All language subtitles for The.Windsors Dynasty.S01E04_English

[dramatic music]

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[light, tense music]

female narrator:
Prince Charles,

the future King of England,
has a dangerous secret.

A secret which threatens
the entire House of Windsor.

He's in love
with a married woman.

[crowd cheering]

- And isn't that a sight?

narrator: The queen expects
him to produce an heir.

And she hopes he's
found the perfect bride.

- For better, for worse,
- For better, for worse.

- Till death us do part.
- Till death us do part.

[crowd cheering]

narrator: But what happens
when royal tradition

stops you
from following your heart?

♪ ♪

[crowd cheering]

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

[cheering]

[light orchestral music]

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In the medieval fortress
of Carnarvon Castle,

Charles, the eldest son
of Queen Elizabeth,

is crowned Prince of Wales.

- I, Charles, Prince of Wales,

do become your liege man
of life and limb.

- There's so much pomp,
so much glamour,

but under it all
is a nervous 20-year-old

who feels strongly

that whole weight
of monarchy rests on him.

[crowd cheering]

- He had no choice
in his life at all.

His future
was mapped out for him.

He knew from an early age
that he was part of a machine.

[crowd cheering]

- Prince Charles is a central
figure of this dynasty.

He is the future.
He is the great hope.

[orchestral fanfare]

- The young prince who just
celebrated his third birthday

carried out his handshaking
duties most sedately.

- The prince as a child
was quite withdrawn,

very sensitive, very shy.

- But right from
the beginning,

there's all this weight
of expectation

on this poor
little boy's back.

narrator:
When Charles was four,

he watched his
27-year-old mother

crowned queen
after the unexpected death

of her father,
King George VI.

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- She had to juggle

the really onerous duties
of being Queen, being monarch,

with being a young mother.

- She went off on long
tours for months at a time

'round the Commonwealth,
and Charles was left.

- She came back
and instead of hugging him,

she was cool and aloof.

This gives you
an indication of the formal,

institutionalized nature
of their relationship.

- His father,
Prince Philip,

was an alpha male,
a leader.

Charles was unconfident,
diffident,

not at all the sort of son that
Prince Philip wanted to have.

- It was clear to
the prince that his father

was disappointed in him,

and I think that was
very painful.

- His father's
method of dealing with that

was to try
and toughen him up.

It's the school
of hard knocks.

- Gordonstoun,
as Prince Charles

arrives with his father,

the school's
most famous old boy.

Remember how you
felt when you started?

narrator: Gordonstoun,
a remote boarding school

in the north of Scotland,

is renowned
for its tough regime.

- Philip chose
Gordonstoun for his son,

because it had been the school
he'd been at in the 1930s.

- Philip had been
a terrific success there,

and so he believed
that this school

would fit Charles
to wear the crown.

You couldn't have a wimp
sitting on the throne.

- His parents very
much wanted Prince Charles

to be treated just
like anybody else,

but he wasn't anybody else.

- And so he was ostracized
by the other pupils.

- He was so vulnerable
and such an easy target.

- They slept in dormitories,

and they would come across
and beat him up at night.

He was unmercifully bullied.

[gentle music]

- He emerged
from his education

with a lack of self-confidence
and a constant worry

about whether he was doing
the right thing.

- Charles' whole existence
is totally defined

by the family firm
and by his position within it.

- Queen Elizabeth
inherited this idea

from her own
mother and father

that she's supposed
to belong to a model family,

that they're supposed
to represent something

to the nation.

narrator:
So the heir to the throne

needs a suitable bride.

- The spouse had to be
spotless beyond any doubt.

No unpleasant details
about their previous lives,

and there weren't
that many people around

who could fit the bill.

- When you marry
in my position,

you are 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 fulfil
this particular role.

[light music]

- In his early 20s,

Charles begins to have
a social life.

- He's in London,
going to parties,

meeting girls.

- He was slightly
uncomfortable

with members
of the opposite sex.

He hadn't got
a lot of experience.

- One of the women whom
he meets is Camilla Shand.

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narrator:
Camilla, the daughter

of a military officer,
is 24 years old.

- She isn't aristocratic,

but she's easy to be with,
she's fun to be with.

- Her ability
to talk to everybody,

her ability to communicate
and this sense of humour

that she's got always made
her a very attractive person.

- Charles was bowled over,
head over heels.

Finally, he's found someone he
can actually be himself with.

narrator: But Charles knows
the queen expects him

to choose a bride
who will uphold

traditional royal values.

- There is this prevailing
idea that Charles

must marry a virgin bride
because he is the future king.

- Camilla had enjoyed life.

She'd had a number
of romances.

- And so the problem
that Prince Charles has

is that he's fallen for someone
thoroughly unsuitable.

- But the more time
Charles spends with Camilla,

the more he sensed
that she could be someone

with whom he could
spend the rest of his life.

narrator: Charles,
now an officer in the Navy,

embarks on a six-month
tour of duty.

- He thinks that Camilla
will be there when he returns.

- But while he's
away at sea,

he gets word from England

that Camilla is going
to get married.

- Camilla has gotten
engaged to a military officer

by the name
of Andrew Parker Bowles.

- Camilla knew
that she was never

going to marry Prince Charles.

I mean, he was Prince Charles,
and she was just Camilla Shand.

So she said yes to Andrew.

[gentle music]

Prince Charles
realized that he'd lost

what he suddenly felt
might be the love of his life.

- He writes to a friend

that he is devastated
by the news.

He says "I will not have
someone to come home to."

[lively orchestral music]

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narrator:
In the winter of 1973,

Prince Charles arrives
at Westminster Abbey

for a Royal celebration

watched by millions
around the world.

- The Wedding of the decade,

Princess Anne
and Captain Mark Phillips.

narrator: His younger sister
is getting married.

- Instead of celebrating
his sister's marriage,

Prince Charles is not
full of joy about this.

He feels that
he's been left behind.

narrator:
Princess Anne's wedding

falls on Charles'
25th birthday.

At his age, his mother
was was already queen

and married with two children.

- Here is Prince Charles,
a young adult,

but with no clear-cut job

and a very strong
sense of duty.

He ought to be marrying
the right person and he isn't.

- Prince Charles, if there's
a problem, he broods about it.

He talks about it.

He needs a shoulder to cry on.

- And he seems to be really
very much left on his own

without much guidance.

He sees very little
of his parents.

He has to sort of make
a formal appointment

to see them.

- One person in his life
who gives him a lot of time

is his great-uncle,
Lord Louis Mountbatten.

- My grandfather
and the Prince of Wales

had a very unique
relationship.

Sometimes it's easier
to be close to someone

who's not necessarily
your parents.

- He calls him "Grandpapa,"

but actually Charles
comes to see Mountbatten,

much more, I think,
as a father figure.

narrator: Lord Mountbatten
is the uncle

of Charles' father,
Prince Philip.

It was Mountbatten
who acted as matchmaker

to Charles' parents.

- Louis Mountbatten
is very free with advice

on love and marriage.

- His attitude
was play the field,

sow your wild oats,

enjoy yourself
and then eventually

you'll meet some
nice, pure girl

that you can marry
and make the queen.

- Prince Charles
takes his advice

onboard with a vengeance.

[light music]

narrator: And the public
sees a new side to Charles.

- He's the most eligible
bachelor in the world.

Everybody wanted
to go out with him.

Nobody was going to say no.

Nobody was going
to turn down

the Prince of Wales,
were they?

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- He went on tour
all round the world.

There's girls
who'd pursue him.

He was in demand.

- He is known
as an action man.

He is a heartthrob.

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- The girlfriends
that he picks up

get a lot of publicity
in the press.

They're known as
Charlie's Angels.

narrator: The prince's private
life is now front-page news.

- Increasingly in the 1970s,

there's a new era
of competition,

especially in the British
tabloid press.

So there is now
an incentive and a price

for paparazzi pictures

of members
of the British royal family.

- He couldn't take any young
woman out for anything

without being photographed.

- The latest girl
would come in,

and if she fluttered
her eyelashes at him

or Charles smiled back,
a story would break.

- I think it was very tough
for the Prince of Wales

under the pressure and
the surveillance which went on.

- I rather feel
that being here today

is rather
like asking a pheasant

to award the prizes
to the best shot.

[laughter]

I've only got a few pellets
in my backside,

and you haven't yet
brought me down.

[gentle music]

narrator: But soon Charles
is concealing something

from the press.

- Charles is having
a relationship

with a married woman,

Camilla Parker Bowles.

♪ ♪

narrator: Camilla,
Charles' first love,

is still married to Andrew,
a cavalry officer.

- Charles never stopped
really adoring Camilla.

- He hasn't really ever gotten
her out of his mind.

- She was the one
who made him feel

as if he'd come home,
as if this was his soul mate.

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- They continued
to meet on the polo pitch,

and their relationship
turned into an affair.

- The royal family doesn't
mind a bit of hanky-panky,

but this was adultery.

[light music]

- An officer
in Andrew's regiment

gets word to the queen,

and she takes
a very dim view of it.

She actually
says that Camilla

will no longer be invited
to royal events.

- Frankly they were terrified

that he was going to
turn into King Edward VIII,

who abdicated to marry
Mrs. Simpson.

♪ ♪

Narrator: In 1936,
Edward, the queen's uncle,

was forced
to give up the throne

after falling in love
with a divorced woman.

The queen was ten years old

when this scandal
engulfed the monarchy.

- The whole abdication
was the great drama

that defined the queen's reign.

She's still living in
the shadow of the abdication.

narrator:
Throughout her reign,

Queen Elizabeth
has fought to maintain

the Windsors' image
as stable and dutiful.

♪ ♪

- When I was 21,

I pledged my life
to the service of our people.

I do not regret nor retract
one word of it.

- The Queen has been
building this picture

of her family
as an ideal royal family.

I mean, a dynasty
is about a family.

[crowd cheering]

- Once that image of

kind of perfect family life
becomes tarnished,

well, what do they
represent to the nation?

[light string music]

♪ ♪

narrator: 1979,

Prince Charles' great-uncle
and mentor, Lord Mountbatten,

is spending the month
of August with his family

at their country house.

- We were at Classiebawn Castle
in Ireland every summer.

They were
pretty magical summers,

until unfortunately in 1979

when that came
to an abrupt halt.

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- Lord Mountbatten and
several members of his family

set off fishing
on a boat that he owned.

- Suddenly the boat
is ripped apart by a bomb.

- My brother and I
weren't on the boat,

but my brother and I
heard the bomb.

We heard it go off,
and--and--

and, you know, the chaos
that followed was unimaginable.

- Lord Mountbatten has been
killed in an explosion

in his boat off
the coast of County Sligo.

A local boatman also died,
and one of the children

Nicholas Brabourne
is said to be missing.

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

narrator: The Queen's Family
were targeted

by The Irish Republican Army,

who want to end British rule
in Northern Ireland.

- None of the royal family

has left the castle
since yesterday

and security operations
have been stepped up.

A platoon of extra
soldiers was brought

to the castle by lorry
to join an undisclosed number

of policemen flown here
from Scotland Yard.

- Mountbatten had had a very
distinguished naval career,

and so as far as
the IRA were concerned,

he was a legitimate target.

♪ ♪

narrator: Lord Mountbatten's

14-year-old grandson
Nicholas

and the Dowager Lady Brabourne

are also killed in the blast,

along with Paul Maxwell,

the 15-year-old
Irish boathand.

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- It was brutal

and deeply upsetting
and disturbing.

You know, we had our childhoods
ripped away from us.

- They that go down
to the sea in ships

and occupy their
business in great waters,

these men see the works
of the Lord.

- This is the greatest
personal tragedy

in the life
of Prince Charles.

His honorary grandfather
is dead.

- The one man who made
him feel good about himself,

who had his back,

who he could talk to freely

and who was guiding him
had gone.

- When Mountbatten's
body came back to England,

his father,
the Duke of Edinburgh,

didn't want him to weep,
didn't want him to cry,

and he started to say,

"Come on,
pull yourself together.

Gotta be strong about this."

That gives you a picture

of the complete incompatibility
of father and son

on a matter of profound
importance to both of them.

- Charles is
not only devastated,

but he's also
kind of unmoored.

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He is now 30 years old.

Everybody is pressuring him
to marry.

- Certainly his father felt
he must have a wife.

She would straighten him out

and give him
the respectability

that a future king should have.

- Charles' unwillingness
to marry was really about

his deep emotional
relationship with Camilla.

He knew she was married and he
couldn't possibly marry her,

but I think it made him keep
not finding, quote, the one.

His parents had to get him
out of that relationship.

So they really
began to hunt for a bride.

♪ ♪

narrator:
In the summer of 1980,

a meeting is orchestrated

between Prince Charles
and a 19-year-old

who will change the shape

of the House of Windsor
forever.

- The young Diana Spencer
was not some girl

just taken out of
a nice middle class home.

She was a daughter

of one of the most illustrious
families in England.

- The royal family,
particularly the queen,

thought she would be ideal,

and they were
much taken by her.

- She was an Earl's daughter.

She had a title,
and she was a virgin.

She did tick the boxes.

- They arranged
for her to be invited

to this house party where
they knew he was going to be.

- She talks to him
in quite an open

and rather engaging way.

- She speaks to him
about having watched

the Mountbatten funeral

and how sad he looked

and how much he needed
to be comforted.

♪ ♪

She's charming,

a pretty English rose.

She's 12 years younger
than he is,

but he is intrigued by her.

♪ ♪

narrator: The royal family's
plan for Charles is working.

- She could not have
been more perfect on paper.

[sweeping orchestral music]

narrator:
By September of 1980,

Prince Charles
is beginning to spend

more time
with Lady Diana Spencer.

- Among other places
he invites her to

his mother's estate
in the Scottish Highlands,

Balmoral.

narrator: The Queen sees her
as a prospective bride.

And Diana is
falling for Charles.

- Diana was always
madly in love with the idea

of marrying
the Prince of Wales.

He was the great heartthrob
at the time.

I mean, his picture was
in her boarding school dorm.

- She tried very hard
to make herself

everything that he wanted.

- Diana did this great
impersonation of someone

who loved to walk
the wet moors,

interested in shooting

and all of the things
that she actually hated.

- Because of her childhood,

I think Diana did have
an absolute craving

for love and for security.

narrator: Diana was only
seven years old

when her parents
divorced acrimoniously.

- One of her most
vivid memories

was listening to her mother
driving away,

and Diana is thinking

that she'll never see
her mother again.

- What she saw in Charles
was life happily ever after

with her Prince.

narrator: But Diana
is not the only person

searching for
a fairy-tale romance.

- The royal hacks
from the tabloids

are across the river
with their long lenses.

- Diana, the press decided,
was perfect.

It seemed to the media
at the time

that the stars had aligned.

- And the next
day in huge headlines:

Diana is the one.

[indistinct chatter]

- When the press
get wind of the fact that

Charles and Diana are dating,
it is absolute chaos.

It's a nightmare for Diana.

She lives in a flat
in London.

They besiege this flat.
They are following her.

[indistinct shouting]

- I followed her
through the town.

I followed her car.

This was it.
We had found a real one.

- Is there any possibility
of any announcement

of your marriage
in the near future?

Can you tell me?

- It was utterly
overwhelming for her.

- I'm not gonna say
anything really.

- She was 19.

She was a 19-year-old
in that glare of publicity.

- This girl was on the front
pages of the newspapers.

She was being offered up as
the perfect bride for Charles.

♪ ♪

- Headline after headline.

"Charlie, why aren't you
proposing to this woman?"

- Charles had all sorts
of reservations about Diana.

He didn't really know her.

She didn't share
many of his interests.

she wasn't widely read.

- He was still
in love with Camilla,

and he was in a real quandary.

♪ ♪

- He kept agonising
and analysing,

but his father
Philip's concern was that

so much had been said
and written about her

that if he didn't do something,

she was going to be
a very damaged young woman.

- Prince Charles gets
a letter from his father,

basically telling him
it's time to make up your mind.

"You want to marry her,
marry her.

If you don't, well then
let her off the hook."

- Charles misconstrued it,

thought that his father

was instructing him
to marry Diana

way earlier than he would
have comfortably

chosen to do it.

The tragedy is that these
two men, father and son,

could not simply
see one another face to face

and have a conversation.

- He meets her
at Windsor Castle,

and he goes down on one knee
and proposes.

♪ ♪

narrator: Six months
after they tart dating,

Charles and Diana
announce their engagement.

- They've only
been together 12 times.

They've only had a few times
alone together.

They barely know each other.

- He really did think
that he was doing his duty,

sacrificing his heart really
to do the right thing.

- Can you find the words

to sum up how you feel
today, both of you?

- Difficult to find the right
sort of word, isn't it, really?

Just delighted and happy.

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

- And I suppose in love?

- Of course.

- Whatever "in love" means.
- [chuckles] Yes.

[gentle music]

- The engagement interview

revealed the shape
of things to come,

that this was
not a love match,

that it was almost, you could
say, a marriage of convenience.

narrator: To shield her
from the press,

the royal family moves
Diana into a suite of rooms

at Buckingham Palace.

- Life in Buckingham Palace
was very difficult for her.

It's beautifully appointed
and lovely furniture,

but it's not a home by any
stretch of the imagination.

- She was suddenly
shut off from everybody.

She didn't have
her own friends around her.

narrator:
Diana's social life

now centers
around Charles' friends.

One of them is
Camilla Parker Bowles.

- Certainly
all his friends knew

that he was in love
with Camilla.

Certainly
the royal family knew it.

So Diana was really a bit
duped in this whole situation.

- Diana's in one of the
offices at Buckingham Palace

and notices that
there's a little parcel

addressed to
Camilla Parker Bowles.

She opens it
and finds this bracelet.

Diana just felt, you know,

"Who are you marrying me,
or Camilla?"

- Charles is going off

on his trip to Australia,

and there are images
of Diana weeping.

- It wasn't because
he was going and she was sad.

She'd overheard him
talking to Camilla

just before
he'd boarded the plane.

She's thinking, "How can I
go through with this?

Should I call
the wedding off?"

She goes to see her sisters

and she explains
the situation.

- And really the response
she got from her sister

was fairly--fairly succinct.

"You know your face is on the
mugs and the tea cloths now.

That's it."

- There's no backing out now.
The nation expects it.

There's going to be a huge
royal wedding.

You play your part.

[light orchestral music]

♪ ♪

- Once upon a time,

there was a prince
who lived in a palace.

He fell in love
with a fair young maiden

and asked her to marry him.

What you will see now
is the story

of two very real young people

sharing their day
of happiness with us all.

- The wedding
was extraordinary.

It spectacular.

Diana's amazing dress.

Charles in his
beautiful uniform.

- And have you
ever heard such cheers?

- The queen had every
reason to be proud

and happy and hopeful
for the future.

♪ ♪

narrator: Hundreds of millions
of people around the world

watch as Lady Diana Spencer

arrives at
St Paul's Cathedral.

[crowd cheering]

- I thought,
like so many other people,

that it was an ideal match.

- And isn't that a sight?

- Don't think anybody
would have disagreed

with that at the time.

- The public, they're elated.

Totally in love
with this ideal couple,

and yet the public
can't see everything.

[light, tense music]

- As Diana walks down
the aisle with her father,

she sees Camilla.

♪ ♪

- Here is the stuff

of which fairy tales
are made.

The prince and princess
on their wedding day.

- There she is
on this magical day

and the one thing
that she is focussing on

is the image of Camilla.

- Charles Philip Arthur George,

wilt thou have this woman
to thy wedded wife?

- I will.

- Diana Frances,

wilt thou have this man
to thy wedded husband?

- I will.

- Charles persuaded himself

that he could
be in love with Diana,

at least enough in love
to get married.

♪ ♪

- They went on honeymoon

and they sailed
around the Mediterranean.

Diana was hoping that
they would sunbathe in the sun

and sit and chat and laugh
and have a good time.

- But after a while,
she realized

that Camilla was still
present on her honeymoon.

- Charles wore cufflinks

that had been given
to him by Camilla.

- She overheard Charles
making a call with Camilla.

- She finds
that Prince Charles

has pictures of Camilla
inside his diary.

- That was, for her,
an absolute agony.

She was terrified really of
what she'd got herself into.

♪ ♪

narrator: But for the cameras,
Diana is all smiles.

- How are you
enjoying married life?

- Highly recommend it.

- How do you like
Balmoral as a place?

- Lovely, beautiful.

[indistinct chatter]

- There's a longstanding
contradiction

in what the royal family
actually wants in a bride.

Because on the one hand
they want somebody meek,

blushing, deferential,

but at the same time
they want her,

at the flick of a switch, to
be able to manage on her own,

not make a fuss,
and not to be too emotional.

- How do you see your role

developing as
Princess of Wales?

- My life will be
a great challenge.

- Are you going to have time
for the private life,

for making a home
and running a home?

- You're the one with
the domestic responsibilities.

- Are you looking forward
to making a home

at Highgrove, for example?
- Oh, yes, very much so.

Looking forward
to being a good wife.

[crowd shouting]

- Prince, princess
and baby Prince emerge

to the cheers of the crowd.

narrator: One year
into their marriage,

Diana gives birth to a son,

Prince William
Arthur Philip Louis.

- The birth
of Prince William

did a great deal for Diana.

Wow, you know, this is great.

You know,
and she's done her job.

- The birth of William
is a happy moment.

Charles enjoys being
in the nursery with him,

and they have
that shared love,

but at the same time,

there's a lot
of tension between them.

[tense music]

narrator: A princess
in the most famous family

in the world,

Diana is a young mother
caught in the spotlight.

- She was meant to be a mom,
she was meant to do it all,

was meant to do it all
with a smile.

That's a pretty tough brief,
you know, for anybody,

unless there's a support crew.

- The royal family thought
she would be able to cope

with what was expected.

Her family had been courtiers
going back generations.

They thought she was
one of them.

- And she often said,

"If only just once or twice
they'd say well done."

But that's the way the royal
family were brought up.

You don't do the praise thing.

- Because of her discomfort
in the royal family

and the issue of Camilla
hovering in the background,

she was in a very bad way.

- Well, there's no doubt
that she has lost weight

since the birth
of Prince William.

- She was so thin.
She was painfully thin.

Her wrists look like sticks.

- She is, according to the
palace, currently fit and well.

The Palace adds the proviso,
"as far as we know."

- She sat me down
and actually told me

that she had bulimia,

and I was very--
I was shocked actually.

- The bulimia was her way
of trying to vent.

She would purge herself

of her emotions
and discomfort.

- She is really,
really suffering,

and no-one seems
to be helping her.

- She just wanted somebody
to put their arms around her

and tell her,
"It's all right, darling,"

and I know that
that didn't happen.

- The queen and Princess Diana

belong to very
different generations.

Duty and self-restraint
are absolutely

hard-wired into the queen.

- And here the royal family

have a very emotional
young girl

who is, to their mind,
hysterical.

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- The royal family
bring in a doctor,

a psychiatrist.

They prescribe valium,

but Diana doesn't want
to take pills.

She wants her life
to get better.

- And nobody is addressing
the central issue,

which is that Prince Charles'
heart lies elsewhere

and Diana feels lost,
alone and abandoned.

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[gentle music]

narrator: The royal family
is gathered together

at Windsor Castle
to celebrate the christening

of Charles and Diana's
second son.

[Harry fussing]

Henry Charles Albert David,

known as Prince Harry.

- Granny was christened
in this.

- Great-granny.
- Great-granny.

And I was.

I was christened in this.

It must get so incredibly
hot inside there, doesn't it?

- Yeah, [indistinct].
- Some dribbling too.

- The birth of Harry and
having two beautiful children

just meant the world to her.

- Question: What is Prince
William's favorite toy?

- Jamie, he loves
his koala bear he's got,

but he hasn't got
anything particular.

He just likes something
with a bit of noise.

- [whispered] Plastic whale
which throws things out.

- We've got a plastic whale
that throws things out the top,

little balls.

[both chuckle]

- She thought that
bond of parenthood

would help bring
their marriage together,

but that's not
really what happened.

Charles at the beginning
of the marriage

tried to make things work,

but I do believe that Camilla
was in his mind from early on.

- Diana didn't talk much
about Camilla.

She kept quiet
and had her bulimia

and had her upset and hoped
it would all come good.

- She wanted love,
she craved love.

And what she found
she was getting

was love--
the love of strangers.

[upbeat music]

- The public take to Diana
like no other royal.

[crowd cheering]

She has a kind of glamour
and a kind of wholesomeness

that people
found very endearing.

- Here is a popular
young princess

who engages
with ordinary people.

She seems to be kind, caring,
and she's beautiful.

all: We want Princess Diana!

- The children made it clear

in the direct way
that only children have

that it was the princess
they wanted

on their side of the road.

- Charles became
quite a forlorn figure.

The photographers didn't really
take many photographs of him

unless he was
in the frame with Diana.

- He was very jealous.

His wife is further down

in the royal pecking order
than he is,

and yet she is getting
the most attention.

- Crowds estimated in
the thousands are straining

for a peek at
the prince and princess.

narrator: When the royal
couple arrives in America

for their most
high-profile tour yet,

Diana is greeted
with a frenzy

of press
and public excitement.

- Princess Diana
was a tremendous star

in the United States.

There was a bit of
an American hysteria.

- Might be a
once-in-a-lifetime experience

to actually see royalty.

- She's beautiful, yeah.

Much skinnier than I thought.

- She fulfilled our dreams.

She grew up
and married the prince.

- The dramatic
high point of it

was the dinner and dance
with the Reagans

at the White House.

Nancy Reagan,
recognizing the powerful mix

of Hollywood celebrity
and British Royalty,

organizes a publicity stunt.

- John, are you going to dance
with the princess tonight?

- If she would like me to.

- My job was to go
to John Travolta and I said,

"Mr. Travolta, would you
please cut in on the president

and ask the princess
to dance."

And he says, "I can't cut in
on the president."

[laughs] And I said,
"Oh, yes, you can."

[gentle orchestral music]

♪ ♪

- Diana didn't just
upstage Charles.

She eclipsed him actually.

I mean, she made him nothing
is the truth.

- He had been
the star of the show.

He had been the top
of the House of Windsor bill,

and now he was running
a very poor second.

- To the core
of the issue first,

had the princess enjoyed
her dance with Mr. Travolta?

- 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?

- It actually goes
to the heart of, I think,

a great sense
of insecurity in him

and a growing resentment
of her popularity.

- Why did the prince
think there was much

media fascination
with their every move?

- It has nothing to do with me.
It's my wife here.

[light upbeat music]

♪ ♪

narrator: Charles,
the dutiful Prince,

has married
the perfect bride.

But that union
will pose a threat

to the entire royal family.

- They are already
deeply unhappy,

and at the same time she
has become a global celebrity.

♪ ♪

- He wants to control
what's going on.

Perhaps he's sensing that it's
slipping out of his control,

she is slipping
out of his control.

♪ ♪

- She is, in essence,
a ticking time bomb.

♪ ♪

narrator:
Next on "The Windsors"...

- The war between Charles
and Diana through the press

could pull down
the whole of the monarchy.

- Here she was,
undermining the throne,

undermining the dynasty.

- When you unleash the demons
of the press,

you then cannot
keep them at bay.

- Nobody dreamed that it would
end in such a shocking way.

♪ ♪