The Story Of Diana | MULTI LANGUAGE SUBTITLES|Princess Diana Documentary|Royal Family Documentary|4K

one of the reasons i want to talk now is because i  think after 20 years somebody shifts from being a   contemporary person to one of history  actually and diana deserves a place in history so of all the ironies about diana perhaps the  greatest was this a girl given the name of   the ancient goddess of hunting was in the end  the most hunted person in the modern world this shot's worth a lot of money the  detectives could be watching definitely just come out again there's  movement down there it wasn't her oh she's worthless no she hasn't   it's just because we're looking at her  just from how small we would be from there that is fairly disgusting stuff they weren't  really paparazzi i called them at the time   stalker artsy the cops are working out how they  can get her out without us taking a picture you   know all the media that hounded diana was feeding  an insatiable beast and that was the public   it's kind of amazing to look back in the 80s  and the 90s because now we're so accustomed to   this 24-hour news cycle the tmz and the instagrams  and the social medias and the kardashians and   everybody's famous but back then there was none  of that it was all about princess diana the public   always feels a real connection with celebrities  and public figures who they watch grow and evolve and we certainly watch diana grow from this very   shy young woman who was marrying the prince  to being this global powerhouse superstar we watched an incredible  evolution over those 17 years   there's of course truly tragic that she's not here well i i do regret not i  mean i wish i could have done   more to protect her this is  the person i grew up with well we're pretty basic really we were sheep  farmers long time ago who struck it lucky so the spencers are not royalty  they're an aristocratic family   spencer's had all these wonderful  relations like george washington   winston churchill the great prime minister he was  a spencer they were very very important family my family were quite outward thinking   one of my ancestors was against slavery  before his time other members of my family   were pro-american independents when  that was thought to be treacherous   ladies of the spencer family have been  very charitable and glamorous and in   many ways diana is the sort of the coming  together of so many strands of this family spencer's rubbed shoulders with the royal family diana was not a commoner she was actually born   on the sandringham estate where the spencers  rented the house from the royal family my earliest memories of her she always had a  natural star quality she could strike a pose and   enclose she had borrowed from my elder sister when diana's little girl she starts to  realize how people fall in love with her she was one of those children that goes  into the room and everyone is charmed by her you'll be wrong to think of diana as a  saintly child i mean she was quite naughty   never with malice you know just  sort of pushing the boundaries   well my mother and dad are actually quite alike   they were both glamorous very quick-witted  and great fun she inherited from my father   this very great gift for understanding  people and caring about things that mattered every time i think of her i think of this  little girl you know back then she always   tried to do the right thing and i think  after my mother left she used to help   around the house you know she'd check  the curtains were closed at night and   she took on a sort of semi maternal  role around the household i think divorce has been part of the  american culture for a very long time   the english had a way of just burying their head  in his hands but marriage didn't work you just   quietly got on with it at some social occasions  such as horse racing at royal ascot where   the queen was present if you're a divorcee  you weren't allowed in the royal enclosure   so an actual divorce was a very  big deal and of course there was a   scandal attached because my mother  actually run off for someone else   it was the subject of an extraordinary court case   and people used to talk about her mother as a  belter and be you know really disapproving of her i remember being told she'd gone away on holiday so maybe there was an  expectation she might come back   nobody really told diana why her mother had left  she was six years old what what could she what   could she possibly have comprehended she used to  sit on the doorstep and wait for her to come back   i think there was a period  where she felt very isolated   and it was tough for her which is a  terribly sad thought but she'd never healed this is one of the saddest things about diana  because her two older sisters were away in   boarding school and diana's father sunk into a  fairly deep depression she had a series of nannies   but none of them gave her what she really needed  she lacked a consistent source of support and love it was really the two of us growing up together  alone dancing was something she'd always adored she was a natural performer   she took her exams at boarding school  and then there's pictures of her on point   she got rather away with it she was sadly too tall to be a conventional ballet  dancer she then turned her talents to tap dancing   the hall here with this black and white  marble was the perfect sound and i remember   her just for hour after hour doing her tap  i think it was a release and it was doing   something that was totally different it was  an escape she loved all the trappings of   ballet as well the romance the prince the the  beauty of it she really loved the fairy tales   diana did have a great sense of romance  but unfortunately one of her favorite   authors was barbara kartland whose stories  are not really anything to do with real life   a woman should be elusive she should be a nymphs  flying away from massata but at least you should   make some pretense of not being ready to  fall into his arms like an overripe peach   she had a kind of fantasy view of  what it was like to be a princess   shaped by her step-grandmother barbara  cartland you know the virgin bride hans hundred   future king future queen they might have  given diana the wrong idea about real life diana had in mind all the time that she was  destined for big things almost like a fairy tale but she was going to nab a prince   on the screen on the newspapers i don't think  anyone can understand unless you were there   what it was like to have this  woman explode in our faces on an informal visit to india charles  was accompanied by his uncle lord louis   mountbatten of burma as india's last viceroy lord  louis had presided over the transfer of power   prince charles could not have had a better guide lord louis mountbatten known to everybody  as dickie was a heroic figure for charles   he had been a decorated naval officer  during world war ii the head of defense prince charles very much took to baton as  a father figure who he could learn from mountbatten says to me you know prince charles  has a perfectly normal sex life you know   and i thought where's this coming from  he said you see i've been helping him   the advice that dickey mountbatten gave him  have as many affairs as possible he should   sew his wild oats and then he should find a sweet  character girl to put on a pedestal and marry her i guess everybody knew that prince charles was  gonna take a spouse of some kind it was like   a high-end version of the bachelor he's seen  here he's seen there who will it wind up being girls would scream and they'd go crazy he was  regarded as so dashing so handsome he was very   much action man he loved to do masses of rather  daring things pushed himself to all the limits in my early days of photographing prince  charles at the polo grounds at windsor it   was an eligible young prince it was a  succession of different girls arriving oh a lot of blondes on arm had  a lot of sailing the asian way   he was tan and he'd love to  walk around with his shirt off and he always had levies of ladies following him   the papers unveiled a cavalcade of girlfriends  davina sheffield who sued across airport tarmacs   had already discovered just how irksome it can be  so had lady jane wellesley pretty intolerable yeah   it's not easy for a girl to  take all of that on board   they broke into my house they left notes  followed me everywhere definitely a deterrent i mean what they wrote was brutal  you're sort of fed to the lands camilla was to him just a safe haven someone he  could talk to they met in the summer of 1972.   she loved the countryside hunting and shooting  and riding all the things that he enjoyed   camilla knew exactly how to get to charles's heart   which was to flatter him to tell him  how brilliant he was to stroke him and i think that's one of the reasons  why he found her so irresistible for an heir to the throne he was supposed to  marry somebody who at least appeared virginal   so for camilla going to bed with charles  and having i think a genuine strong love   affair with him mentally with the heart as  well as physically she had ruled herself out you know those who have  been bedded cannot be wedded most of the young women he  knew were not in fact virgins so in effect he had to rob the cradle he had  to reach down to somebody who was 19 years old   charles and darla had always been aware of each  other because the families were so intertwined   but they met properly when he was dating her older  sister he met sarah spencer in 1977. in the course   of their romance was the first time that diana  actually met him she was a 16 year old school   girl and you know she was kind of bedazzled by him  and even got a little competitive with her sister when the relationship with the older sister  fizzled out charles began to think more seriously   about diana she was beautiful she was aristocratic  she was charming she was sweet she was kind   it was the ideal wife this is exactly the sort of  girl that uncle dicky recommended charles right   from the beginning was aware of the problems of  getting involved with a much younger woman with   different tastes he wanted to be married by 30 and  he passed that deadline family putting pressure   on him felt that he had no choice and he had in  his head that he was going to learn to love diana it's really hard to believe the turmoil  britain was in in the very early 80s   people throwing cabbages at each other across  the tops anarchy in the uk god save the queen strikes was so bad rubbish wasn't taken out of the  streets there was electricity blackouts all the time look at the images of queen  elizabeth with things over her mouth they were done there was a huge disdain for the royal family   a growing part of the population  they thought why are we supporting   these spoiled aristocrats when we can't put food  on our table no future the sex pistols would say and now all of a sudden here comes the future diana was a disruptor   she came at a time when the royal family  was seen as being stuffy and old-fashioned she was new no one knew anything about her before she was the right way to start a fairy tale my job goodness by the editor at the time was  to find out who prince charles was going to   marry my contact said he's with  a girl called lady diana spencer   she worked at a nursery and i went round to about  four or five different nurseries i said this   lady diana spencer work here they said yes she  does i said but she'd come out for a photograph   there's the famous picture of her standing in  london square holding children at a nursery school   with a rather transparent skirt on she  posed up and halfway through uh taking   the photographs the sun came out you could  see the outline of her legs through the skirt   oh gosh she's got good legs this was the page  one picture then the headline was charlie's girl   she was horrified beauty needs no resume diana  was many many other things aside from beautiful   but she was beautiful and that is the  corn of the realm our tabloids in the uk   are considered among the worst in the world  they suddenly had this new stock character   every time we put her on the front page  negative story positive story picture   princess diana would add sales there was so  much demand for these stories on a daily basis   you could make hundreds of thousands of pounds  with one picture because not only would you sell   it here you could sell it around the world when i  press this button a new era in photography begins   polaroid introduces sonar automatic focusing  when autofocus cameras came anybody even a   monkey could point a long lens at someone and  get a pretty reasonably good quality picture   try john me sure the ee1 is so simple you  can really concentrate on your subject   a new reader photographer came in they didn't  really have much respect for a profession   or really most of the time for who they  were photographing lady giant it'd be you   know hundreds of photographers all trying  to get pictures of diana outside her flats although she didn't invent the paparazzi she  gave them a shot in the arm she was like pure   heroine for the price she seemed to know  instinctively what the perfect shot was   diana while pretending to ignore  the media when she came out   that obviously spent hours indoors beforehand  getting ready so she looked her best she would flirt with the camera sometimes she'd  chat to photographers like arthur edwards and then   once i was wearing his hat she'd say to me you  know you're wearing that hat for a bet you know   she needed to try and get a  feel for what might come next   are you only coming to me about that okay  there's all around a good weekend though   you know for all of us that had been covering  the royal bee it was obviously this was the girl   and then we went off to india with prince  charles and i remember we said to him   you know i really like lady  dynasty you know she's a lovely   and then he said something quite profound he  said you can live with a girl for two years and   then get married if you want he said i can't do  that he said i've got to get it right first time   or you'll be the first to criticize  me and they were prophetic words dino in charles's courtship was quite formal   she still called him sir they were only  together a dozen times before he proposed and very few of those were private moments it was quite hard for diana to  properly get to know him and   indeed for them probably to get to know each other   after spending most of the day at buckingham  palace lady diana went tonight to clarence huts   prince charles arrived soon after day to diana  after the briefest of drives along the map the day down about engaged i haven't  told anyone because i didn't think it was   that interesting to anyone and um i remember  going into a lesson and the master got a message   and he went your sisters just got  engaged to prince charles and i went   yes you know why haven't you shared  it with us it hadn't crossed my mind he's 32 she's 19. he's a prince she's not  a princess yet he likes horses she doesn't   he's prince charles she's lady diana spencer  they are engaged they will be married you   know the engagement has just been enough no he  didn't prince charles is engaged now to lady   diana spencer oh thank goodness i think it's  marvelous really too i've been waiting for it diana was certainly in love with charles and  i think that at times he was in love with her who said he was   and i i'm amazed that she's been brave enough  to take me on and i suppose in love of course that's not very encouraging is it in charles's world marriage was about a lot  of things but it wasn't really about true love   within the royal family marriages  were pretty much arranged and that's how he saw his bride   when the engagement was announced that was it   the entire press pack of the world descended on  london although it was the prince who inspected   the shore establishment it was once again lady  diana who was the center of public attention   diana was now public property this girl who just being a nursery school teacher  this lived his very easy innocent life was   suddenly swept up into this massive media frenzy  diner's engaged with being sold out dying a suit   sold out we learned just how popular lady diana's  hairstyle really is and just how easy it is today   for every woman to look like a princess when i  was at boarding school she came to take me out   and it was rather bizarre because she appeared  in her mini metro being pursued by the press they're about a dozen cars and motorbikes etc and i just thought this is really  odd and really unpleasant actually do you think that lady diana yet fully realizes  how tough life will be in the full public gaze   well i'm sure she does i mean we've just  seen it haven't we i didn't think there   could have been a future consort  who's been through anything like it   it's not much fun watching polo when you're  being surrounded by people with very long lenses   and i think all this adds up to a certain amount  of strain each time so she's been through in a   way the worst that can be thrown at us here from  now on oh i think it's going to be much easier   obviously living in karen's house with bodyguards  will make life much easier i think too we can   just see a change in the attitude of the press  all this telephoto lens business will will stop it was the fairytale wedding of the age  no one knew what was about to happen it's seven o'clock on tuesday the 28th of july   along the wedding procession route  from buckingham palace to some pools   the sightseers who've been camping out all  night are waking up to a bright summer morning   such a unique occasion and it'll never happen  again there's only one monaco and we're going   to look at the next kingdom coin haven't you  and there are about 30 campers here outside   buckingham palace waiting for lady diana to come  out in that most secret wedding dress tomorrow   diana's wedding dress was one of those most  speculated things uh in the media at the time   the first meeting it was brilliant  actually she was unexpected because   uh when she'd phoned up to make an  appointment i got her name wrong   david and elizabeth emanuel never  made a royal wedding dress before   how did they feel when they first heard over the  moon very thrilled we'd only been out of college   for one year she could have gone to far more  experienced designers but we did have a vision we wanted it to be dramatic something people  would remember we wanted people weeping you know   crying how beautiful this is this is the  ultimate fairy tale princess wedding dress only when she came into our studio we  realized quite how young she was she was 19   she sort of still had a bit of puppy fat there  was already lots of not just press but people   just waiting they would wait there for hours  days to see if she would come in for fitting we had to hide things from the press leave  false trails because they would go through our   bins every night put blinds up on all our windows  even when we ordered the fabric we ordered ivory   and white so they could never be completely  sure of what color the dress was going to be   most brides do lose weight  she lost a lot of weight   dressmakers kept having to take it in and then and  then she went from 26 27 inch to a 23 inch waist   her face had slimmed down she looked like a model   she just walked more confidently she just  was suddenly growing up turning into a woman the wedding will have an audience of more  than 500 million people that's a sixth of   the world population the three american networks  devoting more time to it than almost anything else   in living memory the abc network has brought in  hundreds of extra staff dozens of extra cameras   and a whole new control room quite simply it's  going to be the biggest television event ever   this is the time to say this is what  britain is we're coming together   it's unity this is our royal family   and what an extraordinary moment what you will  see now is the story of two very real young people   beginning their life together in front of the eyes  and ears of the world they're the world's monarchy   i can walk down the street and no  one's gonna know who's the king of   spain or who's the king of denmark  everyone knows the queen of england there is something about the royals  that touches americans in an incredibly   visceral way it touches americans just  like it touches people all over the world it was one of the scenes you  remember for the rest of your life i got up in the middle of the night with my  brother and we watched it from beginning to end   you were glued to the television  and this is measurement as we wait   and we'll see that wedding dress which  has been kept such a wonderful secret there we are lady diana has broken with several  traditions today in her ceremony she will not   say that she promises to obey she will love and  cherish in the last royal wedding the wedding of   princess anne she did promise to obey and so did  queen elizabeth but these are different towns   you can tell that she has arrived i went to see  diana the day of her wedding and she was looking   incredibly beautiful in this dress which of  course i'd never seen before i i know i was   so proud of her the whole day i was really proud  of the the whole way it went and the fact that   she'd been so dignified throughout it two of her  bridesmaids waiting on the steps of some calls   and here are first glorious view of the bride outstepped this vision in the dress that was  just like a fairy tale this is magnificent i   have never seen a train like this all those yards  taffeta yards the answers i thought was never   going to end when she got out of the carriage  tafta does crumple as the nature of the fabric   we noticed that the dress had got very  creased more than we'd anticipated   i started doing the bottom  of the dress and the hem it was quite a hairy moment creases or not i  think that's my favorite bit of the entire wedding   because for me it's always been about a butterfly  emerging from a chrysalis and that is her story she was emerging into a new  world a new life's adventure turning into a beautiful princess i think the thing i remember was the enormity of  simples cathedral and that huge aisle stretching   before her that was a three and a half minute walk  down that aisle and inside the cathedral there   were 3 000 guests who'd been invited the concern  was one she'd expressed to me before which was   how was her father going to cope walking  up the aisle because he wasn't well   he'd had a very bad stroke a few years before  and the royal family had sent a message that   i would have to lead her up the aisle because  he wouldn't be able to do it but he was very   stubborn and courageous and he managed  to do his task and he was very proud of that people bought in people bought in a hundred  percent it was the fairytale wedding of the age   no one knew what was about   diana charles camilla the fates of  those three people would be intertwined   but on that day the world was watching  diana say her vows to her place i pronounce   that they be man and wife together in the name of  the father and of the son and of the holy ghost army harnesses the prince and princess   750 million people watched this  wedding take place around the world   it looked as though they were really in  love and that's what we wanted to see that is your classic  quintessential cinderella moment   and just thinking how much her life has  been transformed how much it would change like we know how to run a sports event in  america they knew how to do a royal weather   and you could see it in the crowds you could see  it in the pageantry it was just a joyous moment the window is open on this  famous world outworld outcome   and what an extraordinary moment for the  new princess of wales to look out of this   sea of human beings ah that's what everybody's been waiting for the honeymoon couple on  their way out into the mouth   the princess of wales her lifestyle changes  totally i think really anyone with a sense of   human nature who cared to think about it could  have seen many many issues going on that day yes quarter under the command of lieutenant  colonel andrew parker bold charles lady diana   stayed with him and his wife camilla and wiltshire  on two occasions at the end of the year i watched   it on the television and i just remember looking  across and everyone sitting there and i just said   sadly i just don't think this will survive  i think she's just too young to take it all   she was a very young woman she  was not prepared for what leia had the gates close upon them may they  carry the memories of this remarkable   day with them for the rest of their  lives to cheer them into the unknown the particular moment i remember  when they looked very very romantic   he was sort of completely smitten by her was when they were walking  in the heather by the river   the photo called at balmoral on the honeymoon and it was they just looked so sort  of in love and he was gazing at how   he kept picking up a handy kissy just like  a sort of prince charming wood and she kept   putting her head on his shoulder  and it was all very very romantic madam how are you enjoying  married life highly recommend how do you guys look for moral as a place she seemed to be having a great time but in  fact she couldn't stand being at belmoral   she felt oppressed and hemmed in she began to  obsess about camilla on the honeymoon yacht   charles was wearing cufflinks that camilla gave me  diana knew perfectly well they came from camilla   it's a strange thing to do on your  honeymoon to wear your ex-girlfriend's gifts   i know i think if a bit of fisticuffs might  come in there if you might have done it she said she saw a picture of  camilla slip out of his diary   and all she did was worry about her and whether  charles was really telling her the truth   camilla is the wicked stepmother in the  diana story right from the beginning   and i actually feel quite sorry for camilla  because sh just as diana was caught by   antiquated values so camilla was also trapped charles meets diana but right from the beginning  there's the shadow of camilla there all the time it's a very sad photograph of camilla and  diana side by side at ludlow racecourse   they were there because of prince charles  in some way and you look at that picture   and you think what is going through  the minds of those two women   camilla already charles's mistress and the  girl beside her who's going to discover   when you see that i certainly feel  pity for diana because she was getting   involved in a big game that she didn't  know half the details of at that stage diana had no idea what she was stepping into   part of the royal duty was traveling the  world diana was new to this and nervous the first whale's trip of course was very  soon after they came back from the honeymoon   it was the first time she was  on a trip out with the public well we'd had royal walk-outs before the queen  was pretty good at doing them in new zealand she   mingled with her subjects enjoying times like this  probably more than the great occasions of state   when she doesn't walk about it's sort of staying  back from the crowd so she'll walk over to the   crowd but she'll there'll be a gap she won't  go right up to the barrier and reach in she'll   stand back and she'll extend her arm out and take  some flowers but you won't see her putting her   arm in and touching people or giving a child a  hug it would be very i'm here and you're there with diana it was completely different if there  was a small child with some flowers the iron would   go down low to the child's level you wouldn't  see that with the other members of royal family it hadn't happened like this before she was  so tactile she would go to a hospice and she'd   sit on the edge of the bed and she'd talk to the  lady or the man in the bed as though she'd known   him all her life no one ever did that they would  all stand there a little bit away and knock him   smile and then walk out the room but knock  down she would get involved she would take part the tour of wales the amount of people that were  there just taking photographs is enormous never seen anything like it i used to say behave you can  take your photographs but behave a british newspaper the observer  says the next royal heir will be   a boy princess diana has learned  through routine medical scans   the child could be second in  line of succession to the throne   everyone was writing all these quite personal  details is she going to have a natural birth   is she going to do this is she going to do that  can you imagine having your pregnancy scrutinized   it must be quite embarrassing and uncomfortable  to have all that played out in the media and so   publicly the competition is fierce we went for it  we we wanted to get exclusive it just was how you   worked they had unlimited expenses they would  travel anywhere and they were encouraged to be intrusive they followed princess diana when  she was pregnant to an island in the caribbean those journalists they get up these poorly  middle-aged men crawl through the undergrowth   for hours with the sweat and the mosquitoes  and everything as if they were on some sort   of military exercise which in a way they were  with their long lenses and everything and there   they they catch pictures of diana pregnant it's  got the pictures there was a massive row about it   bahama mama shocking taking sneak pictures of  a woman who's pregnant is a nasty thing to do a   photograph of the future queen of england pregnant  in a bikini taken from hiding by photographer   arthur edwards of the sun they were sensational  pictures but they were paparazzi pictures not   good lovely pictures are you ashamed of  taking the pictures of the pregnancy no   i don't dare for a shout out to i mean it was an  assignment i was saying have to do it and i did it   they know that if we aren't there  someone else would have to do the job   i remember landing at heathrow and  turned on the radio and there was   members of parliament asking questions in  the house of commons here about intrusion   there was the press secretary to the queen  being very condemnatory on the on the radio   and i was pretty low about it and i got to the  office and the office driver i met spent on the   floor and made me feel terrible and but the editor  was delighted the editor was kelvin mckenzie he   actually welcomed arthur putting his arms around  them and he was determined that it would go on   the front page he publishes the first picture of  bahama mama and gets a push back from buckingham   palace and then there's essentially a few the  next day where he says no we're gonna do it again the photographers had never covered  the royal family like this before   all of the old rules had gone out  the window and there was a new game   those two coming together on that  floor in that building wow right wow in england it's a boy seven pounds one ounce  no name yet but that country is jumping children were confined to nurseries looked after  by nannies donna didn't want that for her children   taking william onto her no child had  never been taken on a roll tour before   diana sort of insisted on that i remember  going to australia the whole of the business   class section was sold out with journalists and  photographers and tv crews going out to cover it   charles would write letters to his friends  saying how much fun they were having with william those were tender moments of togetherness  everybody was saying good luck and i hope   everything goes well and how lucky you are to  be engaged is such a lovely lady and my goodness   i was lucky enough to marry her  and we had many many mysteries   it's amazing what ladies  do when you're back in town on their australian tour the prince and  princess of wales have been swamped by   exuberant crowds by spectators surged  across security barriers to see them the princess of wales was again the centre of  attention as she has been throughout the tour   so far i remember once in sydney we were walking  doing a walkabout he'd be one side of the road   she'd be the other side of the road and there'd  be 20 photographers doing diana and there'd   be no one doing charles and the press officer  screaming us would someone please cover the prince   can you imagine they're screaming for your husband  to get out of the way so they can photograph you   your husband the future king of england i haven't  yet worked out a method of splitting my wife   this little boy come up through the pretty  wells i said charlie where's diana and he   turned around and he said she's not coming  today son you better ask for your money back   people who met diana fell in love with diana first of all she was stunning but she was demure  she had a style of her own that i'd never seen on   anybody else and you know she would like glint  you know sort of mischievously but if you said   something outright she blushed like anything  she'd go oh and then this blush would come in   which was so endearing she was like a silent film  star everything was expressed through those huge   blue eyes she cut this perfect image that everyone  could project some part of themselves onto with   diana when she walked into a room it was like a  magnet you couldn't stop looking at her and she   just she was on the next level from celebrity  when you saw her there's just such a presence gonna grow up in mary rich man and be a princess  is this like seeing the woman who got it all i don't think anybody has it all i think to a  certain extent she's a bird in a gilded cage it's a penalty of the job did  you find it difficult to adapt the press it grew into this monster people were  wanting to see every intimate private moment it's   an endless life of having to be on best behavior  watching what you say being politically correct on top of that trying to have a marriage trying  to raise children i mean the pressures must be   huge painful every day to  think that every move you make   is being watched and commented and criticized  by the world my god who would choose that a little press have waited to congratulate  the princess diana who has issued vote   with a second child it is a boy it's a boy  royal birth was a national cause for celebration when harry was born everybody in polo circles  was talking about the way in which prince charles   had rather casually gone to  the hospital to see the baby at the entrance to kensington palace the  prince and princess and their baby arrived   from the hospital at speed less than an  hour later prince charles left to play   polo something most new fathers  would hardly dare to suggest the story that was told was that he came out  furious um and early complaining that the baby   had ginger hair charles said he looks like a  spencer and of course in a way harry does look   like a spencer how do you think he feels about  his wife today he certainly loves her i don't   think he's in love with her i don't think it's  the great love match uh to begin with it was a   marriage of convenience they're much much happier  now because she's come to grips with the job   i still don't think he's in love with her but he  respects her and she is the only woman in his life   well i don't think it was a tremendous lot of  fun for diana actually i don't think she saw   very much of prince charles and that wasn't  there for her fairy tale was a bit wobbly there was a lot of separation she'd be  in london often he was down at highgrove   it's hard for people to imagine who know  her public persona of confidence all those   things that people saw in public to realize that  when she was in private she was often in pieces   she also imagined that every time  he was gone he was with camilla   sometimes that was maybe true and sometimes  not but she believed that her husband was   always off with another woman  and it was devastating to her there was a lot of turmoil sunday nights  when charles and diana would have a big fight   she would bolt the house   tears streaming down her face and she would be  taking william and harry back into london with her prince charles doesn't like the  fact that she's a superstar and he isn't   what has happened is there's been a transformation  she's become the person that everyone wants to   know everyone wants to meet he has taken  a back seat and it's not enjoyable for him part of the story of diana is a real person with  real emotions and feelings and those emotions and   feelings often being inconvenient or challenging  which is kind of what happens in a couple   but you have a man prince charles who  is not used to the inconvenient emotion   he is used to concealing his emotions  emotions just get him into trouble   she wasn't stiff upper lippy at  all and that was the royal wedding   that wasn't diana she was adored by the public   and incredibly famous and yes at home incredibly  lonely and felt unloved by her husband the way she expressed that loneliness  was through binging and deprivation   she spoke about not being comfortable in  her own shell about doubting who she was   she would go into the kitchen and eat pints  of ice cream and then she would be sick i knew about that syndrome because of being in the  royal ballet amongst dancers and that syndrome a   lot of the time would come in because they didn't  feel they were going to live up to their parents   and expectations of being a great dancer or they  didn't fit and they weren't going to get into a   company so then they would persecute themselves  with diana i think it was a try for help   i remember diana at a fashion show   she looked painfully thin you could feel the  disintegration you could feel the unhappiness   i saw the bulimia as a manifestation  of unhappiness not as an illness per se   so if the unhappiness or the cause could get  solved then maybe it would back off she wouldn't   need it anymore i think as she gathered steam  in her own right and suddenly started to see   what she could achieve and the role became  more defined their life became more defined   the stories were abound that charles  and camilla were back together   diana decided that she was going  to confront camilla and she did in history royal people went around planting  commemorative trees or launching ships or things   like that but the princess has taken up the cause  of the death of handicapped children and that   perhaps is something new to many people that royal  people should concern themselves in this way dinah   did become very gripped very quickly by her causes  she always said to me that she thought of herself   as an outsider that these people were also  outsiders and she had a bond with them the idea that diana was an outsider is   for me quite hard to reconcile because she was  everything that is the establishment in some ways   but emotionally she felt that she was an  outsider and that's what attracted her   to a range of organizations where  people were on the wrong side as it were she resonated with suffering   she herself had scar tissue and traumas growing  up she was introverted and lonely had insecurities   and so the accumulation of this even after  marrying the prince and becoming princess diana all of that was combining into something quite  powerful which was this very raw high emotional   intelligence social intelligence i  would call it trauma intelligence how much do you sell themselves three  pounds ten that one's good is it all it's like i can eat a dishcloth ready  because it's square oh you can't go wrong   no [ __ ] i'd love to see and how you feeling   i'm learning how they cope and how they  deal with the outside world who don't   always want to know about them  perhaps as diana grew into her role   she became patron of more and more charities  things like addiction homelessness hiv of course we're going to go on now with aids  because apparently a lot of health   professionals are now worried about  their own chance of getting aids one   in four would refuse to treat  aids patients if given a choice we forget because hiv is now a treatable disease  that in those days it was a death sentence okay i   have lost a dozen friends already in the last year  and a half two years i think in terms of the gay   community anybody who's got any brains is nervous  and scared she had friends who were gay who had   either been infected by the virus or who somebody  special to them had been and this opened her   eyes to the reality of it all i think she just  decided that she was gonna do her bit for this her visit to the middlesex hospital and its  aids ward all the speculation had centered   on whether she would wear gloves when  shaking hands with the staff and patients   hiv does not make people dangerous to know so  you can shake their hands and give them a hug   heaven knows they need it she shook hands with all  the nurses doctors and all 10 patients on the ward   she clearly wasn't wearing gloves it got on the  front page of every newspaper in england it got   in the glossy section of every magazine in europe  it changed the conversation it did move the needle   because she was leveraging her celebrity  on behalf of something that she cared about   they sent an enormous message they see that  image of what the most famous woman in the world   doing that it was extraordinary and i  think she knew exactly what she was doing   it was an incredibly powerful act  she was not really a gloves person   she was very about human contact and what  really mattered and what really mattered   that day was to get across a very clear message  that you know i'm going to touch this gentleman   and you you can all exist in a community with  people who are suffering and we must help them nothing in her life came close  to the love of her children   diana always wanted to have a family that was  always her thing she was the best mother ever   her really really important time in  the time she enjoyed most in her life   was with william and harry she was so  incredibly happy when she was with her boys   you must remember that hanging over diana always  was her own upbringing she wanted as many children   do who have difficult family backgrounds she  wanted her children's experience to be different i think she thought that charles had had rather  a lonely upbringing he'd been away to boarding   school it hadn't been a happy experience for him  he'd had a rather distant relationship with his   father and diana didn't want that for her children  prince charles very traditional and he probably   introduced his sons to the opera and  to find paintings and great music   but diana introduced him to mcdonald's going to  the cinema going to the fun fair going to disney world diana was a different kind of mother than  we've seen ever in the royal family hands-on   joyful playful and it's not so stuffy  and hemmed in diana insisted that they   do things for instance visit the homeless  that would prepare them for their role ahead   she felt it was very important that if this was  the country that they were going to take over   that they should see the reality of the extremes  and living in a palace it was just one end   diana wanted to give her children love but  people go on and all about oh how she wants   to give him a normal life well that was a  sort of byproduct of love she was keen to   give them an inborn happiness  and a strength moving forward i have a look through that oh look see for the young prince william it was an  early introduction to life in the spotlight yes yes finding that line between incredible  fame and keeping your own privacy   that's a very very difficult thing  especially when it comes to children the boys were going to become  a focal point of the media   because the eldest boy was gonna  become the freaking king of england   there was just no way for her  to control it once it started she certainly hated that the media  caused her children to stress   or in any way got in the way of her mother   i remember she was furious when she'd just taken  harry to school it was very small four or five   here he is arriving at a school nativity  play smile for the cameras harry lovely the english papers had taken pictures  of him sticking his tongue out and said   what a cheeky boy was but the photographers  had been sticking their tongue out at harry   and what four or five-year-old boy doesn't stick  his tongue out back before adults doing that to   them and it was this sheer dishonesty of it that  they were trying to say he was this impossibly   rude little kid whereas they had actually provoked  it on purpose diana felt furious about that for the children it was really  horrible you know that's probably where   was the most heartbreaking for her i think  you did always see diana very carefully try   and guard against the crying eyes of any  kind of press when it came to her children i'll never forget earn a ski slope with her kids with your friend the photographers that were trying to get  those you know offbeat pictures would go   to great lengths because you don't care about  her emotions do you it's okay all you'll care   about is the picture you're taking you're not  thinking about is this making her upset is this   upsetting the children you're just taking the  pictures because you want to get a good picture   because you want to sell it for a lot of money  that's a nice one strong picture wouldn't it she would say to me trolls  have been chasing them and   that really upset her she'd had enough  of the invasion with the children if one of those guys gets a picture  that somebody else doesn't get 500 000   you don't need to be like from a magazine  you don't need to be on assignment   you don't need to have the best camera you are a millionaire and so they're all  out there we'll just never stop looking   we'll never stop taking pictures and we'll get it   she'd been putting up with scrutiny for a long  period now diana was older and wiser and she   got more confident that took some  guts donna was always incredibly brave when we stayed up with my mother in scotland   we used to go out lobster potting you know  put love spots down and try and catch lobsters   i remember once we pulled one up and there  was a massive eel in it of a really massive   conga reel and it had teeth very very  long and it was flapping around the boat   horrible you know this thing  thrashing around was really   a creature from the deep and diana just  got a pen knife out and just dealt with it you know it was hand to hand and she just got  stuck in that was a strong girl who was brave   she was not a a pushover never  ever goodness a ridiculous concept what about this relationship with  charles i mean are they okay again   there's a married lady whose husband is a  brigadier called camilla parker-bowles who's been   friendly with charles for 20 years  he spends a lot of time with her   but i'm sure it's all a matter of the  meeting of minds rather than bodies the stories were abound that charles and camilla  were back together and i was asked to go and do   a private party photographs and was told  that there'd be some special guests there   and the special guests were charles and camilla   this is the biggest story and i'm taking pictures  of and dancing and i can't tell anyone and i can't   issue them it was like being given the biggest box  of chocolates in the world and you can't have one i think he married a girl who he thought  would be very compliant very easy to control until princess diana came along  for the past century and a half   when royal couples were unhappy with each other  they just stuck it out that was the way it was   you led separate lives you saw each  other on public occasions but that was it   princess diana amazingly decided that that  wasn't it for her that she simply couldn't   live a lie camilla and her sister annabelle  were having a big party diane and charles were   invited on that evening diana decided  that she was going to confront camilla and she did i don't think you can measure what a seismic  shift that was in the nature of the monarchy you've referred to your paper as the paper  which campaigns for your right to know the   reader's right to know um right to know  what uh is there some line to be drawn   is is there some domain of privacy into which  even the sun and its readers should not intrude is there is there a complementary right  on the part of the ordinary citizen   complementary to his right to  know his right to be let alone   i think uh that's an interesting question  i think the it's not not an easy answer when i started my public life i understood the media might  be interested in what i did but i was not aware of how overwhelming that  attention would become the media and diana needed   each other they fed off of each other she was very  good at dealing with it at times manipulating this   he can't use that and it not come back to haunt  you this was like a dam on a river it was suddenly   cracking something that controlled a  huge amount of power it just blew open britain has lost its collective sanity  she was figuring out celebrity on the   job she tried to make something of it she  tried to do something valuable in the ashes   of her marriage she succeeded in creating  herself as a brand the people's princess   it's possible to put up with a very difficult  situation and create a pretty lively life   when the announcement came you  know it just believed me i couldn't   take it in diana princess of wales has been  seriously injured every proprietor and editor and who should we see about that how can  this happen in the middle of the story a lot of us had known already  that prince charles was   in love with somebody else and had  been sort of almost all his life they were certainly deeply fond  of each other charles and camilla   and they thought as long as we keep our heads down  a bit we can occasionally go on holiday together he really found a soulmate they share a lot more  in common their passions are more similar and   aligned camilla is happy to be more private  um and doesn't need to be a star on a stage   by 1986 diane knew very well what was going on  you could see it in the images that was the other   thing that was so transfixing about her you could  tell in the pictures how they were getting along   when she realized it was serious it must  have been quite jolts you know very upsetting   the public view was he was a happy lady having a  great time and and really enjoying her life and   there was a big vacuum around  her life she was very unhappy throughout history uh it would come as no surprise  that men have often felt that they were entitled   to have a mistress on the side it wasn't just  the men it was generally accepted among the wives   that they had to produce an air and a spare  and then they could take a lover themselves   that's the way it goes once diana decided to seek love outside the  marriage it is completely unsurprising that   one of the first men was barry  manicke who was her bodyguard   someone whose literal job it was to  protect her she felt very safe with him charles and diana were on a private  plane to the con film festival in   1987. before they got on board charles got  word that barry manicke had been killed in   a motorcycle accident and he  had to break the news to her she was in floods of tears and her lady  in waiting was trying to console her   but nothing seemed to work she wanted somebody to just love her  she sought to be loved unconditionally james hewitt was a very  significant relationship for her   if she had not married prince charles james  hewitt might have been the guy that she married she and charles were apart so often that  james hewitt was there with her boys and her   boys grew to like him a lot he got transferred  to germany and then that was the end of that   the pattern of diana's later years with  really quite multiple male partners   is an argument for those who would say that  it wasn't necessarily charles's fault i'm not   suggesting she was promiscuous in fact on the  contrary i don't think she was looking for sex   with these men she was looking for love she  spent time with people but they weren't people   that she wanted to spend the rest of her life  with really deep down in her heart it was charles diana was at the 40th birthday  party of camilla's sister diana uses that occasion to confront camilla  face to face about what's been going on and said   in a nutshell don't make an idiot of me she simply  couldn't live a lie i don't think you can quantify   what a seismic shift that was  in the nature of the monarchy it was a a scene in their inner circle it exposed  that camilla and charles were having an affair   even some of the editors in  the press were aware of it   our feature writer judy wade she was the  first to really spot that this relationship   was in a bad way she said no i saw the hands part  i saw her look i think there's something wrong with all these competing newspapers  there's always been intense competition   and they had to obviously get contacts within  the palace they had to have sources and   untold amounts of money would exchange hands they're paying butlers they're paying uh flatmates  they're paying delivery guys they're they're   posing as some of these people i think you would  get a bit paranoid who's going to deceive me next   you know they've been deceit all  around could you trust anybody   she was uh pride upon and and she needed some  privacy and she didn't get a lot of privacy   that's a pretty vulnerable place to be it's like  discovering you know rooms being tapped she was   concerned that somebody was listening within  kensington palace switchboard so that was her   worry we started using scramblers we switched it  on and it would garble the message we would often   get a minute of chat on the screens which the  opposition would hear as a garbled speech and then   the line would be cut that was pretty sobering  she was just getting slightly paranoid about the   whole thing quite rightly so when you've got so  much going on around you she knew there was going   to be an explosion it was becoming inevitable that  something was going to come out the whole marriage   being a disaster and so on it was it was going  to happen and her huge concern was her two boys   as the boys were the heirs to the institution   the institution might step in and  say oh we will take on from here   they were not just her sons they were  heirs and spares to the throne she could   have been sidelined and i think that would  have been a disaster so what she needed   was first paint on the canvas she needed to  have her case heard she wanted to tell the world there was a kind of fear in her and the fear  turned into rebellion and strength by letting   the world know what was going on from her point  of view and she spotted andrew morton he was easy   to spot he was tall and handsome andrew morton you  know he had covered her before and he had covered   her in a in a kind and compassionate way and she  appreciated that and so she gravitated toward him he was already doing a biog on her diana said  maybe she should help with morton and the book   she wasn't prepared to rely on people like me to  tell her story or her friends or tabloid reporters   she wanted to speak to the nation herself  i said well you can't be interviewed by him   or you'll be in a vulnerable position think very  long and hard about what you really want to do   and make sure that you don't do any damage to the  organization that your boys will end up as part of   it was a top secret project of diana's charles  had no clue about this none it was a very   a deliberate procedure morton would figure out  what he wanted he would write the questions   he would give them to james coulthurst i would  receive the questions i turned up and she'd grab   all the questions out of my hand and just said  that just quicker if i read them and answer   them there and then and she opened up then  i'd go back and then i'd hand over the tape   i think she was just relieved that she  was going to be heard for the first time   and perhaps understood when princess diana  married prince charles she was expected to   be involved but she wasn't expected to be  independent and that is the key difference   just before the andrew morton book was coming out   she started to be quite edgy and um distressed  she knew the world was about to fall in our head she was eager to take part in trying to control  her own narrative and it blew up in her face the first excerpt of the book occurred in june  of 1992. charles and diana were at highgrove   for the weekend and they were entertaining  charles's interior designer robert kim   who was sitting at the breakfast table  and somebody delivered a fax which had   the first installment of this book and gave it to  charles and robert kim watched him reading this   and saw this look of alarm on charles's face that  this was going to be in the sunday times that day   and it rocked the royal family it absolutely  was unprecedented it was just not done the papers this morning are headlining the  gossip that princess diana has attempted   suicide five times the book paints a depressing  picture of a couple at war with one another   princess is said to have given tacit  cooperation and personal photographs   buckingham palace denied she  cooperated with the author in any way the revelations were shocking  the bulimia and the affairs   on the other hand you had a lot of people  being very sympathetic because it made her real she's brought something out into the  open that hasn't been talked about before   she took the stigma away from people dealing  with eating disorders which was an incredibly   powerful message it made us realize that she  had the same problems that everyone else does   the public were very sympathetic  to her particularly females donna had a huge impact on people who went  through all sorts of battles emotionally   they really connected with  her and all she went through finally she was on a path that was self-directed  and that's really what feminism is all about is   finding one's inner path and then acting on it   once the letters started piling in suddenly  she realized that she'd touched a lot of people the letters meant a great deal  to her the theme was gratitude   well i've always liked diana very  much uh you know her honesty and   all the things she had to go through  but i think diana should be queen   she's very much um very much a contemporary  woman and i think we all admire   she was eager to take part in trying  to control her own narrative and she   saw the morton book as a way of doing  just that and it blew up in her face she was very good at times dealing with  the media sometimes manipulating the media   but once you've made your life a commodity  you really don't have any control over it all of a sudden two surreptitiously  recorded phone conversations come to light it's just so difficult so  complicated it makes my life it was new year's eve and diana and her then lover  james gilbert were having a phone conversation   i don't sense that it was a terribly  serious relationship but the tenor of   the conversation was one that transmitted  intimacy the use of nicknames like squidgy   unbeknownst to james gilby and diana  that telephone call had been tapped   and somebody had a recording of it that made  its way into the offices of a tabloid newspaper it's two people talking about you know  being in love one of them happens to be the   princess of wales one of them is not prince  charles that's bad but it's gonna get worse meanwhile a conversation between charles and  camilla on the telephone was illegally tapped   i can't start the week without you but i set  up your tank if you do yeah prince charles   was gonna become the king of england that  is the king of england we're talking about   bits and pieces began to appear in  australian media who leaked those tapes what was what was the need for the public to know  which is what public interest in mind what you're   trying to do is to explain what you think is news  yes you are to every single person now well hold   on hold on well let me respond let me respond  to it and joe you found your guy calvin mckenzie   was editor of the sun and in some ways he was the  perfect embodiment of what a tabloid editor should   be he was tough uh he was over the top the fact  that it may involve people's lives being upended   not his problem the single word that we're  describing would be iconoclast um there have   been various other epithets ever since i frankly  believe you're hostile to the press and you're   hostile to ordinary people knowing the truth about  what goes on in public life but i have to say that   your somewhat offensive and aggressive manner does  not help us in coming down on your side apart from   mps i don't know anybody who's ever worried  about the pressure what they do worry about   is what's going on in high places and they  want papers like the sun to expose them both sets of tapes were  horribly uncomfortable really the release of those tapes was the most  dreadful breach of of press protocol and   basic morality and decency this was to transform  how everyone would be treated all celebrities   the level of intrusion was crafted during the  diana years this was like a dam on a river you   know this was something that controlled a huge  amount of power bits and pieces began to appear   in australian media an australian magazine has  published what it alleges is an explicit telephone   call between prince charles australian magazine  tonight published what it claims is the uncensored   transcript and they're always these questions  of how it emerged there who leaked those tapes   the australian magazine new idea and won't say  how it got the tape but believes it is authentic   the magazine is owned by rupert murdoch whose  british newspapers include the times and the sun   the sun published a fresh scandal this  time involving diana mr murdoch today   denied he'd known of the decision to publish  a paper then invited the whole country to   listen in at any telephone listen to the  conversation and judge for yourself what   did your uh proprietor or whoever  engaged you yes mr murdock hired me   yes rupert murdoch plays a tremendous amount  of interest in what happens in this country   has mr murdoch ever discussed with you the paper's  policy towards the monarchy in the royal family   diana was a pawn in a larger chess game it was  murdock and the sun versus the royal family   you can't tell the story of the  evolution of the media and journalism   in the english-speaking world  without focusing on rupert murdoch   ruther murdoch buying the news of the world in 68  and then the sun in 1969 was a major turning point   in the history of british newspapers one more link  in the vast chain of a rapidly expanding empire   as an australian he had less of an affection uh  for the royal family didn't see the point of them   you would never really open up the society  until you tackled this class system and   it was very hard to see how you could  tackle it um with the royal family there   he saw them as fodder i mean they provided an  unbelievable amount of grist for his publications   previously editors had decided what should go into  their newspapers by asserting their own values   their own ethics their own standards murdoch  came along and said i'm not interested in that   what i want is simply to give the people what they  want how will i find that out 1970 let's put a   naked girl into the newspaper is that popular yes  it is right that was the foundation the birth of   what we came known as the page three girl the page  three girls of the sun was a perfect example of a   newspaper that demanded to be in some ways taken  seriously nonetheless reducing women to body parts   diana was equally reduced uh to her looks to her  figure rupert murdoch decided this is one of the   great narratives we're gonna ride and we're  gonna ride this for years could they find a   way to get her in a bathing suit you know if  they saw the royal bum would that go on pages   princess diana was like fresh meat give the  people what they want it was as simple as that   the more beautiful she became the more  people really liked to try to humiliate her   the british public was certainly getting very  disturbed by what diana was being put through   they still bought magazines  they still bought the newspapers   after a while they forgot that this was a real  person and they just saw her as a commodity   the revolution begins here msnbc   there was this explosion of uh cable channels  she was like a catalyst for that industry   the princess has grabbed to the tab diana became  the most fascinating woman in the world at the   same time that 24-hour news was becoming part  of our lives what are you gonna do to fill that   well the tabloids go crazy plus will reveal  her words about jfk junior and it's being   called news the institution itself may  be doomed not because there's something   inherently who's worthy and what's it going on  is because the public wants to read about it   suddenly newspapers have real competition on  a daily basis that makes them more desperate tv was now a real threat to their existence   you realize she's on holiday been chasing around  and getting pictures well it has its compensations   is there anything you wouldn't do to get a  photograph not not really i don't think there is   anything i don't think there should be anything to  stop you getting pictures so you the best thing is   to go through with it brazenly and then at least  you've upset them for something at the end of it   the global appetite for paparazzi  photos made everybody a paparazzo   it became clear to people in diana's gym oh here  she is working out i'm going to try to get a photo   and sell it they were allegedly taken without  her knowledge newspapers are the same boys it's   not us but actually the british newspapers  were probably worse than the forum paparazzi   they were paying these paparazzis vast amounts of  money she must have felt so violated it was coming   at her from all angles one of the great betrayals  was when james hewitt ultimately sold his story   princess in love written with the cooperation  of major hewitt hit the shelves she was crushed she was feeling under siege they'd be screwing  diana look here and so on but they would say   worse things than that to provoke some kind of  reaction which would make a worthwhile picture   uh diana aren't you ashamed of yourself diana what  do you think of camilla now what do you think he   does in bed with her that he didn't do for you  all sorts of stuff who are you now i don't think   that rupert murdoch would have been certainly  knowledgeable about all the illicit activity   that went on but he created the culture  in which what we did to diana could occur i have been the editor of the sun  for 12 years right now the press is   at its best behaved i would say is better behaved  now uh than at any time that i can remember people like what we do they don't look  upon it in the way you look about it the   way our readers look about it because  it's incredible and that's fantastic   now out have a nice trick now   in some ways diana serves as a rebuke   to the idea that journalists are  going to adhere to a higher principle diana wasn't a thing she was a person  and they treated her as an object   there can't be any doubt  that we overstepped the mark we lost any sense of ethics here we thought here was somebody who had privilege  and really sacrificed her rights to privacy   by simply having the privilege that she did kensington palace the prince and princess of  wales slept there overnight but it's believed   in separate sweets at either end the prince  and princess of wales have begun a four-day   tour of south korea the visit is seen as an  important step in promoting trade with britain   but they were unable to avoid continuing  speculation about the state of their marriage when it was clear things were going wrong the  queen and prince philip actually convened a   sort of family counselling session in which  they sat down with diana and charles and said   come on you know let's talk about this can  we help you in some way and charles said what   you want me to talk about what  i'm really feeling so i'll see it   tomorrow morning on the front page  of the papers and looked at diana   diana broke down in tears and that was that it is announced from buckingham palace that with  regret the prince and princess of wales have   decided to separate those the prince and princess  have made it clear they have no plans to divorce   the separation was a surprise and  a shock for the british people   it was announced by john major in parliament  and that shows how important the royal   marriage was it was a major moment in british  history her majesty and his royal highness   particularly hope that the intrusions into the  privacy of the prince and princess may now cease the reality of separation was very  tough she was really miserable   and that led to her deciding to  withdraw completely from public life ladies and gentlemen a royal  highness the princess of wales   over the next few months i will be seeking a more  suitable way of combining a meaningful public role   with hopefully a more private life then  what was an emotional address the princess   had effectively bowed out of most of her  public work for the foreseeable future she became increasingly fed up with it she  just felt it they'd had their pound of flesh of course then we had you know the event that  in my eyes was the start of the detonation of   the diana bomb and that was the documentary that  was made by jonathan dimbleby about the prince   of wales the whole idea of it was to show him  in a better light but it had quite the opposite   effect did you try to be faithful and honorable to  your wife when you took on the vow of marriage yes   absolutely and you were yes until  it became irretrievably broken down   this makes princess diana think i need to  have a voice again i think if she wanted   to even some scores she was uh savvy enough  to know how to use the media to do that too   she was due to attend an art gallery that  she stopped the car about 100 meters away and strolled straight to all the cameras  looking like a million dollars princess   darling used fashion as an extremely efficient  weapon people were falling over themselves to   take pictures you knew the next day the story  was going to be about charles and the adultery   but the picture on page one was  going to be diana and it was she saw it as kind of a war for public acceptance people could not get enough of princess diana  she knew it and she knew how to use that when her marriage began to fall apart she  did an expert job in terms of using the media   to her advantage playing the system   you know because she was nimble and she was young  and she was often two steps ahead of the palace   and this was this was her secret weapon  this was the biggest weapon she ever used she had to go through a lot  of subterfuge to make the show   cameras were sneaked into the palace  she didn't tell any members of her staff   until almost the eve of broadcast i think  it's indicative of how she felt again that   she couldn't trust many people martin  beshear really got diana's confidence   and so she wanted to put her side across which  she did big time well that was the most brilliant   interview the most riveting television i'll  ever watch in my whole life it was treacherous   i thought i don't think many people would want  me to be queen actually when i say many people   i mean the establishment that i'm married into  because they've decided that i'm a non-starter you know when you look at why did she do  these things you have to see the circumstances   whether she was right or wrong in  these decisions you know she felt   really in a tight spot well there were three  of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded you didn't have to see panorama to know  what was said because it was in every   national newspaper all around the world and so  i couldn't avoid it i just couldn't believe it did your relationship go beyond a close  friendship yes it did yes were you   unfaithful yes i adored him yes i was  in love with him but i was very let down   she's talking about eating disorders and  postpartum depression and feeling isolated   and alone like people didn't talk about that  stuff in 1995 we barely talk about it now   the panorama interview was finally one step  too far for the queen obviously the queen   was angry and obviously she felt it personally  i mean looking back on it what the everybody   was trying to do was clearly delusional  and in that sense the panorama broadcast   brought the delusion to an end that was the moment  when diana had to properly start to be deroiled   so do yeah we're turning down  gloucester road dying the kids   i think it looks like the harbour club get over on traditionally if you're not royal blood  you know you're not protected once you   leave the womb so to speak and i just  thought what else she going to survive   she is now an ex-member of the royal family  and police decided that she didn't need cover   it became guerrilla it was almost like warfare i remember she was pictured going to i think  it was a book shop she'd managed to cast off   everyone but one photographer had spotted  her this photographer literally stood there and you think to yourself  you know you must realize   that that's an awful thing to do  right in her face right up close that was what people wanted they were tired of  the fake all glossied up beautiful shot they   wanted to see reality they wanted to see them in  their day-to-day activity that was going to be   the way that we were going to see celebrities  in the future i i feel like we're all we're all   like complicit in some way because you know  if no one bought those magazines or no one   clicked on those pictures they wouldn't  they wouldn't sell but we do we all do i'd had enough of it and you know i  can see how she'd had enough of it   i'd actually had enough of  it i thought you know what   i don't want to do this job anymore  it's not it's not nice it's not pleasant one of my colleagues that i traveled with  all the time she kept saying i can't what   is wrong with you why won't you come or you're  you're gonna miss her with the landmines you're   gonna miss you know he's gonna go to  angola and i was like i'm not coming   i don't want to come i just at that point  i felt a huge relief walking away from it   so if i felt like that how do you think  she felt i would have hated to be in her   position every single thing that she did  was you know followed and documented and   you know she was never kind of out of the  spotlight but i also saw the way that she used it the thing is i have all this media  interest so let's take it somewhere   where they can be positive and raise a  situation which is distressing like this i went there thinking it's not going to be a  serious trip and actually the trip turned out   to be really quite different because of what i  do i was kind of used to seeing things like that   but even so it was shocking so she lost did she  she lost the journal she could smell in a room   and feel who was suffering most who was most  depressed or suicidal who was most injured   and she attracted like a magnet those  people to her don't our friends help her those of us who worked with princess in 1997  had the privilege of seeing her at her best   this is her calling the shots and coming into  her power and exercising it she did this famous   walk through the minefield which you know we  were all kind of was she really going to do it   and she was walking through along this path but  there were mines either side and at the end of it   some of the journalists jokingly i think was  saying to her you know we didn't get good   pictures do it again and she did it i thought  you know it's nerve-wracking to walk through   a minefield so to do it for a second time  but she knew what those pictures would mean some people didn't like it i mean there was  criticism of her by some government the ministers   ministers home has said you're a loose  cannon by supporting this campaign   and do you have any reaction  to that i'm really trying to   highlight a problem that's going  on all around the world that's all she wanted to bring attention and you know  there's not much the government could do   about it she commanded way more attention  than any government minister in britain i   had the privilege of working with leaders  all around the world i've never experienced   this charismatic light energetically coming  off of someone and actually changing things when we moved to negotiate the landmine ban treaty  the media was on the issue and it helped us make   sure that the treaty included provisions for the  victims it was the first arms control treaty to   have humanitarian provisions that's because  of the princess of wales and in that way she   did pressage to some degree people like george  clooney angelina jolie maybe even bono showing   you how you could take that celebrity and so long  as you knew where the cameras were and knew how to   focus attention i knew what you  were talking about you could do good i think like everybody who lives through   a moment of horror or great tragedy you remember  exactly where you were and what you were doing   she didn't become famous because  there's nothing else to talk about   she continued to become famous because she was  freaking diana now she was free now who's next and   that is a great storyline who will be with diana  just like it used to be who will be with charles   it was very very difficult for diana to date  and uh she once said to me lana who who on   earth would take me on everywhere she went they  were following her whatever she did it was just   so so hard for her diana became besotted with  a pakistani heart surgeon named haznat khan   and they had a romance that was very much behind  the scenes and she felt that he understood her she   admired his humanitarian work she wished she could  be somebody like hasn't gone who would save lives finding a partner in life who could deal  with diana and everything that went with it   was an incredibly complicated endeavor and she  was in love with dr khan he did not like the   spotlight at all that was not appealing  to him and so of course the relationship   didn't work out it was devastating to her when dodi fayed entered her life she found  someone who did like the spotlight who didn't   mind dealing with that she also found someone  who had the financial means to take care of her   and get her on the private jets and  hire the security that was necessary   and to buy her some privacy in a lot of ways she  probably saw him as you know her aristotle onassis   i found especially in the last  year she was a very exciting woman   more relaxed and more without the the cloth  over her she was happy to get on with her life   i think she just grew into herself i thought  it was great actually watching someone blossom   she made a plan of what the future  was going to be for her in life   i don't think she was serious about dirty which i  think she was having a good laugh as well you know   but she needed the protection the fires they  were able to take things forward and look   after her themselves with their own security but  i'm sure that they could not have been prepared   for the enormity of the interest  on princess diana and their son what struck me about jody and  and diana was they had this   six-week relationship really that  began in the middle of july of 1997 and it really wasn't until early august  that the press caught on to the fact that   dodie and diana were having a romance and  then they really went to town i mean they   covered them relentlessly they took all sorts  of pictures of them lounging about together on   various yachts they were in hot pursuit kind  of 24 7 because it was an exotic relationship   the hunters were coming from overseas  too so it really became a frenzy   and that was that was a sadness but then you know  there were times as people said you know on the   yacht she seemed to be taunting them almost they  were in the south of france in the last week of   august on a whim they decided they would  instead go to paris and spend the night   diana's children william and harry were still up  at belmoral so she would be going back to an empty   house so why not she rang the office and spoke  to me and said it's waste time me coming back   and i said no that's not a problem mom you just  i'll be standing by from now until whenever late that night of august 30th that dodie  came up with a plan to evade the paparazzi   the paparazzi were a little bit smarter than dodie  and they were lying in weight behind the ritz   you can't protect someone  all the time you know i mean   you just can't you never know when they're  going to pop up close protection officers   are one thing but paparazzi on you know  really fast motorbikes as something else   it was about 12 30 at night and uh  get a call from the office saying   diana is in a car crash in paris could  i catch the first flight in the morning   the phone went and my wife answered the phone  and this is one o'clock in the morning you know   this is one of the policemen in balmoral ringing  me he said well ask colin to get up sit on the end   of the bed and listen to me he said colleen your  boss is injured she's had a road accident and i   said oh thank you very much could you tell me the  injuries he said no i think an armed leg and a   few other cuts and bruises that's if  you read the case that's what happened   they thought she was injured this is a special  report from abc news good evening i'm kevin newman   there has been a terrible accident involving diana  the princess of wales in paris next phone call was   from the private sector so you get down here  she is now said to be an intensive care atlas   garbage reports were coming through dodie was  badly injured diana was on a life support machine   or something we don't know precisely her condition  at this hour we have had reports that she has a   concussion at least sometime after midnight  local time uh where they're involved in some   kind of collision we don't know with water um but  we do know what the consequence was and that was   before the car rolled over ended up on its roof  speculation is growing that it will be grim news   and then about now after that the office rang and  said look we've charted a plane out of heathrow go   straight to heathrow now and uh i literally  dropped my wife at home grabbed my cameras   i think it was something like three o'clock  i was three michael gibbons stood in front   of us and said she's dead just like that she's  dead you know there was you he said we meant   dead talking about this guy on the television be  like behind you is telling us that she's injured   diana princess of wales has been seriously injured  in a car accident in paris well i'm i'm worried   um by the lack of by the lack of any news or  the lack of any statement uh one wonders if   one is being told the whole truth at the moment  stephen i have to interrupt there um because   within the last few moments the press association  in britain citing unnamed british sources   has reported that diana princess of wales has died  this is not yet confirmed by any official source and the first thing he said right colin  would you go to paris and back for me   and my wife very kindly managed to get us on the  two seats on the first plane out which was full of   press totally full the prince prince of  wales police officer who was traveling   to paris had to sit in the jump seat and  in the front you know it was packed solid as i landed in paris the office rang has said  that she's dead 4 30 i remember landing blue   bourgeois airport phone rang and there  was a few other members of the press on   the plane i said she said diana's dead  oh i went into the hospital and it was   chaotic really there was a lot of people around i  walked down the corridor to where the room where   the princess was she was in a bed  ordered me bedding covered up to here   massive great window to the left and i could  see very quickly that people were on the roof of   quite a distance away and may not have  yet pinpointed the room that we were in   meanwhile i was discussing uh to get some blankets   to put up to the windows which we  did so the pressure couldn't see in i was uh living in south africa at the time and  my four kids lived with me um they were very young   i said to the kids i'm afraid has died   eliza i remember her looking at me with a little  smile and she went but not in real life daddy uh she thought it was such a terrible story  that it must be a fairy tale or something   and that was very sad yeah the prince came up to me and said colin thank  you very much for coming and what you've done   you will be coming back on the plane  i always remember lady sarah crocodile   saying i think we'll have a a  very quiet private funeral college i don't know whether you've ever come into  a street where you can't move with people   but as we came out of the airport and turn left  which is the a40 into london no cars people   people i want people upon people all the way  in must have been probably four or five miles i was so in shock that i just went back to  bed and just sort of became cosmetos again   i couldn't deal with it i just went back to bed  numb i was six months pregnant with my daughter   it felt like my heart had been ripped out  disbelief that anything so awful could   happen to her it was you know but it was  it was shock i mean literally it was shock   a side side loss it's just a tragedy  we'll miss her a lot didn't even realize how can this happen like we're in the middle  of the story it was someone that had been cut   down in the prime of her life when we thought  that actually she was coming to a happier place she was the most famous woman in the world  and she was killed at 36 in a car crash   being chased by a horde of paparazzi in  a tunnel with a drunk driver at the wheel   and her seatbelt not on what could i have done but  you always think god i wish i could have protected   her or whatever but uh you know it was just uh it  was devastating she was only granted half a life   i think we were all mourning together like the tragic nature of  that fairy tale just imploding the russian president boris yeltsin said princess  diana was well known and loved by the russians   i was tremendously impressed by her  let me say again how very sad hillary   and i are about the terrible accident  that has taken the life of princess diana this is not a time for recriminations but  for sadness however i would say that i always   believed the press would kill her in the end  but not even i could imagine that they would   take such a direct hand in her death that seems  to be the case i was furious i wasn't just angry i photographed the coffin leaving and then get a  cab to get back to the hotel to process the film   and uh cab wouldn't take me he said no you're an  assassin by this time it come out that paparazzi   were chasing the car and and everybody  then thought that was the reason she died i just thought i said this is how it ends  you know this terrible story of manipulation   and gross unkindness sort of made terrible sense  to me that this is always how it was going to be   something terrible would happen because of this   absolute endless hunger for more  of a pound of flesh from diana you that killed up you press good you know what happened in france was  unforgivable and horrendously sad i'm sorry i blamed the sun newspaper they killed because she was chased in that  tunnel by photographers that   we in the media there was absolutely a  sense of responsibility for her death   it was a moment of soul  searching no doubt still is   i'm standing in hyde park now  with millions of people yes we are   it's like to blame because we buy the papers  that you print so but it's tragedy really hi thanks for coming out princess die is dead   and who should we see about that the driver  of the car the paparazzis or the magazines   and papers who purchased these pictures and  made bounty hundreds other photographers when you have a shock you want somebody to blame   and the newspapers were terrified and  so i believe there was a calculated   push by the tabloid newspapers to redirect public  anger away from them and towards the monarchy the main attitude was it wasn't us it wasn't our  fault the driver was drunk and it's all down to   him they quickly realized attack is always better  than defense in terms of how newspapers organized   themselves so they were the first to highlight  that the queen had been slow to react in a   way that they thought was appropriate i think  there was an element of the press deliberately   diverting attention away from themselves but  the behavior of the royal family didn't help i think our queen should be here in london with  her people this is her nation and they should know   how all her people feel about diana and one  day two days three days days go by and there   isn't a word from the royal family it was  astonishing i think they treated a terrible   absolutely shocking i don't think  i don't think they're the most   cold people on this earth what the world wanted  was for the queen and the royal family to come   rushing down to london there was this strange  feeling that um the queen could act as some sort   of balm um a consoling mother that if she  were in london everybody would feel better a great many people uh have waited this week with  enormous anticipation for the royal family to   become engaged then the queen came back  yesterday this family that was grieving   and that was in shock itself was forced to  perform in public in order to save itself   this week at belmoral we have all been trying  to help william and harry come to terms with   the devastating loss that they and the rest  of us have suffered when you listen to it   you suddenly realize yes this woman is not just  a queen she's the grandmother of those boys they were worried about people shouting people  jeering and in fact quite the opposite proved   to be the case the child held out flowers  you know that that's one of those minutes   when humanity comes true because it was  unrehearsed and she genuinely thought   um sorry i'm getting moved about this but  the flowers were being given to her today   you know to lay down for diana she's so shallow  i am you want me to lay the flowers for diana   and the little girl memories i know  they're for you and uh you know i think   i think that's the moment as you can see from  my reaction that was the moment when it turned being here in front of westminster  abbey is an extraordinary experience   behind me are thousands of people they began to  line up yesterday and even some the day before i think as a family we wanted to  reclaim her and give her peace and so   we were hoping for a small funeral here  to start with but then it became clear   that that was actually not appropriate because  you know the people had a right to say goodbye i remember people setting their alarm  clocks to get up to watch her get married   her death was you know not just a huge event  as the marriage was it was such tragedy people were grabbing at me and cleaning something  oh because i knew her and i touched her in person   they thought they would get a bit of her by  touching me that's how powerful it all was   the middle of london was like a  graveyard there was not no traffic   nothing just set the people going to the funeral   it was nothing it was like a nuclear  explosion had gone off which it had in a way right in front of buckingham  palace the queen bows her head all i felt at the time of her funeral that  i had the absolute duty to just remind   people that she'd had to put up with a lot  of rubbish from the newspapers over here   and um they didn't like hearing it  but you know what they had to hear it i don't think she ever understood why her  genuinely good intentions were sneered at by   the media why there appeared to be a permanent  quest on their behalf to bring her down   it is baffling it is a point to remember   that of all the ironies about diana perhaps  the greatest was this a girl given the name   of the ancient goddess of hunting was in the  end the most hunted person of the modern age the thing that i was impressed most by and  i'll never forget was when spencer gave his   speech about diana which was so incredibly to the  point without overdoing it or over emphasizing it   just factual and suddenly i'm going to burst  into above all we give thanks for the life of a   woman i'm so proud to be able to call my sister  the unique the complex the extraordinary and   irreplaceable diana whose beauty both internal and  external will never be extinguished from our minds   you could have heard a pin drop as he spoke   then what i heard was rain or  autumn autumn leaves rustling around as we now know it was clapping starting  in the parks and along the streets   and though that clapping came closer and closer   and it literally started the top end of the  abbey and rippled down through the congregation   99 of people in there including her sons  joined in and it was the most amazing   moment really it was that sound is something that  i'll never forget by far the hardest part of that   day was not delivering my speech but it was  walking behind my sister's coffin with her sons   um particularly in those days harry's this  tiny little thing and i was just so worried   you know what a trauma for a little chat  to walk behind his mum's body is just awful   and i just thought goodness i hope  they can get through this you know   and i was amazed they did so  well i mean really incredible i love seeing the sort of uncomplicated  way in which they deal with people   and put them at their ease it's so easy to  connect the dots between them and their mother she was a victim of circumstance but  the diana story isn't about victimhood   it's really about redemption   diana was a pioneer in terms of how  she thought she could use her profile   to make the world a better place and  therefore i hope you'll understand   why i wanted to play my part in working towards  a worldwide ban on these weapons at the diana   wood we referred to her as a positive  disrupter she positively disrupted systems   she made you think outside of the box  when princess diana died we lost much   more than a fashion icon we lost a tireless  campaigner for the underprivileged for the week   for people who didn't have a voice themselves  and her death left a great hole in society i think of the parents who this very night  are standing around a hospital bed the two   princes are far better equipped  as a result of what she   was and really how she was than they would  have been if they'd had a mouse as a mum   this summer marks 20 years since our mother died  from helping to shatter the stigma around aids   to fighting to ban landmines and supporting  the homeless she touched the lives of millions   we could never know what a mother would have  gone on to do but in one sense harry and i feel   that our mother lives on in the countless acts of  compassion and bravery that she inspires in others i think diana was aware in fact very aware  that she was raising a future king but i think   what she wanted to do was to have before a king a  person that was grounded in both love affection in   the real world and that is her principal legacy  what we lost by princess diana's death was a   beautiful woman a beautiful princess who was  a wonderful mother who's to know what her life   would have led to but she left you know two  extraordinary kids and an incredible legacy   which will live on forever and i i love seeing  the sort of uncomplicated way in which they deal   with people and put them at their ease it's  so easy to connect the dots between them and   their mother somewhere in the world right now a  parent is making the grimace of choices to risk   cultivating mind-contaminated land or to let  their families starve that is no choice at all   she was the biggest star and then that  star went out and so now when we look at   william and harry you know we look at them  with a new feeling now they weren't just   the royal family they were boys who'd lost  their mom and i don't think that's ever changed well what's amazing to me is  that the passing of time that now   you know william and catherine are sort of  nearly the same age as diana when she died   one of the great tragedies of course is that  donna would have been the best grandmother ever i love the fact that there's still such  veneration inside her immediate family   for what she was and what she  meant and i think that's fantastic   that lustre that princess diana brought  to the monarchy is still there even today   as a feminist i believe that diana's legacy  to women and to the world in general is that   she ultimately became the writer of her own  story that she began as just a leaf in the wind   with no real direction doing what was expected  of her and then simply being a reactor reacting   to things so with no clear vision of who she was  what she wanted to do or what she wanted to be and   through a long and painful personal journey  that took her to some very dark places she   ultimately came out the other side and became a  confident directed controlled woman who had agency   autonomy and authority those three things that  every modern woman needs and that she finally won   it's easy there can never be another  donor she represented one moment   in time when the world changed really  she was a new brand of royal if we all   play our part in making our children feel valued  the result will be tremendous to go out and do   all those things against the odds made her  a powerhouse that would never have forgotten we'll have princesses we'll have celebrities we'll   have royals but there will  never be someone like her you

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