Love, Duty and Betrayal: The Story Of Diana, Camilla and King Charles | King Charles | Timeline

this channel is part of the history hit Network [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] Lady Diana Spencer leaves on her journey to marry Charles Prince of Wales his bride was just 21 years old [Music] [Applause] 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 Dinah 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 father their father when he was desperately ill with a stroke and um a friend who was at Lord Spencer's wedding to Reign 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 at the 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 soon [Music] 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 [Music] um yesterday that may be coming soon is there any comment to make about that okay [Music] an official announcement soon followed and TV cameras were allowed momentarily to lift the veil of secrecy you take this back to when you first met yes certain can it was 1977 the Charles came upstairs friend of my sister Sarah after shoot I'm sort of Imagine a cloud feel it's like you previously and 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 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 it was 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 doted 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 [Music] [Applause] terrible ordeal for Donna 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 it got fantastically crushed 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 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 wedded 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] 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] [Music] [Applause] [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 telephone her from the Royal yacht foreign 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 didn't 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 this is 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 um 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 tar [Applause] Diana's problems were temporarily overcome with the Euphoria of motherhood within a year of marriage Prince William was born things [Music] when a month-long official Foreign Tour was planned Diana insisted that the baby William accompany them to Australia and New Zealand okay public interest in the young couple was intense does Prince William have a favorite toy Jamie in anything particularly just likes something with a bit of noise it got a plastic whale that throws things at 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] thank you 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 okay it's amazing what ladies do in your back step but 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 saying 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] as 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] 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] thank you on holiday in Spain with King Juan Carlos and his family Diana 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 uh 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 Diana's greatest 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 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 hope you enjoyed it be an idiot if she didn't enjoy dancing with John travota wouldn't she and why were the Press so fascinated by their every move my wife here [Music] [Applause] [Music] Treasure House 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] foreign 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 we'd only seen her in British design clothes so it was her way of complimenting them 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 emanuels who designed her wedding dress were instantly transformed into Sensational designers joint tours around the world they created a climate of Goodwill towards Britain whose brighter and better future they seem to represent [Music] Diana was 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 such was the adulation I mean it was clear to see that nobody was remotely interested in him you know I mean he was just the 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 Diana 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 [Music] 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 her marriage made her a beauty and a star [Music] so young Eve that she took part in the fairy tale wedding that everybody hoped and believed would be a success [Applause] foreign 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 doesn't worry how publicity doesn't worry her as you've seen from the way he's dealt with the prayers she's taking it all in her stride I think she'd always be like that she's very practical Dad if they're 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 price that was going well 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] [Applause] thank you foreign 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 nails 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 appear 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 press men nor was the nearby Home of Charles's close friend Camilla Parker Bowles to whom Charles fled when the pressure got too great 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 water 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 in a young wife she'd had a young family very quickly they hadn't had time to get to know each other after the 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] foreign [Music] ER 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 lonely 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 thank you 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 Dana was again alone while Charles was on a private trip to Turkey foreign [Music] ER 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 was distinct she also brought great style the royal family have never been renowned for being the breath 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 [Music] 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 the 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 York 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 held it as an opportunity for them to show some reconciliation in the event the body language said it all hideous moment when we walked into the prime ministers residence 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 back 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 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 loo for most of the day it was clear that she had completely recovered from her bulimia free at last from her shameful friend dragged off in a minute with with my codes so so if it's all right with you I thought I might postpone my nervous breakdown to a more appropriate moment thank you [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] [Music] 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 lacked there was no young glamorous woman in their ranks when Diana 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 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] thank you [Music] her marriage made her a beauty and a heroine in a revolutionary move she changed from victim to Star [Music] foreign [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 thank you for the crime of committing adultery with the heir to the throne Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles a 49 year old housewife has been handed down an exemplary sentence [Music] okay for the past five years she has barely been able to set foot outside her door she has been under house arrest effectively for quite some time she's just coming out of it she'll go to parties given by good friends but even so it's still a business and they have to get in back doors and keep the watch out for the paparazzi and we're on the gauntlet how she did outside the Ritz October the 10th 1995 and the intentions of the gentleman of the press are as Rough and Ready as ever an early attempt by the loving couple to be seen together in public ends in chaos the prince leaves the party separately not yet ready to be photographed with the woman he loves if he wants her badly enough he will come out and either say this is the woman I intend to marry and I hope you'll all be understanding or he will say this is a woman I shall be spending a lot more time with and therefore you better get used to the idea the problem for Charles is that the population is still in love with Princess Diana it doesn't think so much of Camilla I have known Camilla for 20 30 years and I've always found her extremely attractive she's got a terrific sense of humor she's very funny and she's also very sexy but best of all she's wonderful company and she has been really cruelly treated she has had to suffer a huge humiliation in fact indeed when she went shopping at a supermarket once some of the women who had also been buying their food there pelted her with bread rolls for a quarter of a century Camilla Parker Bowles has enjoyed the devotion of the Prince of Wales their relationship according to the prince was in three parts but did not contribute to the breakdown of his marriage the world knows all about Diana but what have they learned about Camilla the interesting thing about Camilla Parker Bowles is nobody knows her and this this great sort of Fascination and Mystique about her still because nobody's even heard us speak until now the Pachelbel's motto has been stay out of sight and keep your trap shut but here in this amateur video from a recent charity event the real Camilla can be seen and heard for the first time so generous that such a deserving course it's particularly important to me and my family the foreign Waters brought Camilla Out of the Shadows is her newly acquired role as patron of the national osteoporosis Society she cuts an unlikely figure amongst the media friendly faces recruited to boost the Charities profile but she's a willing helper I asked her last year if she would become a patron of the society to formalize her role because she'd been working with us for two years previous to that since her mother died in fact of osteoporosis and she saw her mother die of this Dreadful disease she knows how severe it is how painful it is this higher profile is against all her instincts can she overcome her legendary reticence and become a persuasive figure hello she certainly has the ability to communicate well on an individual level and among a small group her great-grandmother Alice keppel started the 20th century as Camilla ends it in the arms of a prince she was King Edward VII's mistress she was a very vivacious very attractive very Charming woman very sensuous kind of woman there was Italian blood in her family and so in a way she caught his eye and he never really looked back he's very taken with her she was the perfect King's mistress King Edward VII was a very restless very difficult man she knew exactly how to handle him so she was as I say the perfect mistress for a king for a man like him Edward like Charles first spotted his future mistress at an equestrian event their relationship noted a courtier warmed up like a bonfire in those days there was no Scandal about that kind of thing the general public didn't know about it at all if photographs of them appeared in British newspapers then her face would be airbrushed out you would see her hat you'd see her dress but you wouldn't actually see who it was in that way the newspapers were very discreet about it historians believe that Mrs Campbell's second daughter Sonia was the king's child making Camilla his great-granddaughter there were two daughters it was Violet never Sonia and as the second daughter Sonia was born after Alice keppel had met the then Prince of Wales it's quite likely that he was her father no one can know this kind of thing for sure but I think it is more than likely that the Future King over the seventh was Sonia keppel's father the ghost of Anna's keppel watched over a new generation of Royal lovers for in the year she died Camilla was born her grandfather's name was Cubit his family of Builders were raised to the peerage for having built London's most fashionable District Belgravia but it is from her father Bruce Shand that much of Camilla's Doughty and complex character is inherited the Shands weren't Aristocrats but wealthy merchants from them came a son who helped create the labor party and he was jilted by a fiance who preferred to marry Oscar Wilde Camilla's shanned grandfather counted amongst his friends the 20th Century's greatest architects those shans married often and took particular pleasure in their many encounters with the opposite sex Camilla Rosemary Shand was born at King's College Hospital London on July 17 1947 and grew up in the country she was very very pretty very very sort of always very nicely turned out and all seemed to be in a position of control somehow she was organ not quite organizing events but she was definitely the center of attraction [Applause] 16 months younger than Camilla Prince Charles's birth in November 1948 assured the continuation of a dynasty still haunted by the abdication only 12 years before of king Edward VII at the coronation five years later courtiers convinced themselves that the child of so reliable harmonica's Queen Elizabeth would never risk the throne merely for the love of a woman on the balcony that day a young page boy called Andrew Parker Bowles Sussex in Coronation year where Camilla's family celebrated the dawn of a new Elizabethan age [Music] Bruce and Rosalind Shand had made their home here at the lanes a former rectory at Plumpton near Lewis where they brought up Camilla with her brother Mark and sister Annabelle horses were an integral part of daily life bruschia and her father was was joint Master of the South down hunt at the time and so if you're the daughter of the local mfh I think you're bound to be thrown into it but I mean you know I think she she just loved it a 10 Camilla was sent to Queensgate School short walk from the other family home in London's Kensington ever sporty she excelled at fencing and of course riding as she matured she became if not a beauty then extremely appealing to the opposite sex she was enormously attractive girl very popular um quite snooty and quite sort of difficult to get to know um twin set pearls Tweed skirt that sort of thing did she have sex appeal yes great sex feel I mean as far as I can see as a female I would say so yes she could have got any boy she wanted to strangely enough when I read at the very beginning that Charles was seeing somebody called Camilla instantly I read that I thought I bet that's Miller I bet that's Camilla I wasn't the slightest bit surprised when I found out it was I I almost knew it would be she was perfect for him few Queensgate girls were destined for University the school turned out well bred conformists but Camilla wasn't one of them my ex-wife and it was she had a room with her actually at Queensgate and um smoking in those days was considered pretty naughty I mean I think it was a you could either be sent down or gated or had to spend some long moments at home contemplating your face if you were caught smoking and she certainly apparently used to used to go out on the roof and smack and my wife was far too frightened to do that it was quite a strict School um I mean once you got in you didn't get out there was somebody on the door and um so you couldn't you couldn't escape once you're in there quite strict very Victorian full of sloany type girls I would say the majority of them wore head scarves darling a lot of twin sets around Queensgate girls were only really taught how to write out checks do you know I think actually we did have a lesson in that on how to write out a check the hermetically sealed Society Camilla was destined for were no Outsiders intruded encouraged its members to find spouses from its own ranks we were I guess all prepared to meet the right man to go to the right parties to do this the debutant scene and eventually marry somebody that could keep you in luxury to which you had been accustomed to living with Mommy and Daddy we were certainly discouraged to meet anyone from any other sphere both by school and our parents so there was a very small circle really of boys from all the top Public Schools freed from formal education and with no need to find a career Camilla Shan found her amusement at the polo field in the early 70s still a relic of Empire Polo at Smith's lawn in the shadow of Windsor Castle was an enclosed world for tough guys and beautiful girls today they talk about chukka Charlotte's whereby girls go there to pick up their future husband and there was always something nice to drink and the weather would be decent and uh it's not like sort of standing on a freezing grounds more Polo's always been the great summer game and uh all the young guards officers um who'd be stationed at Windsor would naturally play cards one such was Andrew Parker Bowles a handsome Cavalry officer whose skills far outshone those of the newly arrived Prince of Wales among the prettiest girls of Smith's lawn Jane Ward was one of the chukka Charlotte's to catch the prince's eye I don't think we were in a category um when I was sort of doing it except for that you know it's the summer so you're always Brown and it's the sort of the predominance of blonde or long floating blonde we hadn't got into the Gucci sunglasses but we were perhaps in the designer we weren't going that way the women weren't you know if they weren't South American they were well traveled you know Hillary westerns and you know Kate vesties in those days and things like that and so they were always so there was a lot of health and you know vibrancy I suppose it was the era of Prince Charles his father had stopped playing and Prince Charles had sort of taken over I mean he was quite a loner when he was there I mean it was difficult for him to be to be sort of mixed with all of us I mean he couldn't sort of just rush around and be because he's the Prince of Wales in the hot summers of the early 70s Smith's lawn began to sizzle with sexual tension he was a very attractive single man driving his Aston Martin crashing around you know falling off jumping back on I mean he was just part of the the team really still in his early twenties Charles was making slow hitway in forging relationships with the opposite sex often preferring friendship to Passion we were just good mates good good you know I mean perhaps because I didn't stand on ceremony so and in those days you know it was quite rare for him to have someone who spoke their mind while Charles's friendship with Jane Ward was light and uncommitted Camilla's relationship with Andrew Parker Bowles was far more serious but a chance encounter in 1971 finally brought the two lovers together for Charles and Camilla none of the starchy formality which surrounded the meeting between their famous ancestors the atmosphere at Smith's lawn was pleasantly laid back I think that everybody was aware there was a very strong friendship between the two of them um you know they'd be talking and chatting and uh fooling around as one did I mean I think that body language is a strange body language perhaps gives War away than than anything else and there was definitely a feeling of ease and comfort between the two of them which you you and that sort of familiarity which isn't over familiar which means that you know you you get on well and you know each other well it was Camilla who made the first move she teased Charles my great-grandmother and your great-great-grandfather were lovers so how about it it was a challenge the prince found irresistible Barkley Square in late October 25 years ago into the exclusive basement club called Annabelle's walk Prince Charles his sister Princess Anne and two lesser-known figures landowner Gerald Ward and a blonde girl about town Camilla Shand the relationship had moved from Polo Field to the watering holes of Mayfair and from Mayfair it progressed to Camilla's flat in Stackhouse candy Street where finally the couple expressed if not their love then their passion for each other but fate was against her love match Charles's Naval duties beckoned him abroad and in any event Camilla had committed herself to Andrew Parker Bowles but the attraction remained in the case of Prince Charles and Harry and his surmise he apparently thought he was too young which is a perfect and normal reaction to get married at that time and in her case she still had the shadow of Andrew Parker Bell's looming large over her and it was large and she adored Andrew and Andrew as he would was playing fairly hard to get and he's a very attractive man I believe I think she probably just found him too much of an influence the prince prepared himself for the Navy and lonely Exile while Camilla wrote out her wedding invitations determined that he should have a naval career and go off and do this and that and the other so he had to get on and do those things before he could contemplate getting married now if you meet the love of your life at the wrong time but difficult isn't it after an on-off relationship that had lasted seven years Camilla Shand finally married her Cavalry officer in July 1973. the guests included Princess Anne Andrew parkerbell's former girlfriend blessed with money as well as breeding The Newlywed set up home at boli Hyde Manor in Wiltshire within a year Camilla gave birth to a son Thomas by the mid 70s Charles's Naval career brought him home and to Hall place the Hampshire Home of Camilla's grandmother Sonia daughter of king Edward VII what had been a youthful fling was now rekindled as an extramarital affair they always had been very very good friends and to me there's nothing remotely strange about good friends remaining all re becoming good friends again and the more you see of someone if you like them and you have a lot in common which they do the more you may well like them so it filled a void in Camilla's life I mean Andrew was rushing around a lot and um it's quite possible to have a lover stroke husband and a very close friend of the other six it's happened to all of us I hope it's happened to you um it's very simple sooner or later Andrew Parker Bowles pursuing his own Army Career became aware of the rekindle relationship but with customary good grace he continued to make Charles welcome at belly Hyde Manor as Jane Ward remembers Andrew would say occasionally that he had to sort of be back in time to have dinner because the Prince of Wales was coming and and so I knew that they were good friends within the tight-knit circle of Polo followers the relationship had become common knowledge but the siren sister Polo Club ball Charles and Camilla danced perhaps a little too enthusiastically with one another personally it was only different in the fact that I for the first time was aware that they spent quite a lot of the evening dancing and maybe you know I was quite conscious of that for the first time as the evening wore on Party Girls became acutely aware that Charles and Camilla who monopolized the Dance Floor were not only dancing but kissing quite openly Andrew Parker Bells was there too yes he was and didn't seem to mind it didn't seem to mind and did the people who were there there must have been two or three hundred people would they have remarks on that or would they have all um looked into their glasses or looked the other way uh well it certainly wasn't brought up no not at all no was there any talk at that stage for the relationship being um different from from uh what once appears which was you know a married couple and a single man we did all sort of think he's very long-suffering you know I mean it was it was a very close threesome but it was quite it was a little bit obvious maybe that Andrew was long-suffering yes yeah with her husband's duties often taking him abroad Camilla would find herself invited to formal events which Prince Charles also attended Camilla Parker Bowles became known to other members of the House of Windsor including the queen her married status causing few qualms to this worldly family the Charles returned to the polo field with Camilla in attendance it wasn't easy for local reporters to spot the story Camilla was an Ever present in all the kind of various equestrian events that the Prince of Wales attended and at that stage one could have been forgiven for thinking that the relationship was going to go somewhere even though she was married to Andrew Parker balls it was a real kind of sexual chemistry between them even at that time I used to speak to her on the phone probably once a week probably for at least 10 years uh little did I know I was missing the greatest story in history knowing that was going on behind my behind closed doors foreign from Camilla's marriage to Charles's own engagement was a mere Seven Years yet the public became bemused by the number of pretty girls who graced the prince's arm each was heralded as a future bride but many of these relationships remained platonic for Charles's romantic life was fulfilled with Camilla she and from time to time their mutual friend lady Triumph Kanga were his public escorts those two ladies would be with him just to check as they always did that everything was perfect in Prince Charles's life that his clothes were properly looked after that people didn't come up and pass to him and they were constantly there two rather sophisticated Dolly Birds just making sure that life was Perfection for him and I have to say they achieved it with a great deal of humor but the pressure was on for Prince Charles to find a bride there had been too many purposeless relationships and he was in danger of becoming a figure of fun in the Tabloid press Charles's Guru Lord mountbatten pushed for an alliance with his granddaughter Amanda natural he was using Prince Charles's reform to exercise his own ambition and many people good deal closer to the royal family than I am thought it was too great that influence but mountbatten's murder in 1979 drove Charles almost to Breaking Point they are carried up to the heaven and down again to the Deep he was shattered by the death of Lord Bond baton who had an enormous influence over him and I'm quite sure yes that he he sought the close friendship of Camilla because she's very sensible in gloucestershire Highgrove house had come on the market in the same year Camilla encouraged the prince to buy it Highgrove was a short 15-minute drive to the parkabel's home at bowley Hyde Manor just 10 miles away within a year came a crucial decision in the prince's life a new companion had been found for him a kindergarten school Helper and the daughter of an Earl Lady Diana Spencer already knew much about the prince her sister Sarah had been his girlfriend Prince Charles under orders had at last found a suitable candidate and was well pleased with his choice Diner was paraded before the public to gauge their reaction at a race meeting at Ludlow Diana was chaperoned by a protective Camilla 14 years her senior as they watched Charles ride it was the first time I think the princess had been seen in public she was wearing a very green elegant country style coat and Camilla was wearing as well I remember something like a Czech country suit and Camilla was very much the kind of intermediary had her arm around the princess explaining the kind of things that were going on uh Diana very very nervous in those old days uh clearly not the kind of sophisticated characters she is now and uh a bit bit of a different shape and how it was a different star eyes kept looking down very shy and very nervous in those days and Camilla was a very caring role there almost like a motherly role if you like the interaction was mother and daughter it was very much Camilla who was the woman in charge of the two and I felt that Diana was treated almost like a child by Camilla she was Guided by Camilla she listened to everything Camilla said at the time it was easy to think it's charming and it's sweet doesn't Camilla being wonderful but I don't think that was really the case I think it was Camilla was just making sure that Prince Charles was not going to step too far out of line as far as she Camilla was concerned I think she was very much keeping an eye on a person whom she considered her personal property Camilla approved the match by now Prince Charles was 32 and she encouraged him to propose marriage to the 19 year old Diana she certainly did encourage it and I would say was very largely instrumental in the whole thing I think she saw herself as doing everybody a good turn and in some ways in her position as a an ongoing very very unusually close friend to Prince Charles she probably saw it as a good chance of them all being continuing as friends particularly if she encouraged it that's the logical conclusion that any of us might make Diana knew from the outset about Camilla but she believed that with youth and Beauty on her side she could win Charles's affection Diner was a very naive 19 year old girl who was absolutely besotted with Prince Charles now when he spoke to her about his previous girlfriends he said they were all married and they're all safe that is to say they were never going to spill the beans so she believed him and she also believed that him when he's when he said that they were all consigned to the past but during the the courtship she found all kinds of telltale signs of evidence that Charles was still enamored with Camilla Parker Bowles on November the 16th 1980 three months before the engagement was announced the Sunday Mirror claimed that Diana had spent the night with Charles on the Royal Train security logs clearly showed that a woman had entered the train parked in a wheelchair siding Diana's protestations of Innocence were undeniable but the Press didn't understand how the security services could have got it so wrong she did believe somebody had been on that train and she knew it wasn't her and she was very anxious that that should be put across maybe it was a shot across the browse to Prince Charles to say you know okay somebody was on the train but mate it wasn't me we know from telephone records that a call was made from the Royal train into the Parker bowles's home about an hour and a half before this lady appeared on the train and was smuggled on um I was seen by police this woman going on board Camilla's friends say she has never seen the inside of the Royal Train but when Prince Charles took off for a scheduled tour of Australia Diana's public tiers were thought to show how much she was missing the love of her life even on the announcement of their engagement when it came to Charles being asked to publicly pledge his love for her he was found wanting and I suppose in love gross whatever in love I cannot believe that she didn't realize that there was a very very close relationship certainly a sexual um between Prince Charles and Camilla I don't think women miss things like that and certainly not Lady Diana Spencer July 1981 two nights before The Royal Wedding crowds Gather in the mail for the greatest Royal showpiece since the coronation nearly 30 years before in a room at Buckingham Palace according to Charles's ballot Stephen Barry The Prince and Mrs Parker Bowles made their farewells for the last time in the morning sunshine Charles prepares to Stand and Deliver the most public expression of devotion in history 300 million people watch on television as the queen and her family welcome into their midst the woman who will provide the house of Windsor with its next king but all Is Not What It Seems for Diana's eyes are not on the altar but looking among the congregation I remember Diana talking to her friends about the day that she got married and the moment that she walked down the islets and Paul's Cathedral and she remember seeing Camilla parkerbol standing there with her son Tom she remembers that she was wearing a gray pillbox hat and a gray suit and she thought to herself I hope that that relationship is now consigned to history she was really convosed with two emotions one was absolute adoration and love for Prince Charles and the other I hope that that relationship was over the Queen the Archbishop of Canterbury and others all knew the truth with this ring I the wed I the word with my body with my body I the honor I the honor and all my worldly later Dr Rancier was to describe it as an arranged marriage in the name of the Father the church was getting a lot of credit from this it was if you like a rather nostalgic glimpse of an image of England is called a Christian England if you like the Church of England performing its traditional role on a great national celebration and doing it enormously well and splendidly I think it does put a question mark over the good faith if you like of the people who supported and arranged the marriage ceremony if they had doubts about it they certainly did not convey those doubts indeed there was a rather dangerous invitation to the whole public to invest emotionally in the event but um with this qualification that there was obviously a fly in the ointment and some in the church were aware of it and were prepared to take their risk well I think now they are faced with the consequences of that risk though this was a marriage built on shifting Sands each for their own reasons was prepared to make a go of it They Carried with them the Good Will of a trusting Nation escorting The Prince and the princess to their honeymoon was the ever faithful ever promoted Andrew Parker bowls but even the best intentions confound her on something as trivial as a small photograph the time of the honeymoon was both a romantic time but it was also a time of extreme bitterness and and painful memories there was one occasion on the Royal Britannia where she opened Charles's Diaries and two pictures of Camilla fluttered to the floor Charles's biographer Jonathan dimbleby described the prince on his honeymoon like this he seemed to go out of his way to avoid the moments of intimacy with her that she craved but Dinah's problems encouraged little intimacy bulimia a reaction to the unprecedented strain she had undergone became a concern soon after these pictures were taken at Balmoral a psychiatrist was summoned from London a chill had descended on the fairy tale marriage that was not yet a month old [Music] show went on these were the Glory Days for the Wales is and unknowing the world loved them for their love [Music] but with a marriage that was terminally damaged almost from the start Charles's thoughts were often with Camilla she realized that he was so unhappy with Diana I'm not saying whose fault it was but was so miserable in that marriage I would say within weeks of it of the of the actual ceremony at St Paul's I think that she gave such sympathy to Prince Charles and wanted to help so much and felt so much for this man whom she adored that I think very fast the affections that had been there which both had tried to suppress came flooding back and she gave herself completely to Charles and I think to the exclusion of her husband for a Time Parenthood helped cement the Royal marriage but both parties acknowledged that it was over soon after the birth of Prince Harry at this photo shoot on their bucket and Spade holiday with King Juan Carlos of Spain Royal observers began to notice the body language between the so-called loving couple was frigid in the summer heat Charles left early to return to the chilia pleasures of Balmoral and the company of Mrs Parker Bowles but it took time for Fleet Street to grasp what was going on too much had been invested in creating the Royal dream to see it shattered quite so soon I was an executive on the Sun during the period in which questions began to be asked about whether or not Princess Diana and Charles were getting on in many ways what our reporters Harry Arnold and Judy Wade would come back and tell us we didn't want to believe they got the most severe questioning can you be right on this have you got a second Source um okay so she broke down in tears on that occasion but perhaps he was just upset by something it doesn't mean anything more does it and you would get Judy Wade saying look at their body language and we think oh God This Woman's an eccentric she can't be right we didn't want to believe it occasionally a lucky photographer would find evidence of the real story but for the time being the Royal team kept up a united front for the outside world Fleet Street wanted the fairy tale and they wanted to enjoy it and they didn't want to question it they never thought to question it it sold lots of newspapers fairy tales are good for sales and so it was fine with them as far as they were concerned this was the brilliant marriage of all time cautiously Charles and Camilla began to Holiday together in Turkey where the British press failed to print the photographs and then again a very different kind of holiday from the ones Diana favored foreign they went to Florence and to one very personal place of pilgrimage the house paid for biking Edward VII where Alice keppel spent the Indian summer of her life the couple indulged their love of painting which has been one of the many points of mutual interest in their lives [Music] since the marriage Diana and Camilla had barely met but now at Sir James Goldsmith's house in Richmond in February 1989 there was an acrimonious encounter at a birthday party he expected to go on his own Diana insisted on coming and they went in the car together and she remembers him as being very uncomfortable and so she confronted Camilla she asked her about about the relationship Camilla was evasive and from that moment onwards all Charles's friends and that what she called dismissively the Highgrove said continue to perpetuate this lie that Charles and Camilla were just friends Revenge may not have been sweet but it was effective through her friends Diana told the whole story the publication of Andrew Morton's book was more damaging to the house of Windsor than anything since the abdication Camilla was named for the first time as Charles's lover it was a public finger being pointed at her by the one person who is able to manipulate the media because she is very beautiful Princess of Wales and can be very persuasive when she's in the right mood and she had a nation crying with her or for her therefore they had to have if they've got hers the good fairy they've got to have a wicked witch and that was poor El Camille and she got it in the right between the eyes June 1992 named as the guilty accomplice in Charles's adultery Camilla Parker Bowles is left not for the last time to cope alone on the eve of publication of Andrew Morton's book and with the contents already known she Braves the Press by making an appearance at Smith's lawn the very place where 20 years before she sealed her love with Charles she is invited to take tea with the queen country houses with high walls and tight-lipped staff had for some time provided Sanctuary garibi Yorkshire seat of the Earl of Halifax Eaton Hall home of the Duchess of Westminster foreign owned by their friend huvan cutson and other houses secretly entertained the Royal lovers at middlewick Camilla's new home the seeds of a disaster even greater than Andrew Morton's book were being sown on January the 10th 1993 the high octane contents of a late night telephone call intercepted and taped three years before were published in the newspapers the Camilla Gate scandal was on [Music] [Music] without you obviously she was absolutely shattered as anyone would be because this was akin to allowing the general public into her bedroom and it was a horrible thing to happen to anyone of course the conversation was banal even sort of mildly laboratorily obscene but that is the way people talk sometimes and not for publication it's a terrible intrusion possibly the most painful intrusion of her life I would say there was no protection against the ensuing Prestige reaction against Camilla with Swift and ferocious Charles attempted to visit Camilla huddle under rugs in the back seat of a chauffeur-driven car the indignity of a future king forced to hide in such a way was not lost on the general public but it was Camilla Who Bore the brunt of their disgust she was fighting if that's right where with both hands tied behind her back and she had nowhere to go and it was obviously more difficult for her to see Prince Charles who is by then her closest friend uh her her girlfriends were about the only ones who could get to her at that time she's got four or five very close lady friends she had difficulty in in going out in public and therefore difficulty in communicating and seeing people as she emerged in customary Silence from this latest controversy it became clear that Camilla's problem was one of public perception whatever her attributes and her friends claim there are many she was inevitably and unfavorably compared with the Princess of Wales it's largely because of the way the two women look and let's face it the Princess of Wales looks a lot better than Mrs Parker balls fine woman though she may well be but Donna is still young and radiant and hugely attractive photographs beautifully Camilla photographs less well somehow her public perception just comes across as all wrong and all bad and and she infuriates people and when her pictures appear in the newspapers I know newspaper editors are besieged with letters from readers why are you showing that woman's picture in in your paper we don't want to see her Charles had his own reputation to salvage after Camilla gate oblivious to the consequences he confessed to Jonathan dimbleby on television that he had been an adulterer I think it was the most stupid crass mistake of his life and he's made a fair few mistakes he's a good man um I'm sure in time he would be a good King but that was a classic example of him being very badly advised and allowing himself to be so advised it was a dirty thing to do it left Camilla out with the washing she there was nothing for her to do or say she couldn't come up and do her own television thing there was nothing for her and it then opened the floodgates of media intrusion because they could write what they liked without Fair contradiction once Prince Charles had said it himself there was nothing more to be said and this is a direct result of his own indecision with good and better advisors in the past who he has failed to take note of and they've all gone do you think that Prince Charles actually thought about the effect on Camilla's family I sincerely hope that he didn't think about that because if he did think about it and ignored it it makes him a much worse person than I think he is and certainly Wales did not show his correct friendship to her and the family and for that matter to Andrew Parker Bells in the wake of the dimbleby interview a massive face-saving disinformation campaign kicked in one newspaper said Charles had given up Camilla another claimed he would no longer take out calls yet another stated that Charles had abandoned Camilla two years before the public felt they were being bamboozled when the princes of Wales confessed to Panorama that there were three in her marriage Camilla's popularity sank to new depths once again the opinion poll showed that it was Camilla who was bearing the brunt of public dismay with the adultery now out in the open Andrew Parker Bowles had little option but to call for divorce ever resilient he happily remarried to old friend Rosemary Pittman Charles and Diana's own divorce followed soon after Camilla started a new life here alone at Ray Mill House in Wiltshire 10 miles from Highgrove set in 17 Acres it was bought and is administered by a trust headed by the Earl of Halifax losses in the Lloyd's Insurance Market where she was a member of 10 different syndicates have dramatically reduced her fortune and caused much-loved family heirlooms to be sold off at auction well Camilla was a very wealthy lady during her marriage as you know she was a member of Lloyd's list when that crashed she lost an awful lot of money um it's no secret that the Prince of Wales is helping her out in terms of her uh financing the house and also he's providing his own staff to run errands for her uh and uh also providing his own chauffeur when she needs to do trips to London and probably with her charity work as well and also she's just traveling around Wiltshire sadly she is now almost a subject of daily Paparazzi so she can't go away unaided or unguarded in any way so uh the Prince of Wales is helping her with that as well driving from Ray Mill House one evening in June Camilla was involved in a collision she was on her way to Highgrove for dinner the other driver was left trapped in a car in a ditch and yet again Camilla's actions drew a Welter of public criticism Camilla and Charles continue to play a cautious game Charles writing to hands with a Beaufort hunt in the morning Camilla in the afternoon seems to have occurred to neither such a Pursuit is not the easiest way to earn the Public's approval by the laws of the church and and old convention she hasn't behaved terribly well she has it would appear committed adultery with the Prince of Wales but why is she held guilty for this she all she's guilty of is being there being a very good solid friend to him and that friendship turned to something stronger he needs to be uh rehabilitated there needs needs to be a long-term strategy for the Prince of Wales and part of that strategy has to be Camilla Parker Bowles how she fits into the circle if you like give it a few more years it'll take a bit of time they'll say oh she's babe beautifully which is true she has kept her mouth shut she's been discreet she's been loyal she's been decent she's everything that really one admires in a person and core these two have been in lab now for 35 years why shouldn't we let them get married I think that if Camilla became Queen Camilla Dinah would be globalistic for a long time she's trying to come to terms with Camilla but these days she is glad that actually Camilla has taken Charles out of her life in a way Camilla's done Diner a favor she's Diana married the wrong man and Camilla's giving her the excuse to get out of the marriage if Diana marries and finds happiness which everyone wishes she would do and hope she does at some stage in the future then I think pressures will ease on Charles and Camilla public pressure will certainly is public will take the view well Diana's found someone she's happy why on Earth shouldn't Charles and let's face it we all know he loves Camilla this year Camilla Parker Bowles celebrates her 50th birthday and 25 years of knowing Prince Charles she has probably experienced the pleasure that comes with love for no more than a week here and a week there a way to condemn them in a way that we don't condemn any other people whose marriages break up and the same for Camilla she's a lonely lady and clearly what the palace have is a big dilemma into how they actually do this my belief is that the Prince of Wales will be the next king there is no way that Prince William would jump that there is no way that Prince Charles will marry Camilla Parker Bowles but I believe they will be seen in public by the end of this year it should be quite simple for them to get married in due course if they wanted to and it would be quite simple to alter the Constitution a tiny bit if at all to allow her to be the king's wife she doesn't have to be called the queen look at Prince Philip Prince Philip he's married to the queen what difference is it it's just reverse that's all in the old days the queen was very much the Lesser figure in a raw relationship in modern times shouldn't bother anybody she could be called Princess Camilla all the Duchess of any way you like slain Square why not I think they're entitled to each other they've had all hell why should they not have some pleasure Camilla's future lies in Charles's hands whatever present is the knowledge that the Future King cannot afford to make another mistake in the unreal world it would have been lovely if he'd if he could have married her at the right time and and and you know they were both single and it was all the fairy tale we had the fairy tale that didn't work and to me that's terribly sad but maybe now it's time to go move forward and um for um for everyone to find some happiness [Music] when Prince Charles married Diana it was a fairy tale wedding alas their Loveless marriage ended in separation after 11 years prince Andrew the Queen's second son married Sarah their marriage too ended in separation after just six years the Royal husbands failed to live up to expectations it was all too much for the Royal wives of Windsor they were a new breed of royalty young and attractive independent and unwilling to bow to a system they considered stuffy and old-fashioned they projected a new image of royalty and captured the attention of the world alas behind this image the truth was different stories of their real lives leaked out Diana is a lonely unhappy princess suffering from bulimia and married to an uncaring man with a mistress with Andrew a way at Sea the lonely Sarah sought Mail company elsewhere her extramarital relationships were exposed when she was caught in the south of France with her lover Diana Princess of Wales and Sarah Duchess of York brought a sense of Scandal and fun to the traditional Circles of British Monarchy alas they were forced to stand aside when their Royal secrets were revealed were they really to blame for their marriage breakdowns or were they simple victims of a system that had not kept up to date with the times foreign [Music] [Music] on a visit to India in 1992 the charade of Diana's marriage to Charles was almost over at 31 Diana faced a future denied of married love of which she dreamed since her unhappy childhood officially her relationship with Charles was still a happy one but gradually it shifted to one of mutual indifference Diana increasingly acquired a sense of Destiny the flame for Charles flickered and died in a clumsy attempt to prove publicly his affection for her the prince tried to kiss his wife she rebuffed his advances the damn it seemed was about to burst Sarah Duchess of York now accepts that she was simply not cut out to join the royal family she admitted in a newspaper interview that she had messed up her life we all make serious mistakes and we learn from them she claimed for Sarah it's been a difficult time that she always put on a happy face and fulfilled her royal duties with dignity when she married Andrew she took on the role of a duchess enthusiastically and looked forward to supporting her husband if you had high expectations of her marriage with Andrew perhaps a little too high I think she really hoped that that it would be something that it perhaps wasn't Diana's shy die image was in sharp contrast to Sarah's extrovert manner a professional woman an expert skier Sarah had a career in publishing she was confident of her own identity and seemed far more prepared than Diana for the pitfalls of a royal marriage under the intense scrutiny of the media but here was Gerald Sarah was a complete breath of fresh air you know who loved sort of larking about and having the odd glass of champagne it was very much frowned upon but I mean it was just fun it was just giggly it was relaxation it was an ally they could they could they could have a good old gossip about how ghastly the situation was when Sarah first appeared on the Royal scene skiing holidays meant happier times for Diana but her influence was not always appreciated by Charles who was irritated by their girlish behavior in front of the press the whole thing actually was a bit embarrassing so that they kept um the camera was a bit sort of immature really wasn't it wasn't a good thing to do Sarah Ferguson brought a breath of fresh air to the stuffy Royal circles they made an attractive couple he was a dashing naval officer she his exuberant partner together Sarah and Andrew projected a united front we're a good team anyway yes I think that's the same great it's the fact that in the last nine months we've discovered that we work very well together um we're good friends good team [Music] [Applause] the queen was relieved when Andrew married Sarah she was happy to see her son betrothed after his Many Adventures with less suitable companions she felt that Andrew had met his match in Sarah boating well for a strong relationship foreign ceremony she vowed to love and honor but not to obey him [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the couple's own mood of Vitality and genuine happiness seem to rub off creating an unusually festive Royal occasion [Music] the queen never looked happier or more relaxed sadly it was the last time the royal family would present such a genuinely united front thank you [Music] Sarah was not a purebred English Rose in the mold of her friend and Royal confident Princess Diana in the early days family gatherings at Polo brought the two girls closer together for once Diana could stay in the background and let her sister-in-law do the honors Sarah was roped in for the prize-giving come rain or shine a royal consort must perform her duties on this occasion It's All in the Family brother-in-law Charles is in the winning team the Young Prince William is there to give his support foreign of the royal family was Sarah's father major Ronald Ferguson who was Prince Charles's Polo manager for almost 20 years Diana and Sarah first met her to polo match and together brought valuable new blood into a Royal House of essentially German stock NOW British royalty will certainly be able to claim a more British ancestry but how would these two Lively young women fit into the traditions of monarchy and the atmosphere of Royal palaces if you go into Bucking Palace I mean if I've ever been there it's very hushed and everybody's sort of tiptoeing around and it's like being in a hospital you know and I'm sure suddenly these two women would come along and they'd probably have a good giggle at something and everybody would turn around almost like they're in a library and go shh and I'm sure that they found that very restricting that there really couldn't just be themselves there as Duchess of York Sarah embraced her royal duties with enthusiasm within a year of their wedding they visited Canada [Music] Sarah's passion for life in general bravado was greatly admired and the young couple's relaxed manner won the hearts of the Canadian people foreign [Music] still very much in love Sarah and Andrew were a huge hit they were very very physically attracted and all the time we were with them on that too we used to feel that we needed a bucket of cold water to throw over them they were so tactile obviously in love and that's very infectious they communicated this wonderful feeling of Happiness to everybody around them and it made it a joy to work with them and that's why it was such a tragedy when they split up because we had seen how happy they were we hadn't seen this obvious affection with Charles and Diana only for a very very short time but with Andrew and Sarah it was clear that they were meant for each other and so happy together and they worked so well together as a team and it just brought Joy to the Canadians and to everybody who saw them for Diana looking good is important fashion is a way to express herself in public she relishes the opportunity to dress up and perform for her audience she doesn't smoke rarely drinks alcohol exercises regularly and swims in a cold pool every morning on official occasions she pushes food around the plate rarely eats meat and sticks to small portions of fish and salads going to Great Lengths to maintain her appearance that Diana had this extraordinary relationship with the camera it's the same kind of thing that maoli Monroe had or perhaps Jackie Kennedy now there's a very good example because there are a lot of parallels here between Jackie Kennedy as the president's wife and Princess Diana as wife of the heir to the throne of England it was after she learned how to present herself that she became both the greatest asset of the royal family in terms of her visual style and her fashion and her the wonderful way she looked and also a problem in that she did in a way show up what looked rather fussy side of the Royal Family foreign ER Diana never forgets which way the cameras are pointing you think we see it in Diana the essence of her character something that goes very deep which is a really desperate desire to please she wants to make other people feel at ease she wants all the things that a broken home a difficult childhood didn't give her she wants to feel that other people are at ease in her presence [Music] all right Diana reflects how she feels in the clothes that she wears when she's feeling good about herself when she's in the public Arena she'll wear short Snappy suits very short skirts these days and when she's feeling bad she covers herself up you see her whole body more hunched she wears big sweaters long skirts and there are those occasions when she's really feeling blue when she tends to wear blue something long and Droopy like that outfit just after the revelations about the breakdown of her marriage Diana creates a Mystique so powerful that her public is still unwilling to hear any criticism of her fashion writers Acclaim her sense of style the way she can wear those dinner suits she wore this one with what's called a trump lawyer it's a kind of fake waistcoat at the front fake vest and it was so trim and neat and very smart and yet at the same time it's sort of funny it's a take on menswear it's also a joke on those stuffed shirts that British men not least her husband have to wear on official occasions it's a tremendous fun outfit her looking at her best on a visit to Hong Kong Diana wore a strapless Catherine Walker cream gown with a short matching jacket with a high standing collar topped off by the dazzling Queen Mary Tiara Diana doesn't like wearing Tiaras and she particularly doesn't like the one that the queen gave her which is very pretty but is heavy and she wears much more the spinster tiara with the rather interlacing of the diamonds which is very pretty but of course she also on official occasions like at the Malaysian State banquet when she wore that green dress by Victor adelstein very slim dress that went with the Queen Mary emeralds she wears the Queen's personal gift which is the royal family order you've got a little picture of the queen surrounded by diamonds and that's a very special Mark of affection and it's one of those things that shows to other members of the royal family look the queen gave me this I'm one of them separated from Charles alone at the D-Day ceremonies her legs were regally displayed have you noticed with Diana how her skirt her hemline and her shoe heels have gone up now that she feels more independent and better about herself those Jimmy Choo shoes she wore a young British designer who makes Lively shoes quite expensive they cost 250 pounds sooner nearly 500 a pair but they give Diana the right kind of look slightly sexy isn't it and something that makes her look like an independent young woman [Applause] foreign on a trip to Australia the Press was quick to take advantage of all the bronzed bodies on display often in her desire to please Diana is accused of becoming a chameleon psychologists claim that her self-esteem is so low that she feels she exists only when she takes on the coloring of her surroundings she mixes easily she is a princess in Kensington a Sloan Ranger in Knightsbridge and a very ordinary girl when in conversation with Australian lifeguards she's never at a loss to expose her sexuality when the occasion arises and she knew the effect she had on men she was very very aware of it and she used it to Great Advantage they were all putty in her hands and I remember looking at it once and thinking what is she saying with that look and I decided that what she was saying was you know I'm gorgeous I think I'm gorgeous but remember I'm taken during her unhappy marriage to Charles Diana suffered from the slimming disease bulimia nervosa but since those dark days she has regained her confidence and her food preferences a common knowledge she is known to prefer pasta with creamy sources like carbonara she likes potatoes and bacon sandwiches with white bread and cheese despite this she keeps her figure trim now for a silhouette and narrow silhouette you need to be slim and so of course she had to work at slimming down so there's been the swimming of Buckingham Palace in that pool she's done that very religiously swam a tremendous amount the gym she now has a personal trainer coming to her the whole time Dan also goes in for a lot of beauty therapy aromatherapy massage she spends a very great deal of money if you like to look at it in financial terms on the infrastructure that's what I'd call it we're not talking about the makeup here although she's been wearing increasingly quite a lot of makeup but we're not talking about Cosmetics we're talking about the foundation here [Music] foreign is still her great Passion she grew too tall to pursue her own ambition to dance but now channels her enthusiasm into supporting the professionals privately she continued to use dance as part of an exercise routine for many years and although swimming now maintains her high level of Fitness watching rehearsals is still a favorite occupation [Music] oh on formal visits Diner must not be caught off guard her skirt must not blow up and the correct length of dress is all important she Charmed her hosts on an official visit to Japan by wearing a new evening dress created by the Japanese designer Yuki with a headband of diamonds and sapphires in Hungary she wore an outfit by Catherine walker and a hat by Philip Somerville she dazzled the people of Indonesia in Washington a slinky evening gown by Hachi stand onlookers in Paris she wore a new gown by Victor Edelstein the bodice and the small Bolero jacket encrusted with shimmering beads [Music] hats too were a favorite with Diana most of them come from Philip Somerville who produces the most flattering hats in London now officially out of the royal family Diana feels embittered that they did not appreciate what she had done to improve their image I think she'd be quite justified in feeling bitter because there was a gap in the Royal ranks before she came along for a young glamorous woman somebody who wasn't as aloof and Dowdy as the rest of them somebody once said a newspaper columnist once said that the Royal members of the royal family especially the women have the strange ability to make expensive designer clothes worth thousands look like they came from British home stores you know the retail chain and Diana was the exception to that she was like an Afghan Hound amongst the call the corgis elegant tall she had everything she had everything that the public expected of a woman in that position and that the rest of them didn't have that they were a dumpy frumpy lot and then Along Came this gorgeous girl who gave them the Polish the glamor that they lacked and now that she's retired once again there's this Gap in the Royal ranks and it's not going to be filled in the same way until William gets himself a wife or a fiance Royal status for Sarah meant Royal duties she performed these in her own personal relaxed manner her independence and modern ideas were at odds with the formality and protocol of the British Monarchy Living in a gilded cage was not her idea of being Royal [Music] her dress sense came in for a lot of public attention as a naval officer Andrew was away at sea for almost nine months of the year their time together was very precious and stolen kisses showed their youthful love they reveled in each other's company but moments like this were rare for most of the time they were forced to live apart and Sarah found the stress of being alone hard to bear with a natural zest for life she needed the buzz of excitement when Andrew wasn't around she found life within the Royal confines rather dull okay to relieve the tedium she took her pilot's license flying was a way of life for Andrew and she wanted to find out more about her husband's work not to be outdone she also decided to fly helicopters I wanted to achieve so when he comes back in the evening he tells him what he's been doing I know what he's been doing with Andrew away so much Sarah was often on duty alone assignment yes oh that's a nice name [Music] thank you called upon to present trophies at Polo matches Sarah was often ensnared in the company of attractive men before she became part of the royal family she had had a four-year love affair with the millionaire Formula One racing entrepreneur Paddy McNally Sarah enjoyed the attention of the company of men and in Andrew's absence she turned to her father for support putting him in the spotlight [Music] Ronald Ferguson was Prince Charles's Polo manager a ceremonial stick marked the end of his many years as Deputy chairman of the guards Polo Club after the Press revealed details of his visits to a massage parlor in London's West End the club committee had voted him out and the message was clear it was an emotional farewell under a cloud of Scandal [Applause] Sarah was on hand to support him in a brave show of solidarity for both of them it was a case of putting on a stiff upper lip with an absentee husband the media quickly focused on Sarah's performance as a single mum foreign was performing her public duties in a style the cameras had come to expect unfairly she was lampooned determined to be herself she chose to support good causes but in her own way her lack of regard for the cool stuffy performance left her wide open to criticism from Royal officials [Music] and I haven't prepared the speech but I I just am so pleased to be here today I mean it's just wonderful I mean it's not very much snow and I think you've done a fantastic job oh [Music] there was fierce criticism that her speeches and general Behavior were too unconventional and familiar the Press often made disparaging comments on her dress sense but she was determined to survive the icy disapproval of Buckingham Palace and her confidence to handle the situation and dismiss the establishment was demonstrated by her liberated and relaxed fashion of bare legs short skirts and smiles all round and a new shorter hairstyle assertive body language of a new woman it's certainly true in the 20s that when people said shocking shocking those women cutting off their hair they knew something about women that women were asserting their independence when did Diana first start going public with the troubles in her marriage when she chopped off her hair when did Sarah Ferguson start saying I want to be independent I I'm fed up with these courtiers and this Palace protocol she chopped off that wonderful red hair that is Fergie's crowning Glory [Applause] sadly Sarah's own guarded manner was to be her downfall [Music] in a fashionable block of flats in London's Chelsea her passionate nature and her zest for life were suddenly exposed to the world when holiday photographs featuring Princess Beatrice and Texan oil millionaire Steve Wyatt were discovered by a window cleaner allegations of Sarah's infidelity confirmed gossip that her marriage to Andrew was on the rocks in the eyes of the establishment the lonely Royal mother had failed to progress from commoner to royalty under the pressure of a crumbling marriage and in the full glare of publicity Andrew and Sarah tried to continue with their daily lives Andrew carried out his duties as a naval officer while Sarah took their three-year-old daughter Beatrice to and from school after weeks of speculation the announcement of the York separation was finally made details emerged after the Queen's solicitor and a team of lawyers had discussed exactly how it would be arranged including the custody of the children questions were asked why the marriage had hit the rocks I think the main reason is because there are parts so much I mean I think that must be a very major factor I mean the fact that they obviously had close friendships both of them people outside the marriage I think contributed to it but I think initially I think it was the fact that he was a sailor he was a broader great deal and I felt very sorry for Fergie and that you know when she used to go to us she went to Australia didn't she and it was a great outcry about the number of holidays she had and so on and yet all poor girl was doing was going to see her husband you know and I think I think that that was one of the major problems there were too many absences foreign forces within Buckingham Palace closed ranks stories were leaked at Sarah's extravagant and irresponsible lifestyle had caused the marriage breakup reports that the queen was unhappy were confirmed when the Press claimed that the knives were out for Fergie without Andrew Sarah had no Royal protection when he was away she was very vulnerable to the shall we say the Machiavellian courtiers who didn't like the way she behaved and um decided that they had to rein her in very sharply now being a redhead with a bit of a temper she didn't take kindly to the methods they used I think if they'd been more subtle if they'd been more understanding more diplomatic the situation could have been avoided but they were determined that she would do things their way and she was a very independent free-spirited girl who was not going to take kindly to the sexism and the patronizing attitudes of the palace and therefore the the end result was disaster now Sarah was suffering the consequences of a job she couldn't fulfill Buckingham Palace closed its doors on her the truth lay in her loneliness and the pressures of being Royal when she tried to explain to the Duke when he came home the problems that she had he just wanted to relax he didn't want to hear about problems he wanted us to have a good time for the brief period he was home and he used to say well look darling you know I don't have those problems I can't understand it you know they don't like they're not like that with me aren't you sure you this is right you know he wasn't sympathetic and in the end she decided that life was better on the outside Andrew responded with a round of public engagement outwardly Untouched by the Scandal plans were already underway for Sarah to move out of their family house with the young princesses and into rented accommodation down the road when asked he declined to answer questions about his marriage breakup it had all begun so well Royal marriages off to a good start with spontaneous signs of affection and happiness heirs to the throne and a promised future built on Mutual support and public partnership all the Queen's grandchildren and products of broken marriages yet set against the power and ceremony of British royalty the dreams faded Diana still officially living with Charles but in an unhappy marriage took note at the palace's treatment of her sister-in-law I think dialer was shocked by what happened to Sarah and determined that it would not happen to her when she heard you know that famous phrase the knives are out for Fergie I think she realized that when you walk out that's liable to happen to anyone who flouts the conventions and and tries to stand up to the Windsors and she was determined not to repeat Sarah's mistakes Diana's strengthened character pulled her through the next few months the strains of her own marriage breakdown and the truth of her relationship with Charles was about to explode on the British public the book Diana her true story went on sale the Romantic image of a loving royal couple was shattered Charles was exposed as an uncaring husband and adulterer these Revelations were the beginning of Charles's downfall and threatened the very institution of the British Monarchy the Royal wives of Windsor were to blame some people may say that they were dragging the royal family down others thought that they provided a much needed lightness and more reality into a very stuffy old institution I mean the if the worst thing you can be accused of is prodding somebody with an umbrella I don't think that's such a bad thing to do they were girls having fun the things they did they didn't expect most of the time to be made public and you know let's face it they weren't robbing banks or shooting people and I think a lot was made out of very very little on the surface it was business as usual the estranged husbands put on a royal face to attend a family wedding when a crisis occurs in a Royal marriage the palace machine puts its full weight behind the blood Royal now with the gloves off Charles had been advised to dump Diana immediately and seek a divorce just for one day at least marriage difficulties within the royal family were put to one side as they turned out in force to enjoy a royal wedding which might prove successful [Music] Sarah had been the one missing guest but at another marriage ceremony her eldest daughter Princess Beatrice was bridesmaid the Queen's granddaughter a new generation of royalty enjoyed the Limelight usually taken by her mother foreign continued with her public engagements alone except for the company of her sons who enjoyed the experience of meeting film stars at opening night this was the image of new royalty at work single mums teaching their children the ropes public interest in the broken Royal marriages remained High photographed alone taking the children to school the Press attention turned back to Sarah after Revelations of her association with the Texan oil millionaire Steve Wyatt public interest now centered around another Texan Johnny Bryan his cover as Sarah's financial advisor was blown wide open after photographs appeared of the almost naked couple cavorting on holiday together in the south of France it was a royal exposure without president and the Press had a field day Sarah's alleged lover Johnny Bryan failed to get an injunction to stop publication of the very revealing photographs and the media Onslaught continued foreign and Sarah were successful in winning a court battle in France against intrusion of their privacy by a French freelance photographer at the time the photographs appeared in the Press Sarah was on holiday with her children with the queen at Balmoral well I know the duchess was so upset that they had to twice call the doctor the local doctor at Balmoral to come and attend to her she was absolutely distraught quite understandably and it was a bombshell for the queen for the entire royal family it was one more devastating blow in a very very bad year insisted that Johnny Bryan was merely her financial advisor as a house guest of the queen at Balmoral the embattled Dutch has found the situation difficult to explain worst of all of course to to Sarah because she was right there in the enemy camp when this news broke and how could she possibly explain it away the the the evidence was all too overwhelming so um I think that that probably was the worst time of her life Diana's unhappy marriage meant she was spending more time away from the royals Sarah needed the understanding of an outsider so turned to her sister-in-law for support Diana was sympathetic and she she was um you know visiting her and trying to support her but I think the duchess was beyond any kind of support or sympathy she was just totally devastated by it continuing to protest his innocence Johnny Bryan became the center of massive public interests and debate in addition newspapers claim that the photographs were published to strip away the hypocrisy surrounding the couple's relationship the French freelance photographer who took them made half a million pounds from worldwide sales once he knew that Fergie was there I don't personally know whether he knew who she was there with or how he found out she was there but as you can imagine there's a chain of command chain of bookings of flights of Villas there's the Police Protection Service there are endless ways that information could get out I think the Royal Family's always needed a black sheep for many years it was Princess Margaret then it was Princess Anne recently it's been Fergie and of course the mirrors publication of those photographs well she happened to be like the Queen's guest at Balmoral and was was banished that very day was the low point of Fergie's relationship with the British public really and with royal life and since then she's been an ex-royal uh the mirror of course made an awful lot of money and put an enormous amount of circulation by printing those photographs so although it was a continuing Saga of circulation War among the tabloids it was also an irresistible story which everyone had got hold of it immediately the Royal publicity machine went on the defensive prince Andrew claimed that the photographs were set up stories were hatched that Sarah was suffering from a nervous breakdown even the queen doubted that Sarah would ever be able to shoulder official duties again when the story broke Sarah Andrew and the children were the holiday guests of the queen at Balmoral Castle the newspaper headlines exploded like a bombshell at the Royal breakfast table The Duchess of York left Balmoral in disgrace Sarah had to face the reality that the royal family no longer considered her a member with her children she boarded a flight for London and virtual exile the official line was that Sarah had always intended to leave Balmoral at this time normal Royal life resumed in Scotland as though nothing untoward had happened the royal family including prince Andrew attended morning service at the local church it was just like any other Sunday with the crowds coming out to watch when Sarah arrived at Heathrow there was little thought of future plans except perhaps to visit her mother in Argentina her main concern was to head for the sanctuary of home as quickly as possible after her dramatic departure from the royal family and the return to her besieged home remenda Lodge Sarah needed help in the hope that somewhere there was somebody she could really trust she turned to therapy I would say now to anybody that turned you know if they've been through problems then it's good just to talk to somebody who you know you can't trust them in my particular position you don't know who you're going to trust at all you're suspicious of everybody because you you trust I trust trusted and do trust still too much and then you get betrayed and let down and then you know all that all that starts I think that the most important thing if anyone goes through this sort of thing is for the sake of the children and for the sake of your own self is that you've got a great friendship you're always going to have a great friendship it doesn't need to be animosity and um Andrew and I really have a good deep friendship and that's good after Sarah's dramatic departure from Scotland the royal family continued with their summer holiday for the moment at least peace and Tranquility returned to the Scottish Island the palace announced that no significant developments were expected in the next few days [Music] the family holiday was about to be disrupted once more the privacy of the Scottish estate was again invaded by the Press transcripts appeared in newspapers of a bugged telephone conversation allegedly between the Princess of Wales endearingly referred to as squidgy and her friend James gilby the recording revealed a princess in turmoil deeply troubled lonely and vulnerable pathetically grateful for the attention of her male Confidant during their intimate exchange she discusses her unhappy marriage her remoteness from her in-laws and her tortuous lifestyle it's just so difficult so complicated it makes my life real real culture I just I decided lonely and without friends in the wild family Diana turned to the Queen Mother for support it's affection it's definitely affectionate sort of um yeah definitely it's not our style anyway no so fascinated by me but doesn't quite know how to unlevel this despite Diana's recorded protestation that she had done so much for the royal family officials dismissed the tapes as inconclusive the Sun newspaper reported that the Secret Service MI5 was behind the recordings newspaper reports claim that the government's official electronic eavesdropping station was responsible in the interests of National Security MI5 monitors Royal telephone conversations to gain knowledge about their movements and acquaintances a more Sinister view is that Charles needed evidence of his wife's infidelity it was in Charles's interest and perhaps the palace's interest no one else's that Diana's phones be bugged and bugged they were she knew that herself and had complained to the Queen's private secretary Sir Robert fellows that her Partners were bugged and they needed debugging and indeed they were cleaned up what wasn't cleaned up was what was happening on the line from her Apartments to the outside world and most experts concur that it was between let us say her phone and the general switchboard that um that a bug was placed what's disturbing is not the Diana was bugged necessarily because that was the excuse could have been the national interest but but the eventual recording was cleaned up cleaned up with a very sophisticated device called a digital adapter filter this sort of thing would be needed would cost about 35 000 pounds and would normally only be available to the security services or to the military so that was used it was cleaned up and after it was cleaned up it was spliced together there are there are joins in the um audible joins of milliseconds in in the conversation and then it was rebroadcast we broadcast using a mobile telephone to disguise their sources this way the perpetrators ensured that the tape conversation was picked up accidentally by amateur radio hams by contacting the press this telephone evidence confirmed that Diana was unhappy in her marriage to Charles and needed the support and love of a male companion exposed by the tapes are now handed by the Press there is no doubt that James gilby helped Diana through her crisis lonely depressed and spied upon Diana spent many years waiting to be heard by a man with a sympathetic and understanding ear she was a very lonely vulnerable woman who needed a shoulder to cry on and he provided it I think she needed some sort of buffer between her and the the enemies that that's what she thought of I think the people that surrounded her at that time she needed somebody who was not one of them to turn to to advise her and to as a sort of sounding board and he was the perfect answer somebody she could trust she could confide in and unfortunately their relationship became public dhana's critics claimed that the tapes confirmed her tendency towards paranoia [Music] if she does have a tendency I think it's quite Justified I think anybody in that position should feel they're surrounded by assassins night and day because once this tapes emerged and she found out about them long before the public did she was worried that she quite rightly that she was being bugged that she was being spied upon and she was so any paranoia she felt I think she was entirely right it troubles Diana deeply that her own Sons will be the products of a broken home Diana had seen her own parents split up when she was a child and knew what grief it could cause on young children she's directed much of her public work to promoting Family Values her main concern has been the importance of physical contact tactile by Nature she's voiced her belief in its benefits particularly for children hugging has no harmful side effects if we all play our part in making our children feel valued the result will be tremendous there are potential Huggers in every household always the focus of hugs and kisses herself Diana represents a new more acceptable type of royalty no other member of the British royal family can make such immediate contact with the public their admiration is genuine and their acts of affection spontaneous this huge popularity will be her main weapon in her fight for a fair settlement with Charles as an indication to the way forward as an independent princess with International status Diana visited Zimbabwe [Music] using her high-profile to Focus Media attention onto the hidden problems of one of Africa's small countries she uses her public position for the benefit of the world's sick and needy from an international charity platform [Music] pendant Sarah found a role for herself drawing attention to the plight of children the world had forgotten no no you want your mummy back you've got lovely eyes you have you've got lovely eyes foreign she's exactly the same age as Beatrice leading the charity children in crisis Sarah is putting her past behind her and with her own brand of enthusiasm although with less exposure she is helping to raise money to support her charitable activities still doing a lot of work with these Charities and she's still trying to get a profile for them and even though it's a lot harder for her now but she's still working for them and I think with Diana I'm sure too although it's not obvious at the moment I'm sure she's still doing the same and I think you know the Charities sorely miss having that Public Image with the serious side of charity work comes the glamor of fundraising first night this is where Diana's talents as a performer come into their own she plays the part of a fairy tale princess with apparent ease her glamorous image has fueled the media's obsession with her foreign swim was intruded upon by a group of sensation hungry photographers spying from a high-rise balcony both she and her detective were aware they were being watched but she chose to ignore them resigned yet again to being forced back onto Center Stage by her Relentless audience Diana is a victim of her own success with the media branded as the villain of the piece the reason she gave for reducing her public engagements and her prominent Royal position when I started my public life 12 years ago I understood the media might be interested in what I did 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 I don't think that any any marriage that is this unhappy as the world is was can survive the kind of of press intrusion that it had absolutely not I think it would just would have been extraordinary if it have survived um because once once the Press have a little inkling that something's wrong they go for it they really go for it and of course it's it's probably the greatest story The Fruits we've ever had in the last 50 years often accused of smothering her children William and Harry are incredibly fond of their mother her sons were her main Solace during the years of her marriage breakdown now she has to Bear the loneliness of her new situation as an officially separated wife Diana has replaced the queen as the nation's primary mother figure by announcing the importance her sons will have on her future 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 she's very anxious to avoid any publicity which is which is perhaps understandable but the way she's going about it is perhaps not the wisest way so she's the first victim the Charities naturally are the second victim the royal family is also suffering because she was a great asset and wherever she went she appealed greatly to the public and she was the um the very modern young face of the royal family which was uh very very useful a great asset to them all round a year after her official separation from Charles Diana joins the royal family for the Christmas day service at Sandringham church and again took Center Stage shortly afterwards however she left abruptly to spend the rest of Christmas alone magnetism of royalty has helped to make royal engagements a powerful medium for promoting its causes it remains to be seen whether Diana's future Detachment from the royal family will affect its pulling power Diana leaves an unfillable Gap in the Royal lineup sadly there's no longer a real role for her in the Royal Family whatever small role she still has she'll be seen as just the mother of the next king but one Prince William she may not even have the title Princess of Wales anymore it's very doubtful they may invent some new title for her like Duchess of Kensington for instance to give her a title that's that that tells the public that she is no longer the wife of the heir to the throne and no longer Princess of Wales are no longer the third lady in the land since her marriage to Charles Diana has received little guidance from within the palace she has had to find her own way in an attempt to escape from an unhappy marriage she exposed a side of royalty which has done immeasurable damage to the institution of the monarchy Diana stands accused of being disloyal to her husband and to the queen they certainly backfired on her and on the family and I don't think she appreciated just what the public reaction to those Revelations would be or that it would quickly become apparent that she was behind all the leaks the experiment to bringing commoners into the house of Windsor has failed and world he can no longer set an example of Happy Family Life the two young wives have gone and all that is left is the shell of respectability and tradition neither had set out to challenge time-honored Customs but their effect on the whole image of the British Monarchy has been dramatic together they've opened up a new line of questioning on an institution that must move with the times if it is to survive into the 21st century as mothers to the Queen's grandchildren they still have an important role to play in the lives of the next Royal generation [Music]

Channel: Timeline - World History Documentaries

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Keywords: Timeline World History, Timeline, Full Length Documentary, History Documentary, World History, learn history, history facts, princess diana, king charles iii, british monarchy, british history, king charles and camilla, camilla parker bowles

Id: o0Zjf54b0Fc

Length: 150min 47sec (9047 seconds)

Published: Sat May 06 2023