. (Charles laughing) (dramatic music) - I think if Princess
Diana and Prince Charles had been ordinary people they'd
have probably got divorced a lot sooner than
they eventually did. - [Reporter] Are you planning
for, you must be planning for the future, where
you're going to live and this sort of thing,
between your places? - [Charles] I got this
house in Gloucestershire, which had I acquired last year. - [Reporter] With
marriage in mind? - [Charles] No, no, not really. I mean, I did want somewhere
very much as a base and I wanted somewhere
which was nearer to the duchy of Cornwall areas
that I could reach then and visit people and look
at the farms and things, and so that was very
convenient, but obviously it's been a great help. - [Interviewer] Madame, how
are you enjoying married life? How do you recommend it? How'd you like to book
Balmoral as a place? - [Camilla T.] You had this
period of several years where they were sleeping
in separate bedrooms. Apparently post-1986,
they were leading rather separate lives, not just
staying in different rooms, but on different
floors of the palace. - [Paul] But even still,
the princess tried to make her marriage work and she never
actually wanted a divorce. (camera snapping) - [Martin] What were
the expectations that you had for married life? - I think like any
marriage, especially when you've had divorced
parents like myself, you'd want to try even
harder to make it work, and you don't want to
fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen
in your own family. I desperately want it to work. I desperately love my
husband and I wanted to share everything
together, and I thought that we were a very good team. (camera snapping) (Charles whistling) - She said, I'll
have a separation, but I don't want to be divorced. For the children's sake. I want
us to remain a family unit, to bring them up as parents. (cameras snapping) (engine churning) - There's a lot to be done. It's gonna be marvelous
to have somebody to help sort it out. - [Reporter] So Diana's father
described it this morning, as he said, he thought she'd
make a very good housewife. (Charles laughing) - I don't think he said that. - We've yet to see. - She's just so beautiful. I'm just so privileged. I can't believe I did that. - [Interviewer] Was she as
pretty as you expected her to be? - [Fan] Oh, prettier than
ever, more prettier than ever. - Diana didn't have the
happiest of childhoods. Her parents separated
when she was younger, and so she came from a broken
home and I think perhaps there was an insecurity
that a seed was sewn from a young age, and that
insecurity was something that flourished actually
within her as she got older. (elegant violin music) - [Reporter] The couple
had arrived separately at St. Paul's, but a crowd
of about 3,000 had built up, their enthusiasm unmistakable. (crowd cheering) Prince Charles was so
relaxed, he nearly came to grief on the top step,
and when it was over, all the stress of the
last few days evaporated as Prince Charles
clasped Lady Diana's hand reassuringly and unaffectedly. She seemed to recover all
her old charm and poise sitting close beside him
as they drove off together. (crowd clapping) (elegant violin music) - Just as Charles fell
immediately in love with Princess Diana or Lady
Diana Spencer, as she was at the time, so too did Britain. We hadn't seen the likes of
a future princess like this for many, many years, and
Diana was just a stunner. I mean, that picture that
Arthur Edwards took of her coming out of her nursery
in that see-through dress, that set of pins that she
sported, the innocence about her. You just thought, wow,
this girl is knockout. There was a huge
interest from the moment the engagement happened
and everyone watched the engagement footage,
everyone around the world pretty much tuned into
the Royal wedding. I mean, that was a
huge event in '81. - [Reporter] Before he
left home, Lord Spencer, the proudest of men
today, wanted a few words. - I'd just like to say a word. May I say a word? - [Interviewer] Please do. - Yes, the Spencers have
through the centuries fought for their
king and country. Today, Diana is vying
to help her country for the rest of her life. She'll be following in the
tradition of her ancestors and she will have at her
side the man she loves. - [Diana] I wasn't daunted
and I'm not daunted by the responsibilities
that that role creates. It was a challenge. It is a challenge. As for becoming queen it's,
was never at the forefront of my mind when I
married my husband. It was a long way
off, that thought. - [Newscaster] And then,
just after half past 10, from Clarence House
came the glass carriage and our first chance to see
Lady Diana, dress half glimpsed, veil tantalizingly low. - [Camilla T.] It was
the fairy tale wedding. - [Paul] The princess
made a fatal mistake. She fell in love
with her prince. In the very beginning,
she totally adored him. (dreamy music) - [Newscaster] And
so, Lady Diana in that truly stunning dress is
well and truly launched on her way to the cathedral. Of course, this is the moment
where she could exercise that traditional bride's
prerogative for being late, but somehow I don't
think she will. - [Paul] I saw
correspondence between them. I saw correspondence from
the princess to the queen, which said how happy she was
and how she loved to be a wife and how much she would support
Charles in his future career. They were her views,
but times changed. In the beginning, she was
a shy, naive, quiet girl who knew nothing
about the world. She was thrown in at the
deep end and told to swim. (whimsical music) - Well, I think now when
we reflect on it and after we've seen interviews that
Diana gave subsequently, we know that she was extremely
ill-prepared for married life into the Royal
family, and she felt enormous pressure from day one. Even when they were
discussing the engagement and the wedding plans, I think the pressure started
to build on her. - [Reporter] Lady
Diana was back at the Pimlico kindergarten,
where she teaches this morning, but polite as ever,
she was saying nothing about her weekend with
Prince Charles at Sandringham to the assembled press corps. - The media scrutiny of
Lady Di, as she was then, I think played
foremost on her mind. She didn't know how
she needed to behave, and when she actually
entered married life, she found it a very
lonely experience. Charles was off enjoying
his country pursuits and she felt that she was
left rather in a world she didn't recognize,
a modern woman in quite an old school environment
of Buckingham Palace, essentially feeling
like a spare part. (cameras clicking) Well, Diana made it very clear
that she felt like a fish out of water, even before
her actual wedding. She said she spent those
nights before her wedding at Clarence House,
which was then the Queen mother's
residence, and the night before her wedding
was one of the most miserable of her life. She recalls how she felt
completely isolated. You know, the images of the
Princess trapped in the tower. I think she felt isolated,
and I don't think that the palace were prepared
for someone who perhaps didn't have that Royal
training to marry into the Royal family and to
become a future queen. She was the Princess of Wales. She became famous overnight
and she didn't really have the tools to equip her for
such immediate stardom. (morose music) - I think there was an
acceptance from Diana that she was going to be one of the world's
most photographed women, and she actually
grew in that role and became more
confident with the press. I think she found her
role as the world's most photographed
woman both suppressing, but kind of a revelation to her
in that she had this ability to perhaps manipulate the
media, have a bit of a laugh and joke with photographers
and reporters alike, and equally use this
global presence for good, and that's how she got
into her charitable work. (audience applauding) - Ladies and gentlemen, I
will not delay you long, but I would like to add a
few words about Turning Point from my own personal
observation. On the basis of
available statistics, there could be several people
here tonight who will reach a state of mental imbalance
in the next year or so. Those who feel most immune
may be the least secure, especially in this
chameleon world. A crisis might be triggered up
by the breakup of a marriage, the loss or change of
a job, or the trial of an accident or bereavement. Eating disorders, whether
it be anorexia or bulimia, show how an individual can turn
the nourishment of the body into a painful
attack on themselves. - The depression was
resolved as you say, but it was subsequently reported
that you suffered bulimia. Is that true? - Yes, I did. I had bulimia for
a number of years, and that's like a secret disease
you inflicted upon yourself because your self-esteem is
to low end and you don't think you are worthy or valuable. - Do you know, I think the princess's problems
stem from childhood. I think because she was
abandoned as a child, because her mother
ran away to Australia when Diana was young, I
think the princess felt as if she wasn't good enough. James Hewitt came
along at a time when the princess was first
looking for someone to love. - I have no comment. No comment, I'm afraid. - [Reporter] Will you be
prepared to make a comment to us later on in the day? - Nope, I have no comment. - He just happened to be there. He just happened to be a
dashing cavalry officer. He just happened to push
all the right buttons. I have to tell you he was there
after Prince Harry was born, not before Prince Harry was born because there's a great myth
in the world that people think that Harry is
James Hewitt's son. That's impossible. She didn't know James
Hewitt at that time. You have to look at
the chronological order of the way things happened. - Good. I'm getting off here. That's enough. - [Photographer] Thanks. - Thank you. - [Paul] So Harry was born. Prince Charles had told
her, I don't love you. I only married you
to have children. She then begins to look
for someone to love, and James Hewitt was there. I was the one she trusted. No one else knew of
this relationship, and I would ferry him
to and from High Grove, from Campbell railway
station in the back of my car and take him back to the train
station when they'd had tea or he'd spent the night, but
this was a real big secret. The other big secret I
was keeping was of course, Prince Charles was seeing
Camilla Parker Bowles. No one knew, the world
didn't know at that stage. - [Narrator] For the
first few years, it seemed this Royal honeymoon
would never end, but behind the scenes, it
was all very different. (ominous music) (cameras snapping) (somber music) - The princess's popularity
gave the Royal family a new lease of life. - Modernization is a very hard
word to use in the context of the Royal family, because
the Royal family is built on history and tradition
and protocol, and you know, Diana really broke the mold 'cause she did
things differently. - She enjoyed life. You know, she had, she
was a vibrant person. She was charming. She was the daughter of an Earl. She'd been married. Well, she was just 20 years
old when she got married and her life had been
very prescribed for her within the Royal family,
but nevertheless, she still asserted herself,
and after she got used to being a princess,
she became more and more her own person, and that's
what people loved about her. (effervescent music) - [Paul] In the early days,
Diana's light was small, but it began to shine brighter
and brighter and brighter, and it was a sort of "A
Star Is Born" situation. Prince Charles would say
to her, well I married you. I made you a princess. You weren't born Royal. This is a man who has
been born to be king. This is a man who has been
treated from the very beginning as a god, suddenly being
eclipsed by this woman. He wasn't very happy. - [Camilla T.] Well I think
Princess Diana, like the rest of the world, was caught up
in the fairy tale that was her own Royal relationship,
and I think very quickly the reality set in that she
didn't have much in common with Prince Charles,
and actually they were very different people with
very different interests and that's when the
cracks started appearing. - [Michael] It's a tremendous
change, for someone I may say of 19, to make all of a
sudden the transition. - It is, but I've had a small
run up to the last six months and next to Prince Charles
and I can't go wrong. He's there with me. - [Interviewer] Did you try
to be faithful and honorable to your wife when you took
on the vow of marriage? - Yes, absolutely. - [Interviewer] And you were. - [Charles] Yes, until it became
irretrievably broken down, us both having tried. - The Prince of Wales had just
been on TV to admit adultery with Camilla Parker Bowles
and the princess that evening was due to go out to the
Serpentine gallery to see her old friend, Lord Palumbo,
and open his new exhibition. I can't go. I'm not going. I'm not going. It'll be too humiliating. The whole world now
knows that Charles has been having an affair. He's admitted it. You are going, I said. I've got nothing to wear. Yes, you have got
something to wear. I went up to her wardrobe
room and picked out a Christina Stambolian
dress with a fishtail. This is what you're
gonna wear, I said. High heels and those jewels. Remember when you go
out there, I said, you stride, you
hold your head high. You smile. You engage, firm handshake. Say to yourself, I am
Diana, Princess of Wales, and I am here to stay. I am the mother of the
future king of England. Say it to yourself. Say it. - The announcement that
Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband are to divorce
has reignited speculation over the marriage of the
Prince and Princess of Wales. According to the Prince's
authorized biography, he and Mrs. Parker Bowles
have had three affairs over a period of
more than 20 years. Today's announcement led
one noted Royal watcher to speculate that any
move now by Prince Charles to divorce and marry
Mrs. Parker Bowles could imperil the monarchy. - [Reporter] The admission
made the front pages and prompted this question. - [Newscaster] Someone
other than Diana could be queen one day. - The Prince of Wales
has made it clear that he has no
intention of remarrying once his divorce comes through. In a statement, he was
attempting to quash speculation that he might marry
Camilla Parker Bowles, the woman he's admitted
having an affair with. This followed last night's
disclosure that the queen had written to the Prince
and Princess of Wales suggesting an early divorce. (harrowing music) - I think this morning's
papers are the beginning of a vox populi process, which
seems to me to be indicating that the British people
would very reluctantly accept Mrs. Parker Bowles
as a substitute for Diana as a future queen. (cameras snapping) - Today, Prince Charles
was keeping a long distance from the cameras as he left
Scotland after a weekend at Balmoral together
with his two sons. In the latest extract from
Jonathan Dimbleby's biography in today's "Sunday
Times," it's claimed that he's had three separate affairs
with Camilla Parker Bowles. She was today also
keeping a low profile, spending the weekend
with her husband at their home in Wiltshire. Three calls within three
weeks could all be captured on tape by radio hands. - I mean, as I've said
before, it is a deeply regrettable thing to
happen, but it does happen, and unfortunately, in
this case it has happened. I mean, it's the
last possible thing that I ever wanted to happen. I'm not a total idiot. I do, I'm not unaware
of all these problems, and as I was saying as before,
this business of predicting what everybody would
say, it's not something that I went into
marriage, you know, with the intention
of this happening. - Camilla Parker Bowles,
whose relationship with the Prince of Wales was
confirmed last year, is to divorce. Mrs. Parker Bowles and her
husband issued a statement this morning saying they'd
grown apart in recent years and had little of common
interest left in their lives. - You see, Camilla Parker
Bowles has been that ghost always there throughout
the princess's life. So Princess Diana didn't
stand a chance, really? She tried, but then she failed,
and after Harry was born, Prince Charles told her,
I never really loved you, and now I'm going
back to Camilla. The only secret Diana
ever kept from me was the Martin Bashir
interview for "Panorama." I'd known Martin
Bashir for a long time, and he was one of the
men that I used to bring into the palace under blanket, because he didn't want
to be seen by anyone. He was never a lover
of the princesses. He was just a work associate. He persuaded the princess
that she had to have a voice. She needed to tell her story, and what better a
vehicle than "Panorama." I was sent home on
a Sunday afternoon. Strange, I thought. Why would she be
sending me home? Go and spend some
time with your family. I'm doing nothing
this afternoon. Don't worry about me. The minute I'd left the palace,
in through the back door comes Martin Bashir
and this camera crew, and they set up the Prince
of Wales sitting room, which she used for
that interview. - At the age of 19, you always think you're
prepared for everything, and you think you have the
knowledge of what's coming ahead, but although I was daunted
at the prospect at the time I felt I had the support
of my husband to be. - I had no idea
that was being done. The next morning I came to work. I noticed all the
furniture had been moved. Why have you moved
the furniture? It's not in the same place. I had a dance class. I had to move the
furniture outta the way, just so that we could exercise. Strange, very strange. She avoided me for the next
two days, never spoke to me. How strange, I thought. She's hiding something, and
then she told me that she made a recording with Martin
Bashir for "Panorama." What have you said? Well, I just put the
record straight, she said. We didn't know what she'd
said until we saw it. - Well, there were three
of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. (Diana sniffling) - 31 million people
stopped in their tracks on that Monday night
and couldn't believe what they were seeing,
the Princess of Wales baring her heart on
national television. We couldn't take our
eyes away from it. We couldn't believe
what we were hearing. There are three
people in my marriage. My husband isn't
fit for the top job. I don't, I think it would
be bring him limitations. She was honest, open, and frank. Did you love James Hewitt? - Yes I did, yes. - [Martin] Were you unfaithful? - Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him,
but I was very let down. - It was all there. I couldn't believe it. It was too raw for most
people and an embarrassment for the Royal family. That was the final straw. That was the straw
that broke the back of the house of Windsor. From that moment on,
Diana was outcast. Her titles were stripped. She was no longer
prayed for in church. She was on her own. Life with Diana was 24/7. My wife said there are three
people in my marriage too, because Diana is always there. She used to say,
she's your baby? I said, yes, she's my baby. She needs me. She needs me to be there. My wife had two children. The princess had no one. Her children were away
at boarding school. She had no husband. Occasionally she had
a male companion, but they came and they went. I was responsible for that too. I was a go between. I was the one that went out
with my car, brought people back to Kensington Palace in
the backseat of my car, underneath a blanket, just to
give the princess some love. All she was ever looking
for was to be loved. She used to say to me, all I
ever want, Paul is to someone, a man to put their arms
around me and say, I love you. That's not too
much to ask, is it? And that's what she
was searching for. Her soulmate was Hasnat
Khan, the heart surgeon. - [Martin] Diana, when
she came to Pakistan, this was a country that she had
fond memories of, wasn't it? - Yes, I think she
enjoyed her time here. She really liked the days
she spent here, I think. - [Martin] And
meeting your family, that must have been a special
moment for her and for them. - Happy, I think it
definitely was for my family, and I think she enjoyed the
afternoon tea with them. I think that's a long time
ago now, 1996, I think. - [Paul] I remember the day
the princess met Hasnat Khan. She came back from the hospital,
having visited children on the ward, and she said, the most astonishing thing's
happened to me today. As we sat down, she told
me about this meeting. She said, I was going up in
the elevator and somebody put their foot into the
elevator door as it was closing, and he opened again
and there he was, this gorgeous man
was staring at me. Well, who wouldn't
stare at Princess Diana? Surrounded by a gaggle of
students, Hasnat was on his rounds around the hospital, and
there he was face to face with the princess for the
first time, and she said, I knew then, I knew I would
have a relationship with him. Our chemistry was so
strong that I knew. Of course, their
relationship was nearly two years in the making. Two years, no one
knew about him. Again, I was the go between. I would bring him
into the palace. I'd ask chef to
cook dinner for two. I'd wait dinner for two. I'd make sure they were
comfortable before I went home, and in the morning, I'd
take him back in the boot of my car to the hospital. So the police never saw him. The chefs never saw him. The maids never saw him,
and no one saw him, just me. - I don't know how
she'll find her husband, but I always imagine she'd
end up with someone older, very powerful, and
rich, perhaps a sort of Onassis-type figure that
really could look after her and whisk her away from
everything in the same way that Onassis did for
Jacqueline Kennedy. (helicopter whirring) (somber music) (crowd applauding) (audience applauding) - I hope you can find it in
your hearts to understand and to give me
the time and space that has been lacking
in recent years. (somber music) (kids cheering) - Hasnat Khan had been
the princess's companion for over two years. Nobody knew about Hasnat Khan. That was not played
out on the world stage, whereas after they'd broken
up, the princess was invited to the south of France
by the Mohamed Al-Fayed. She met Dodi Al-Fayed. (serene music) (waves lapping) Did you know that the romance
of the Princess and Dody Fayed was 30 days from
beginning to end? It only lasted 30 days. I spoke to her regularly
when she was away. Have you seen Hasnat? I said, yes, I went for a
drink with him last night. What does he think
about me being here in the south of France
with Dodi al-Fayed? Well, he's not too pleased. Has he seen the
pictures in the papers? Yes, he has because
you know his routine. You know every
morning he goes to the corner shop
and sees the press. You know that, and I know
that's what you're doing. You're manipulating the
world's media by having these pictures taken to
show Hasnat who you're with. It's sort of a, are you jealous? Do you mind? Do you care? Are you bothered? That's what Diana was
saying to Hasnat Khan through those pictures
in the world's media, and of course
Hasnat was bothered. - [Reporter] The marriage
problems of Charles and Diana have cast a shadow
over the Royal family. Now the queen has decided to
bring the whole issue to a head by advising them to divorce. Part of the Queen's concern
is the continuing effect on Prince Harry and Prince
William of their parents' marital troubles, which
were brought out so starkly and so publicly in the
princess's "Panorama" TV interview. It's understood Prince
Charles, seen here recently with his sons at Eton,
shares his mother's view that a divorce is now desirable. - There are no
constitutional implications for Prince Charles himself. He remains heir to the
throne and will in due course succeed under the
act of settlement. - There was a change of the
rules which govern how divorces were conducted last autumn,
and that change provided that you no longer
needed to name the person with whom the other spouse
had committed adultery. - [Newscaster] This
morning, Princess Diana was at her gym again. The photographers weren't happy. - [Photographer]
Very funny, mum. Woohoo. - [Newscaster] The legal
discussions are not likely to be straightforward. There do not appear to be any
arguments over the custody of Prince William
and Prince Harry, but Princess Diana
does seem determined to secure a good
financial settlement. - [Reporter] The Queen,
here attending today's Gulf War memorial service at
St. Paul's Cathedral in London, had been awaiting Diana's
decision since last December. Then she wrote to both
Prince Charles and Diana, advising them that it was
in their best interest to seek an early divorce. The queen took the unusual
step of intervening in what became a public manner. - [Correspondent] The
entrance to the princess's London home tonight. She's said to be inside
Kensington Palace, very sad and very pensive,
according to friends. - [Journalist] The press pack
is gathering at the gates of Kensington
Palace this evening, but the Princess of Wales
has turned camera shy ahead of tomorrow's
"Panorama" screening. - [Reporter] The prince now
faces some difficult choices. Should he seek a divorce? Should he marry
Mrs. Parker Bowles? - With regard to the
Princess of Wales, if there is a divorce,
then she will not be queen. - [Reporter] Lawyers
say the divorce issue could still go to court. - I think she's
playing a clever game. I think she is aware
absolutely of what she's doing. She's convinced she ought to
have an ambassadorial role. That is what the public
wants, and she's convinced that by doing this,
she's going to make sure her husband realizes that. - You've been very
open about all of this and what you've said. Do you now hope that this issue and expect this
issue to go away? Would, is that what you
hope will now happen? - Yeah. - [Newscaster] Do you
think Di was worth it? Well, is Di worth 17 million? - [Respondent] It is
still coming, finally? - [Correspondent] I mean,
would you pay your wife 17 million if you got divorced? - Oh, well probably if
I had it, I would, yeah. - I was surprised at that. I thought it was a very
peculiar way of doing it. On the face of it, it was rather
discourteous to the queen, but Princess Diana is very
good at manipulating the media and it may well be that
she did it like this to show that she could
do her own thing and also to give her a stronger
bargaining power over the title that she wanted to have,
and perhaps over the nature of the divorce
settlement, when it comes. - [Newscaster] Behind closed
gates at Kensington Palace, the princess was said
to be deeply upset at making and declaring the
decision to end the marriage. It could happen swiftly,
meaning a leap year divorce. So as the public read the
papers, the Royal lawyers set about reading
the small print. What has yet to be worked out are the complicated
details of a divorce. - She's got the house,
Kensington Palace, which Prince Charles has
always wanted to get back because he's stuck, poor
fellow, in St. James' Palace, and she has got the children, and obviously there's
nothing going to change. She's got the money from Charles
to keep up her lifestyle. - And so in those early days, she had so little
self-confidence. She didn't believe in herself,
and I think that love lost in those early days haunted
her through her life. (tender music) She was always
searching to be loved. She was always wanting
to embrace people. I remember when I got
married, she came and sat in my kitchen, hitched herself
up onto the draining board on the sink with her legs
dangling, looked at me and said, do you know this is
all I've ever wanted, a happy family life,
and that's the one thing that she could never have. So that love with Prince
Charles that she gave everything for disappeared,
and she turned around and there was no one there. The most beautiful
woman in the world had no one to hold her. She had no one to
kiss her good night. She had no one to say
how beautiful you look. (crowd cheering) - [Charles] Obviously it
would be nice if, you know, if it could be
over and done with. I mean, it has happened, That is that regrettably. (crowd cheering) (upbeat music) (cameras snapping)
