A Life After Death: What Happened After Diana's Untimely Death? | Princess Diana | Timeline

[Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] Lady Diana Spencer leaves on her journey to marry Charles Prince of Wales his bride was just 21 years old [Music] [Applause] thank you it was 1981 Charles 13 years older than Diana had dithered over his choice of Bride for many years [Applause] they had first met five years ago when she was only 16. in the event more than 700 million people watched the wedding [Applause] the fairy tale princess had taken the World by storm for Diana there was no doubt why she was marrying Prince Charles Diana was in love with Prince Charles and she was in love with the idea of being in love She's a romantic she was just in love with the whole idea and and what more romantic thought for a young teenage girl than to marry a prince Diana's ancestral home is also up in northamptonshire she's a daughter of one of Britain's oldest and noblest families Diana's father was an equity to King George VI before inheriting the title Earl Spencer the family lived on the Royal Estate at Sandringham where Diana was brought up with her two sisters and younger brother Charles foreign her parents separated and after an acrimonious divorce Diana was left in the care of her father Donna was a very young child her older sisters were away at boarding school Charles was still in the nursery because he was younger still and she very much became her father's great companion and indeed hostess I mean when he gave shooting parties she used to help him organize the shooting lunches and so on and really helped him run the house and run the family and was extremely close to her father and he absolutely adored her when Donna was 17 her father remarried creating considerable problems for his youngest daughter when he married Rayne Spencer I think she felt a great sense of isolation and loneliness in that she never got on with her stepmother indeed all the children resented the fact that they hadn't been allowed to see his far their father when he was desperately ill with a stroke and a friend who was at Lord Spencer's wedding terrain recalls driving away seeing Diana standing completely alone looking very miserable leaning against a saddlestone she'd lost her mother now she'd lost her father the traumas of home life were compensated for at boarding school not particularly academic Diana later recalled her time spent away from home my years at West youth were certainly very happy once indeed I made many friends who I often see and in spite of what Miss Raj and my other teachers may have thought time I did actually learn something [Music] they would never have known by my O-level results for the young Diana marriage and babies were an aristocratic girl's career after West Heath her future took a predictable turn working as an unqualified Nursery School teacher I wanted to teach children they said why not come along so I first started off doing afternoons and then I took over the mornings and did whole days but I only worked three days a week kindergarten and the other two I looked after American baby boy in November 1980 Diana's name was linked to Prince Charles the Press soon picked up the scent her caution in front of the cameras was a skill she swiftly acquired when quizzed about her relationship with Charles if you love history then you will love history hit our extensive library of documentary features everything from the ancient origins of our earliest ancestors to the daring mission to sink the bismar history hit has hundreds of exclusive documentaries with unrivaled access to the world's best historians we're committed to Bringing history fans award-winning documentaries and podcasts that you cannot find anywhere else sign up now for a free trial and timeline fans get 50 off their first three months just be sure to use the code timeline at checkout with fantastic documentaries covering fascinating figures from the Punic Wars of ancient Rome to Man's first daring missions into space soon [Music] we thought it was going to be announcing on if there's a second birthday but there wasn't and he told reported yesterday that maybe coming soon was there any comments to make about that okay have a good weekend though okay an official announcement soon followed and TV cameras were allowed momentarily to lift the veil of secrecy you take us back to when you first met be a certain you can it was 1977 the Charles came to stay as a friend of my sister Sarah for shoot I'm sort of Imagine a cloud feel slightly previous to that what did you what did you think then what was your instant impression both of you know well I remember thinking what a very jolly an amusing and and attractive 16 year old she was and I mean great fun and fancy and full of life and everything and um I don't know what you thought of me it was pretty amazing nobody worried about the 13-year age difference so openly in love the couple brought joy to a nation undergoing Hard Times shy die was launched on the world her first public appearance caused a few raised eyebrows at a reception in London's goldsmiths Hall if she went to the emmanuels and chose a very daring dress which was very low-cut strapless rather a ball gown than an ordinary dress suitable for her for a concert she was a very voluptuous girl in those days this was long before the bulimia set in and of course when Prince Charles stepped out of his car with Diana behind him he looked at the photographers and said you won't believe what's coming next and they were all thrilled when they saw her because she made Sensational pictures and of course she had to bend very low to get out of the car and I know that there was a lot of questions asked in newsrooms and Television Studios later that evening about whether the pictures were fit for broadcast because the dress was so low-cut that a lot of people thought that we were going to see a bit too much of the next Princess of Wales there's a very very glamorous eyeful of a gorgeous girl wedding worries were beginning to tell at a polo match Diana left the field in tears later Revelations claimed that Diana was having serious doubts about the marriage her unhappiness was caused by Charles's continuing friendship with an old girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles Charles was in love with Camilla years before he met Diana that love then turned into a deep and close friendship he didn't give up that friendship it was at Camilla's house that he did most of his courting of Diana Camilla was very much involved in his relationship with Diana in the early days so there's no doubt that that certainly he was seeing her during that period after the engagement announcement Charles left on an official five-week tour of Australia reports later suggested that he'd been with Camilla prior to his departure reducing Diana to tears when she saw him off at the airport well you see a time because the Prince of Wales had had various girlfriends who however nice they were were deemed to be rather unsuitable and that they'd had previous boyfriends and so on and to my mind the two grannies got together lady famoy and the queen mother who dated on Charles and they thought here is the most wonderful sweet girl who comes from the right sort of background and she would be ideal I think the trouble was that they rarely had absolutely nothing in common and he having been the prince of Wales the dominant party and all the rest of it found himself caught up with and then gradually overtaken by this complete Superstar [Applause] [Music] the wedding was the biggest media event the world had ever seen unbeknown Diana's anxiety extended to her father's state of health I think it was a terrible ordeal for Dana and I think it was a terrible ordeal for Lord Spencer as well but he had a very very bad stroke from which it was thought he wouldn't recover she virtually had to carry him up the aisle and to add to all her problems This Magnificent wedding dress designed by the emmanuels had got fantastically crashed in the carriage which was a problem that nobody had anticipated and I mean everybody was rushing around in panic because this dress was completely crumpled like a piece of tissue paper it looked as if it had never been armed and that must have been really well horrid for her in a way on this very very special day with all these other pressures but I think she overcame it Diana made a radiant and confident figure in her stunning wedding gown she endeared herself to the world when she modeled her husband's names as she took her vows I Diana Francis take the Charles Philip Arthur George take to my wedding husband to heaven to Hope and this day forward this day forward for better for worse in sickness and in health in sickness and in health to love and to cherish till death has to part [Music] Diana and Charles left for their honeymoon Britain spent the day celebrating [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] stop Gibraltar in a plane with Prince Charles at the controls on route for a trip around the Mediterranean aboard the Royal yacht Britannia but the strain of the past few months had taken a toll on Diana the run-up to the wedding had been a traumatic experience for the new Princess of Wales observers noticed how thin and tired she looked when she arrived at the airport at Gibraltar she looked she was so sort of pale and she was so thin and she looked so fragile and nervous she was like a bag of nerves you know as if the whole of the last few days had really she was really worn down with it and all the time she was searching around following Charles in his footsteps and she was wasn't too confident about it [Applause] foreign [Music] to be alone as ever they would be that was the plan but Charles's association with Camilla extended to the honeymoon later reports suggested that he telephoned her from the Royal yacht butcher trouble was still a long way off as the couple returned to Balmoral with loving smiles and Shining eyes the fairy tale continued and as they walked down through the Heather they were hand in hand they were giggling and and they were very there was a lot of body language amongst the two of them and he kept kissing her hand and she kept going pink and giggly and and it was really very natural it wasn't a tall stage at that stage it was a very spontaneous natural sort of thing between the two of them it was a very pretty scene as they came down and then they disappeared off into the well not the sunset but the hair the hand in hand and it was a romantic shot as they disappeared the Romantic scenes from Balmoral soon gave way to concern about Diana's Health behind the smiles there were other muttered concerns Diana was very unstable emotionally as we now know in hindsight when she married Prince Charles and I think Prince Charles really really wanted to play Professor Higgins and he really wanted to help her I mean on their honeymoon she was deeply distraught very unhappy so much so he actually got a psychiatrist to go up to Balmoral he says this is only like four weeks into the honeymoon now that's not the action of someone that doesn't care it's someone that's desperately thinking you know I've got to help this girl members of her mother's family have told me that her own mother was a very very highly strung woman indeed somebody once described her as a hysteric now Dana is certainly not that she's got the hard-headedness of the Spencers but she's undoubtedly extremely nervy and um the sort of pressures that were put upon her and although Prince Charles did his best to support her he wasn't the sort of cuddly daddy that she missed and I think she missed that sort of reassurance and therefore I think that she was unhappy and lonely and depressed and she was terribly isolated in her Ivory Tower [Applause] Diana's problems were temporarily overcome with the Euphoria of motherhood within a year of marriage Prince William was born [Music] when a month-long official Foreign Tour was planned Diana insisted that the baby William accompanied them to Australia and New Zealand a little bit public interest in the young couple was intense does Prince William have a favorite toy um um Jamie he loves his koala bear he's got but he hasn't got anything particularly just likes something with a bit of noise um he got a plastic whale that throws things out the top little balls thank you Jamie I hope that answers your question Charles was pleased to show off his dancing prowess before his Australian hosts foreign [Applause] [Music] exhausted by the Royal itinerary in the Relentless heat Diana and Charles were mobbed by crowds wherever they appeared there were crowds everywhere who wanted to shake hands with her and in one city Brisbane in Queensland the crowds closed in on her they were almost a million people turned out to see her and it was just so frightening she had to retire to the town hall and have a glass of water and and she was at a state of collapse I think it was very hot too many people were crowding into a very small Street and the police were afraid that there'd be a major incident it must have been a terrifying experience for somebody who was so unused to such things I mean it was quite frightening enough for the rest of us who'd done it many times before Diana claimed that her first foreign trip had been a baptism of Fire [Music] the visit had been a remarkable success Charles was proud of his new wife ladies and gentlemen the last time I was here was two years ago in 1981 shortly before we were married and at that time everybody was saying good luck and I hope everything goes well and how lucky you are to be engaged to such a lovely lady and my goodness I was lucky enough to marry her and we had many many messages foreign it's amazing what ladies do when you're back step I do think he was very proud of her in the early days and I think that really noticed in Australia in 83 I mean the way he he sort of put his arm around her and pushed her four to meet people and he did look very proud of her I mean he used to look used to catch a glimpse now and again when they were to say sitting on a podium and he would turn around and look at her and there would be just a little sort of exchange between the two and and I think he was very proud of her but things began to turn sour on an official visit to Canada later in the year Diana was quoted as saying one minute I was a nobody the next minute I was the Princess of Wales mother media toy member of this family it was just too much for one person to handle Charles seemed incapable of comprehending the turmoil in Diana's life she was suffering from the eating disorder bulimia nervosa and existing on chocolate bars to keep her going I think everybody noticed that she was belson-like I mean she was she was pathetically thin and I mean I was always quite close to the Royal party at State Banquets and so on and you just see her pushing her food around her plate I mean I never ever saw her eat anything and at that time we thought that she was just trying very hard to sort of please her hosts that it was nerves really that was preventing her from eating properly but I mean everybody was aware that she was far too thin there were anxieties about her at one point Diana fainted and had to be helped away [Music] there's reported to have been unsympathetic and after recovering her composure they left quickly some of the people very close to her then told me later that they thought that she staged that faint because she was extremely hot tired and very bored with staggering round one boring exhibition after another with her husband and as a way of Escape she she just collapsed very neatly out of the view of the television and the still cameraman so it was a very well timed collapse [Applause] back on form Diana gave the Canadian people an amusing glimpse of Royal life on a collision course with Charles six months pregnant with her second child Diana seemed the perfect example of waifood and motherhood hardly a hint of personal unhappiness [Music] later reports claimed that Charles was dismissive about the birth of Prince Harry disappointed that their second child wasn't a girl and looking too much like a Spencer with a lot of red hair [Music] pictures of them together captured the Fulfillment of married love there were signs though that Charles was once again seeing Camilla Parker Bowles late night telephone calls unexplained absences ironically their marriage appeared otherwise to be happy [Music] foreign [Music] Spain with King Juan Carlos and his family Diner and Charles appeared relaxed away from the spotlight and the pressures of Royal Duty this was Diana's kind of holiday and she much admired the king of Spain's attitude towards his Royal duties Juan Carlos is quite informal really compared to our monarchy when he buzzes around on a motorbike and he had journalists have drinks with him in bars you know he sort of buys them a beer it's it's very different and I think Diana liked this I mean Charles may have found that on formality a little difficult to deal with but but it was it was quite relaxing for Diana and the boys to be in that kind of atmosphere foreign test was the royal couple's first visit to the United States public interest was massive and the trip included being guests of honor at a glittering white house ball for Washington it was the social event of the decade [Music] of American arts and public life turned out to meet Diana who was welcomed by President Reagan your Royal highnesses sir Oliver and Lady Wright and Ambassador and Mrs price ladies and gentlemen Nancy and I are deeply honored to welcome the prince and princess of Wales to the White House permit me to add our congratulations the president was so taken with Diana's presence that he almost forgot her name and express also our great happiness that we have been able to have this affair with Princess David Princess Diane here on her first trip to the United States that we should be able to share in that first trip later Diana danced with John Travolta leaving her husband to explain what the experience had been like well another I'm not a glove puppet so I can't answer for that I'm afraid but I think I think you enjoyed it beneath it if she didn't enjoy dancing with John Travolta wouldn't she and why were the Press so fascinated by their every move there's nothing to me it's my wife here foreign [Applause] during a visit to the treasure houses of Britain exhibition Charles's disapproving tone went unnoticed by their American hosts although they did notice that Diana seemed distracted and unwell she was exhausted she hadn't eaten and was distressed by her husband's uncaring attitude towards her bulimia nervosa I'm not sure that many people really understand bulimia and I think that it is particularly difficult for the people who have to live with with those people who suffer from it I think Charles found it a very difficult thing I mean her moods were up and down one minute she was pleased with life and and optimistic and happy and the next minute hurling things about the place the problem is that if you live with somebody who day after day is like this who's constantly eating and then disappearing to the lou to Chuck up I just know that it was that it must be very difficult to be understanding and patient and reassuring and always there with the with the compassion that is needed day after day after day I'm told by psychiatrists that it's very difficult for husbands to understand when a woman's bulimic because they're simply repulsed by it the smell the the mess it's it's frightful nobody can understand why somebody would wish to do this to themselves and so he was very turned off by it he was physically turned off by it and I think that was the main reason why they stopped sleeping together bulimia has its roots in an unhappy childhood self-doubt and uncertainty in adolescence years later Diana was able to speak on behalf of fellow bulimia sufferers the illness they developed became their shameful friend by focusing their energies on controlling their bodies they had found a refuge from having to face the more painful issues at the center of their lives a way of coping albeit destructively and pointlessly but a way of coping with a situation they were finding unbearable [Music] in 1986 diamania took Japan by the throat when the royal couple visited the country in May its teeming population had watched The Royal Wedding on television and was now in the grip of a quite extraordinary enthusiasm [Applause] but the Japanese were blissfully unaware of Diana's difficulties I think to the Japanese she looked like the sort of European goddess of folklore because she was beautifully tall beautifully blonde beautifully dressed she was their absolute ideal European Beauty and the way she behaved and her gentleness and so on I think would also have appealed to them a great deal and she was an absolute wow you know the inscrutable Oriental cracked and they absolutely adored her and I remember going to Buddhist temples with her and the monks were all sort of falling over themselves taking photographs I mean anything less dignified you know chattering away there was meant to be virus of Silence but even they couldn't resist saying she's gorgeous [Music] Diana brought a movie star glamor to the role of Princess of Wales using clothes to express her personality and boost her self-confidence Diana enjoyed dressing for the part she did two things in Japan one she wore a dress a red a white silk dress with big red circles and it looked just like the Rising Sun on the Japanese flag and then the second thing she did later in the week is she wore a dress designed by a Japanese designer and up until that time he'd only seen her in British design clothes so it was her way of complimenting them [Music] foreign [Music] there's no doubt that Diana put British Fashion on the map I mean certainly the designers who dressed her Bellville Sassoon Victor Edelstein Catherine Walker they were really made by her patronage and people all around the world started buying their clothes and of course the emmanuels who designed her wedding dress were instantly transformed into Sensational designers foreign tours around the world they created a climate of Goodwill towards Britain whose brighter and better future they seem to represent [Music] Diana was a role model a heroine in Venice and elsewhere she was a superstar who became the most powerful image in a popular World culture [Music] like every other celebrity she fed and lived on her Public's emotions she wore their affection like a suit of armor she used it to defend herself against Charles's uncaring attitude towards her and to win the hearts of her adoring public he was reduced to a second-class royal citizen shots was the adulation I mean it was clear to see that nobody was remotely interested in him you know I mean he was just a bouquet carrier you know they'd walk down on a walkabout and you know they'd all sort of look over his shoulder while he was trying to talk to them to try and see if she was going to cross over and come down their side you know they they didn't want him at all you know and he'd say hello how are you and they'd say could you give this book hey to Dana please you know poor man I mean it was very humiliating for him you know and there were great Boos when he came over to their side of the street because they wanted Dana but she couldn't split herself in two indeed she made this comment you know she said she was sorry to disappoint but she couldn't be both sides of the road at the same time it was a magic but dangerous quality that set Diana apart from most other Royal performers but she was different from them in another way her vulnerability made her easy for the emotionally wounded to identify with a quality which Charles didn't possess Diana was aware how much her husband resented her popularity and that the fact that she upstaged him and so she was doing her best to prevent the problem but in the end she saw that it was useless and she just gave up yeah public adoration was actually the thing that kept Diana going she lived for it it was like a drug for her she she was overwhelmed by it when she first came to came to it when she she first became engaged to Charles she initially found it very difficult to cope with but once she'd got on top of it she actually found that it was it was tremendous foreign made her a beauty and a star [Music] maybe it was because she was so young and naive that she took part in the fairy tale wedding that everybody hoped and believed would be a success [Music] [Applause] framed picture of the prince hung in her dormitory at school her Destiny was to marry Prince Charles but not to stay in the Victorian era her proud father Earl Spencer recalled that one of her great strengths had been to cope with her public exposure she's very good-natured and it it doesn't worry her publicity doesn't worry her as you've seen from the way he's dealt with the Press she take it all in her stride I think she'd always be like that she's very practical dad I fell down to earth very practical very good housewife and incidentally when she was a baby she's a super physical specimen she'd run any baby price that was going what the Spencer family as I've said were one of the oldest families in Britain they were all very distinguished they all Rose to the very top while a lot of people were speculating was uh Lady Diana Spencer a suitable match for the Prince of Wales he Advanced the thought was he a suitable match for her given that uh you know the Windsor Family haven't been this country quite as long as the Spencers [Applause] long summer holidays in Scotland showed the royal family and a new light Diana became more guarded and less confident in her dealings with them [Music] in public the couple put on a happy face as rumors about their private life grew gloomier images of happier more promising days will live on in the nation's family album [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] on the darker side she had very little in common with the royal family I think before Princess of Wales had a very difficult time in that the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Royal don't tolerate people they consider fools and they are very sort of hard-headed and down to earth and so on and I think they considered her a little bit of a lightweight a little bit of a feather head the queen I think was absolutely thrilled with her because I think she fulfilled exactly what she wanted and that she was a nice girl the public loved her and she'd produce two sons and ours for the Prince of Wales and I'm sure the queen felt that you know she would make him happy Charles preferred the Solitude of the Scottish Countryside and painting she's a very Urban creature although she was brought up in the country she loves Society loves Pavements and Shops and and restaurants and being on the end of a telephone or meeting her friends so their life really was a million miles away from hers Diana and Charles were spending more and more time apart as an unhappy Royal wife of an unhappy Royal husband it was their decision to separate their lives and appeared together only in public and on family occasions the Press got wind of their estrangement and in 1987 published stories questioning the myth that the wales's marriage was a happy one but the fabrication didn't stop there Palace officials reassured the newspapers and the world that the stories were untrue the family home at Highgrove in gloucestershire was not surrounded by pressmen nor was the nearby Home of Charles's close friend Camilla Parker Bowles to whom Charles fled when the pressure got too great think if you've got a very unhappy relationship you always find somebody else's shoulder to cry on it it could be somebody of the same sex there was probably no one to talk to so he's going to lean on the shoulder of a friend and that friend happened to be a woman and a and I think probably Camilla probably saved Charles's sanity I think we should be grateful to her it all began to go wrong after the birth of Prince Harry um perhaps she was like any young wife she'd had a young family very quickly they hadn't had time to get to know each other after their wedding before she became pregnant it was it was too much Diana was exposed to too much stress in Too Short a time it was too much to cope with being transformed from a a nobody into a worldwide sensation overnight and she got engaged married pregnant all within nine months it was just too much for any woman [Music] there seemed no way out for Diana sucked into the myth and magic of the monarchy the LIE had to be maintained although the marriage was a sham it must not appear that way to the outside world [Music] Diana spent holidays alone with her children and her mother and sisters and attended her son's school sports day she extended her public role she supported the family unit and spoke on the subject of family values at a controversial conference in Brighton I doubt whether there is any standard formula for a successful family the family is after all the most human and hence the most imperfect of institutions instead I could only point to those mothers fathers and children in early isolation or in comfortable conformity who simply do their best with what they have Charles broke his arm playing Polo and Diana appeared publicly by his side when he left Hospital you sir but as soon as the Press was out of sight they parted and Charles returned to his home at Highgrove and close to Camilla his surrogate mother well a lot of a lot of people that know Charles quite well say that Camilla played that role she played the role of sort of mother Nanny Prince Charles had a nanny every moment of the day who loved him very very much and some research proves that as long as you have one adult figure that is always there and loves you very much it doesn't really matter if it's your mother your father or a nanny on an official visit to the Taj Mahal in India Diana sat alone in front of the Temple dedicated to eternal love Charles came here before his marriage to Diana and sat in the same spot he then vowed to return with his wife [Music] in Egypt Diana was again alone while Charles was on a private trip to Turkey [Music] Diana the Royal Ambassador at large was flying the flag for Britain in Pakistan she reached a new level of self-confidence [Music] she was beautiful now with the best will in the world the royal family are not beautiful she also brought great style the royal family have never been renowned for being the best dressed women in Britain have they they have other priorities so she brought the glamor to the royal family that they'd lacked for a very long time the queen always commanded affection but she was never perceived as gorgeous and that's what Diana brought she brought the glamor the mystery of majesty that elusive thing she was the fairy tale princess in April 1992 Diana's beloved father died unexpectedly a grieving Princess of Wales with other members of her family were joined by Charles in an emotional funeral service a simple bouquet of lilies and sweet peas summed up Diana's grief over the loss of her beloved father within months Andrew Morton's book appeared the whole sham of the royal marriage was out in the open the Press had a field day as the revelations confirmed Diana's bulimia and her unhappy marriage to Charles Camilla was exposed as Charles's Mistress of many years and Diana's own friend James gilby and many others were credited as having spilled the beans to Andrew Morton on top of this bugged telephone conversations were leaked to the Press The Strain was too much for Diana your effects are very sincerely philosophy of tender loving care the kids and always will be the Hallmark of this hospice at a hospice in Liverpool the Chairman's words reduced her to tears her nerves were stretched to Breaking Point when she went up to Liverpool I mean she remember she was bulimic and it ordered I mean her marriage had broken up the Andrew Morton book had come out everyone knew every detail of her private life she was completely stressed out I mean I think we were very lucky that she didn't end up in a in a hospital quite honestly and I think of course when someone shows you a little bit of kindness a new at breaking point it's very very normal to break down into tears foreign her composure Diana appeared with Charles at the Royal garter ceremony [Music] the public Revelations about her marriage had left their Mark and Diana was suspected in Royal Circles of cooperating with Andrew Morton as an act of desperation I think Diana felt there was no other way no other way to tell the world about her tragic personal life she felt that only public exposure could end her private ordeal and she was right because it certainly achieved that aim but perhaps the way she did it wasn't the wisest way it was certainly damaging to her children and it certainly made the royal family regard her as a traitor in their midst and from that day on I think her fate was sealed before the revelations plans had been made for Charles and Anna to make an official visit to Korea Dana agreed with the queen to accompany her estranged husband the Press hailed it as an opportunity for them to show some reconciliation in the event the body language said it all foreign it was a hideous moment when we walked into the prime ministers residents and the Prime Minister made a wonderful speech saying you are a beautiful couple and we are all delighted to welcome you well it was just so obvious that those words were exactly the wrong thing to say it was a classic textbook case of a warring couple they didn't speak to each other once in our presence they didn't even look at each other if they could avoid it I mean I can't remember seeing them look at each other like in London Diana and Charles attended The Royal Variety performance together [Music] this was the last time they were seen in public before prime minister John Major made an announcement to the House of Commons it is announced from Buckingham Palace that with regret the prince and princess of Wales have decided to separate their Royal highnesses have no plans to divorce and their constitutional positions are unaffected this decision has been reached amicably and they will both to continue to participate fully in the upbringing of their children the strain of being thought to be living happily in a glorious land of tiaras and titles and happy endings was in fact too much to bear for Diana thank you she had fought for an independent Life as a career princess and exposed the fairy tale as fiction I think had the two of them paid more attention to each other and taken more care of each other and the situation I think Diana could have been a good wife for him what I think happened and where it went so wrong was because she was so young her head was turned by the stardom and she had great difficulty in coping with that he meanwhile had great difficulty in coping with a nose that was put very badly out of joint by by having the Limelight stolen from him using the Limelight Diana made a speech about eating disorders I'm supposed to have my head down the Louvre for most of the day it was clear that she had completely recovered from her bulimia free at last from her shameful friend I'm supposed to be dragged off in a minute with men in white coats so so if it's all right with you I thought I might postpone my nervous breakdown to a more appropriate moments [Applause] he was turned off physically by Diana but he was also tired of somebody who made so many demands on him he was a very selfish man who led a a life that he where he did exactly as he pleased when a wife and children came along he wasn't willing to make the sacrifices give them the attention that they deserved and that wrinkled with Diana and she was constantly reminding him of that [Music] it is a remarkable feat for a young woman to graduate from unqualified Nursery teacher into a unique player on the world stage [Music] [Applause] foreign she believed her husband had rejected her love refusing to suffer in silence she broke with royal tradition and fought back she tried but failed to modernize the monarchy she bought a magic that they left there was no young glamorous woman in their ranks when Dinah came along they desperately needed her and they didn't know it at the time the world took to her immediately with her freshness her naivety her wonderful figure long lovely legs blonde good looks blue eyes and a willingness to to enjoy all that part of the role in fact we wanted her so much that we we willed Charles to marry her and the rest as they say is history he went along with it we all thought she was so perfect the the I think the the the stories at the time that we wrote said that she had all the qualities for a queen and she did she was just ideal for the role but she wasn't ideal for Charles and that was the tragedy [Music] her marriage made her a beauty and a heroine in a revolutionary move she changed from victim to Star [Music] [Music] she is still the mother of the heir to the throne her influence over Prince William will take the monarchy into the next century she'll continue to support her charitable causes and play an important role in the lives of Ordinary People [Music] like many women of her time she's discovered that her career has given her the confidence to act more decisively in her own private life [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] Sydney Australia November 1996 police and the Press are on full alert foreign [Music] for the guests and dignitaries gathering at the Sydney entertainment center this is the most prized entry in the social calendar the night they dine with Diana she has come to speak at the Victor Chang cardiac Research Institute dinner in honor of Australia's top heart surgeon murdered in 1991. she Praises Chang as an original thinker whose mind was not fixed on the traditional way of doing things her words have a telling transcript to the house of Windsor for whom there is no other way than the traditional foreign [Music] last visited Sydney in 1988 with her husband for the bicentenary celebrations this is her first visit to Australia as the divorced wife of the heir to the throne and there's an air of expectancy about the place technically [Music] Lord Archer who is advised her at some of the most critical moments of her public life believes her appeal is undiminished by her altered status we're talking about a superstar here he's immensely popular worldwide she's a highly attractive woman and comes over to the man in the woman in the street as a caring decent person and there's no getting away from this you can't suddenly invent her the next day and so nobody loves her we don't care any longer I think the problem is that Princess Diana will live to 90. and this isn't going to go away today that level of Interest has not changed the crowd still turn out to see her talk to her touch her she's returned to the country she once toured in Triumph as future Queen when she came in 1983 with Prince Charles her appeal was one of the strongest weapons in the palace Armory the house of Windsor did not hesitate to show off the young Princess to the former dominions Australia New Zealand and Canada where the queen is head of state in her Panorama interview Diana said of the 1983 visit we had a six-week tour four weeks in Australia and two in New Zealand by the end when we flew back to Britain I was a different person I realized the sense of Duty the level of intensity of interest and the demanding role I now found myself in that demanding role was already taking its toll on the young princess she was suffering from postnatal depression after the birth of William and from bulimia an eating disorder foreign [Applause] years later and now fully recovered Diana Princess of Wales is a woman in her prime elegant glamorous and unequaled wearer of fabulous gowns composed in control and very popular [Music] foreign [Music] despite her divorce from Charles Diana still hopes to become a roving Ambassador for Britain what she wanted what she has striven to achieve over the last year is to be allowed to go around the world and represent Britain in the way she has represented Britain in the past but with the support knowing that there would be the support of the government to help organize trips and so on that hasn't been forthcoming it's been the consequence of the divorce therefore that she's done her trips on her own privately individually back in 1983 the Wales were immensely popular who could have guessed that their marriage had been anything other than a love match it was a message that the royal family and their courtiers were Keen to convey [Music] [Applause] the warmth which greeted the princess enhanced her husband's image together Charles and Diana were a dynamic partnership underneath Diana was learning to cope with insuperable pressures while still full of doubt and lacking self-esteem the root cause of bulimia which blighted the marriage had William been left in Britain Diana may have been unable to cope with this long separation from her newborn son however Malcolm Fraser the Australian Premier arranged a temporary base for William so that Diana could be close to her baby but on a trip to Canada later that year Dinah was compelled to leave William behind the pressure on her was mounting her suffering kept undercover asked on Panorama if she had felt she had to perform Diana said I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down in turn the public supported her carrying her through the difficult times but bulimia had taken over her life on a tour of Expo 1986 in Canada Diana fainted in public she had been surviving on a diet of Mars Bars Charles was embarrassed by her failure to maintain Royal decorum Diana's bulimia had its roots in an unhappy childhood as a child Diana had grown up next door to the royal family at Park House on the Sandringham estate [Music] she was a girl much above the ordinary the youngest daughter of the eighth Earl Spencer she was the flower of British aristocracy it seemed a protected Charmed Life but the family split after parental Rouse when Dana was six Her Mother Francis left home the children remained in their father's custody [Music] Dinah went to boarding school where she excelled at sport and music coming home for events such as her sister James wedding to the Queen's assistant private secretary Robert fellows a crucial link to Diana's future [Music] you take it only has tried I think you'd always be like that she's very practical Dad I've been down to earth very practical very good housewife and incidentally when she was a baby she was a superb physical specimen she'd run any baby prize there was going dispensers left Park House in 1975 when Diana's grandfather the seventh Earl died her father inherited the title and a hundred-roomed ancestral Mansion Ultra Palace in northamptonshire [Music] the Spencer line can be traced back to the Normans and Beyond there are links to Charles II Diana's family can boast more English blood than the Germanic House of Windsor The Honorable Diana Spencer became Lady Diana Spencer entering adult life fully aware of her aristocratic background I called my daughter Donna after her because she's one of the old family names of the middle of the 18th century there have been links with a monarchy and with the nation as a whole since the 17th century ready because one of my answers was firstly prime minister to three kings Charles II James II and William and Mary and ever since then there'll be very close links with the royal family I mean Queen Mary was one of my cobbers Prince of Wales those days was one of my Godfathers and my mother was a lady in waiting and now my daughter has married Prince of Wales [Music] becoming Princess of Wales was a dynastic prize when Diana won it her father's pride and Delight was without bounds on that glorious July Morning almost none of the world's 750 million television viewers had any idea of the truth behind the wedding of the century front row privilege in Saint Paul's Cathedral was given to Diana's closest friend Sarah Ferguson who knew many of her secrets with Diana's maternal grandmother lady fermoy were her sisters Jane and Sarah they knew of Diana's fears the day before the wedding and had comforted her joking your face is on the tea towels so you're too late to chicken out now [Music] as mother of the bride Francis shunned kids still strikingly attractive returned in Triumph to the court which had virtually exiled her after her bitter divorce from Diana's father Diana's grandmother lady for Moy are close Confidant to the royal family had serious doubts about Diana's suitability as a royal wife well she certainly said so to people yes but I think that that's the nature of being a courtier that unfortunately you don't tell your employers what they don't want to hear ever the consummate courtier lady vermeer's loyalty to the royal family and particularly to her friend the queen mother was absolute in their minds Diana was the right choice for Charles I think that's perhaps wrong to say it was an arranged marriage and just because everybody wanted it doesn't mean to say it was arranged I think the Prince of Wales convinced himself that he loved her and I think she certainly was in love with him whether she was actually really in love with him as a person or whether she was in love with the whole Mystique of him being Prince of Wales I don't know she certainly went into it willingly it was absolutely determined to marry him I mean she didn't know about Camilla but I think she thought she could win him over I don't I I really don't think anybody would have deterred her and I think although he did have his doubts he thought it was his duty and that really she was ideal and he must go ahead with it I mean I think she's changed a great deal and I think it was a great shock for her to discover she couldn't really make her husband love her and they were actually completely unsuited I don't know if you remember that interview they gave and um you know Prince Charles saying oh that she was absolutely perfect and loved the country and all this kind of thing and I mean it turned out of course she wasn't like that at all and so they didn't have a single interest in common some of the central participants knew all was not as it seemed the bride and grew his parents and Robert runsey Archbishop of Canterbury who married them claimed the wedding was the stuff that fairy tales are made of later he told his biographer that he believed it was an arranged marriage that the couple were ill-matched that Charles was marrying primarily to produce an heir to the throne but he hoped Diana would grow into the role both families had achieved an excellent piece of dynastic Family Planning the queen had satisfactorily married off her 32-year-old son and the divided Spencers had seen their daughter marry into royalty saying goodbye to him on a trip to Australia the sad truth was beginning to intrude on her Romantic Dreams the warning signals had been ignored Diana was left sobbing Charles had just taken a goodbye call from his mistress Camilla Parker Bowles from the start Diana was the focus of much public attention a foretaste of Greater pressures to come Diana later accused of manipulating the Press was a recent convert to the game all that mattered to her then was being part of the dynamic duo the good team for Charles the media was there to serve his interests those years the cameras poking at you from every quarter and recording every twitch you make so you can get used to a certain extent and on those occasions you accept that that's part of it I think if you don't try to work out in your own mind some kind of method for existing and surviving this kind of thing you you would get mad I think so in the end you do get used to but I don't know if you find that our last six months you're beginning to get used to it just it is I suppose one of the most important things you're going to have to adjust to really isn't it of course yeah and Prince Charles has been a great help too Tower of strength whatever support Charles gave was clearly insufficient one person who might have guided her through the time she now calls the Dark Ages was Princess Grace of Monaco based on her own experience of a life under the microscope Grace took the nervous girl aside and gently warned her don't worry dear it will get worse please when Grace died tragically after a stroke which caused fatal injuries in a car crash in September 1982 Diana personally asked the queen for permission to represent her at the funeral privately Diana was unable to Bear the pressures of her life a few months after her wedding she threw herself down the stairs at Sandringham to have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help but it's the wrong help you're asking for people see it as crying wolf or attention seeking and they think because you're in the media all the time you've got enough attention inverted comments but I was actually crying out I wanted to get better in order to go forward and continue my duty and my role as wife mother princess at Wales Diana wanted to remold herself into a visible Queen in the making at the state opening of parliament in 1984 she appeared with her hair in an upswept Chino but the publicity eclipsed the serious nature of the occasion Princess Margaret scolded her saying don't ever upstage the queen again Charles's friends criticized her appearance columnist Gene Rook accused Diana of becoming a living daily recycled Barbie doll Dinah is still nicknamed Barbie by some of the enemy camp Charles spent more time hunting and playing Polo Diana suspected that this was an excuse to see more of Camilla as these occasions were written into his diary before any public engagements were added [Music] foreign ER and Charles still put on a show of affection in public privately they behaved with the politeness of strangers Queen Alexandra put up with what King Edward VII did we are living in a different age and women have different expectations um so I think it was rather difficult for somebody who wasn't brought up in Royal circles to cope with this situation uh very probably if he'd married a foreign princess she would have just you know looked away turned a blind eye to what was going on and just regarded as her duty to keep the whole thing going these were turbulent years for Diana she turned for help to a series of friends advisors and astrologers Sarah Ferguson The Duchess of York recalls in her book my story that at Balmoral Diana was teary and reclusive and out of sorts Diana's father was a vital prop in these difficult times when her marriage was disintegrating sadly he died in March 1992 his funeral was a harrowing occasion for all his family Prince Charles arrived Just In Time by helicopter following an alleged private meeting with Camilla Earl Spencer had lived on borrowed time after a brain hemorrhage and seeing William the air in line growing up was precious to him as he recalled in a television interview William was five yesterday I thought of that I might not have been there but I was there and ibra ring him up and talked to him on his fifth birthday which was great fun great day for him great day for him he was Cinema lovely present and everybody has a happy day and hope to hear all about it from him later on Diana's family history had been marred by feuds she her sisters and brother disliked rain their stepmother although today she is one of Diana's circle of strong women friends Charles did not add his name to Diana's touching floral tribute his message was attached to a wreath sent by the queen and Prince Philip Charles attended our Spencer's memorial service with his wife and sons the show of togetherness was deceptive Charles had felt obliged to join Diana for appearances say could others spend the family gatherings in the past [Music] on his father's death Diana's brother Charles became Earl Spencer he took control at allthrop and later married the model Victoria Lockwood Prince Charles accompanied Diana to their wedding in 1989. [Music] their marriage ended in separation after the fragile Victoria became unable to cope with her problems they too fell prey to the Spencer family curse of unhappy marriages on holiday with King Juan Carlos of Spain and his family diners frailties left her struggling to hide her unhappiness and her bulimia whilst projecting a happy family image out of Duty unloved by her husband Diana found comfort in the arms of a young Officer James Hewitt his looks are strikingly reminiscent of her father as a Young Man Diana's love affair with James Hewitt lasted on and off for five years when she addressed the wives of the Gulf War soldiers in 1991 Dinah was thinking of her lover Hewitt then a tank commander in the Gulf often in the line of fire that I could say which will fill that Gap in your life and to say that I along with so many others at her understand and sympathize with you at this time sounds very inadequate and rather too easy but it is the least I can do and I do feel for you with all my heart Diana admitted her affair with Hewitt 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 despite what was going on privately in their lives Diana still obeyed the whims of Palace and government accompanying Charles on foreign tours to fly the flag for Britain and the monarchy she admitted she had suffered from rampant bulimia in these years eating in public especially a large number of lavish courses at a banquet put her under particular pressures but friction in the marriage grew over Diana's escalating popularity Diana claimed that Charles was a proud man he found her ascendants too hard to bear and he ended the double Act anxious to protect the public from the truth a propaganda campaign was mounted to Discount stories of serious problems the palace insisted that a marriage which Charles now admits had irretrievably broken down by 1986 was happy and wholesome Sarah Bradford believes the deception was unwise it was much more of a shock once everything came out wasn't it but I think that whatever happened it would have been very bad because after we all had this fairy tale image didn't we and then when the facts came out I think everybody was very pretty shocked it was that a polo match in India that Diana stopped pretending expecting to kiss his wife she deftly turned her head away the big lie was being exposed Diana had an ally and her friend The Duchess of York they had shared many confidences before marrying into the house of Windsor and as sisters-in-law understood each other's distress unknown to the public they had made a pact to leave their husbands that spring both deeply unhappy Diana and Fergie had resolved to break from Palace control and begin afresh in a search for happiness which had so far eluded them foreign 1992 Fergie unceremoniously left the royal family but Diana waited she had her secret weapon already primed a group of friends had told the hidden side of her marriage to the author Andrew Morton whose book would be published that summer one of those friends was her former flatmate Carolyn Pride Diner attended her wedding to William Bartholomew and became godmother to their son Carolyn had witnessed the personal destruction Diana's exalted marriage had caused when the Morton book came out so I'm told that the princess's friends talked to Andrew Morton because they felt that the truth should be told about this marriage that it was a sham and they all thought I'm told that the princess would then leave the royal family and to have another life but this didn't happen and I don't know whether she looked into the abyss and thought I don't know that I want to go that I I want to be separated but I don't want to go and so she backtracked Diana chose to send symbolic messages to reinforce the story she knew would soon be told she visited the Taj Mahal where Charles had posed in 1981 shortly before his wedding she called her visit a healing experience the dynastic marriage that had been presented to the world as a love story had proved disastrous for both parties after Diana her true story the royal family faced an escalating drama but with hindsight could have prevented the Final Act I think most of us feel perhaps that they should have been told to get on with it I think there has been a problem of communication and I think that people who find it very difficult to say tell the Prince of Wales what they think he should do the Queen's not given to probing into other people's private lives and that includes the lives of her children um I think she was taken by surprised and very upset um that it wasn't working out Diana's grandmother lady fermoy had told others that Diana was an actress and a schemer she died in 1993 and had been The crucial link to the royal family through her friendship with the Queen Mother lady fermoy had fallen out with her granddaughter Diana over the Morton book but they were reconciled shortly before her death the old lady also patched up a long Rift with her daughter Francis dating from her divorce when lady fermoy had testified against her over the custody of the children Charles genuinely grieved for Ruth for Moy she had given him and the royal family the kind of unquestioning loyalty he expected from his wife after exposing the Sham marriage in Diana her true story Diana suffered reprisals a tape of an intimate conversation between Diana and an old friend James gilby was made public her friendships with other men were also made public a series of phone calls made to the art dealer Oliver Hall were leaked to the media her relationship with rugby player will Carling became Front Page News shortly afterwards he's separated from his wife Julia after the publication of the notorious Camilla gate tape Diana found her role increasingly marginalized as Charles's office orchestrated a relaunch campaign [Music] following a disastrous tour of Korea in November 1992 the Wales would never again be sent abroad as joint representatives for Britain John Major brokered a deal whereby the warring couple would live separately but would preserve the official side of their union he hoped that with Arrangement Diana could still become Queen are unaffected [Music] the princess still appeared with the royal family at important events such as the state visit of the king of Malaysia look at this guy foreign [Music] [Music] this is the last time Diana joined the house of Windsor for such an occasion her potential as a great Queen consort all too sadly evident foreign [Music] has said in her own words that in her marriage three was a crowd and the dominance of Camilla Parker Bowles had grown to the extent that Charles was prepared to place his affair with her in the public domain Charles's cooperation with Jonathan dimbleby for a candid television interview and biography took the princess in the palace by surprise did you try to be faithful and honorable to your wife when you took on the vow of marriage yes absolutely and were you yes until it became irretrievably broken down Diana's decision in December 1993 to withdraw at least temporally from public life climaxed with a dramatic speech which she planned to make at a charity function the palace and the prime minister's office maneuvered behind the scenes to make sure she was stage managed as smoothly as possible her friend Lord Archer's role was to steer her through this traumatic event we got her on stage at the end of the meeting and I introduced her and I simply said her Royal Highness Princess of Wales would like to make a statement and she was trembling and she was in she was very very the whole thing was her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales would like to make a short statement your Royal Highness [Applause] and gentlemen it is a great pleasure to be here with you sharing in your successes of the past year when I started my public life 12 years ago I understood the media might be interested in what I did I realized then their attention would inevitably focus on both our private and public lives but I was not aware of how overwhelming that attention would become nor the extent to which it would affect both my public duties and my personal life in a manner that's been hard to bear at the end of this year when I've completed my diary of official engagements I will be reducing the extent of the public life I've LED so far obviously I attach great importance to my charity work and I intend to focus on a smaller range of areas in the future 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 my first priority will continue to be our children William and Harry who deserve as much love and care and attention as I am able to give as well as an appreciation of the tradition into which they were born I would like to add that this decision has been reached with a full understanding of the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh who have always shown me kindness and support I hope you can find it in your hearts to understand and to give me the time and space that has been lacking in recent years I couldn't stand here today and make this sort of statement without acknowledging the heartfelt support I've been given by the public in general your kindness and affection has carried me through some of the most difficult periods and always your love and care has eased that Journey and for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart I mean this was pin dropping stuff because they hadn't been expecting it they'd come to celebrate a charity function they hadn't expected her a constitutional announcement and they burst into thunderous of laws and I could see her trembling thank you your Royal Highness I know I speak for all of us when I say we sympathize with the decision you have taken whatever course your life now takes be assured there are many Charities and individuals all over the world who will remain grateful for the dedicated service and care you have brought to everything you do on behalf of those people who cannot be with us today thank you ladies and gentlemen a Royal Highness the Princess of Wales Lord Archer took control of the situation follow me Mom walk down into the audience and shoot us followed and they remained standing and cheered her all out of the room took her back to the palace and I remember leaving the palace I don't know 20 minutes later thinking God form she's gone through all of that now she's on her own and now and they're at all I mean no one is not as if I mean I suppose some people who read stories about princesses think there are hundreds of people running around getting food and turning on televisions and bringing people in to meet her there was one man who I think was called the accurate and he left at six so she she's in this great big house all on her own and I remember going back to my wife and saying you know would it be lovely to take her to dinner of course we can't you can't ring up a princess and say would you like to come to dinner but I I remember that evening vividly thinking she must be very lonely and then I reported what had happened during the day back to the Prime Minister and that was the end of it she and her typical good man she's beautifully manageable sent a handwritten note round here the next day with a small present saying thank you for taking care of me during the day again typical of her beautiful manners Diana returned to public life the following year the need to honor the Brave and the dead of World War II meant that she took her place with other Royals on commemorative occasions seen behaving with respect and dignity at these sad remembrances alongside the queen there is a sense of loss Diana is the queen that never was [Music] the queen had persuaded Diana to stay within the royal family after the Morton book the official separation was meant to be permanent however three years later the queen changed her view divorce was inevitable this shot Diana when it was eventually announced I don't want to divorce but obviously we need Clarity on a situation that has been of enormous discussion over the last three years in particular so all I say to that is that I await my husband's decision or which way we are all going to go Diana did not agree to her divorce until February 1996 when she could no longer continue defying the queen whose letter sent in December had the private force of a royal command Diana told friends she felt under pressure to get out well I don't think she was removed from the royal family after all I think she removed herself although perhaps in the end she changed her mind and didn't want to get divorced and I think made it plain that she didn't um over the years I think she'd given the impression certainly that she wanted out and I think as always in these divorce situations who wants to make the first move because the person who makes the most move has to pay the most usually I think that's perfectly true she didn't want to divorce she saw no need to divorce she felt that the separate state of the separation status gave her a position still it was important to the to William and Harry everything Charles and Dan have done has been for William and Harry and there was therefore no need to to rush into a divorce I mean I think that most people thought to be quite Frank that the queen should have banged their heads together longer and said well you know there you are you must get on with it after we're not talking about two people who live cheap by jowl in a tower block and have no personal space plenty of room for that so the trouble was it just went on until it was poisonous as part of her divorce settlement Diana received 15 million pounds at their final meeting she dissuaded Charles from having a note taker present she told him she had always loved him she had no regrets about marrying him and she was agreeing to a divorce against her wishes she was an asset we could never have dreamed would be so good and you see it when the crowds turn out and their reaction to her I think of most people and that may be wrong but my reading is that most people are very sorry about the divorce they're very sad about the divorce they would have liked that to go on they would have liked them to go on as Prince and Princess of Wales with the divorce hopes of Diana becoming Queen ended she had claimed that the establishment she married into saw her as a non-starter for Queen her huge pulling power abroad did not secure her future at home I'd like to be a queen of people's hearts in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country if she doesn't want to be Queen she doesn't want to be Queen we'll say that she doesn't um like the idea I personally would have thought she would rather good at it thus as she's been extremely good at being a Princess of Wales in 1992 and still an official member of the royal family Diana appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the last time on her divorce the queen removed the title her Royal Highness it was an unpopular move as the mother of of a future king she should be accorded the title hrh her Royal Highness others decided that it was not to be but it looked more and more like a an act of punishment really for the way the princesses behaved Dan of course indicated at the start of the process back in February 1996 that she would be willing to give up her title because she felt she she was taking a back seat from now on but I think she always hoped that they would never come to that I think she felt that she needed to have that title principally as I say for Prince William and Prince Harry's thing once you are divorced you are after all no longer a real member of the family are you in anybody's family this is true and therefore you're no longer in there if you'll have right to that title but um I think that it did appear Petty and there is also the problem of her being the mother of the Future King and so some people thought that it would have been better to have left the hrh [Music] when she heard that she would no longer be her Royal Highness Diana cut over a hundred Charities of which she was Royal Patron or president her presence will be sadly missed and her love and affection will never be replaced foreign [Music] it meant an awful lot to the status she felt of her Charities and it was because of that the removal of the title that in fact she decided to cut so severely back on all her charity work and her charity commitments foreign the campaign for a better understanding of AIDS also found a sympathetic supporter very early on Diana was not afraid of controversial issues public concern and confusion about the facts had been growing but pictures like this did more than a thousand reassuring words from doctors [Music] now officially out of the royal family Diana's future role is uncertain on a private trip to Argentina she had hoped to improve relations with Britain some felt that she lacked The Diplomatic training and experience for such a mission no matter how well she was received foreign [Music] formal role Diana's foreign trips can leave her open to political wrangling this was the case when Diana accompanied her friend Jemima Khan to her husband imran's Hospital in Pakistan there are problems I mean there was that business when she went to see Imran and Jemima Khan in Pakistan and got felt involved in politics that you didn't mean to but simply by the act of going to see them that was regarded as a political act in Pakistan so she's not really wise enough in the ways of diplomacy to get herself along in this sort of situations Diana's International Acclaim is particularly evident in the United States this is one of the nicest British invasions that the White House has ever had it's because she is a woman who has had a tireless commitment to the homeless to AIDS cancer leprosy and other health issues Hillary Clinton is one of the strong women who give Diana inspiration as her life changes Diana has moved into a new circle of friends women with International experience one is Lady Elsa Boca the Widow of a British Ambassador her diplomatic advice is invaluable to Diana another discreet friend is british-born magazine editor Liz tilburus a constant companion in New York [Music] foreign divorced and stripped of her title Diana is still treated in public like royalty although many close to the royal family see her as an outlaw An Inconvenient woman Now cast aside by the most powerful family on Earth I don't think she has a great deal of contact with her royal family but of course she cannot isolate herself totally from him and she's always going to be part of them because of the mother as the mother of William and Harry so she will still be seen albeit increasingly rarely I think with the royal family on certain State occasions when William and Harry are there too but there isn't a great deal of contact that there really there really doesn't need to be I don't think they want a great deal of contact with her and she doesn't want a great deal of contact with them for Diana Christmas and Easter will mean separations from her children who spend those holidays with the queen who is grooming William for kingship I think that he'll be properly trained and I think that what you know if you have that position or have those privileges you just get on with it on his accession to the throne in years to come William might restore the title hrh taken from his mother on her divorce maybe Prince William one day King William might feel differently and it's in his pass attitude because the king or the queen is the founder of all on a level they can do what they want for this every man she's seen with is viewed as a potential husband Diana's personal life is often the subject of conjecture Lord Mega Rich wonderful and it is very difficult because how does any mom cope with being um Mr Princess Diana it's a terrific problem for her she had an unhappy first marriage she'd like to make a very happy second marriage perhaps she'd like to have another family but I don't think she's going to rush into it I mean this has been and it was an extraordinary marriage for an extraordinary experience and it took an extraordinary long time to get out of when it all went wrong so I suppose next time she's got to try and pick the right man and she has said herself she's always been a very bad picker Diana's role has been snatched away she has no husband and no official Duty she is a woman alone as Survivor of Misfortune whose message of Hope is intertwined with a renewed belief in herself following her success since divorce there is a chance that the royal family will realize the value of their lost princess and draw her back into the theater of monarchy foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you she was the most famous woman on Earth from fairy tale bride to estranged Royal wife and divorce mother Diana captivated hearts and headlines foreign but behind the public facade of Royal Duty was a hidden secret life of marital betrayal between Diana's spectacular wedding and her televised Revelations of adultery lay a saga of turmoil and Court rivalry at the center of it all was one woman Camilla Parker Bowles Charles found his young wife very different from the worldly women he had known before her actress Susan George was one Zoe Salis was another there was Lady Tryon wife of a close friend she also claimed an affair with Charles divorce e Jane Ward was a girl he could date but not marry Diana seemed perfect but proved vengeful capable of Performing her royal duties while plotting to undermine her husband the aristocratic Diana had grown into a beguiling teenager by her engagement in 1981. she linked her Spencer Dynasty to the Royal House of Windsor but by the time of her father's death 11 years later her marriage had entered its terminal phase Charles's enduring love for Camilla and Diana's consequent Affairs tore apart the royal couple their misery was evident on this their last tour together in Korea in 1992. the last banquet the final duties abroad for the couple who were once the great hope of the British Monarchy they lived Separate Lives Diana took comfort from other men including a bodyguard just five years after her dream wedding she had a long affair with a Cavalry officer the only adulterous relationship she ever admitted in public there was an intense closeness with an old friend a private phone call was secretly taped and became known as squidgygate she was linked to a famous rugby player and blamed for the end of his marriage she fell in love with a married art dealer and played his home with hundreds of Silent phone calls after her divorce she wanted to marry a heart surgeon and finally there was a Summer Romance with the Playboy which ended with their tragic deaths despite her Affairs this is the Diana people prefer to remember the Princess of Wales a woman with inimitable style and charm she was the jewel in the crown one of the Royal Family's greatest assets after her marriage failed Diana looked for different directions in her life ladies and gentlemen I'm immensely proud to be here in New York tonight with you all she became an international campaigner against land mines she visited countries on behalf of major charities [Music] and to attend official functions but as a semi Samuel her life lacked definition the decided to use her Fame to help the world's disadvantaged and afflicted December 1995 in New York she won the humanitarian of the Year award for her charity work in the same month the queen wrote to Diana recommending divorce in the United States Diana found the warmth and acceptance she felt lacking in the Royal Court which sided with Charles the this was not the way she imagined her life would become when she and Charles faced the Press on their engagement day Ana later said at the age of 19 you always think you're prepared for everything and you think you have knowledge of what's coming ahead she scarcely understood Charles's complex personality he was a Cambridge graduate she left school at 16. he'd had Torrid romances some with married women she had no previous lovers Charles was 12 years her senior Diana was almost a child this nearly mirrored the age gap between Diana's parents when they married her father was 30 her mother just 18. Diana's Mother Francis seen here with baby Diana shocked Society by leaving home and family for another man I think that no's mother could be described as a hot-headed and strong-willed and indeed she proved that really by running off with the second husband Peter Shan kid at a time when this was very unusual behavior you might have Mistresses lovers Etc but you stuck with the family and stuck together a bitter divorce and a child custody battle left Diana her sisters and brother with their father a former Equity to the queen her sister Jane's marriage to the Queen's assistant private secretary kept them close to the Royal Court bridesmaid Diana had an idealized vision of her own future she was brought up she was very sophisticated even for her age in those days and I mean that's just the ideal she lived with she said to lots of people you know I'm going to get married and have lots of children and we'll always be together Diana who failed her school exams became a kindergarten assistant in London she met Charles then dating her sister Sarah at the family's ancestral home old Thorpe I'm sort of mentioned previously what did you what did you think then what was your instant impression both of you well I remember thinking what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16 year old she was and I mean great fun and fancy and full of life and everything and um I don't know what you thought of me it was pretty amazing the Press chased Diana during her brief courtship with Charles they were convinced that at last he had found his future bride very few previous girls had been serious contenders Davina Sheffield was presumed suitable but her romance with Charles ended when a past Affair was revealed [Music] respectable Jane Wellesley a Duke's daughter was an early favorite with a bachelor Prince after he left University he was very uptight he was very worried about getting caught with his trousers down and those days he was very dutiful about doing all the right things being the Prince of Wales not in besmirching the family reputation in any way and so he's highly nervous about even approaching girls so it had to be the other way around and any woman who could actually grab him by the scrap of the neck and drag him into the bedroom was going to win every time Charles had a select circle of friends who also enjoyed his favorite sports hunting skiing and Polo it was through Polo that Charles met the woman who would dominate his life she was then dating one of his closest friends Camilla Shand was from the county set not Noble enough to marry a prince in the early 70s but discreet enough to be a lover she had an earthiness he found irresistible the polo fields around Windsor were just filled with these girls who were absolutely desperate to get into to bed with Prince Charles but the only people that he really looked at were the girls who were a bit unusual and certainly Camilla was one of those and she turned up wearing a pair of jeans held up with a safety pin and her hair was all over the place and there was that magnetic attraction the duty intervened and Charles's Naval career beckoned after a brief and heady Affair he left Camilla for the high seas with Charles gone she resumed her longtime romance with army officer Andrew Parker Bowles marrying him in 1973. he was a very attractive man regarded in high society as a good catch Andrew Parker Bowles was supposed to be the best lay in London and she had been trying to grab him for years and years in fact by the time that Prince Charles bumped into Camilla she'd been going out on and off with Andrew Parker Bowles for six years she was six years of a seven-year campaign into trying to get Andrew Parker Bowles up the aisle she knew she could never bury Prince Charles because she wasn't a virgin she was not sufficiently aristocratic enough and she knew Jolly well that the courtiers who were looking for a wife for Prince Charles wanted somebody whose face could go on a postage stamp and hers was no photographic portrait knowing Charles had to marry Camilla championed the innocent Diana hoping she wouldn't threaten their relationship the engagement interview shows the difference in Charles and Diana's feelings and I I'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me on and I suppose in love gross whatever in love Charles loved two women Diana was besotted with him alone the Royal Roadshow began while they were engaged although nervous Diana soon established an easy Rapport especially with children [Music] her first mistake was a choice of dress she wore a strapless low-cut gown to accompany Charles to a music recital at the Goldsmith Hall London the dress was considered too daring and the wrong color she said later I hadn't appreciated that I was now seen as royalty Black to me was the smartest color you could possibly have at the age of 19. it was a real grown-up dress camera angles made the dress too revealing it was fit for a film star but not a future Queen should have been given advice beforehand because actually it's a well-known Royal principle that you do not wear black except in the morning um so that's the one she shouldn't have done and number two of course the flock was um a disaster when you think that the photographer is all going to be clearing down her decolletage and that was something that was picked at the last moment I think Princess Grace of Monaco was a guest of honor she jokingly warned the nervous Diana don't worry dear it'll get a lot worse Diana would receive Little Help from her husband's family Princess Margaret liked her very much and did help her and did show her things like you know where to put your handbag how to get out that sort of practical thing but on the whole she was just expected to get on with it the months before The Royal Wedding were fraught with tension Diana grew jealous of Camilla and uncertain about her own role as the Princess of Wales this was one of the of Diana's problems that nobody rushed forward to help her nobody seemed to have really thought out a role for her Beyond walking up the aisle at Saint Paul's Cathedral the Spencers were a proud and Noble Dynasty more English and aristocratic than the Germanic House of Windsor Diana's mother had tried to warn her about marrying Charles's Royal position rather than the man who could say that her family was certainly more English or British than the winters and I think in a way the family would have looked themselves as more aristocratic and possibly I think this has been down the ages aristocratic view of the Winds was that the rather middle class Diana said of her wedding I had such hopes in my heart but just days beforehand she'd almost called it off because of her fears over Camilla [Music] and walking down the aisle of Saint Paul's Cathedral Diana had spotted her rival among the congregation Camilla would become the third person in the marriage swept Along by the occasion Diana hoped that Camilla belonged to the past but as the royal couple left for their honeymoon there was another reminder of Charles's mistress leading the official escort group was Camilla's husband Cavalry officer Andrew Parker Bowles a longtime friend of Charles's sister Princess Anne he remained part of the Gilded circle at the Royal Court years later people would joke that Andrew laid down his wife for his country by ignoring her affair with Charles she knew that the best she could be was Prince Charles's mistress but she was determined when she got Charles into bed that she would remain Prince Charles's mistress she saw that she could do that and have Andrew at the same time get married to Andrew have Andrew's children and still be the Prince of Wales his number one mistress on honeymoon aboard the Royal yacht Britannia Diana discovered the hold Camilla had over her bridegroom Charles had kept photographs of Camilla and a gift of cufflinks engraved with their initials the newlyweds left Britannia and went to Scotland Diana's hopes were dashed and she no longer trusted her husband Dinah was deeply suspicious about Charles and Camilla she couldn't always tell when they were together but she could sense it she had exosensory perception she was a remarkable woman in that way and uh I don't believe that she knew that the night before the royal wedding that Charles and Camilla were together in bed in Buckingham Palace after the ball but she could sense it she knew that they were still talking the evidence was there that Camilla knew what Dinah's movements were and she I think could only live in the hope that once she actually got her husband away on honeymoon that everything would change she really believed that somehow the act of love going to bed together would somehow change Charles and allow him to forget about Camilla and concentrate only on his wife posing for the Press at the Queen's estate Balmoral they successfully hid the truth Diana had already succumbed to an eating disorder bulimia which she blamed on the Specter of Camilla Diana and Charles were already finding it difficult to relate to each other most of all she could not compete with the older a more experienced Camilla but it was very hard for her I don't think that sexual things were her Main Attraction I'm not sure that she was very very sexy really I was often very beautiful women are they are not terrific on the sexual front and I think that that's the strength of Camilla so that's the sort of Aura she has a sort of sexual power and so from that point of view Diana didn't stand much of a chance the births of William and Harry did not create the happy family unit Diana had craved when they holidayed with the Spanish royal family in Majorca in 1986 Diana was secretly ill with bulimia Charles left early and returned to Camilla Diana wanted a little girl to complete her family but after Harry's birth the marriage was effectively over I think she terribly wanted a daughter and um there was no way it was going to happen I don't mean instead of Harry but she wanted a daughter after the sons and it was so bad by then it wasn't going to happen [Music] for a while there was an uneasy truce Charles kept Camilla and Diana hid her Affairs while putting on a show of support for her husband in 1990 Charles broke his arm while playing Polo the arm did not heal and had to be reset playing the role of caring wife Diana collected him from hospital they left together but out of sight they went their separate ways well of course this sort of thing dates of when relationships happen it's very difficult you're not hang you're not behind the curtains you're not under the bed I think that by the time Prince Harry was born it was very difficult already the coolness between the couple was noticed the Press counted their time apart faced with a barrage of speculation Charles and Diana were forced to appear together in public Diana was suspected of leaking stories to the media I think she really started her manipulative behavior when she found her marriage going wrong and she felt that she had no voice and she was determined to get her voice and the only way she could really get back on the Charles and Camilla situation was to promote herself which she was very good at in the early years the couple worked well together Diana said we were a good team her radiant Beauty captivated people around the world such as here in Australia at first Charles was proud of her and there are telling glimpses of his affection but the dividend Prince became jealous of his Superstar wife Diana learned that the cameras picked up every Nuance of her style and expression using that knowledge she signaled her displeasure with Charles in a skillfully timed missed kiss [Music] ing the wife from hell as I think in fact when they got married they rarely loved each other and he said that quite often do you know there was a time when we were very much in love and that all although brief that was so Camilla came back into Charles's life in the mid-80s when he claimed his marriage had irretrievably broken down their secret affair bolstered his fragile ego her role as his lover and confident was known only to trusted friends the great thing about Camilla was that nobody really knew anything about her the people who were immediately around Charles knew that he'd been seeing Camilla both when she was a single woman and also when she was a married woman the thing was that the Press had no idea that for all those years he was having an adulterous relationship with a woman he was in love with Diana changed all that there were carefully placed stories in the Press portraying her rival in a bad light the media was soon on the trail Camilla was hounded by the Press on one occasion Charles was forced to make a quick exit from our home in the back of a car hiding under a blanket with photographers in Pursuit the relationship was forced out into the open when a tape of a phone call between Charles and Camilla was made public known as Camilla gate it was published in January 1993 a month after Charles and Diana's official separation it Justified all Diana's suspicions in often embarrassing terms it revealed the depth of the Lover's intimacy [Music] and I'm all right I think Diana loved it she had the most wonderful time roaring reading out sections of the the Camilla gate tapes uh over the breakfast table at Kensington Palace she had a field day because her husband had been so pompous so determined uh that she was in the wrong and that he was in the right and here was a moment when he was caught with his trousers down what a fool he looked and the things that he said made him look even more foolish Diana just was absolutely beside herself with laughter Diana's Beauty and Charisma won sympathy for her as a wronged wife even Charles's father Prince Philip wrote to her saying I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind leaving you for Camilla happy to see Camilla pillerid Diana had secrets of her own while superficially supporting the queen and the royal family Diana had indulged in a series of ill-judged Affairs the first was in 1986 with her married bodyguard Barry manicki as her marriage collapsed she sought comfort from the man whose job kept him at her side he was dismissed for over familiarity she told some people they were lovers but she denied the affair to others I spoke to Dan about it I believed when she said Ken everyone thought that I was having a this affair with Maliki I wasn't I enjoyed a good relationship with him crucially what happened here Malachi probably did overstep the the red carpet line that in real sense should debar you know the the the the below stairs peasants from rising above their station I think he actually sort of got himself into the drawing room occasionally and was seen by the envious Butler you know the dresser the chamber Maiden whoever else and they put the knives out and said hang on this guy is getting a bit too close for a while the Royal marriage survived at its official level Charles and Diana continued to represent Queen and Country abroad such as here in Japan in 1989. it's hard to imagine a more beautiful and stylish ambassador an even harder to contemplate that Diana was also enjoying a passionate Affair at home with Cavalry Officer James Hewitt later from the proceeds of the book on Diana Hewitt bought a manor house but it was at his family home in Devon that Diana shared a normal domestic routine witnessed by her bodyguard Ken Wolfe I never lost sight of the person I was protecting there comes a point in the day when you have to go to bed at some point when the sun comes up you get up and you eat and You Begin the next day there's nothing odd about that for Diana the private life she shared with Hewitt probably saved her from a total breakdown it did um sort of draw her back from the brink she was very very unhappy very depressed and I think that um she that Hewitt gave her a lot of confidence it's sort of calm steady normal sort of young man and he was very good at you know caring for her looking after her loving her and I think at that particular point it was important for her psychologically Diana confessed her affair with rafish Hewitt in an interview with the program Panorama did your relationship go beyond a close friendship yes it did were you unfaithful yes I adored him yes I was in love with him she ditched him um I think because she thought that they were going to be found out uh she ditched him twice the first time it was because he was ordered to Germany and she wanted to fix it so he didn't go and he is a regular Soldier refused to have this and said no no I'm going so she considered that that was a betrayal to cut him off the second time after the Gulf War because of stories were appearing in the newspapers about her relationship with him and she realized this was extremely dangerous to have um Diana Princess of Wales as his Conquest was a tremendous feather in his cap he used to absolutely sickle me I'm only good at two things riding horses and riding women but I have to admit I think it's most likely an accurate answer he was a complete Rat Fink but he sort of comforted her when she was at her very lowest with the death of her father in March 1992 Diana lost a vital prop in her life Charles felt obliged to play the caring husband for the sake of his Public Image but the growing distance between them was becoming evident I think Charles was really rather relieved when she took out with James Hewitt so he could get on with his life with Camilla and that she was probably taken care of happy that was fine by him I mean he no longer loved her in that sense I you know basically I suppose she was rather than an encumbrance in his life and so if she was occupied and happy all the better the end of the Hewitt Affair tipped the balance Diana sought Vengeance on her husband by cooperating with a sensational biography she pretended to have no connection with it and continued her duties on this hospice visit and all that you do you reflect Saudi sincerely the philosophy of tender loving care materials and always will be the Hallmark of this hospice the Morton book shattered the fairy tale of Charles and Diana she had let daylight in on the magic of monarchy and nothing would ever be the same it was a mistake she was already regretting her adoring public sympathized with her The Establishment with Charles soon her life came under prurian scrutiny when a tape of a call made to James gilby an old friend was mysteriously released to the media the tape known as Diana gate or squidgygate a reference to gilby's nickname for her laid bare her feelings Diana believed it was released to harm her in a serious manner [Music] in the ceremony of Royal life lay deep personal unhappiness Diana referred to her husband's staff as the enemy she blamed Charles's friends for putting around stories that she was mentally unstable some of them encouraged his affair with Camilla providing safe houses for trysts they did nothing to help save the Royal marriage [Music] they should have tried and thought that this marriage was important to the monarchy and important to the people of this country and it shouldn't have been allowed to go wrong and I think that they did not help I think they're actually briefed against Diana as we know and again in this rather cruelt way about her being psychologically Disturbed I think that though they were good friends to him they did do quite a lot of harm Diana had some foolish Liaisons including one with rugby player will Carling she was linked to his marriage breakdown I was told actually very very recently which surprised me that he'd spent and had been seen quite often with Diana up at a beach hut that the royal family owned up on the Norfolk Coast quite now Sandringham and that they'd been together up there quite a lot to have your wife sleeping with the captain of the England rugby team it's just too disgusting for words if you are Prince Charles the awful thing about him was he could not see that what is source for the goose is source for the gander that if he is allowed to have extramarital sex so is she as her marriage fell apart Diana sent out subtle gestures to win sympathy famously she used the Taj Mahal for opposed statement of her solitude but her own search for love tarnished her reputation Diana fell in love with handsome art dealer Oliver [ __ ] after he decided to stay with his wife and children she made hundreds of Silent phone calls to their home he had an immensely rich wife who completely controlled everything that Oliver Hall could do in life with the amount of money Oliver Hall was also a friend of Charles and Camilla part of their trusted Circle in 1994 Charles cooperated with his biographer Jonathan dimbleby in a television program in which he admitted adultery with Camilla on the night the program was shown Diana upstaged him by wearing this stunning dress the war of the Wales is continued Diana dated men in pursuit of love and also to provoke Charles but she genuinely wanted to marry pakistan-born doctor haznad Khan Dan adored very clever people and hasna Natty as she called him Khan was a person who was a brilliant heart surgeon she would go down to the Brompton Hospital and watch him working would meet him at night but as a wife fanatican absolutely not and I think the fact that he sort of kept her at a distance I think it absolutely infuriated her she could not believe that somebody could be so cool all towards her and it made her more and more keen what she really wanted was companionship adulation um to be seen on the arm of somebody who would irritate her husband and this really was at the root of much of her actions she was determined to pull her husband by the tail and so she did but I think that the choice of men says nothing about Diana apart from the fact that they were available none of them I would say would have been an ideal consult for her for the rest of her life I think that she was so unhappy and she was searching for a solution all the time and I think an awful lot of people do do that I certainly have been to a fortune teller at an unhappy period of my life and I think that's what she was doing looking for an answer looking for a way out looking for a solution and anything that made her feel better and kept her going really Charles and Camilla took holidays abroad such as this one in Turkey in 1989. photographs of the couple proved that Diana was not inventing their Affair at a private party that Summer She challenged Camilla over her relationship with Charles but nothing changed there were trips to Florence Charles and Camilla visited this house given to her great-grandmother Alice keppel by King Edward VII there Camilla shared Charles's passion for painting but Camilla had a rival lady Tryon was also close to Charles he called her Kanga a name she chose for her London Boutique she died soon after Diana I think Charles always needed a sounding board um he needed to talk to people who he could trust but weren't part of the royal Entourage and so therefore I think that with those girls that he remained friendly with I think particularly of Lady Tryon that he would be able to go to her and say look I've got a problem and you know can you help me or you know he would be able to ask advice and whether he listened to advice I think we know that he doesn't listen to advice but at least he would be able to ask it although she made mistakes Diana sought out opinions and ideas from those around her not only from a private secretary but from ordinary staff like Ken Wolfe her police bodyguard seen here with her relaxing at the British Embassy during a solo tour of Egypt she even said to him if anything happens to me you'll let people know what I was really like won't you Donna was always um asking a lot of people for advice I mean to her credit she sort of never soldiered on um you know based solely on on what she thought that she should do I mean for my part it was almost constantly she'd say well you know what do you think of this Ken I mean I've got to do this what do you think he's always actually bouncing ideas off and and you know she was prepared to listen to those answers uh and I think that was the same of private secretaries it was the same of of anybody and she bounced these ideas off regularly to to the chef even you know to her dresser or to the chauffeur I mean she was quite happy to share um the the the fun and try and air the knowledge of everybody um and it worked bodyguard Ken Warf accompanied Diana then officially separated from Charles on a visit to Nepal on behalf of the Red Cross and the leprosy mission in 1993. he was a tremendous asset because she had this amazing ability to speak to people across a huge social uh and political spectrum and and that wasn't something that she was taught because nobody actually told her anything Diana picked all this up herself Diana had a connection with the ill and suffering no other Royal had this special gift in Touching leprosy patients Diana lifted to booze just as she had done earlier with Aid sufferers this was one of her greatest achievements I think Diana felt a sense of Destiny in her that that's what her role was she had this grandmother Cynthia Spencer who was very like Diana in that way which is wonderful at charity is very much loved and I think that Diana realized she had a gift for this from very early age Diana's magic was not enough to keep her in the Royal Family there's air to the throne Charles was the one who mattered on their tour of South Korea in November 1992 their expressions and Body Language revealed The Strain between them the couple were nicknamed the glums the announcement of their separation was weeks away it is announced from Buckingham Palace that with regret the prince and princess of Wales have decided to separate Diana briefly appeared at Sandringham for Christmas but her life as a semi-detached Royal soon proved untenable she tried to scale down her public life 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 press intrusion had forced her decision sadly many Charities lost their Patron but Diana soon returned to the public Arena she also sought a life as a private citizen the paparazzi made her visits to the gym one of their main targets after she dismissed her police bodyguards there were no restraints on photographers Behavior she was trailed while visiting her therapist Susie orback the photographers of Paparazzi were making a lot of money out of Diana that was the principal thing otherwise they probably would have left her alone but there we are newspapers were paying them a great deal of money for significant photographs that all for one of chasing her among the cars I think she'd been to see Susie all back all these sort of ones her trying to hide her face and they really would provoke her in the latter days I remember um hearing somebody say that they were quite ashamed although they were themselves a Paparazzi so um you know once when she was in a a taxi and she was sitting there with her head bow trying to avoid their attention um the Spanish photographer yelled at her why don't you behave like a [ __ ] princess you know that's I mean treatment beyond what she would expect she was never free from harassment here attempting to take a Caribbean holiday with a female friend Diana found they were surrounded by photographers watch her reactions foreign opportunities to relax with friends were important to her she was separated from her husband and felt increasingly isolated from the Royal Court when her love affairs fell apart as they always did she could rely on a band of female confidants I think that when she was under intense pressure there were a lot of people who tried to help her specifically there's women friends the ones who are slightly older than her and her younger friends as well I think a lot of people really did try to help her but you see she was in a terrible situation her husband didn't love her the Press were after her the whole time she couldn't get out without a photographer snapping her people would were selling information about her it's a frightful world to live in Camilla's life also fell under media scrutiny tougher than Diana she showed a more robust approach to the Press watch her reaction the year after Charles's admission of adultery Diana took part in the television program Panorama do Mrs Parker Bowles was a factor in the breakdown of your marriage well there were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded Diana also questioned Charles's suitability for kingship the queen had to draw a line under the impossible situation between her son and his estranged wife in doing so she went against Diana's wishes I don't want to divorce but obviously we need Clarity on a situation that has been of enormous discussion over the last three years in particular so all I say to that is that I await my husband's decision of which way we are all going to go the crowds Love Diana The Establishment supported Charles the Queen's intervention was not popular but the war of the Wales is had polarized the country I think the queen was quite right to insist on a divorce because the situation had become so appalling in terms of public relations for the monarchy in privately for the children that really only a break could help I I think it was the only answer by then with the divorce Diana lost the title her Royal Highness along with many of the Privileges of royalty without the palace's smooth Machinery to make arrangements she had to rely on her friends a financial settlement of 17 million pounds did not fully compensate for the loss of her royal status I think that the queen in that sort of traditional way of hers thought that once the after the divorce Diana was no longer a member of the royal family she shouldn't have the title hrh which absolutely signifies being a member of the Royal Family she was now a celebrity in her own right adored around the world her warmth and spontaneity ensured massive public support wherever she went okay cast aside by British High Society Diana searched other cultures for personal fulfillment she had visited Pakistan in 1991 and returned shortly before she died to raise money for a cancer hospital she admired much about the people she met she was attracted I think by the sort of solid family values that she saw in Muslim countries I think that was one of the principal things Diana cast off her old life symbolically by selling her dresses for charity among the Lots was the dress she wore the night Charles admitted his affair with Camilla the auction of Christie's New York raised three and a half million pounds a new life and a new wardrobe for the new world Diana reinvented her image with considerable skill although she was a woman alone she still had the Allure of royalty added to that was her glamor and a delightfully flirtatious manner this was the Diana Americans loved a powerful woman with Celebrity Appeal I think Diana felt very much at home in America and where women really perhaps not so much now but certainly used to be powerful as compared with how they are in Europe and they have much better life experience than European women they're not supposed to sit behind the curtains being a good mother so I think Diana would certainly identified with that and she had a lot of close important American friends ladies and gentlemen I'm immensely proud to be here in New York tonight with you all among the impressive figures Diana met in the USA was Henry Kissinger who called her a princess in her own right who aligned herself with the ill the suffering and the downtrodden winning the humanitarian of the Year award was a huge achievement but it didn't prevent her divorce and it didn't gain for Diana the role of roving Ambassador that she wanted [Applause] I think she was a wonderful Ambassador I can't think of anybody who would have been better because not only was she wonderfully photogenic but she was empathetic she had this terrific gift with people from high and low I mean prime minister's presidents office cleaners would just melt in her company and she had this terrific gift of being able to convey a caring a human and personal warmth in January 1997 Diana visited Angola to raise awareness of landmines this didn't please The Establishment in Britain her detractors called her a loose cannon Diana defended her actions three firing we generally trying to highlight a problem that's going on all around the world Diana and Charles shared custody of their sons but family events were rare Williams confirmation in May 1997 was the last time they were all seen together she faced a lonely summer in London her boys were with Charles the hasnat Khan Affair had ended she was ready for fresh adventures and a new Romance the whole of August she was going to be on her own she got no arrangement she was facing an entire month sitting at Kensington Palace clicking her heels the loneliest woman in the world an invitation to the south of France to spend time at the Sumptuous holiday home of Tycoon Mohammed al-fayed was too good to refuse there she fell for Dodie Fayed the son of her egyptian-born Muslim host it would be a controversial Affair and people had mixed feelings about Dodie it was a cocaine user he was I don't know he'd done a day's work in his life but he was very charming and women liked him and he was sympathetic and I don't think he pushed himself I don't think sex was high on his agenda and I think darn it rather liked that didn't want somebody pushing in too fast the couple cruised aboard the fiad yacht johnnycal wherever they went photographers appeared even when they were out at Sea in the Mediterranean somehow the Press seemed to know their destination in advance rumors still abound that Diana herself tipped off favored press men to send back signals to Charles and hasnat Khan The Men Who had let her down with the pictures came a Twist in the story The couple had been to the Paris home of the late Duke and Duchess of Windsor now owned by the fiads after revisiting The Windsor Villa Diana and Dodie stayed at the Paris Ritz hotel also owned by Dodie's father security cameras captured the couple's last hours trying to avoid the waiting Paparazzi at the front of the Reds they devised a plan Henry Paul the Ritz head of security would drive them from the back exit driven at high speed their car crashed in a tunnel I've absolutely believed that if she'd had proper security that night of August the 31st impact that accident would never have happened because proper Scotland Yard protection would have never let Henri Paul get in that car and drive it and certainly not at that speed Dodie and Henry pole were killed outright Diana died in hospital from her injuries a royal plane brought back Diana's body to a unique Funeral for a unique person a royal flag draped her coffin in the procession were William and Harry Charles Philip and Diana's brother Earl Spencer who paid tribute to his sister in a rousing speech to the point to remember that of all the irony is 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 I'm really involved with Diana in a personal way from the day of the wedding and I think that she had got this terrific pull with people who didn't know her and I think that they found it just a sort of unbelievable tragedy which it was and ended in a way that I suppose an unbelievable tragedy should it perhaps if Shakespeare were alive today and wrote Diana's story it would make his finest tragedy [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] few lives were less ordinary than that of Diana Princess of Wales born Noble she became Royal but was denied her Destiny to be Queen beautiful but tragically fated her Legacy will prove greater than Thrones and crowns she will be a queen in people's hearts foreign [Music] by the British royal family Diana discarded the gowns that had once enhanced her position as Princess of Wales and future Queen unwanted reminders of an unhappy past their dispersal marched the end of an era for Diana she was starting a new independent life each dress held the aura of her glamor her Allure and her Unforgettable style Diana's magic had a value of its own foreign two months before her death 79 of her dresses were auctioned by Christie's in New York for charity each dress tells a story of love and loss lot 35 as Scarlet lays cocktail dress worn just after her famous television interview in 1995. lot 66 a glamorous Dinner dress worn to a concert at Versailles in 1994. her first official overseas visit after withdrawing from public life the previous year not 55 a midnight blue silk crepe gown worn in New York in 1996 as Diana prepared herself for divorce from Prince Charles [Applause] lot 11 a blue and white satin dress worn in Hong Kong in 1995 when she traveled the globe as a semi-detached Royal [Music] the sale raised Millions for charity enchanted with the British establishment Diana increasingly turned to America which serenaded her as did Tony Bennett as its adopted princess you speak and when chacho host Phil Donahue danced with her in Chicago in 1996 millions of Americans would have stepped into his shoes with her Elegance Grace and charm Diana had replaced Jackie Kennedy as America's uncrowned Queen [Music] and when Statesman Henry Kissinger fell under Diana's spell so did an entire nation I think she loved the warmth of the Americans although she also found it sometimes rather overwhelming because perhaps the British Reserve even though everybody adored her here um there was still that sort of sense of decorum perhaps in America she was just you know stampeded I think but she adored them because they're spontaneous like her in 1995 Kissinger presented Diana with the humanitarian of the Year award no other British royal had been so honored in America he was tremendously fond of people like Kissinger adored sitting next to him at dinner they got on like a house on fire ladies such as Elizabeth Dole made a big impression on her she said she had such a wonderful sense of humanity this is the thing that Diana appreciated somebody who could not be so withdrawn with her or shy of her but somebody who could sort of just connect with her the humanitarian award was a victory for Diana against the British establishment who considered her a showgirl I want to say a sincere and heartfelt thank you for this award it is humbling to receive it and to know that some of you seated here tonight feel that I should be honored in this way General Colin Powell and media star Barbara Walters were among America's great and good who recognized Diana's potential as a remarkable Envoy for her country she was both enormously interesting too and a very good Ambassador for us to what one might call the glittering world of parts of the United States she was a very visible representative in the Fashion World there in the theater movie world and also at the higher levels of politics she obviously connected very well with President Mrs Clinton but at the other end of the scale and perhaps most importantly she was an extraordinary Ambassador for us to the third world what we used to call the third world to people in countries who were suffering from one thing or another which she identified with at home but which she picked up very strongly when she was abroad whether again it was AIDS in Africa or the plight of children which he who she visited with Mother Teresa in India or the whole landmines this year where she was so important and identifying and drawing attention to something which governments have been talking about for a long time but no one in general was had remote interest in foreign Mother Teresa of Calcutta was Diana's Guiding Light through her Devotion to the poor the sick and the dispossessed in June 1997 the tall young princess visited the elderly frail nun in New York who would have guessed that within three months they would die within days of each other actress Joan Collins said after their deaths Diana was a true humanitarian now that Mother Teresa is gone who is like that there is no one we have lost someone incredibly special [Applause] another continent a different culture to support sufferers of a disease that afflicts the whole world Diana traveled with her friend Jemima Khan to Pakistan to help raise funds for her husband imran's cancer hospital in Lahore [Music] against home criticism that such visits had a political Edge Diana displayed the warmth kindness and compassion that distinguished her from the more aloof and distant royal family Diana used touch to communicate her empathy with those in pain she created a rapport wherever she went giving hope and comfort especially to sick children her fervent speeches brought International recognition to the hospitals and care centers for otherwise forgotten victims this is the only private cancer hospital in the world that treats 80 percent of its patients free Diana once said nothing gives me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society it's a goal and an essential part of my life a kind of Destiny she had the most incredible level of compassion and she was not afraid of illness or sickness or death and the other thing was about Diana was that she felt particularly with a terminally ill that it was very honest and that there was nothing left to lose and so people lost their shyness so she could really talk to them and there was this incredible sort of depth and intimacy that perhaps was lacking when she met other people at more formal occasions but formality and protocol were everything to the house of Windsor as mother to William and Harry heirs to the throne Diana had to prepare her sons for their Royal destiny victory in Japan was commemorated in August 1995 one of several occasions when her boys had to appear in public and behave like adults [Music] Harry nearly 10 found it difficult to concentrate but he looked for guidance to his parents and older brother foreign had already learned to cope with Pomp and ceremony two years later he was shattered by the loss of his mother her death would change him forever he has become a very strong young man he was always strong much stronger than his father who is rather weak and who tends to blame other people for things that go wrong in his life William was a strong of mind when he was a boy perhaps even a bit willful since his mother died and particularly with Harry to look after to oversee he's assumed an importance which he wears very well I mean he happens to be you know tall he's a good looking chat and he's very brave but he changed in in becoming a more independent boy in taking control in a sense of the situation um and he was crucial of course to Harris stability within days the Victory Parade William started senior school at Eaton College his parents chose Eaton for its close proximity to London and to wins the castle Charles refused to send him to the Scottish school gordonston where he himself had been very unhappy as a student Eaton had educated generations of Diana's family including her father and brother but she still sought William's approval before sending him there foreign [Music] what do you think about this should I do this or shouldn't I now that is very flattering and she didn't tell him what to do I mean Prince Charles is exactly the same I've heard this for several years now that whenever they decide that they're going to go somewhere or do something or there's going to be a photo call and say well we were thinking of doing this what do you think they also asked Harry and they ask for their input mom's work Diana identified in William personal qualities that his father lacked she actively groomed her eldest son to be king as he grew up William became a junior Confidant to his mother she did drop an incredible amount of responsibility on Williams very slim young shoulders he was you know barely 10 years old when she started revealing how she felt in front of him and I think as a result Williams matured very fast he's much more mature than most boys of 15 but that's also perhaps because of the daunting burden that lies ahead of him the monarchy and when you're 15 you might want to be a rock star or a nuclear physicist you don't want your life mapped out for you kids of that age want to feel free they're all their school friends are talking about you know I'm going to backpack around Africa or something and and he doesn't have that choice it's it's very sad I've heard Prince Charles talk about how awful it is to have your whole life mapped out for you and I know Williams a very sensitive boy and he'll have absorbed a lot of that and think well I've got the same fate awaits me sitting around waiting for my parent to die so I can become Keen the ancient Courtyards them playing fields of Eaton will shape both of Diana's boys for the challenges of a monarchy and a new millennium William will be Harry's protector at Eaton uh where William is doing very well um William will really look after him and make sure that as a rather flattened newcomer he'll be well taken care of despite the support of Royal friends like Lord and Lady romsey members of Prince Charles's Inner Circle there are still fears that Diana's death could affect Williams so greatly that he may not want to be king whether William given that all he's been through might say in the next few years who needs this uh the people don't seem to want us anymore we're going into Europe what's the monarchy's role it would be very human and people would understand if he said I don't think I want to do this Diana instilled in her sons an understanding of the Traditions into which they were born constant examples of Duty and dedication were exemplified by the queen and the Queen Mother the Queen's always paid a very important role with William and Diana told me that William gets on very well with his grandmother and she was delighted about that and for the past few years the queen has been having tea with William on a Sunday we know because he just has to go across the bridge from Eaton so he'll go around to Windsor Castle with his detective and when he walks in the room her face lights up and they sit down and they chat about this and that and she tells him what she's been doing and who she's met and he tells her now this is a tradition that the Monarch passes down you know through the generations of her wisdom and there was a time when when the queen hardly saw William so she's delighted to have formed this bond with him William's confirmation service in March 1997 was the last time that the four members of the Wales family were all seen together Diana and Charles had agreed to act in harmony for the sake of their children who had suffered from their parents all to public divorce by this time Diana had resolved to leave behind the bitterness of the past and had forged a new friendship with her former husband with her generous divorce settlement Diana was seeking a new independent life she felt relaxed enough to kiss Charles goodbye at Williams speech Day in May 1997. they would never be seen together in public again France summer 1997 Muhammad al-fired owner of Harrods in London and the Ritz hotel in Paris invited Diana and her boys to Holiday at his magnificent mansion here she fell in love with fired's handsome son Dodie Diana would have never married Dodie without the consentment of the two children and Prince William more than that because she always said that Prince William was her anchored and she admired the boy you know Diana felt free of the emotional chains of her failed marriage on a sun-drenched sea with Dodie her devoted companion a bright new future beckoned they cruised the Mediterranean aboard the fired's luxurious yacht the jonaco William and Harry witnessed their mother's growing Romance but the children don't forget she took them on the boat and they had a wonderful attack not probably William William was not so happy but the little one was traded all the games on the thing and it was probably to accustom them to the situation and when I asked her are you going to marry him and what your children the action she said Elsa I rang up to William so it was the answer and he said Mommy I want you to be happy it's been reported that when the first pictures of Diner and Dodie in that sizzling Embrace in the Mediterranean were appearing in the Press Diana rang William and warned him tipped him off that the pictures are about to appear and he's his reaction was fine he just said look what mum whatever makes you happy it was called a mum and you know he was fine about it he knew dirty he'd met him on the holiday they all shared in the middle of July on the last Saturday of August Diana and Dodie had dinner together at the Paris rips shortly after midnight they left to return to Dodie's apartment where he had a diamond ring awaiting his princess pursued by Paparazzi and driven too fast they crashed in an underpass Diana was 36 years old her work half done and her son's half raised in the new life she was embracing she had exercised her previous one and dismissed its wiser safety precautions had she been with the boys of course she would have been completely differently protected she would have had a royal protection driver very well trained by police method she would have had probably a follow-up car making sure that the paparazzi were at a distance but of course she one part of her deliberately didn't want that and she did very much feel liberated from many of those constraints in her private life when she gave up being her Royal Highness and having the trappings of royalty so as on many things she herself was ambivalent there were moments obviously when it would have been very helpful to have proper police protection but there were other moments when she really wanted to escape and I suspect that the second one when she wanted to escape were more important than the first Prince Charles went to Paris to collect the body of his former wife despite her divorce and the loss of the title her Royal Highness Diana's coffin was draped with the Royal Standard flag she had died a member of the Royal Family Charles along with Diana's sisters took her home to a country in shock and grief in the next week the royal family were forced to change their behavior as the scale of public mourning overwhelmed them Charles woes to the occasion behaving more like a widower than a former husband Diana had often said I will always be the mother of your children even in death she was still bound to him Hillary Clinton joined the famous and the unknown Diana's funeral she grieved for a young woman she had known and greatly admired on behalf of the president and the American people I came here to express our deep sadness at the loss of Princess Diana we grieve for her children her family and her country she inspired countless men and women throughout the world with her courage perseverance and loving kindness she did hard work in difficult places and she softened hearts and lifted spirits we can honor Diana's memory by continuing her work by bringing care and comfort to The Afflicted by reaching out to those who are stranded on the outskirts of Hope and opportunity by campaigning against land mines by treating every child with love and compassion today the Shadows are longer because we have lost a light that shined brightly and gently and we will miss her and Creed on Earth mourn Diana in cities throughout the world commemorative Services were held [Music] The Soaring notes of opera singer Denise graves in New York Central Park carried the sorrow of the American people [Music] newspapers and magazines All Over America reflected the somber mood foreign [Music] throughout the country as people said farewell to the world's most popular and celebrated woman [Music] there was a sense of sharing in a tragic and historic event okay [Music] and in Washington the National Cathedral congregation prayed with the Reverend Nathan Baxter it is too easy and too safe to place her on a Pious pedestal where we can admire her and fantasize about her but Catherine Graham one of America's most successful women praised Diana she was a star from the beginning she brought something to Royal Behavior touching people and speaking frankly to major contributions but we all soon learned that the fairy tale had an unhappy ending the death of Princess Diana with Mr fired and Mr Paul has brought the problems of celebrity culture in its coverage by all of us into sharp relief we all need to think hard about how to solve them this tragedy need not and should not have happened in 16 short years Lady Diana Spencer had risen from unknown Aristocrat to the most famous face on Earth from a kindergarten assistant to the Princess of Wales an uncrowned Queen of Hearts before her wedding in 1981 Diana spoke of her work as a part-time nanny I only work three days a week kindergarten and the other two I looked after American baby boy who was very special to me the boy's mother Mary Robertson wrote a book about Diana she praised the happy normal teenager who took loving care of her son Patrick in Washington Mary paid a tribute to her attending Diana's funeral last week was the saddest thing I've ever done as the last him and did and I heard only the tread the soldiers boots so chilling and so final as They carried her through the Abbey my only thought was that the two boys who had lost the mother who adored them God willing Diana's spirit will live on in her sons [Music] place of pilgrimage a convoy of London taxi cab drivers took a party of sick and handicapped children to pay their respects to the princess who had made them feel valued Diana had raised the profile of handicapped people everywhere they remembered her as a friend [Music] ly before her own death Diana comforted Elton John at the funeral of murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace a few weeks later Elton would sing at Diana's funeral other artists compiled a musical tribute they were inspired by elton's best-selling record of the song goodbye England's rose which raised Millions for the Diana Princess of Wales memorial fund Paul McCartney Cliff Richard Michael Jackson and many more donated their songs to raise money for Diana's charities [Music] Diana's final campaign was aimed at governments who spent fortunes on landmines which injured and killed innocent victims she visited Angola in January 1997 and was interested in every aspect of the problem within the treatment do you cope with a psychological side of it as well on behalf of the Red Cross Diana pledged her support for the campaign it's an enormous privilege for me to be invited here to Angola in order to assist the Red Cross in its campaign to ban once and for all anti-personal landmines there couldn't be a more appropriate place to begin this campaign than Angola because this nation has the highest number of amputees per population than anywhere in the world by visiting Angola we shall gain an understanding of the plight of the victims of land mines and how survivors are helped to recover from their injuries we'll also be able to observe the wider implications of these devastating weapons on the life of this country as a whole it is my sincere hope that by working together in the next few days we shall Focus World attention on this vital but until now largely neglected issue her experiences in Angola turned a campaign into a crusade I've had Hands-On experiences before with this working trip has been slightly different I've had more contact with people and there's been less formalities it's the type of program I've been looking for for some time and I'm very happy to have done and achieved what we have remember that there were very large campaigns particularly out of Washington and in Switzerland I did with various organizations what she did is give a lead to all of them and they all then fell in line behind Diana with her involvement with her pictures of the potato on the TV and in newspapers across the world everyone then join the campaign to have them banned in 1993 Diana visited Nepal a desolate region far from the Royal Court but one with its own ceremony is to welcome a princess baroness Chalker a British government Minister accompanied her but Diana's official public role was being scaled down always respectful of other cultures and a perfect Ambassador for her Country Diner would nevertheless be cast aside by the royal family in her own word as a non-starter for queen one of Diana's greatest achievements was losing the stigma attached to two major diseases of mankind AIDS and leprosy the leprosy mission was one of her most important Charities she had first seen leprosy in Indonesia in 1989. now she was attracting the attention of the world's media to a centuries-old Affliction in another forgotten area she wanted to make people aware of the plight of the 32 million people directly or indirectly affected by leprosy that is leprosy and AIDS twin symbols of fear and ignorance one Ancient One modern became personal Crusades for Diana in dealing with AIDS and HIV Diana knew that no amount of words compared with the power of touch in one handshake she dispelled the myth that touching transfers the virus publicity about HIV seems severe between Sex and Death horror stories at one extreme to complacency at the other but behind this confused picture lies the reality of a growing worldwide Affliction and Untold private suffering HIV does not make people dangerous to know so you can shake their hands and give them a hug heaven knows they need it [Music] among the hundred or so Charities Diana was associated with was the chicken shed theater Group which welcomed children of all abilities [Music] the group miss her warm support she was as Irreplaceable to them as to many other organizations causes and Charities that she had helped through her celebrity status the chickenshed theater released a special song at Christmas 1997 for Diana's memorial fund the song I am in love with the world competed with the best of the pop world for a place in the chart it was an immediate hit the chickenshed theater promoted the song with a video showing Diana surrounded by the children she had lovingly supported [Music] in June 1998 the chicken shed children performed their song at an outdoor Memorial concert held by Diana's brother Earl Spencer at all through up her family estate the concert raised money for her memorial fund to help her charities many many have missed out we don't yet know which Charities are going to benefit because I've only just started Distributing the money I mean if the money continues to come in as it may well do then the Charities hopefully in the future will get the sort of money they'd have expected to with Diana alive but at the moment there were a number of Charities struggling because that money hasn't come through Diana was a mother to be proud of to her boys she gave her unquestioning love and attention whatever the problems in her personal life or the demands of her public role Diana may have told her boys that Leah Rabin Widow of the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister once said to her you and I are the two most tragic figures in the world except that you have a future and I only have a past now Diana has no future William and Harry are her living Legacy the two brothers as her only children have an unbreakable bond yet they have very different characters but she always said Prince Harry is like a Spencer and he he I don't have worries about him but uh I think that the future came Prince William has the Sense and Sensibility of Diana [Music] shortly after Diana's death Charles took Prince Harry to South Africa in Johannesburg they attended a concert at the chart-topping Spice Girls Harry relished the attention they gave him it was a time to smile again and to let his father join in the fun [Music] just 13 Harry looked last in unfamiliar surroundings in South Africa he must have missed the reassuring presence of William studying for his exams at school but he seemed happy to watch his father show him the way to behave when dealing with unusual customs thank you and to give him a few stories for his friends back home although Harry seems unaffected by the situation there are moments when the mask slips he's become far more reflective there are long periods I understand where he is very sort of contemplative in a way that he wasn't before well he's only a young boy I think you know all of us who have families and maybe have lost someone close couldn't understand what may be going through his minor thoughts disappointments he must have periods of unhappiness but he is quieter and more contemplative than he was before she died South Africa was a long way from Britain in culture and climate [Music] but it had many fascinating sights and sounds for father and son to share it was a rewarding experience and an opportunity for Charles and Harry to relax in a different atmosphere the tour helped Harry to create a geographical and an emotional distance from the traumatic events after his mother's death [Music] like William Harry can never forget the good times they had with Diana she introduced them to new people exciting places and fresh Adventures a visit to a Welsh rugby match [Music] and a chance to drive an army tank in Germany were part of Harry's upbringing Diana never wanted second born to mean second best in a conversation I had with the princess not long before she died in Kensington Palace she did bring up the question of her concerns for Harry and that William would always be the one the center stage one who was going to be king she was worried for instance rather touchingly I thought that William would get all the girls all the girls would go for wills and poor Harry would it was only a couple of years younger would be left out and so she was already kind of taking steps to try and make sure that they were treated equally even though in Royal standing terms William was would always be number one although she would have loved a daughter Diana threw herself enthusiastically into the role of of two Lively boys [Music] she gave them the Thrills and Spills that other children enjoyed this was nothing like Charles's upbringing they raced each other in Colorado in July 1995. and shot down the slides that thought Park another year [Music] distant Summers of their past with their memories of a gentle and affectionate mother will always be in their hearts but those Happy Days can never return foreign flowers were left outside Highgrove the country home Diana shared with Charles until the time when they separated in temporary The Village nearest High Grove local people mourned the princess they had known since she was a Young Bride the sudden and brutal end of such a vibrant and beautiful woman stunned the world into unprecedented grief with unbelievable bravery Diana's Sons joined Prince Charles Prince Philip and Earl Spencer in the sad procession to her funeral later Earl Spencer said it was the most traumatic day of my life unknown to the watching World Diana's will had given the Spencers the moral authority to help guide William and Harry to maturity at her funeral Earl Spencer used his position as head of Diana's family to challenge the Royal Family's ability to raise their heirs according to Diana's wishes [Music] outside Westminster Abbey a family united only in grief saw Diana's last journey begin the outpouring of public grief for Diana forced the royal family to face changes Earl Spencer's surprising attack on the house of Windsor won public support and Diana's ancestral home became a shrine to the Lost Princess [Music] all through Powers with its fabled art collection had been her Heritage a potent symbol of dynastic grandeur Diana was like her grandmother Cynthia Spencer Diana and her brother Charles had been very close in childhood she had mothered him when their parents separated she was six he was three in July 1981 their father the eighth Earl had proudly given away his youngest daughter in marriage a sick man he was happy to see that day Diana's father was a great prop in her troubled life he died in 1992 just as the truth about her unhappy marriage was to be made public Diana knew then that her Secrets would soon be out through her cooperation with a book that would betray the Royal World a longtime courtier her father would have been torn by divided loyalties the death of her father was Monumental for her he was a big anchor for her and he died at the wrong time for her unfortunately because he was the time she would have need him more her relationship with her sisters was good with her brother she had an on and off relationship Shattered by her death and angry at the Press he blamed for hounding her Earl Spencer spoke at his South African home shortly after receiving the terrible news statement all those who've come into contact with Diana particularly over the past 17 years will share my family's grief she was unique she understood the most precious needs of human beings particularly those that suffered and her vibrancy and Sparkle combined with a very real sense of Duty and now gone forever it is heartbreaking to lose such a human being especially when she was only 36. above all my thoughts are with William and Harry and with my mother and two sisters who are showing tremendous bravery in the face of senseless tragedy I would ask you please at this time to respect the fact that Diana was part of a family and amongst the general mourning at her death realized that we too need space to pay our final respects to our own flesh and blood for that we will need privacy finally the one consolation is that Diana is now in a place where no human being can ever touch her again I pray that she rests in peace at first ask us bury Diana with her father and the Spencer ancestors in the little church at Great brington near all thrum within its ornate tombs lies a dynasty that provided soldiers Admirals Lord chamberlains Knights ambassadors and equities for Sovereign and State the ambitious lady fermoy had seen her daughter Francis Diana's mother marry into this Noble house and produce the next Spencer generation Diana's Sister Sarah had once been courted by Prince Charles but married into the landed gentry her other sister Jane married the Queen's private secretary Diana's Royal marriage was the Spencer family's brief Shining Moment the sparkle in those Unforgettable eyes your Boundless Energy Earl Spencer's remarks about the stripping of Diana's title her Royal Highness and his promise that the blood family would protect her sons sent shockwaves through the Royal Family bearing in mind what else Spencer said at The Abbey in that very contentious Mother Bit of speech about the blood family looking over the upbringing of the boys and one would have expected them to see more of William and Harry they don't and one of the reasons undoubtedly is that what Earl Spencer said upset Prince Charles because it called into question his abilities as a father as head of the Spencer family The Angry Young Earl lashed out at the royal family for their treatment of his sister they had embraced her as a young and naive bride but then cast her aside after bearing heirs to the throne she came from a very very important and aristocratic family herself I mean a family with roots probably far back further back in the history of this country than the Queen's Roots so that I I'm not surprised in a way that they responded in this way whether or not what Earl Spencer said at the funeral has lasting impact I'm not sure for 77 miles Diana's flower strewnhurst was revered along its final Journey it was a triumphal parade worthy of a medieval heroine she went home to her grieving family and her ancestral estate to preserve the privacy of her children she was buried away from the public Gaze on an island in a lake her brothers scattered her grave with flowers that will reseed and Grow Again on Mother's Day her son sent flowers to her tranquil resting place Diana's caring Legacy was continued by the memorial fund set up after her death a major charity event was held for the fund in the famous Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles there was an air of anticipation before the princess ball as many came to see the star guest the man Diana had called my rock her former Butler Paul Burrell emerged as The Keeper of the princess's Flame with his attractive wife who also worked for Diana Burrell came to salute the memory of the woman he called the boss he was so close to Diana that he attended her burial with her family he wanted her good work to continue this is America's first tribute to Diana Princess of Wales auction raised money for her causes a box that Diana had given to Paul Burrell was sold and then returned to its owner and the Cur De La Mer a replica of the necklace worn in the film Titanic raised over two million dollars as her brother had said at her funeral Diana needed no royal title to generate her particular brand of magic for Diana's 98 was a time for growth and renewal William went reluctantly with Charles and Harry to Canada he was embarrassed by his rock star reception Harry had grown accustomed to cheering crowds this first appearance of the Wales Trio abroad showed that they had found light after the awful darkness of Diana's untimely death it was a time for jokes and laughter and a time for relaxation as the three princes skied the Canadian Rocky Mountains like Diana Charles had always enjoyed skiing holidays with his sons even when they fell down Charles and his sons were the latest family firm William once hated photo calls now he bantered with reporters Charles's chance to show his easy-going relationship with his sons and prove that he didn't need Earl Spencer's advice it was also an opportunity for journalists to compare Harry to William he's got exactly his mother's personality he he's very exuberant very Lively fun-loving nothing faces Harry but William is exactly like his father very reserved very thoughtful conscientious um you know he even sounds like his father now that his voice is broken you'd swear you're listening to Charles so you know he looks like his mother but is his father's son at Balmoral in August 1997 just days before their mother's death the difference between the two boys personalities was quite evident Harry was the more impulsive William already a cautious boy knows that he is destined to be king one day he will have to choose a future Queen and she will inevitably be compared to Diana Williams got a tough act to follow I know he likes blondes he's always very young for Bloods just like his father so you know it's going to be tough isn't it too I mean most boys like to get a girl just like their mother was but for William is there another girl out there who's you know maybe 12 or 13 14 today who's going to grow into somebody who's not only as beautiful as Diana but is compassionate as warm have that magic with ordinary people after Diana's tragedy can her boys hope for happiness let's just hope for both their sakes that those boys are given the freedom to make marriages that really work find girls but they really care about who really care about them who are prepared to put up with all the inconveniences of being Royal as well as the considerable perks and home Comforts of being Royal but above all that these marriages don't end in divorce like their parents like so many Royal marriages recently because of the strains and because of the people in the house of Windsor being so cold to the people that marry into it I think Dan has left enough with those boys for that not to be true of them foreign whatever happens to the monarchy life is always going to be like it is for his mother hounded harassed pursued privately as well as publicly his Misfortune as well as his Good Fortune being that he looks rather like her and he's her Legacy made flesh [Music] but on what might have been had they kept Diana within their fold foreign Queen will always haunt the family that rejected her [Music]

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