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- So I'm India Hicks,

and I happen to be
Prince Charles' goddaughter.

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- I am Mervyn Wycherley.

I was head chef
to the Prince of Wales

and Lady Diana Spencer.

[camera shutters clicking]

- Squadron Leader
Graham Laurie.

I've flown him 760-odd times.

- Petronella Wyatt.

I've known Camilla,
the Queen Consort,

since I was 17.

[camera shutter clicking]

- I've been a royal journalist
for 30 years.

- I'm Johnny Stonborough,

and I was at school
with the king.

The other boys had decided,
quotes,

"That they were going to
'Get Prince Charles.'"

He was the boy
who walked alone.

- We'd had a friendship
and a relationship.

They called me the blonde.

- No other of his girlfriends

have ever really
talked to the press,

and that's what turned me
into the kiss-and-tell

and the blabber girl.

- I actually had thought
I was going...

[laughing] As his girlfriend
for the weekend,

but when I got there,

Camilla Parker Bowles
was there.

[crowd shouting]

- I'm speaking now
about all this

because I've said nothing
for 40 years,

and I've just listened
so often to lies.

And it's quite frustrating.

- Both princes begged their
father to not marry Camilla.

- This is the woman
that Diana would've been

crying her eyes out about

who called her
"the Rottweiler."

- They're a spectacularly
dysfunctional family.

- Right now we're seeing
anotherdisastrous scandal

swirling around.

- There are even reports
he did say,

"I wish you boys would stop

making my final years
miserable."

[tense music]

♪

[birds chirping]

- It was the end-of-season
polo dance

for Cirencester Polo Club.

The dance floor was
in the middle like this,

and then the tables were round.

[soft piano music]

Camilla and Andrew's table
was at the front.

♪

I did notice
when I was dancing

that Prince Charles was,
a lot of the time,

dancing with Camilla.

♪

A lot of people were
slightly surprised

to see how often
they were on the dance floor

and that Andrew was just
sort of sitting at the table.

♪

- Yes, people did
spot Charles and Camilla

having a fun sort of cuddle,
as it were.

♪

At that time,

he'd just started
dating Diana Spencer,

so I doubt
he would have thought

he was doing anything
terribly wrong if he...

kissed Camilla at a party.

[energetic rock music]

[cheering]

♪

- Naval Lieutenant
Prince Charles

is taking to the air again,
this time in a helicopter.

He's already qualified
as a jet pilot with the RAF.

- Being the Prince of Wales
and single,

he had this great reputation
of being very eligible

and quite rightly so.

- The prince has clocked up
almost 1,000 flying hours

in a variety of aircraft.

- He was a man of action.

You know, he flew well,
he played polo well.

Prince Philip
was the hard man.

Prince Charles was much
more sensitive and softer,

but still
did them equally as well.

[waves crashing]

- He was handsome, charming,
the Prince of Wales.

I think he had a lot
of girlfriends.

He would tell me
about women

that would come
rushing up to him,

like when he was in Australia,
and would kiss him.

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[birds chirping]

- Has anyone seen
the black dog at all?

- He was playing catch
with an apple.

- Ugh.

She's just obsessed
with apples.

- Well played, sir!
[crowd cheering]

- I was given the job
at the Guards Polo Club

as assistant manager.

And that's when Charles would
come up from Windsor Castle

and come and play.

[indistinct PA commentary]

He was about to become 30,

and I was going
through an early divorce

at a very young age, at 23.

♪

And so I just think
we just sort of

gravitated towards each other.

♪

Here are some photos

of when I was introduced
to Prince Charles.

And I do actually feel there
was an instant attraction.

I might be imagining it,
but looking at it,

it does feel as if there's a
little bit of something there.

So that was
our first introduction.

And it was a definite
turning point in my life.

♪

What I thought
about Prince Charles,

or King Charles,

is that he looked
quite a lonely figure.

So I thought that
I could introduce him

into the social life
of the Guards Polo Club.

So I suggested one day
that he came back

and had drinks in the clubhouse
after the polo

and meet some of the players.

So he said,
"OK, I'll do that."

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One of my bosses had thought
it would be quite quirky

to have Pimm's
in a plastic container.

And so I was in the room,

but didn't sort of
mix with him.

And then I saw
that he was about to go,

so I rushed around the back
and said,

"And how did that go?"

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And it was fascinating,
actually.

And he drew himself up,
and he looked at me and said,

"I'm not used to drinking
out of a container."

And I went, "Oh, my God!"

And that was virtually
almost the end

of him coming in
to have drinks.

[laughs]

♪

I was also given a cottage
up at Windsor Castle

close to the polo club,
so I was very much on tap.

♪

We were just very comfy.

We could talk about anything.

He's a very
charismatic person.

He's very cheeky.

And flirtatious,
I think is the word, you know.

I walked in wearing a shirt
with 11 cockerels,

you know, those sort
of farmer sweatshirts.

And he didn't realize
that Andrew,

my husband at the time,
was behind.

And he--as I walked through
the door, he said,

"Good God, is that
how many cocks you've had?"

[laughs]
You can't put that, cockerels.

And then he looked up,
and he saw Andrew's face.

And he knew that he--
yes.

Um, but it was just funny,
ha, ha.

♪

Prince Charles had
said he very much

liked my company
at Windsor Castle.

And then I did go
and have dinner.

I think that's about
all I'm going to say.

[laughs]
And you know.

Yeah.

♪

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- He had lots and lots
of girlfriends.

♪

I don't think any
of them really came close

to the one girlfriend
he had met years before.

That was Camilla Parker Bowles.

♪

My name is Robert Jobson.

I've been a royal journalist
for 30 years.

I've met and covered the
king's story for all that time.

I've interviewed him
a number of times.

And I've been invited down
to Highgrove,

to his garden,
and it's a wonderful garden.

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♪

Charles met Camilla--
she was older than him.

It was when he was
at university.

♪

And Charles was single,
completely smitten by Camilla.

♪

- My name is Petronella Wyatt,

and I have known Camilla,
the Queen Consort,

since I was 17.

[soft dramatic music]

The nature
of that relationship

was a sort of passion that
sprang up on Charles' side.

Camilla reminded Charles
of the queen mother.

He adored the queen mother.

I think the queen
wasn't demonstrative

because of her personality.

♪

His parents were away
such a lot

because the queen
became queen very young

and as a result,

she missed Charles' childhood.

And there's that story
he often told about his mother

coming back from a very,
very long tour.

And he rushes onto
the royal yacht to greet her,

hoping for a hug.

And she just holds out
her hand to be shaken.

♪

I think Camilla was
a very cozy person,

and so was the queen mother.

He felt more comfortable
with slightly older people.

♪

When a young man
has his own emotional problems,

he generally tends
to go for somebody

who's slightly more mature.

Camilla was fond of Charles.

I don't even know
how far it went.

Nobody really knows
how far it went.

But I think she found him
a bit immature,

and I think she wasn't
in love with him then.

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[ship's horn blows]

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- Putting to sea
on a six-month tour

of the West Indies,
Sub-Lieutenant Prince Charles

reports to his new ship,
HMS "Minerva."

- The next stage of his career
was with the Royal Navy.

And he was being posted on
a tour out in the Caribbean.

Charles and Camilla dated
for a few months,

and certainly
he was in love with her

and even took her on a tour
of the ship before he departed.

♪

He was in the West Indies,
I think,

when he heard that
she was getting married

to Andrew Parker Bowles,

so he was pretty devastated
at that.

♪

And he was definitely
brokenhearted.

There's no doubt about that.

♪

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- Charles obviously had
a great relationship

with Earl Mountbatten.

He was his great uncle,

but they all called
him Uncle Dickie.

He was there to guide him

in most areas
of his young life.

And there was a warmth
between them

that he didn't
actually experience

with the queen
and Prince Philip.

♪

Well, I think Mountbatten
said basically

that after Camilla,

that Charles should
sow his wild oats,

go out with as many girls
as possible,

and just enjoy himself,

and don't even
consider marriage

until
he was looking towards 30.

♪

- You're the most eligible
bachelor in the world.

You're the Prince of Wales.

Women threw themselves at him.

♪

- I've got a letter
that Prince Charles wrote to me

in 1975
when he was on HMS "Hermes."

And he just writes,
"My dear Janet,

"what a glorious evening
that was yesterday.

"Thank you a thousand times
for making it

"such a fun and particularly
special evening.

"I loved every minute
of my night out in Montreal

with the most exquisite
Welsh girl I've ever met."

[chuckles]
I laughed.

I said, "But Charles, how many
Welsh girls have you dated?"

So he laughed.

It was very flattering,
of course.

It was lovely.

I haven't read them
for about 25 years,

and actually, it shows you
the essence of who he is.

♪

In the 1970s in Montreal,

I was working
for the British consulate

and met so many
amazing people,

including the Prince of Wales,
of course.

♪

His ship had come
in to Montreal to dock,

and they were going
to give a reception onboard.

So naturally,
we were all invited.

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We were in line
to be presented to him.

And then he got to me.

And I said, "I hope you get
a chance to see Montreal,

and I hope you really
enjoy it."

He said, "Well, I will
if you'll show it to me."

So that's how it started.

And then he said, "I'll
have my private secretary

call you tomorrow,"

♪

He did actually contact me,

and I showed him
a lot of Montreal.

We had a sort of drive around.

And that's how
our friendship started.

[jazzy music]

♪

We liked the same things.

We both loved the movies
that we had chosen,

which was "The Pink Panther."

We're both big fans.

♪

So we went in
to see the movie.

And the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police,

they were just
protecting the whole building

while he was in there,
which was quite funny.

- The Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, the RCMP,

the Mounties,
5,400 men who maintain the law

superbly well in Canada.

♪

- We had lots of laughter,

and I find him very,
very easy to get along with.

♪

He came to my apartment.

And we had the RCMP
outside my door,

on the roof of the building,
on the fire escape.

So it was not exactly
an intimate evening,

but anyway it was really nice.

And they'd given him
a panic button so that we

would have some time together.

And we just had
a very, very fun time.

It was really lovely.

[soft music]

♪

We were very careful
about the press

because they would
get word of things,

and they would, you know,
be hounding us everywhere.

But we were very lucky,
very lucky to keep it quiet.

- Been waiting a long time?

- Yes, sir.
- Sorry we were late.

[laughter]

- The first time
we met was 1975.

After he left,
he went to the Arctic.

[chuckles]

He looks so good there,
doesn't he?

I mean, I think he looks
pretty handsome there.

I love it when he comes out
and he deflates it.

[laughter]

♪

[laughs]

- Very warm.
- Can you tell us how it was?

- It was plenty.

It was a very interesting day,
but bloody cold.

- He is so funny.

- Well, I'll tell you, we put
the air in here, you see.

It will now do an amazing--

[air hissing]

[laughter]

[cheers and applause]

- I mean, you see
how funny he is.

It just goes to show the sense
of humor that he's got.

And I think
he's still like that.

There's a really fun side
of the Prince of Wales.

He's very jolly.

He's not
in the least bit closed.

And that's what
people don't realize.

[upbeat music]

♪

I knew that I was important
because I was

getting letters all the time.

Wherever he was, I would
phone Buckingham Palace,

and they would page me
through to wherever

he was in the world basically.

Here's my letter
from the Bahamas.

And he said that he had
just come in from the beach.

And he writes to make myself
a delicious brown color

and turning thoroughly
irresistible.

"Can't wait to hear from you."

And then he sent me
a great deal of love

and a salty kiss
from the Bahamas.

Charles.
It was lovely.

I couldn't wait
to see him then.

- Quite flirty then?

- Oh, very flirty.

Of course, he was very flirty
and very charming.

And of course, you know, I just
loved getting them, of course.

And these I haven't shared
with anybody, actually.

These are
my private collection.

[chuckles]

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♪

He'd asked me to come over

because it
was the Queen's Jubilee.

They called me the blonde,
the blonde that popped up.

And then at one
of the polo matches,

they said,
typical type of girlfriend--

tall, and pretty,
and shy, standing back.

But they didn't know my name.

And he was very happy.

He said, you know,
it's amazing how

we've been able to do this.
I said, yes.

[light music]

♪

He said, you know, why don't
you come down to Balmoral?

So I flew into Aberdeen,
and then I was met in Aberdeen.

And we were not staying
at the castle.

We were staying in the little
guesthouse they have.

♪

And then unfortunately,
the press got wind

of somebody there with him.

And they sort of ruined
the whole thing

by saying the blonde
popped up at Balmoral.

♪

Said you really have
to go back,

he said, because now they've
got the long-range things.

They can see us.

[tense music]

And so we both went
in different cars

to say goodbye at
this little crossroads almost.

He came out,
kissed me goodbye.

It was very foggy.
It was like a Hollywood movie.

♪

I was really upset about it.

And he said, oh, you know--
he gave me his handkerchief.

He said,
"Oh, you will be all right."

You know,
he wasn't good at that.

I think the stiff upper lip
was very much what you did.

And so showing emotion
like that was just something

that he didn't know how
to react to.

- Charles, when it
came to his emotions,

was not the most
demonstrative person

because Charles had
emotional needs of his own.

- Charles was
a sensitive young man

bullied by his father,
and his father was a man's man

who felt that the King Charles
would have to toughen up.

He was quite hard on his son
and the schools

that he chose for his son.

- Hi.

I'm Johnny Stonbourough.

And I was at school
with the king,

or Prince Charles,
as he was then.

♪

Nearly four years,
we were in the same class

together at Gordonstoun,
which is a boarding school

up in the north of Scotland.

Gordonstoun was famously tough.

Some people actually called
it Colditz in a kilt,

Colditz being a German
prisoner of war camp.

There was a run every morning.

You just wore
a pair of shorts.

Didn't matter what
the weather was.

And this is
the north of Scotland.

A cold shower,
not necessarily because you

had to have a cold shower, but
because the hot water ran out.

He was having a very bad time

in the boarding house
that he was in.

He was ill treated
by the senior boys.

And I think
that the housemaster

probably sanctioned it up
to a point to toughen him up.

It's what his father
would have wanted.

The first time I ever
actually saw, myself,

what was happening
was playing rugby.

And he was in the scrum.

And a couple
of the other boys had decided,

quotes, that they were going
to "get Prince Charles."

And this involved punching him,
and pulling his ears,

and kicking him.

But you know, the amazing thing
is that he never responded.

He never reacted.

He was very stoic
about the whole thing.

The never complaining,
never explaining

is deeply ingrained in him.

But it was almost impossible
for him to have friends

because anybody who was deemed
to be a friend of the prince's

was teased brutally as well.

So people tended to avoid it.

He used to have a duffel coat,
a blue duffel coat.

And he would have his hands
in his pockets.

And he would pull
the duffel coat in front of him

and be walking by himself.

And that's very much an image
that I have of him.

He was the boy
who walked alone.

- Do you have any
thoughts about the lady

that the Prince of Wales
should marry?

Should she still be
a royal or titled lady?

- Um...
[chuckles]

Yes, well, I suppose--
you see, it's awfully difficult

because you've got
to remember that,

when you marry in my position,

you're going to marry
somebody who perhaps one day

is going to become queen.

And you've got to choose
somebody very carefully,

I think, who could
fulfill this particular role

because people like you
perhaps would expect quite

a lot from somebody like that.

And it's got to be
somebody pretty special.

- There were some rather
strange, medieval conditions

for becoming Princess of Wales

and marrying
the Prince of Wales.

Whoever married Charles,

she had to have
a sort of clean past.

Obviously,
she couldn't be divorced.

She had to be
pretty squeaky clean.

Living with somebody meant
that you got scratched.

It's another world.

[soft music]

♪

- I was a divorcée.

So the fact
that I was a forbidden fruit

made our relationship so
much easier and more relaxed,

and, you know, we could
just be ourselves totally.

And he did confide in me

about some of the ladies
that he brought to the polo

and everything like that,
you know.

It was a lovely, easy,
open relationship, yeah.

♪

I think it slightly went
to my head in the end,

but it was flattering.

And the fact that it
wasn't just boom and--

you know, we've been able
to talk about anything

and all our problems.

I didn't have any pretensions.

I mean, there were jokes.

My one boss had a T-shirt made,
"Jane for Queen," which was--

[laughs]
Which was very funny.

♪

This is the first time
I think it hit the press.

The press did start to take
photos and were aware of us.

And I think that went
into the newspaper.

Officials of the club thought
they should sort of protect him

because I was a divorcée.

They would always try
and keep him apart.

I mean, the body language
is quite telling,

isn't it, really?

Of mine.
[laughs]

You know, I don't look as if
I'm very worried by it all,

you know--cigarette lighter
around the neck, you know.

Must have said something
that made me laugh.

I don't know.
Nice photos.

[laughs]

♪

The golden rule
for Charles' girlfriends

was to never speak
to the media

about their relationship
with the prince.

As soon as that happened,
they were finished.

♪

- A royal correspondent
to "The Sun," James Whitaker,

who had become a bit of a sort
of friend, he rang me to say,

Jane, I just want to tell you
that it's been blown

to the newspapers
that you are the new girl

in Prince Charles' life.

And he said,
your headline's tomorrow.

And he said, well,
can I come down and see you?

And I just was so in shock
that I thought

he was a friend at the time.

And they came to the cottage.

♪

I just said, we just like
to sort of lark around.

And I probably mentioned
something like, you know,

we just like
to tease each other.

[tense music]

Unbeknown to me,
because it was a quote from me,

that went into the press.

♪

And I was knifed because
it was a quote from me.

♪

That's what turned me
into the kiss-and-tell

and the blabber girl.

♪

So it was a stitch-up.

I think it went on for nearly
two weeks, the headlines.

I was so mortified.

They feel it's a betrayal.

They do close ranks.

He was probably told, stay
away because she's a chatter.

But because he knew
that I'd been set up,

he was always there
in the background,

hoping that I was coping,
which I wasn't.

[chuckles]

I remember asking
for some help from one

of the press secretaries.

And he said,
you're in it on your own.

So I did feel very vulnerable
at the time.

[soft music]

Of course, in hindsight
would have been nice,

but don't put me
in that category.

[laughs]

I would not be
a suitable queen.

[tense music]

- In the late '70s,
there was a development

when it came
to Camilla and Charles.

♪

Camilla was married,

but her husband Andrew
did stray.

And I think Camilla
was very hurt.

So I think she gravitated
back towards Charles

because I think she wanted
to feel that somebody

wanted her like crazy.

And that person was Charles

because he'd
never stopped wanting her.

- My feeling is that,
actually, Charles

was terribly
in love with Camilla,

and I don't think
he experienced love like it.

But again, he would know
that Camilla would be someone

that he couldn't marry

because she would have
to get divorced.

[bells ringing]

- Now that he was
31 years of age,

great conjecture had already
been shown over when

and who he was likely
to marry.

Often, it was headline news.

- Prince Philip was definitely
pressuring him as well

to get married and produce
an heir and a spare,

as they say.

He would say
to me oftentimes--

you know, he'd say,
every time I meet someone,

they're marrying me
off to them.

And so the fact
that he was seen

with a number
of different women, I think,

was something
disconcerting to them.

I think they wanted him
to just be settled.

This was his fate,
and he was going

to go along with it
because what

was expected of him basically.

♪

[soft piano music]

[crowd shouting]

♪

- At that time, he'd just
started dating Diana Spencer.

- Lady Diana
was born into a world

of large country houses
set in huge rural estates.

She grew up in Park House
practically next door

to the queen,
whom she called Aunt Lilibet.

[cameras snapping]

- The queen mother
was very old-fashioned.

I think she kept pushing Diana

because she was too young
to have a past.

- Let's face it.

She fitted
into the small itinerary

that he had to work from.

[chuckles]

- Diana Spencer
had no experience

with men whatsoever.

And I was told
that their relationship

was not consummated
until their honeymoon.

So there wouldn't have been
much of a sexual nature

to the courtship.

At the same time, Charles had
started seeing Camilla again.

♪

- Going back to when I was at
a polo dance in Cirencester.

I did notice when I was
dancing that Prince Charles

was a lot of the time
dancing with Camilla.

They were in full view
of everyone, dancing,

so it wasn't
as if they were trying

to be furtive or anything.

Were they having
an affair then?

Well, I didn't know any
of that then.

But subsequently,
it's come about that he

wasn't exactly a saint.

They've admitted it,
so it must have been going on.

But yeah.

I didn't know.

- My name is Penny Junor.

The king and queen,
I know them well

because I've written
about them extensively

for over 40 years now.

I've been on tours with them.

I've had lunch
with the Prince of Wales.

Kissing Camilla
on a public dance floor

is extraordinarily indiscreet.

I have no idea what was
going through Charles' mind.

I imagine what goes through any
man or couple's mind when they

are in love with each other,
in lust with each other,

fancy the pants off each other.

They had probably
had a few drinks.

It was a party.

And he possibly felt
that he was amongst friends.

- Her husband Andrew
was doing the same thing.

So I doubt
Charles would have thought

he was doing anything
terribly wrong

if he kissed Camilla
at a party.

But having said that,
all that did stop

once he and Diana
became engaged.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Then on the 24th
of February, 1981,

from Buckingham Palace
came the news

that the whole world
had been waiting for.

The heir
to the throne presented

his beautiful bride to be,
Lady Diana Frances Spencer.

[soft piano music]

- I was in Bermuda on vacation.

And he phoned me and said,
I promised I would tell you

when I was going
to get engaged.

He said, I'm not supposed
to tell anybody right now,

but they're announcing
my engagement tomorrow.

He said,
please don't say anything.

I said, of course not.

And I said, well,
I'm coming to your wedding.

He said, of course.
[chuckles]

- Can you find the words
to sum up how you feel today,

both of you?

- Difficult to find words,
isn't it, really?

Just delighted and happy.

And I'm amazed that she's been
brave enough to take me on.

- [chuckles]
- And I suppose in love.

- Course.

- Whatever in love means.
- Yes.

- Diana made a point about it,

how shattered she was
by his answer,

but I think
she was being very sensitive

because she knew
about Camilla.

[crowd cheering]

- We now know
that she was also aware

of Camilla Parker Bowles.

I mean, had he said to her,
"OK, it's over.

I will never see her again,"

it would have been
a different thing.

But he wasn't prepared
to do that.

But I don't believe that
he would have married her

or agreed
to marry her if he hadn't

had strong feelings for her.

[upbeat music]

♪

[horn honking]

- I remember getting the call
that I was going

to be invited
to be a bridesmaid

to Charles and Diana.

And I remember thinking,
oh, God, I'm going

to have to wear a dress.

And I was quite a tomboy
at the time,

and I would always be
riding bareback on ponies

and climbing trees.

And so the idea of wearing
a dress was a little worrying.

So I'm India Hicks.

And I happen to be
Prince Charles' goddaughter.

Or should I say, King Charles.

[light music]

♪

The '80s was all about,
you know,

puff balls, and taffeta,
and over-the-top-ness.

And Diana wanted
a 25-foot train.

No one else had ever
had a 25-foot train.

And I had that job
of dealing with the train.

And there is Diana with her
large and quite ailing father.

And there wasn't much room
for all of that train.

So by the time they opened
the door and they got her out,

the bloody thing
was very crumpled.

It was quite something.

It did look amazing.
I mean, it did look amazing.

All you really see
is my bum in the air

because I spent most
of the time trying

to sort that thing out.

♪

- This is a picture of Diana
coming down with her father.

[camera snapping]

And I can see
Camilla Parker Bowles

looking across to Diana.

And I know that Diana, when
she was coming down the aisle,

she said she was
looking everywhere to see

where she was
because she was sure

she was going to be there.

And of course, she was, so...

Not a good way
to start your marriage.

- I think Camilla,
she's a worldly, wise woman.

She would have seen

this beautiful, young girl
come along.

She was clearly by that stage
in love with Charles

and maybe thought there was
nothing wrong that he would

have his wife,
they would have a few kids,

but she would still
have this role

as the mistress in his life.

And she felt confident
in that.

And she was right because,
like it or loathe it,

Charles was in love
with somebody else.

- By the time Charles
and Diana walked up that aisle

in St. Paul's Cathedral,
they both, I think,

knew they were
making a mistake.

Charles definitely did.

[ominous music]

Diana had changed.

The minute
they became engaged,

she became a different woman.

The sweet, lovely,
funny, laughing girl

turned into something
completely different.

She had very much darker side.

She was jealous.
She was enraged.

She was in tears.

He didn't know what
on earth had happened.

I think he probably
always loved Camilla.

So to have her there,
goodness knows what thoughts

must have been going through
his head--despair, probably,

but hope, hope that he was
going to make it all right.

- I pronounce that they
be man and wife together.

Those whom God
has joined together

let no man put asunder.

- And everybody was so happy.

Nobody knew what was
actually happening.

Nobody knew what was to come,
but that was the moment.

And I think genuinely,
Charles and Diana thought,

"We're gonna make a go of this.
It's gonna be OK."

[upbeat orchestral music]

♪

- Highgrove Charles bought
when he was a bachelor

and was close-to-home farm
where he

was going to farm organically.

And then he did all
the gardens himself.

And so it became
very important

to him as a sanctuary.

And then, of course,
when he married Diana,

they had that
as their country home.

And they had
Kensington Palace,

which was
their London apartments.

♪

- Mervyn Wycherley.

I was head chef
to the Prince of Wales

and Lady Diana Spencer
for 13 years

and finished in '95.

[upbeat electronic music]

♪

The early years,
it was so exciting.

It was an absolute buzz.

I mean, I don't think they
even knew what had hit them,

really,
with everything going on.

But it worked, and they
got on enormously well.

Those first few years
were--it was great fun.

♪

- He had been the playboy,
the life,

and so he was
the one in the photos.

And then he married
this shy, little girl

who turned into
an absolute megastar.

And all the press wanted
was this very pretty girl.

And I think he had his nose
slightly put out of joint.

- Well, I'm not a glove puppet,

so I can't answer for that,
I'm afraid.

But I think you enjoyed it,
didn't you, darling?

Be an idiot
if she didn't enjoy dancing

with John Travolta,
wouldn't she?

- I think he became a little
bit resentful of the superstar

that he married.

And she was the people's
darling, wasn't she?

Whereas he was beginning
to come across

as a bit more staid.

♪

- It was always the nanny's
way out was just,

why don't you go and play
with Mervy down in the kitchen?

[laughs]

And they'd come down and have
a play in the kitchen.

You can't keep them out.

So they were very,
very different.

William has always been more
reserved and thoughtful.

One of the birthday parties,
she got a bouncy castle.

We hired some bear suits,
five of them,

and we all dressed up
in these bear suits.

These kids were
playing on the bouncy.

The bears went in,
throwing them all.

And I don't know if you've
ever worn one of those things.

You can't see a thing.

I swung around, and I caught
William straight across.

He flew to the other side.

I thought, oh, God,
I've killed him.

[laughs]

None of the children realized,
but William,

he looked at the shoes,
and he recognized

the people's shoes.

Quite an astute little devil.

- My name is Ken Wharfe.

I was the protection officer
of the late Diana,

Princess of Wales,
from '87 until '93, '94.

[soft music]

I met the Prince of Wales,

I mean,
on a sort of daily basis.

When I first worked
with William and Harry--

and they were five and three.

They were young kids.

I look back
at their early years,

and Harry was very much
the joker, the entertainer.

And that sort of didn't sit
very comfortable with William

because, you know, Harry was
a bit more popular than me,

you know,
and everybody knew that.

♪

His Royal Highness
was always busy.

The travel was enormous.

- There was a sense that
Charles wasn't always there.

So the Prince of Wales
with two boys,

I think they could be
quite difficult to handle.

And old bodyguard or backup
who used to work for them

was so infuriated once,
he fired a gun into a tree,

you know,
fired a bullet into a tree

and said if those two boys
had been born

in the council
estates in South London,

they'd be in care by now

because they used
to just run amok.

- But the Prince of Wales,
he acknowledged

that his two children
were much happier doing what

Diana would arrange
for them...

♪

the go-karting,
the theme parks,

the adventure holidays,
something that he

wouldn't even think about.

Yes, he did take his sons
on historical journeys

to friends of his, but they
found at that particular time,

you know, being with
their father rather boring

and not as exciting
as in the fun

that their mother
could generate.

♪

- I think Charles
as a father was

probably more hands-on
than his mother

or father had been with him.

But fundamentally,
one parents as one is parented.

And his parents
were pretty aloof.

He wasn't totally
stiff and cold,

but his life has always
been work first probably

and family second.

The bottom line really is
that the Prince of Wales

was a workaholic.

- One particular morning,
I got a phone call,

and Diana said,
"Can you come and see me?"

She said, "I just wanted
to let you know, Ken.

"I wanted to tell you all
about my relationship,

both with my husband and at
that time with James Hewitt."

She told me
about the relationship

that her husband
was having with Camilla.

I remember asking--I said, "Do
you love the Prince of Wales?"

She said,
"Yes, of course I do.

Otherwise,
I wouldn't be here."

And it was clear to me
that the Camilla issue

was there
from the very beginning.

And Diana was trying
desperately to work out how

she was going to resolve this.

But of course,
the matter was never resolved.

And understandably,
there was much hatred

for this other woman.

- Squadron Leader
Graham Laurie.

From 1981 until 2000, I was
the prince's personal pilot.

I've flown him 760-odd times.

As regards Camilla,
I didn't ever fly her,

but we did see her involvement
in certain trips

when we went abroad.

There would be a civilian
charter aircraft

on the tarmac
before we got there,

and it was still there
when we left.

And I found out afterwards
that actually Camilla

had flown in and out
on that aircraft.

So they were obviously
getting together overseas,

but the press didn't
cotton onto that.

♪

- I'm speaking
now about all this

because I've said nothing
for 40 years.

And I've just listened so
often to lies, silly stories.

And it's quite frustrating.

There are only a few of us

that can say
what really happened.

And I decided that my time
might be coming to an end,

so I'm going to do it now.

My name is Allan Peters,

and I worked as a royalty
protection officer

for the Prince of Wales,
and then subsequently,

to the Princess of Wales
for nine years.

There was a team
of three protection officers

with the Prince of Wales,

two of us
with the Princess of Wales.

And then there was a small team
of what we called baby men,

who were
the protection officers

who looked after
William and Harry.

And Barry Mannakee
was one of those baby men,

as we called him.

Harry must have been
about a year old,

something like that.

And on one occasion,
we did use Barry Mannakee

to go with her for four
or five days up to Scotland.

And when they came back
from that trip,

I started to notice her
conduct in the presence

of Mannakee getting
more and more strange--

what she wore,
how she behaved,

and so on and so forth.

[dramatic orchestral music]

It was clear
that something had gone on.

So I took it upon myself
to challenge her

of what I'd seen,
and she eventually agreed.

Oh, yes.
It's all so wonderful.

He's so marvelous.

As far as I can ascertain,
they were having an affair.

♪

We had this lengthy
conversation,

trying to explain
it was a recipe for disaster.

The thing was
to try and help it

to stop before it got too bad.

Because as I explained to her,
she would lose the marriage,

lose the boys,
lose everything.

We were trying
to move Mannakee on

to get him away,
but it was quite difficult.

♪

When Barry Mannakee
was told that he

was being transferred out,
he obviously rang her

on a direct line.

And I was in my office
at Kensington Palace,

and the first thing I knew was

she was in the doorway
throwing her shoes

at the back of my head,

upset because she was
putting the blame on me.

She was distraught,

and life was quite difficult
for everybody.

♪

On one occasion
when we got back--

I think it was a black tie
engagement or something.

And she got out of the car,
ran inside,

and disappeared upstairs.

And the prince said to me,

"What on earth
is the matter with her?"

And I said, "Well, I probably
can't help you, sir,"

because I didn't
want to explain.

♪

And eventually, he said,
"Well, the only thing

"that seems
to be upsetting her

"is that Barry Mannakee
is leaving.

"And if that's the case,

"I'll say
that he doesn't need to leave.

He can stay."

And at that point,
I felt I had to say,

"Well, if he stays, sir,
then I can't stay.

He has to go."

And I think that point,
the penny may have dropped

as to what was happening.

And he never said another word
and turned and left.

I can categorically say that
the first person that strayed

in the marriage
was the Princess of Wales,

and he didn't
until after he knew

she had strayed.

- Do your tastes coincide?

- On what, pop music?
- Pop music.

- Well, yes, sometimes, yes.
Not always.

- [laughing]
- I mean...

- They were two people
who had nothing

on which
to build a relationship.

Charles and Diana
had an age gap

that seemed
even wider than it was

because they
had nothing in common.

She hated Balmoral.
She hated shooting.

She hated hunting.

She liked being in London,

having lunch
in Tallinn restaurants

and Knightsbridge
with girlfriends,

shopping, pop music.

Charles liked
classical and opera.

She couldn't stand it.

It's worse
than chalk and cheese.

♪

- We would speak
on the telephone all the time.

He did say that it
was very volatile.

He said that they thought she
had bulimia at that point.

And he said, you know, she
threw herself down the stairs.

Said, you know, she would
be crying in the bathroom.

And William would
be trying to put Kleenex

underneath the door,
saying, "Mummy, it's OK."

That's traumatic for any child
to see that instability.

So he was very worried
about that.

He did say to me that he
hoped that the children would

remember that when, you know,
she'd be yelling and screaming

at him that he didn't yell
and scream back,

that he was trying
to be the voice of reason.

- All her things
were a cry of help.

I just think
it was alien to him.

It just hadn't been
in his orbit before.

And probably he just
didn't understand.

- He's not a temperament that
can handle that kind of drama.

It was very alien to him.

I mean, you really did
not do that kind of thing.

And you had a stiff upper lip,

and you had
a certain demeanor.

He wasn't good at that time

with a lot
of raw emotion like this.

[soft music]

♪

- Late '80s,
I was at a friend's wedding,

and it was then that people
really started talking

talking about Charles and Diana
and how bad the marriage was.

There were two camps,

those who really
supported Charles

and said Diana was mad,

and then there was
another camp

who were more sympathetic
to Diana and said

that she'd been far too young
when she was married

into the royal family,
and it would be enough

to unbalance anybody.

As for me, I was torn because
I met Diana quite a lot,

and I liked her.

You couldn't help
but like her.

The marriage was
effectively over.

They didn't live together.

They didn't sleep together.

It was a dead marriage.

And Diana was doing her own
thing with various boyfriends.

- By the late '80s,
what Charles was after

was what,
to some extent, they had,

which was to lead
separate lives

but stay together
for the sake of the country

and of their children.

This is the way
that aristocratic families

have managed their estates
for generations.

If the marriage isn't
as happy as it might be,

they go off and they find
love interest elsewhere,

but they stay together.

But Diana didn't want that.

Diana wanted the world
to know that she was unhappy.

[dramatic orchestral music]

- As the Princess of Wales
delivered Prince Harry

to his school this morning,

the author of the book
which claims to expose

the real state
of her marriage said he left

very strong material
out of his account

because it would have
revealed the identity

of several key sources.

The book,
due to go on sale tomorrow,

claims she made several
attempts on her life.

The author, Andrew Morton,
at the center of the storm

has warned today
that the Princess of Wales

now needs help
and understanding.

- I think her own involvement
with Andrew Morton

in her book
"Diana: Her True Story"

was effectively her biography.

And what we got was the truth.

♪

- Morton's book is the most
one-sided divorce petition

almost in history.

It's almost saint,
sinner, and that's it.

Diana was no saint.

Diana had been having affairs

same as Charles
was having affairs.

- How would anybody feel
if their wife exposed

every last detail about them,

particularly
from a position of fury?

I think Charles found
the Andrew Morton book

very wounding, and hurtful,

and damaging
to his reputation.

- "The Six O'Clock News"
from the BBC

with Anna Ford and Chris Lowe.

- Good evening.
The headlines at 6:00.

The Prince and Princess
of Wales are to separate,

but they do not plan
to divorce.

[tense music]

♪

- I always think
there's a camera now, always,

or something like a camera.

And worse than you--

it's extraordinary
how now you feel--

I do, anyway--
that wherever you are,

there's somebody hiding
behind something somewhere.

I'm quite
a sort of private person.

I'm not prepared
to just perform

whenever
they want me to perform.

- Charles did an interview
with Dimbleby

after the Morton book
was published.

I think he wanted to justify
his relationship with Camilla.

And he wants to point out
that they'd only started

seeing each other again
after the marriage to Diana

was effectively over and dead.

- Mrs. Parker Bowles
is a great friend of mine.

Most people probably would
realize that when marriages

break down,
awful and miserable as that is,

that so often, you know,
that it is your friends

who are the most important,
and helpful,

understanding, and encouraging.

Otherwise, you would
go stark raving mad.

- Did you try to be faithful
and honorable to your wife

when you took on the vow
of marriage?

- Yes, absolutely.

- And you were?

- Yes.

Until it became
irretrievably broken down,

us both having tried.

- Shouldn't have done
the interview,

like I probably
shouldn't be doing this,

but he shouldn't have done
the interview, really.

When she did the interview,
she was still his wife.

- But his was before hers.

- Oh, was it?
- Yeah.

That was '95.
This is '94.

- So did he admit in this
that he had extramarital--

what an idiot.

♪

- There's no dispute that
Charles was in a relationship

with Camilla as a married woman
before they married in '81.

Diana tells me that
that relationship continued

right through their marriage.

It suits the prince obviously,
the king he is now,

to say that
that wasn't the case.

From my own observation, I have
no reason to disbelieve Diana.

- His marriage had
irretrievably broken down

because he understood
what was happening.

The Princess of Wales,
her relationship with Mannakee

was clearly inappropriate.

With him, it's about loyalty,
and he'd been betrayed.

But also,
he never told the truth.

He protected
his sons from that.

And that is to be admired
greatly, I think.

[dramatic orchestral music]

- It's the interview
that stunned the nation.

Last night,
more than 21 million viewers

heard Diana admit adultery,

as well
as discussing her bulimia,

self-mutilation,
and post-natal depression.

She went on
to express her opinions

on Charles, Camilla,
and her efforts

to make her marriage work.

♪

- To do that
to a beautiful woman

and take no notice
of her cries for help

or whatever
she's going through,

I thought is just disgusting.

Charles, I've got no respect
for that man at all now.

- She's fighting
to get her way.

Good luck to her.

[reporters clamoring]

- The most hurtful parts
for him

would have been the accusation
that he was a bad father

and that he possibly
should not become king.

That he wasn't fit
for the top job, I think,

must have been
incredibly hurtful

and frustrating because he
was never going to retaliate.

He never would.

So here he was,
powerless and humiliated.

[cheers and applause]

- Neither Diana or Charles
thought about their children.

And, I mean, when you
give those interviews,

do you think
about the repercussions

on your children,
maybe not now,

but when they're older?

I mean, those books and that
interview is there forever.

And so you have to be so aware
of what you're saying.

- William and Harry
through their early days

in the '80s
would be blissfully unaware

of the personal complications,

Hewitt with Diana
and Camilla with their father.

But of course,
as you get older

and through into their teens,

you know,
they would have become aware,

obviously, of the relationship

that their mother had
and father had.

[tense music]

♪

- Her former husband may
be adopting a low profile.

There is no sign that Diana,
Princess of Wales,

will do so as she heads off
into a new and uncertain life.

[ambulance siren blaring]

♪

- Diana, Princess of Wales,
has died in a car accident

in Paris, which also killed
her companion, Dodi Fayed.

The Prince of Wales,
on holiday at Balmoral

with his sons
William and Harry,

he has been informed.

Grimly woken
in the middle of the night

with just the most awful news.

- Buckingham
Palace spokesperson

has just announced that the
queen and the Prince of Wales,

she said, are deeply shocked
and distressed

by this terrible news.

♪

- At about 10:00,
we suddenly got a phone call

to say, you may be bringing
the body of the princess

back to Northolt
with the prince.

[soft music]

And if there were ever one
I wanted to make,

it was this one.

I'd flown the princess
over 200 times.

So in a way, I was proud to
do this trip, her final trip.

♪

When we got to Aberdeen
to pick up the prince,

he didn't come up front.

He just sat down.

I didn't see him at all
on the way out to Paris.

♪

When I first saw the coffin,

that's when really the sadness
started to come in.

♪

You realize that that life
had ended, and there it was.

It was horrific.

♪

I always remember taking off

into a wonderful
golden sunset.

It was a moment
I will always treasure

because it was
her final flight.

♪

When we landed, I know,
as he went down the back,

he thanked all the crew
as he went back.

And I thought,
that's the measure of the man.

After such a shocking day,
he still had time

to do the thank yous as well.

♪

- One thing
the public don't realize

is that during the last year
of Diana's life,

Charles and Diana
had reconciled as friends

and had actually managed
to create this friendship

that they'd never created
when they were married.

Charles was devastated
when she died.

I mean, I heard
that he spent hours in France

with her body, crying,
and he was devastated.

And then he had to deal
with his sons.

- He was terrified
for his sons.

How would they cope
without a mother?

How would
the whole thing play out?

And I think
he immediately recognized

that he probably
would be blamed

for her death in some way.

- Does it smell?

- As an author, journalist,
I just wanted to get

to get to the bottom
of this man

who was born to be king.

That took a couple
of years to pin down,

but it was a couple of years
in which they gave me

very good access to him.

And I really got to know him.

- People thought that he
was this dry, old stick.

The funny thing is,
he's actually one

of the most emotional people
I've ever met.

After Diana died,

Camilla's negative popularity
was so severe

that it was actually
almost dangerous

for her to appear in public.

And yet, he was determined

that she should be part
of his life.

There was a very
deliberate PR campaign

to make her acceptable
to the world.

- He called in Mark Bolland,

who was a young,
clever public relations guru,

to handle this operation
Mrs. PB, as it was called,

to try to get acceptance
of Camilla publicly.

[cameras snapping]

[tense music]

♪

Two years after Diana's death,
the Ritz was the moment

when Camilla stepped out
into the public limelight--

the flashes going off,
the hundreds of photographers

on ladders
and whatever outside.

It was Camilla's
sister's birthday party,

and it was the first time

they'd been
photographed together.

[cheers and applause]

- How much involvement
did he actually have in it?

- I'm told that he
planned this himself.

He decided enough was enough.

They're fed up sneaking around.

And tonight was the night.

- Everyone knew it
was going to happen.

It was tipped off,
and it was an arranged moment.

But it was a moment
that allowed her

to step out in public.

- I believe that the
British people were warming

to Camilla,
but I think at that point,

I would have said that marriage
between Charles and Camilla

was never going to happen

unless William
and Harry accepted her,

very publicly accepted her.

♪

- The woman
that Diana had been

crying her eyes out about--

and she called her
Rottweiler--

very difficult
then to get your sons,

the sons of Diana,
to in any way warm

to this woman
because they would have

had a particular image of her.

- But Charles went on,

and he proposed
to Camilla anyway.

- Buckingham Palace
has this afternoon

announced the engagement
of Prince Charles

to Camilla Parker Bowles.

- There had remained
great hostility

about Charles' relationship
with Camilla.

Camilla was always
the villain in the picture

as far as the tabloids
were concerned.

[soft piano music]

♪

- Come down
on the right please.

- What do you mean?

- What have we done wrong?

[laughter]
- I'm coming up.

Give me your hand.

[grunts]

- They've got it very
carefully planned, I see.

- Can I ask William and Harry

your feelings on the prospect
of the marriage?

- Very happy, very pleased.

Be a good day.

- I think we all took
that at face value.

And I would say that,
for the public to see

that William and Harry
accepted her went a good way

to jumping that hurdle.

- It was quite a long time
until we actually heard

either William or Harry
speaking for themselves.

♪

[upbeat music]

♪

- I believe that Camilla
was very, very happy

to remain Charles' girlfriend.

I don't think Camilla
was anxious to marry at all.

She wasn't interested
in titles, or status,

or the clothes, or the palaces.

And she wasn't a snob.

- Camilla,
on the day of her wedding,

had no idea what
the public reaction would be.

On that morning, she had
to be prised out of bed

because she was so frightened.

She didn't know whether
she would be booed

and have rotten eggs
thrown at her.

None of them had any idea.

- But I think
Charles desperately wanted

somebody who is publicly
at his side

to kind of do his job.

And she's proved to be very,
very good with him.

He's a much happier person.

- If they want to get together,
then that's OK.

- Good luck to him.

I suppose he deserves
a little bit

of happiness now, doesn't he?

- He has to be allowed
to live his own life.

- People's views began
to change a little bit.

I don't think
they loved her by the time

Charles and Camilla
got married,

but they didn't hate her.

[soft music]

[cheers and applause]

♪

all: ♪ Save the queen

♪

- The first thing
that surprised me

was that he's funny.

- There'll be snow
for the higher ground

of the Highlands
and Aberdeenshire,

the potential for a few
flurries over Balmoral--

who the hell wrote the script?

As the afternoon goes on.

- I saw him absolutely
in his pomp.

♪

He was finally in the marriage
he wanted to be.

He was happy
in his family life.

- Prince Harry is
to marry his girlfriend,

the American actress
Meghan Markle.

- I know
she's not an aristocrat.

She's not from
a European royal family.

She--I mean, she's thoroughly
modern Meghan, you know.

She's everything
perhaps we might not expect

of a royal bride.

- All the stars were aligned.
Everything was just perfect.

It was this beautiful woman

just sort of literally
tripped and fell into my life.

And the fact that she--

I know the fact that she'll
be really unbelievably good

at the job part of it as well.

♪

- They recognized
that Meghan was a huge asset.

Charles did see that.

And so I think
Charles was genuinely

very welcoming to her.

- We're all
absolutely delighted.

As you can see,
they're so happy.

It's a real joy to have
a bit of good news for once.

[cheers and applause]

- As far as I know,
Charles fell over himself

to welcome Meghan
into the royal family.

I have more reservations
about William and Kate.

There seemed to have
been some tension.

But the rest of the family--

I think Charles
is utterly faultless

when it comes to
his behavior towards Meghan.

I really do.

And they generally liked her.

I mean,
that's what I heard anyway.

[dramatic music]

- What Meghan and Harry
hadn't reckoned with

was two things really.

One was that the press,
instead of welcoming her,

really were extraordinarily
racist and misogynist.

It was shocking.

- My British friend said to me,
"I'm sure he's great.

"But you shouldn't do it
because the British tabloids

will destroy your life."

- But there
was a culture clash.

To be a star
in the Hollywood system

is always to be telling people
what you want to do,

and to be a royal woman
is always to be being told

what you can't do.

For her, that was
a very rude awakening.

Meghan just wanted
to be over there

and back in a world that she
knows and understands.

Harry claims that there were

five different
potential models

of how he and Meghan
might continue

to work with the royal family:

The half in, half out model
where they could have had

some kind of private,
commercial existence

and still be doing
royal duties.

- Harry honestly believed
that he could

do six months here
and six months there,

and they'll buy that.

It was a bit of a shock to him
when the queen said, look,

I understand, you know,
where you want to go,

and I wish you well.

But there was no way that the
queen was going to buy that.

And so now
he's been out on his own.

[dramatic music]

- Good evening.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex

have issued
a personal statement saying

they will step back
as senior royals

and work to become
financially independent.

They made the announcement
without consulting any members

of the royal family,
a decision which is said

to have left the family
feeling hurt.

Prince Harry and Meghan
say they will continue

to fully support the queen,
but now plan to split

their time between the UK
and North America.

- If the queen had allowed
Harry and Meghan to be

half in and half out,
none of what happened later

would have happened.

And perhaps that was a mistake,
but it wasn't Charles' mistake.

- But the failure to find
something that worked

for everyone is going
to haunt the monarchy

and Charles
for a very long time.

- Towards the end of her life
and the duke's life,

if there were any problems
with regards to the way

that they parented, I think
that was all put behind them.

Charles was talking to Philip

about his 100th
birthday celebrations.

And he said,
"I've got to make it first."

And of course,
that was the last conversation

they had because he died almost
probably out of stubbornness.

Because of course,
the Duke of Edinburgh

once said that, you know,
he couldn't think of anything

worse than reaching 100.

[shouting orders]

- Prince Philip
was a remarkable man.

He and the queen were married,
as we know, for 73 years.

And when a figure
like Prince Philip

is removed from the scene,

of course it leaves
a great void.

- The saddest sight
was seeing the queen

during COVID
burying her husband

and sitting all on her own.

Horrendous for her
and for the family really.

- We have had news
from Buckingham Palace

that the queen is under medical
supervision at Balmoral.

[somber music]

- The Prince of Wales
had to fly up to Balmoral.

The queen had taken
a turn for the worse.

Obviously, Charles knew
what was going to happen.

My understanding is,
he'd gone mushrooming.

He'd gone
with his box and his stick,

and gone into the wild woods,
but obviously,

thinking that this
was the moment that he

was going to become king.

It shows you even
at that moment that he wanted

to be at one with nature,
which I think

really sums up the king,
somebody who is in harmony

with his environment.

[bell tolling]

- Buckingham Palace
has announced the death

of Queen Elizabeth II.

♪

- And so the reign of
Elizabeth II comes to a close

after 70 years
at the age of 96.

Her son Charles is now king.

- God save the king.

all: God save the king.

- Queen Elizabeth's
was a life well lived,

a promise with destiny kept.

And she is mourned most
deeply in her passing.

That promise of lifelong
service I renew to all today.

- He gave that speech
that made us feel secure.

And I think
we realized suddenly

there was a man,
a very empathetic man,

who was going to lead us
into a new, modern monarchy.

And I think we felt good
about that.

♪

[tense music]

♪

- He's come to the throne
in the teeth

of unprecedented challenges--
a cost of living crisis,

the breach
with Meghan and Harry,

and, of course,
the problems with his brother.

It looks like
to be king is to have

pigeons come home to roost.

- Have you become an
embarrassment, Prince Andrew?

- At the heart of the prince's
current problems

is his 16-year friendship with
this American businessman.

- Could you please
give us your name?

- Jeffrey Epstein.

- My name is Grant Harrold.

And I was a royal butler
to the Prince of Wales

between 2004 and 2011.

While I was there, one
of the most difficult things

to hit the royal family
in recent years

is Prince Andrew's
relationship

with Jeffrey Epstein,
him a convicted sex offender.

And then you got Prince Andrew
giving an interview on it.

- That you were staying
at the house--

- Yes.
- Of a convicted sex offender.

- [sighs]

It was a convenient
place to stay.

- It just was a disaster.

- I admit fully
that my judgment

was probably colored
by my tendency

to be too honorable.

- When Charles became king,
he dealt very effectively

with Andrew
and very ruthlessly.

He told him that he would
never be a working royal again

or perform a public duty,
which, as we know,

enraged Andrew,
but it was what he had to do.

So in that case,
Charles very definitely put

the interests of the crown
first and quite right.

But Andrew is not his son.

- Harry's new book "Spare"
contains salacious revelations

and shocking allegations that
his brother Prince William

knocked him to the ground
in an argument

linked to Harry's marriage
to Meghan Markle,

Duchess of Sussex.

♪

- I got to know
William and Harry

as well as I know
my own family.

In all the years I was there,
I didn't witness fallouts.

I didn't witness arguments.
I didn't witness shouting.

These are things I didn't--
I didn't see any of that.

They were a happy family.

So that bit doesn't add up.

- It was given an air
of being not quite ready

for parenthood--
the responsibilities,

the patience, the time.

Even he, though a proud man,
would have admitted as much.

But single parenthood,
Pa was never made for that.

To be fair, he tried.

- Harry thanked his father
for the way

he walked his bride
down the aisle.

He thanked his father
for the way

he helped shape him
as a man and his belief

in the environment.

So I don't really know
where he suddenly

had this complete about-face
on his father.

It certainly has upset
the king, I mean,

because of course it would.

- With everything
going on with Harry,

I don't know what made him
change so much.

I look at him,
and I just think--

I just--it's a very
different character.

Something has happened.

Something has changed him

and made him very different.

- He was very close
to his brother,

and he loved Kate.

He's changed a great deal.

And it's been
since he married Meghan,

so draw the conclusion
that you want.

♪

- The window display
wasn't subtle,

but then again,
nothing about this has been.

It is the fastest-selling
non-fiction book ever.

- Diana is a central theme
to his biography.

And I think that what Harry
has reflected upon

is understanding
that his mother was unhappy

for a lot of her life
while married

because of the relationship

that her husband
was having with Camilla.

- "We support you," we said.
"We endorse Camilla," we said.

"Just please don't marry her.
Just be together, Pa."

He didn't answer.

But she answered
straight away.

Shortly after
our private summits with her,

she began to play
the long game,

a campaign aimed at marriage,
and eventually the crown,

with Pa's blessing,
we presumed.

- William and Harry
weren't happy

about Charles
and Camilla's marriage.

Camilla was the person
who made

their beloved mother unhappy.

- I think that Harry finds
it difficult to reconcile,

in a way, with his father
because of that.

- I think that Harry
is very like his mother.

And I think
that there are parallels

in the way they have behaved.

I think what he's doing now
is incredibly self-destructive

and destroying everything
that he knew and loved.

- The main thing to understand
about the Windsors

is they're a spectacularly
dysfunctional family.

And why wouldn't they be?

They grow up in the strangest
of circumstances

and always this kind of
public eye looking in on them.

And they're also,
not to forget,

always pitted
against each other.

They're in competition.

- Now, how many book deals
has Harry signed?

How many more programs
have they still got to make?

What is selling those books is
the dirt on the royal family.

It's not chicken rearing
in Montecito.

So this could go on forever.

- At this moment in time,
there's been polls done,

and the monarchy's
popularity has dropped.

Charles,
his popularity has dropped.

William and Kate's
popularity has dropped.

Harry's popularity
has dropped.

What does that say
for the future of it?

And I don't think Harry
realizes that maybe he started

a time bomb,
which could actually

be the catalyst to actually
destroying the monarchy.

[dramatic music]

I think that one thing
about Charles is,

he's very protective
of the monarchy.

You know, the monarchy
is everything, obviously.

And he wants to ensure
that it continues,

like his mother did.

So if he feels
that his son is going

to damage or affect her,
he has to make the decision,

do I support my son?

♪

Or do I support the monarchy?

He will support the monarchy.

♪

[dramatic orchestral music]

♪