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♪ (dramatic music) ♪

Narrator: It was the
event of the century.

Amanda Foreman:
The wedding of Prince Charles

and Princess Diana
was spectacular.

Narrator: Almost a billion
people tuned in

to watch a young, naïve bride

marry her prince.

Tessy Ojo: Who didn't
wish to be a princess?

Debbie Frank: This whole sense
of gorgeous enchantment

of this beautiful lady

just captivated the public.

Narrator: As her profile surged,

so would her confidence.

John Travolta: She was
utterly charming,

utterly beautiful.

Narrator: But while
the world embraced

her warm-hearted radiance--

Frank: Charles felt so jealous

of the attention
she was getting.

Prince Charles:
I've come to the conclusion,

that really, it would
have been far easier

to have had two wives.

Narrator: Behind the
palace walls,

her fairy tale marriage
went cold.

Andrew Morton: It was
deeply disturbing,

because it was going to
affect the monarchy.

♪

Narrator: Leaving the most
photographed woman on the planet

depressed and unwell.

Morton:
She felt bereft...lonely.

Foreman: She had to
claw her way towards

the person that
she wanted to be.

♪

Narrator: But Diana evolved,
transformed,

and took control of her life.

Morton: She became
the humanitarian,

with a lot to give
and a lot to say.

Diana: We have a battle
on our hands.

HIV does not make people
dangerous to know.

Frank: She took on
difficult causes.

Man: Firing!
(explosion)

Prince Harry: If she hadn't have
campaigned the way that she did,

this could still be a minefield.

Diana: I'm only trying to
highlight a problem

that's going on
all around the world.

Narrator:
Diana became the princess

who couldn't be stopped.

Diana: I'm not a
political figure.

I am a humanitarian figure,

and always have been
and always will be.

♪ ♪

Morton: Abandonment was
the theme of Diana's life.

♪

She'd married this perfect
family, the Royal Family,

and what had happened,

she'd married a man

who was in love
with somebody else.

♪

Kate Williams: There was still
the romanticizing of her,

this romantic,
wonderful princess.

And she wanted to
come out there and say,

'my life has not been
like that.'

I've suffered.

Frank: She felt that the public
had a right to know

what was going on.

So, she made it happen.

♪

Williams: She decides it will
be done via secret tapes,

smuggled in and out
of Kensington palace.

Morton:
The first time I'd listened to

a tape recording
that Diana had made,

it was like I'd entered
another world.

Diana was very nervous
when the book came out.

She was expecting
a volcano to explode,

and it duly exploded.

Reporter: The world was stunned
when Andrew Morton

published,
'Diana - Her True Story.'

Williams: She really put
a bombshell out there,

that had been suffering
from the beginning.

Customer: I want to see what she
actually says in her own words.

I'm quite sick of people
talking for her.

♪

Williams: Diana was born in 1961

at the Sandringham estate

owned by the Queen.

Morton: She was the daughter
of an Earl, Earl of Spencer.

Stewart Pearce: Well, the
Spencers are referred to

as being one of the most noble

lineages in this Kingdom.

Williams: They had a huge
estate, they had money,

they had political influence

and they really were
one of the most

powerful aristocratic families
in the land.

♪

Morton: She was the third
of the four children,

and she always
said to me that

her parents
expected a boy

and were very disappointed.

♪ (soft music) ♪

♪ ♪

Foreman: Diana's childhood
was marred by

the exceptionally
bitter divorce case

between her parents.

Dr. James Colthurst: She
remembered her parents' marriage

as being very unhappy.

Lots of rows, lots of shouting.

She told me that on one occasion

her father hit her mother.

It was a very disconcerting
childhood for Diana.

(bell tower ringing)

Andrew Morton:
In the divorce hearing,

Lady Ruth Fermoy,

who was Diana's grandmother,

actually gave evidence

against Diana's own mother,
Frances.

Kate Williams: Lady Fermoy
thought very much

that it was an
aristocratic family,

the children belonged
to the estate,

they belonged with their father.

Morton: The judge
ruled in favour

that the children should be

brought up by Earl Spencer.

At that time that was
a very unusual verdict.

One of Diana's most
vivid memories

is the sound of her mother

walking across the gravel
courtyard from their house,

climbing into a car,

shutting the trunk with her
suitcases and driving off.

♪

She was a little girl,

looking for a mother.

Diana was deeply affected by
her parents' divorce.

She felt that she had been
abandoned by her mother,

and that's one of the
tragedies of her life.

Ken Lennox:
Her father remarried.

It was Raine Spencer.

Kate Williams: This was a
real shock for the children.

They weren't even
invited to the wedding.

Foreman: He had neglected

to inform his children

that he had married Raine.

So when he did, Diana actually

slapped her father.

♪

♪

Lennox: Diana's father
chased after her and said,

'You musn't ever do that again.'

And she said, 'You must never

marry again without telling me.'

Foreman: That's an extraordinary
thing to do,

when you're a teenager.

That's balls of steel.

Williams: After Diana's father
married Raine,

Diana was sent to
boarding school.

It wasn't a place that was
determined on academic results.

Foreman: Diana's education was

pathetic by modern standards.

Williams: Aristocratic girls in
Diana's generation

were very much overlooked,

and even though
middle class girls

were going off to university,

training as teachers,

increasingly training as
lawyers and getting careers,

it wasn't the same
in the aristocracy.

It was about flower arranging,

it was about speaking French,

it was about cordon bleu
cookery,

it was about dressmaking.

It was about really
creating the perfect wife.

It wasn't what she wanted.

She was very unhappy,

and she was desperate
to come to London.

♪ (upbeat bass guitar) ♪

Foreman: The late 1970s,

Britain was quite a grim place.

Dr. Colthurst:
There was a very strong

anti-authoritarian and

anti-discipline line.

Crowd: Stop police harrasment!

Williams: What you saw was a

quite significant surge

in anti-Royal sentiment

against the establishment.

(Singer) ♪ Nowhere to run on
the streets of London-town ♪

Foreman: Britain was
practically bankrupt.

There were strikes all the time.

We just had something called
'the long winter of discontent'

where rubbish was
on the streets.

There were rats running
around the city.

♪ (rock music) ♪

Dr. Colthurst: It was a
pretty disturbed time,

and I think there were people
hoping that something good

might change the mood of
the country at the time.

(Singer)
♪ Oh ooh, London boys! ♪

(crowd commotion)

♪ (dramatic music) ♪

Morton: In the 1970s,

Charles was known as

the 'action man Prince,'

the man who parachuted
from 1,800 feet,

who dived under the ice cap.

♪ (adventurous music) ♪

Lennox: He was the
skipper of a boat

in the St. Lawrence waterway.

He played polo.

♪

Morton: Charming, funny,

had a string of girlfriends,

and was really, you know,

the world's most
eligible bachelor.

Lennox: Every time
he smiled at a girl,

the press would say,

'Prince Charles, this is
the right one for you.'

♪

Williams: But the general public
don't know that Charles is

actually in love with a married
woman, Camilla Parker Bowles.

♪

He met her at a polo match

and he was immediately

passionately in love with her.

He loved her practical,
outdoors nature.

He was a very sensitive soul
and he really needed someone

we might say, to mother him
and jolly him along,

and she was perfect for that.

Morton: But she didn't have

the aristocratic connections.

She was also married

to Andrew Parker Bowles,

a member of the
Household Regiment.

Charles, you know, he'd asked
several girls to marry him.

And they all said no.

It was the position
that they said no to.

♪

And the position
was a daunting one.

♪

He was the heir to the throne.

His wife would be Queen Consort.

She would be in the
spotlight continually,

she would be the
media's chew toy.

Diana first encountered Charles

when he came to
Althorp House,

the Spencer estate,

because he was dating Sarah,

Diana's older sister,
at the time,

and Diana showed him around
the picture gallery,

and she was bright and lively,

and he seemed to take
a shine to her.

♪

Williams: When they
started dating,

she really came out of nowhere.

No one knew who she was.

Diana's courtship
is a baptism of fire.

So they couldn't have
a chance to develop

any relationship in private.

Reporter: Photographs
from Diana's past

were highly prized,
as her relationship

with Prince Charles
became public.

Foreman: It's often asked,

why was Diana such a
perfect choice

for the Royal Family?

It wasn't just one reason,
there were several reasons.

Stewart Pearce:
The Spencer family

were of a very
noble lineage

and Diana was
a virgin.

And so there was a certain

archetypal symbology

around her purity.

Foreman: Any woman of his cohort
was already married.

And if she wasn't married,
she was probably divorced,

or she'd had a long
affair with someone.

Then she needed to be at
least of the same class,

and she had to be willing
to contemplate

marrying Prince Charles.

And by that point, you've got
about six people left.

Pearce: Charles liked her,
Charles was amused by her...

...initially.

♪

Morton: The courtship
of Charles and Diana was

a master class in
how to get it wrong.

Foreman: There was almost no one
on Prince Charles' side

who thought this was
going to be a good match.

This was a thoughtful,

highly educated, sensitive man,

who literally had nothing
in common with Diana.

Morton: Diana,
being young, naïve,

was besotted with Charles,

who is very charming
when he wants to be, and

also besotted
with the position,

the idea of being
the Queen of England.

She thought it
was a great hoot.

They met 13 or 14 times

before he proposed.

Reporter: In February, 1981,
the waiting was over.

Buckingham Palace announced that

Prince Charles and Lady Diana
were engaged.

Anchor: After months of
speculation, it's official.

Prince Charles is to marry
Lady Diana Spencer.

♪

Lennox: When I
first met Diana

at Coleherne Court,
which is where

she shared a flat
with three friends,

they were ex-school girls,
basically.

Virginia Pitman: She said
'I'm engaged,' and then

from that moment on she didn't
get a chance to say much.

Carolyn Pride: 'Cause we
all sort of shrieked!

(laughter)

Champagne flew pretty quick!

Lennox: They knew
nothing of anything.

Reporter: How are you coping
with all the press attention?

It must be quite a strain
with all of us out here.

Diana: Well it is, naturally.

Lennox: The press needed Diana.

They were just full of
bad news up to that stage.

And here, there was this
beautiful young girl,

laughing and smiling
all the time.

♪

Foreman: Was it doomed
from the start? Yes!

But did the parties
going into it,

think it was going to fail?
No, not necessarily.

Dr. Colthurst:
There was a famous moment

when her sister said, 'bad luck,

your picture's on the
t-shirts and the mugs,

you know, that's it.'

(crowd cheering)

Williams: It was the
wedding of the century.

The country came
to a standstill.

Reporter: It was a romance
the nation shared.

The wedding which Britain
stopped to cheer.

A prince and a princess
united in love,

so willing to share publicly

what they saw in each other.

Williams: The country was
desperate for the fairy tale

and Diana was at
the centre of it.

Foreman: It was so big,
that they couldn't have it

at Westminster Abbey.

It had to be at
St. Paul's Cathedral

simply to accommodate the

huge numbers of both spectators,

and also people
in the church itself.

Reporter: The event
reportedly cost as much

as 30 million pounds

and they invited three
and-a-half thousand guests.

Reporter: Why have you
come here today?

Spectator 1: To try and get a
glimpse of Diana and Charles.

Spectator 2: I think she's just
the right person for him.

♪

Foreman: It was like spring
was returning to the country

after years of poverty
and dissension

and violence and strikes.

(crowd cheering)

Tessy Ojo: Who didn't wish
to be a princess?

Every young girl of my age
at the time,

wanted to be
that princess

that wore that

beautiful
wedding gown.

Frank: She was the embodiment of

the nation's great desire

to have this happy event

and for her to become
this princess.

Archbishop: I, Diana Frances.
Diana: I, Diana Frances.

Archbishop: Take thee,
Charles Philip Arthur George.

Diana: Take thee, Philip Char--

Williams: It was an early sign
of her independence

that Diana chose to omit the
word 'obey' from her vows.

Archbishop: --to love
and to cherish...

Diana: To love and to cherish.

Archbishop:
'Til death us do part.

Diana: 'Til death us do part.

Williams: And it really shows

that we had completely
underestimated her.

It's very important
that she says,

'I'm not going to
obey my husband,

even though he'll be the King.'

Lennox: She was a very
strong willed person.

Frank: She stepped into
this role

and she knew the enormity of it.

But I think she felt
in her heart-of-hearts,

that there was
tragedy alongside it.

(crowd cheering)

Reporter:
Balmoral Castle was bought

for Queen Victoria in 1852.

Prince Albert designed
much of the castle,

which was completed
three years later,

so Royal Families have
been coming here

for close on 150 years.

♪

Morton: Diana had grown up
with the Royal Family,

but she didn't know what
she was getting into.

Reporter 1: How are you
enjoying married life?

Diana: Highly recommended.

Reporter 2: Have you
cooked her breakfast yet?

Diana: I don't eat breakfast.

Reporters: (laughter)

Frank: I think it's
very difficult

when you go on your honeymoon
with your husband

and he opens his diary

and out flutters a photograph
of his mistress

that he's thoughtfully
brought with him.

So I think she had
a rude awakening.

Morton: The honeymoon got off
to a very poor start

when she realized that

Prince Charles' relationship

with Camilla Parker Bowles,

was a lot more intense,

and a lot more
emotionally joined

than she had thought.

Foreman: After Prince Charles
and Princess Diana were married,

their marital home in the
country became Highgrove.

Dr. Colthurst: For Charles,
it was familiar territory

and it was near Camilla

and it was easy for

backwards and
forwards.

And, of course,
the more

Diana didn't
like Highgrove,

the less she was there,
and therefore

the easier such meetings were.

Foreman: Highgrove became
a project for Prince Charles.

He was always interested

in sustainable farming,

in gardening,

the quiet country pursuits.

And that just wasn't

Princess Diana's interest.

She liked other things.

She loved listening to music,

Elton John-type music.

She was a very thoughtful
person in her own way,

but she was more into
modern culture.

♪

Pearce: When she moved into

the exalted position

of being Princess of Wales,

being removed from

that which had
always grounded her,

she felt very uneasy.

(church bells sounding)

Reporter: Princess Diana
was the first to give birth

to a Royal heir in a hospital.

Williams: The birth of William
was a really important

time for Diana because
she was a natural mother.

She was mature.

She really started to
stake her independence.

Ken Wharfe:
Diana, as a mother was

a very loving person,

a very hands-on individual.

Dr. Colthurst: Her job
was to have the children

for the family, and keep her
nose clean and that's it.

Frank: They did have some
happy times together

in those early years,
especially with the children

when they were young.

♪ (upbeat music) ♪

Morton: Diana went out to
Australia in 1983.

A young ingénue,

terrified of the media,
terrified of the crowds.

Reporter: The Prince is
a master of the art form,

and because of his experience,
he realized very quickly,

it wasn't really him the
people had turned out to see.

(crowd cheering)

So when the crowds cheered
the arrival of the Princess,

he was perfectly happy
to take second place.

♪

Pearce: The public were
in adoration of Diana.

Dr. Colthurst: The crowd
wanted to talk to her,

not Prince Charles, and it
wasn't really her fault.

She couldn't help that
that's who they wanted to see.

♪

Frank: This whole sense of
gorgeous enchantment

of this beautiful lady,

and the sense of joy,

just captivated the public.

Foreman: She saw people
as real people,

and it didn't matter
what class they came from,

what their accent was like,

what they looked like,

that person at that moment,

was the most important person
she was talking to,

and people loved her for it.

♪

Morton: It empowered her,
but it also caused

an awful lot of jealousy.

Prince Charles:
I've come to the conclusion,

that really it would
have been far easier

to have had two wives...

(audience laughter)

...to have covered both
sides of the street.

(audience laughter)

And I could have
walked down the middle

directing the operation.

(audience laughter)

Lennox:
He was suddenly relegated.

His wife was on
the front page

and he wasn't
mentioned.

Foreman: It was a surprise
to Prince Charles

how popular she became,
compared to him.

But he'd always been
a rather shy,

introverted young man

who liked to talk to
philosophers

rather than to the public.

Whereas Princess Diana
was very good at that.

She had the common touch.

And for him it was
much more difficult.

Morton: And after six or
seven weeks of shaking

every hand in Australia
and New Zealand,

posing for pictures,
being mobbed,

she came back
a seasoned professional.

♪ (dramatic music) ♪

(jet engine whirring)

♪

(crowd cheering)

Foreman: The British press
had always

had a thing for
the Royal Family.

And since the Sixties,
had become much less

deferential towards the Royals.

Morton: You couldn't take
a bad picture of Diana.

And she did have this

romance with the cameras.

It was a, it was
a love affair.

And the iconography

of her beauty,

and her charisma,

was something which was
apparent to everybody.

Foreman: Things really changed
when Rupert Murdoch

came in and bought The Sun,

which is a tabloid newspaper.

He's a republican, has
never liked the monarchy,

and it's open season
on the Royals.

Reporter: The press continue
to pry into her private life

to an alarming degree.

♪

Morton: Royal Family's
all about image.

Prince Charles would
make a speech,

and nothing would be
reported about it.

There would just be a big
picture of Diana in a new hat

or a new coat or a new dress.

And he used to get

incandescent about that.

Foreman: And so you now have
a perfect storm

between a press baron

who's happy to go after them,

a public who can't
get enough of them,

and a press that has all
the tools at its disposal:

microphones, long range lenses--

Suddenly the Royal Family's
without any protection.

And this became a problem
for Charles and Diana.

Morton: The press saw Diana
as the golden goose

who laid the golden eggs.

♪ (soft dramatic music) ♪

♪

(crowd cheering)

Williams: The marriage

really took a serious downturn

after Harry was born.

Charles was disappointed,

he'd hoped for a girl.

And Charles started
to lose interest.

Now he had two sons.
Now the throne was secure.

Morton: It got to the point

where they started to go

on separate engagements.

Dr. Colthurst: I think what
she probably hoped was that

the arrival of
the boys would help,

and maybe things would
just cool down a bit.

But, I think as time went on,
she realized

that wasn't gonna be the case.

Foreman: Once Princess Diana
had her two boys,

she was determined

to try and give them

as normal life as possible.

And give them the
kind of childhood that

she actually hadn't had herself.

Her upbringing hadn't
been that normal.

Morton: Diana always
used to say to me that

they're not going to
live upstairs

in the nursery with the nanny.

She felt abandoned as a child,

she sure as hell
wasn't going to see

her own children
abandoned by her.

Wharfe: And that caused

one of the early nannies
to retire rather early,

because she didn't like the way

that Diana was behaving.

She thought that it was her role
to bring up the children,

not the Princess' role,

but you were not going to
convince Diana

that was the
right thing to do.

Foreman: She didn't want to go

on long trips abroad
without them.

This was the kind of thing that

Prince Charles had
had to go through,

with the Queen and
Prince Phillip

going on very, very long tours
and, you know,

not seeing his parents for
months, and she was adamant

this was not going
to happen to her.

Pearce:
Recognizing that young ones

need to be nurtured fully
by their mothers,

it was something that came
very naturally to her.

♪ (soft dramatic music) ♪

♪

♪ (regal music) ♪

Report: America has its
look-alike medieval cathedrals,

it's look-alike British buses,

but when it comes to Royal
families, they don't have one,

and constitutionally
don't want one,

but do they like it
when they can borrow one.

(crowds cheering)
♪ ♪

Williams: When Diana went
to America in 1985,

it cemented her place
on the world stage.

Reporter: At half time,
the ten thousand spectators

poured across the field for a
glimpse of the Princess.

Williams: She was no longer
this young, naïve girl,

she was a huge celebrity,

the most famous
woman in the world.

Di-mania spread from Britain,
across the world

and then it seized America.

♪

John Travolta: I got a call
from the White House

to invite me to

meet the British Royal Family

with other celebrities.

So I went with a very humble
attitude that I was

an extra in a room

of very important
people.

Reporter: John, are you going to
dance with the Princess tonight?

Travolta: If she'd like me to.

About ten o'clock at night,

Nancy Reagan...tapped
on my shoulder and said,

'The Princess, her fantasy...

...is to dance with you.

Would you dance
with her tonight?'

And I said, 'Well, of course,
uh, how does this work?'

And they said,
'Well, about midnight,

I'll come and get you,

and then I'll lead
you over to her,

and then you ask her to dance.'

And my heart starts
to race, you know,

and I tap her on the shoulder,

and she turns around
and looks at me

and she had that, that,

that kind of bashful
dip that she did.

And she looked up
at me and I said,

'Would you care to
dance with me?'

And she said, 'Yes.'

You know, and I took her...

...and the whole room cleared,

we danced for what felt like
fifteen minutes.

Frank: She loved dancing
and she brought pure joy

to everyone else by doing this,

for her to step out of

people's expectations.

And she just had that capacity

to be able to think outside
of the box and act on it.

Travolta: It was a...
storybook moment.

And we bowed when it was over
and, you know,

she was off and I was off and

my carriage turned
into a pumpkin.

(laughter)

Williams: This is when Diana
starts to think,

'What can I do with my voice?

What can I do with
this platform?

What can I do with the fact that

everyone wants to hear
what I want to say?'

TV Anchor: The disease is
abbreviated A-I-D-S

and is referred to as 'AIDS.'

You've probably never heard
of it, but experts say

that illness is causing
the biggest epidemic

in this country since smallpox.

Wharfe: I remember
on one occasion

Diana visiting the Queen,

which she did on a
fairly regular basis.

When she came out
of the meeting,

she was rather tearful,
and I said, you know,

'What's the matter, ma'am'?
And she said,

'The Queen asked me
what I was doing.

And I said that I wanted to
get involved in

trying to find a cure for
all this dreadful AIDS.'

The Queen said, 'Why do you
want to get involved in this?

Why don't you get involved
in something nice?'

Dr. Colthurst: Diana had
lost friends close to her.

She had a lot of gay friends,

and she wasn't going to have
anybody stand in her way.

♪ (soft music) ♪

Pearce:
The quintessence of Diana

was that she
loved profusely.

Firstly, there was the
huge condemnation

of anybody who was HIV positive

or who had AIDS.

And we were seeing it

as being this
ghastly contagion

that was going to be

spread around
the world.

And of course,
as we know,

the allegations
against

the gay community
were absolutely vast.

Deborah Gold: There was
a lot of fear and stigma

around what HIV was,

and a real lack of
public understanding.

Lennox:
People with AIDS had been

treated like pariahs
at that time.

People didn't want to be
in the same room with them,

talk to them, touch them.

Foreman: A pivotal moment
in Diana's growth

was when she visited

AIDS patients in London.

Reporter: Her visit to
the Middlesex Hospital

and its AIDS Ward.

All the speculation had centred

on whether she would wear gloves

when shaking hands with the
staff and patients

on the new ward.

The Princess of Wales

felt not the slightest
apprehension.

Pearce: It was very
natural for her

to immediately go to where

she felt she was needed.

Gold: There was huge press
coverage of that event,

and she was going around

and talking to the people
on the ward,

touching them,
holding their hand,

interacting with them.

Williams: You have to remember,

parents wouldn't even touch
their children at that time.

And so when Diana went, this
young, beautiful princess,

when she went,
she chatted to AIDS patients,

she was talking with them,

and she shook
hands with the patient.

Foreman: At a time when
people were frightened

to have anything to do

with an AIDS patient
was revolutionary.

It was transformative.

Williams: This put AIDS and HIV

on the front page
of the newspapers.

Diana: HIV does not make people
dangerous to know.

So you can shake their hands
and give them a hug,

heaven knows they need it."

(applause)

Foreman: It revealed something
about her to herself,

and to the public,

was that she had
a big, deep heart,

and she wanted to share it.

♪ (soft music) ♪

♪

♪ ♪

Frank: She never gave up
on her marriage, actually.

She wanted to be this
great team with Charles.

She wanted to have more
children with Charles

and he did not want
to have more children.

Morton: The Royal Family
all worried about

Charles and Diana,

because they could see that
the marriage was collapsing.

Foreman: And then suddenly,

Diana's great connection
with the public

is being used against
the Royal Family.

That's not so great.

Williams: Then,
the confirmation was a tape

that was called Camillagate.

It was leaked to a newspaper
in this country,

in which Charles and Camilla

were having a romantic
conversation.

It was clear, they were
in love with each other.

It was clear they were
having an affair,

and there was really
no way back from that.

Pearce: He was very overt
about his love for Camilla.

Frank: Diana decided to
confront Camilla.

But, as she confronted Camilla,

she realized that Camilla
always was a kind of

non-negotiable part
of Charles' life,

that it wasn't going to happen
that she was going to back down.

that it did not make a change
in that relationship.

Morton: Remember,
abandonment

was the theme
of her life.

Diana felt that she'd married

this perfect family,
the Royal Family,

and what had happened?

She'd married a man who was
in love with somebody else.

Williams: Diana wanted to
get her story out there.

There was still the
romanticizing of her,

this romantic,
wonderful princess.

And she wants to come out
there and say,

my life has not been like that.

It's been isolation.

There's been exclusion.

And really the
long-term suffering

from being in a marriage when

your husband is in love
with someone else.

Morton: She just couldn't
give anymore.

Her husband had gone back to

what she called 'his lady,'

and Diana was in this
isolated position

inside Kensington Palace.

She felt bereft, lonely.

♪

♪ (dramatic music) ♪

Dr. Colthurst: She was furious
with what was going on.

She was angry at
the organization.

I think she wanted
to explode

in several directions
at once.

And it was quite
difficult to explain

that she would not be
her own best spokesman.

It was better to have
a case put out there

by somebody else on her behalf.

Williams: And she was
determined to speak out,

but she knew that if
someone got wind of it,

they'd have found a way
to stop it

and to censor her.

So, she decides it will be
done via secret tapes,

smuggled in and out of
Kensington palace.

Morton: She contacted James,

knowing that James and I
were friends, and said,

'Would Andrew like
an interview?'

Well, I mean, you
can't make this up.

I mean, here's the most famous
princess in the world,

offering an interview.
And of course, I said yes.

Dr. Colthurst: The publisher,
Michael O'Mara,

came up with the idea that
they could never meet,

because she needed to
retain deniability

about her involvement
in the book,

and then said, you know,

would I be prepared
to ask the questions?

Morton: I think Diana wanted

not only just to confess,

but also to talk about her life,

about her childhood,

about her romance
with Prince Charles.

Frank: She felt that the public

had a right to know
what was going on.

So, she made it happen.

Dr. Colthurst: The tape recorder
was either in my pocket

or in a briefcase.

So I'd cycle in, I'd say
hello to the police,

and then carry on
and that was it.

The first time I started
reading out the questions,

and, fairly quickly,

Diana snatched the paper
from me and said,

'Look, I'll just
read them direct.'

Morton: The first time I'd
listened to a tape recording

that Diana had made,
it was like

I'd entered another world,

genuinely entered another world.

And I was nursing a secret.

And the secret was, was kind
of a dangerous one as well,

because, you know,
the establishment

didn't want Diana's story
to come out.

They were happy to
keep the myth going.

Reporter:
'We are not in the business

of hyping publications.'

was the only comment from
Buckingham Palace this morning,

as the Princess of Wales
took Prince Harry to school.

There are now just 24 hours
to go before the book,

which claims to expose serious
rifts in her marriage,

goes on sale.

Morton: Diana very nervous
when the book came out,

for obvious reasons.

And she'd written a note
to James saying

she was expecting a volcano
to explode, and

it duly exploded.

Reporter: The world was stunned
when Andrew Morton published

Diana: Her True Story.

There was a darker side
to the Princess' life.

Morton: As an individual,
I have been a number

of these royal tours to
Australia, Canada and so on,

seeing Diana day after day,
close up,

I had never had a clue that
four and five times a day,

she's been sick with this
eating disorder bulimia nervosa.

Frank: It's not just
an eating disorder,

it's rooted in your psychology,

in your emotional
abandonment issues.

Dr. Colthurst: It's the
symptom of a disturbance,

and treating the bulimia
on its own,

without understanding

what's causing the disturbance

which led to the bulimia

was a pointless exercise.

Foreman: It's showing
on the outside,

the despair that you feel
on the inside.

♪

Frank: Diana decided
to talk about it,

which helped so
many other people.

Diana: Eating disorders,

whether it be anorexia,

or bulimia,

show how an individual

can turn the nourishment
of the body

into a painful attack

on themselves.

And they have, at their core,

a far deeper problem

than mere vanity.

(audience applause)

Williams:
Diana talking about her bulimia,

gave permission to
tens of thousands of women

to go to the doctor and say,
'I have bulimia.

I have this disease
and I need help.'

So Diana's work in raising
awareness of eating disorders

really is revolutionary.

Dr. Colthurst:
The support was overwhelming.

And she realized
she had actually

opened quite a subject.

Foreman: Overnight,
it changed the conversation,

it removed the stigma,

it became a disease,
it was acknowledged,

and therefore could be
named and treated.

Morton: When the book came out,
she felt a sense of relief

that her story was out.

And she said to James,

'For the first time
in ten years,

I've slept soundly
through the night.'

And when she kept saying she had
nothing to do with the book,

they took her at face value.

It's only later,
after her death,

that I revealed that
she'd obviously been

the architect of this book.

Dr. Colthurst: Nobody overtly
knew until after she died,

that she'd actually helped.

It was pretty clear
she might've done,

but it wasn't overt,

and I think that was a
very important thing.

Customer 1: "Well, I've always
liked Diana very much.

I'm interested in the truth.
(laughs)

Customer 2: I want to see
what she actually says,

in her own words...I'm quite
sick of people talking for her.

Frank: Sadly, I think
the Royal Family

saw Diana as a threat.

She was so utterly different

from the way that they felt

Royal life should be conducted.

They felt eclipsed,
they felt undermined,

and they felt threatened.

♪ (low dramatic music) ♪

Williams: So this is the
Palace really confronted

with everything that's happened
to Diana over the years.

And it's very clear
from the book,

that she just wants a bit of
encouragement

and a bit of support,
and none of that is forthcoming.

Stewart Pearce:
What had been held in secret,

what had been held in the
height of discretion,

was now completely indiscreetly

expressed into the world.

And so things were beginning
to change that were radical.

♪ (dramatic music) ♪

Foreman: Prince Charles
and Princess Diana

had come to loathe one another,

and had been living separately
since 1992.

And then in '96,
the Queen finally said

this simply can't go on anymore.

Morton: They realized that they

kicked the can down
the road long enough.

So the Queen wrote two notes,
quite short,

one to Charles, one to Diana,

suggesting that they
now move on and divorce.

(printing press humming)

Frank: So it wasn't actually
their decision in the end.

And there was a tremendous
amount of back and forth

with both of them doing
documentaries

and confessions and accusations,

but it was the Queen who
actually made the intervention.

Foreman: Watching the
Royal Family,

it was like Prince Charles
and Princess Diana were

the main characters in
their own TV soap opera.

It was just one great
big soapy drama.

PM John Major:
It's very sad, both for

Princess Diana and
for Prince Charles

and for their children.
I think everyone is very sad

at the ending of the marriage.

♪ (soft music) ♪

Foreman: People often
underestimate

what it's like for women
who are leaving a marriage,

and the loss of status,

and purpose that goes with it.

It's not the money,
it's so much more than that.

Lennox: It was such a sea change

to see the mother
of the future King,

out in the streets,
being pursued by

kids, more or less.

Morton: By divorcing
Prince Charles

and making her own path,

it was a difficult path,

but I could see in her,

she was making real inroads.

Pearce: She had a
vision of herself,

and what she wanted to become,

which she didn't feel that
she was living at that time.

And she wanted me to help her
develop greater presence,

and so she intuitively
began transforming,

and growing and evolving.

(artillery fire)

James Cowan:
Angola had been one of these

countries affected by
the Cold War

and the proxy wars fought there,

and landmines were used
indiscriminately.

And so, there are 88,000 people,

who are living as victims
of landmines,

having lost limbs or

been injured by landmines.

And there are still

1,200 minefields in Angola.

♪ ♪

Diana: Last month,
I flew to Angola

in South West Africa.

This was a
working visit.

I wanted to support
the Red Cross

by highlighting its campaign

to ban anti-personnel landmines.

♪

Cowan: Diana had been
thinking about

the landmine problem
for some time.

She was involved with
the British Red Cross,

and the International
Committee of the Red Cross

wanted to focus on landmines.

♪

Foreman: After the divorce,

she literally could
have done anything.

She could have taken the
traditional route

and become chairman of some
opera house or ballet,

you know, any of
the safe choices.

And instead, she went to Africa,
to Angola,

and chose landmines.

Diana: 2,000 people every month

are killed or maimed

by mines around the world.

That's one person
every twenty minutes.

Williams: She was so courageous,

and she knew what her
platform could do,

and I think this really shows

how a woman who has suffered,

wants to help
suffering in others.

Diana: It is my sincere hope

that by working together
in the next few days,

we shall focus world
attention on this vital,

but until now,
largely neglected, issue.

(applause)

Dr. Colthurst: I think Diana
felt with the landmines,

they've had bits blown off them.

A lot of cultures don't
look after their

amputees well at all.

That touched another
cord for her.

She could really feel
for the amputee.

Cowan: The world's eyes
were upon her,

as this incredible,

charismatic, beautiful woman

took a walk through
one of the most horrific,

ugly aspects of human society.

♪

The consequence was
really very remarkable,

because a problem that was not

being given sufficient attention

suddenly had the
world's eyes upon it.

- Two, three, fire!

(explosion)

Frank: Unfortunately,
here in England, you know,

the politicians accused
her of meddling.

Reporter: The Princess'
campaigning continued today,

despite the controversy at home,

she seemed taken aback

by the description of her
as a loose cannon.

Diana: Today I'm only trying
to highlight a problem

that's going on all
around the world.

That's all.

Cowan: At that time,
there were ministers

in the Conservative
government, who felt

she had no constitutional right

to be making highly
political statements.

Wharfe: If she knew
something was right,

then nothing was going to
persuade her to do otherwise.

Frank: They didn't want her
to be this powerful woman

who decided to front up
her own causes.

That hit her quite hard,

but it didn't stop her.

Diana: I saw it merely
as a distraction,

because I'm not
a political figure,

I am a humanitarian figure,

and always have been,
and always will be.

(cameras clicking)

Williams: After the divorce,
it was gloves off for the press.

They went for Diana,

and she really rose above it.

Diana: I've had hands-on
experiences before,

but this working trip has been
slightly different.

I've had more
contact with people

and there's been less
formalities.

It's the type of programme

I've been looking for
for some time,

and I'm very happy to have done

and achieved what we have.

Williams: She was so
courageous and brave,

that she used her
platform for good,

no matter how much she got
attacked and criticized.

♪ (dramatic music) ♪

Tessy Ojo: She went
where the pain was.

She identified

communities that were in pain

and she went there.

Dr. Colthurst: As she developed
a path and a mission,

with a little bit more focus
on the charities and so on

and really developing the life

that she was going
to choose to have,

then I think things

picked up from there too.

Hillary Clinton:
I want to welcome all of you,

and particularly
our guest of honour,

Diana, Princess of Wales.

Pearce: Diana

became a central figure

in the consciousness of

the people of the world.

Now, I believe that
this took place

because of the remarkable

vulnerability

that she showed
from the word go.

And therefore she was adored.

Reporter: It is not the
horror of landmines

that is making the
headlines back home,

but reports of the Princess'
romance with Dodi Fayed.

Williams: In 1997,
Diana was confronting

quite a lonely summer.

A lot of her former friends,

they'd all gone to Charles'

birthday party for
Camilla at Highgrove,

and she was quite lonely.

Frank: It was a bit galling

and she needed to get out.

♪

She needed a safe space
to go to with the boys,

that was her primary concern.

And she met Dodi,

and it kind of just happened.

Foreman:
So, Dodi Fayed turns up,

the son of a billionaire,
Mohamed Fayed,

who owns Harrods
and the Ritz in Paris.

It was his father Mohamed,
who invited her to their yacht.

Reporter: This is holiday time,
to sail on board

Al-Fayed's luxury yacht.

Time to enjoy the Riviera sun,

with Princes William and Harry.

This afternoon she boarded a
hundred and fifty foot cruiser,

also belonging to
the Harrods boss,

to sail away from Saint-Tropez,

to slip away
from the media glare.

Williams: There's nothing
more far away

from a paparazzi lens
than a yacht.

So Diana, I think, felt that
she'd be protected there.

She really thought that with
Mohamad Al-Fayed and Dodi,

she would be safe.

♪ (soft dramatic music) ♪

♪

(sirens sounding)

Anchor: It's been reported
in the last few minutes

that Diana, Princess of Wales,

has been seriously injured
in a car crash in Paris.

Reporter: Dodi and the driver
were killed outright,

a bodyguard badly injured.

The Princess died in hospital,

of massive chest injuries.

Foreman: Anyone who was alive

on the day that Diana died

remembers where they were,
and what happened.

It was...the most extraordinary

shock that everyone felt.

Morton: I was like everybody
else, absolutely shocked.

It was like...

a soap opera,
where they cut it short,

before they actually
finished the screenplay.

Frank: I really
couldn't believe it.

It was just a massive
hole had opened up,

and you could feel it
in the whole country.

Morton: Initially, the Queen and
the rest of the Royal family

thought that this would be
a private funeral,

because Diana was no longer
a member of the Royal family.

And it took a long time

before they realized

the outpouring of grief.

♪

Reporter: As London
prepared for the arrival

of millions of mourners
for her funeral,

the queues waiting at

St. James's palace
grew ever longer.

Tony Blair: I feel like--

everyone else in this
country today,

utterly devastated.

Bill Clinton:
We liked her very much.

We admired her work
for children,

for people with AIDS,

for the cause of
ending the scourge

of landmines in the world.

Nelson Mandela:
She was undoubtedly

one of the best ambassadors

of Great Britain.

Travolta: I'll miss her,
as everyone will.

We're all better
for knowing her.

♪

PM Blair: Our thoughts
and prayers are with

Princess Diana's family,

in particular her two sons,
the two boys.

♪

Frank: I think what was so
incredible about Diana is

that everyone felt that
they could relate to her.

♪

Mourner 1: I love who she was,
she was a beautiful person.

It's just, it's a tragedy.

♪

Mourner 2:
She was like one of us.

One of the people.

♪

Frank: She was just
so relatable,

so gorgeously in the moment.

I mean everyone took
her into their hearts.

That's why there was such an
outpouring of grief

when she died, because
everybody felt

they genuinely loved her.

♪ (uplifting music) ♪

Pearce: Diana had an
unconditional love

that is extraordinarily
rare in the world.

Not love for personal gain.

Love purely for
the sake of love.

That was Diana.

Foreman: In the decades
since Diana's death,

we've been able to
reassess her legacy,

and come to understand

what did she achieve,

and what did she leave behind
and what continues.

Williams: Diana's legacy
comes through to her children.

Frank: She just loved
being a mother,

and trying to

help them to be as
normal as possible.

Williams: She said herself
that she hoped,

because of her mothering,

William would be a
different type of King,

a more sympathetic,
more empathetic King.

Wharfe: She had a very
strong influence

on molding their character.

So both William and Harry
inherited and took over

the bulk of her charitable work.

♪

Cowan: Prince Harry has been

long associated with the

anti-landmine movement,

and he was able
to see at firsthand

what the effect of his
mother's work had been.

Prince Harry: To walk
in her footsteps is,

is clearly quite
emotional for me.

Without question,
if she hadn't have

campaigned the way that
she did, 22 years ago,

this could still be a minefield.

Cowan: Where once the
Princess of Wales walked

through a live minefield,

now Prince Harry was able to
walk through a cleared area,

life going on all around him.

It was a really remarkable
thing for him to witness.

(applause)

Foreman: The very fact that
there was a landmines treaty

that was signed
by 164 countries

after her death, goes to show

that it wasn't simply for show,

there was a meaningful change

that she helped to achieve.

It's the causes
that she championed,

whether it's bulimia,

AIDS or landmines,

she revolutionized
the public conversation

and the approach
that came afterwards.

Morton: The world saw,
towards the end,

this young woman

come into her own, and I think
that's the irony of her death,

that, she was on the cusp

of making sense of her life

and making sense of her future.

(audience applause)

Diana: I'm supposed to be
dragged off in a minute

with men in white coats, so--
(audience laughter),

so if it's alright with you,

I thought I might postpone
my nervous breakdown

to a more appropriate moment.
(audience laughter)

Williams: Diana was an icon.

She revolutionized
what was around her.

She revolutionized
the Royal Family.

She revolutionized charity,
and most of all

Diana revolutionized
perceptions of women

in the public eye,
and how to be vulnerable

and talking about mental health.

Prince William: We have seen
time and time again

that unresolved
mental health problems

lie at the heart of some of our

greatest social challenges.

Frank: She was a role model
for how to evolve

out of a tight spot,
a difficult situation,

to never lose your
sense of humour,

to never lose your grace.

♪ (uplifting music) ♪

Williams: What's so striking

is how much she was
underestimated,

how much she was overlooked.

She was a young girl when

she came into the Royal Family,

people dismissed her.

And yet she had the most
transformative effect.

♪ ♪

Foreman: There's a famous saying
by George Eliot,

which is, 'It's never too late

to be the person
you could have been.'

♪ ♪

And that sums up Princess Diana.

For so many women,

Diana's journey was
their journey because,

they were encountering
the same societal obstructions.

'Who am I really,'

that's what Diana was asking.

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