"Mm-hmm." "Is there any possibility of any announcement of your marriage in the near future, can you tell me?" "And then, um..." "No." "I saw them appearing from the other side." "So I said to Charles, 'I must get out the way." "You don't need any aggravation.'" "So I went up, up, up, up to the bank and sat behind a tree for a good half an hour." "And then the press seized upon it." "Lady Diana was back at the Pimlico kindergarten where she teaches this morning." "But, polite as ever, she was saying nothing about her weekend with Prince Charles at Sandringham to the assembled press corps." "She drove off in her brand new Mini Metro with a smile." "I managed to have a word with her later, outside her Kensington flat." "Is it any possibility that any announcement of your marriage in the near future, can you tell me?" "Can you tell me if there's any possibility?" "I'm not going to say anything." "Prince Charles did give us a hint himself." "He said we wouldn't have to wait too long." "Careful!" "He said we wouldn't have to wait too long." "Was he completely off beam?" "Was he?" "Sorry, I, sorry." "Was he completely off beam when he said we wouldn't have to wait too long?" "I wouldn't know." "Prince Charles of Britain is perhaps the world's most eligible bachelor... early 30s, handsome, rich, and the heir to the British throne." "London was full of rumors this week that he may now be about to take a bride." "The photographers are trailing Lady Diana Spencer, 19 years old, daughter of the eighth Earl of Spencer." "She fits the qualifications... aristocratic, good looking, and well-heeled." "She is said to be besotted by him, and that, in the Queen's English, means I presume that she's in love." "Sweet, kind, nice, and shy are all the terms used to describe her." "A girl born to be queen." "Ideal for the most eligible bachelor in the Western world." "Even the Queen, we're told, thinks she's delightful, and that is as good as saying that mother approves." "Her pedigree is perfect." "Her father is the 8th Earl Spencer, a wealthy landowner who farms 15,000 acres in the heart of the Northamptonshire countryside." "The family link with the royal family dates back to Queen Victoria's reign and before." "No, nothing like that." "I was born at home, I wasn't born in hospital." "I was born at my mother's." "Right." "Mmm." "You remember that quite vividly?" "Yes, very." "Yes." "I don't... just plastic, yes." "It's the hood." "And wet nappies." "Yes, probably." "We were always shunted over to Sandringham for holidays to go and see 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' the film, and we hated it so much." "We hated going over there." "The atmosphere was always very strange when we went there, and I used to kick and fight anyone who tried to make us go over there." "And Daddy was most insistent, because he said it was rude." "And I said, I don't want to go and see" "'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' for the third year running." "I've always hated parties." "That's why I've never had them my own." "Daddy loves parties." "Right." "And organized it and took great pride in that." "But there were still none of the arms around the shoulder, or the hugging." "It was always the other things, which was probably what he had, too." "I mean, yeah, it was a very unhappy childhood." "Parents were busy sorting themselves out." "Always seeing our mother crying." "Daddy never spoke to us about it." "We could never ask questions." "Too many changeover of nannies." "Very unstable, the whole thing." "I just remember being..." "Just generally unhappy." "Generally unhappy, and being very detached from everybody else." "I remember seeing my father slap my mother across the face, and I was hiding behind the door." "And she was crying." "And I remember Mommy cried an awful lot." "And every Saturday, when we went up for weekends, every Saturday night, standard procedure, she'd start crying on Saturday." "We would both see her crying." "'What's the matter, Mummy?" "'" "'Oh, I don't want you to leave tomorrow.'" "Which, for a nine-year-old, was devastating, you know?" "And for my brother and I, it was very sort of wishy-washy but painful experience, and he said to me the other day that he hadn't realized just how much the divorce affected him until he got married and started having a life of his own." "She was educated privately at Riddlesworth Hall, and then at Westheath School in Sevenoaks." "When she was 13, she really developed her sporting talents, particularly diving." "I liked all subjects." "I played the piano, I loved the piano." "I did my tap dancing, which I absolutely adored." "There was an enormous hall there which they built on just after I got there." "I used to sneak down at night when it was all dark and put on my music and do my ballet there in this enormous hall for hours." "And no one ever found me." "But actually, I loved being at school." "I was very naughty in the sense of always wanting to laugh and muck about rather than sit tight in a four-walled schoolroom." "Since leaving school, she has lived in a 100,000-pound flat in South Kensington given to her by her father." "And she works part-time at a nursery in Pimlico." "From the minute she walked in, you could tell that she had a really genuine love for young children, particularly the very small ones." "She was just always there, if ever a child was looking miserable, she was the one who would go and pick them up and comfort them." "It didn't seem to be quite the life for a future queen, but one man can testify that Lady Diana may only have been biding her time." "Ray Hunt services the family's electrical and film equipment, and he remembers something prophetic she told him at her sister Jane's wedding." "She did say to me," "'Nothing like this for me, right?" "'" "She said, 'Westminster Abbey or nothing.'" "And I said, 'You're joking, Diana.'" "And she said, 'Not really.'" "Many speak of her as a happy but quiet girl, and her father, her uncle, Lord Fermoy, and others have even vouched for her virginity." "Lord Fermoy stating categorically, and I quote, 'I can assure you she has never had a lover.'" "How well are you coping with all the press attention?" "Well, as you can see." "You can tell." "Are you bearing up with it quite well, though, because it must be quite a strain with all of us after you." "Well, it is, naturally." "Prince Charles has had a few relationships that we all know about, and he is looking for somebody that he can live with who will be queen, who will fulfill her duties, and everyone who knows him says that he's very tired indeed" "of being pursued endlessly and being asked endlessly when he's going to marry and who he's going to marry." "For a girl of 19, it was a necessary demonstration of just how great are the pressures of living constantly in the public eye." "But she handled the problem with cheerful good nature." "Between the two of you, can you say if we're likely to hear the announcement soon?" "Lady Diana." "Lady Diana." "We thought there was going to be an announcement on his 32nd birthday, but there wasn't, and he told reporters yesterday that it may be coming soon." "Have you any comment to make about that?" "No." "Lady Di." "Lady Diana." "No comment, all round." "Did you have a good weekend, though?" "I'm going to work now, okay?" "The view is that her age is about right, being 19, because it's unlikely that any ex-boyfriends would be ringing up those well-known newspapers with scandals of this or that in future years if she is indeed going to be the queen." "And they say that it's useful that she's so young, because of childbearing, to put it very simply." "People seem to forget, Western society, we marry for love." "But when we talk about the royalty, that never seems to enter it." "And then it all started to build up." "The press were being unbearable, following my every move." "The decision by the press council to discuss reports of alleged harassment of Lady Diana have involved reporters trailing the 19-year-old almost continuously." "I understood they had a job, but people did not understand they had binoculars on me the whole time." "They hired the opposite flat in Old Brompton Road, which was a library that looked into my bedroom." "And it wasn't fair on the girls." "I couldn't put the telephone off the hook in case any of their family were ill overnight." "The papers used to ring me up at 2:00 in the morning 'cause they were just putting out their last story, could I confirm it or deny?" "I just couldn't cope with it." "I got no support from Charles and no support from the press office." "They just said, 'You're on your own.'" "So I thought, fine." "I was able to recognize an inner determination to survive." "Before I knew what happened, I was in Clarence House." "Nobody there to welcome me." "It was like going into a hotel." "And then everyone said, 'Why are you at Clarence House?" "'" "And I said, 'Because I was told that I was expected to be at Clarence House.'" "So I'd left my flat for the last time, and suddenly I had a policeman." "And my policeman the night before the engagement said to me, 'I just want you to know that this is your last night of freedom ever in the rest of your life, so make the most of it.'" "And it was like a sword went in my heart." "I thought, God." "Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor, heir to the British throne, Prince of Wales," "Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, and Great Steward of Scotland has finally chosen his bride." "She is Lady Diana Spencer, and their engagement is the news Britain has been waiting for." "11:00 AM, Buckingham Palace." "The beginning of a day to remember for Prince Charles, Lady Diana, and for quite a lot of other people, too." "The long-awaited, much-written-about engagement." "There was a fair amount of unrestrained, old-fashioned happiness in the cold February air." "It seemed to all of us there that Britain's constitutional monarchy appeared to be in quite good health." "And for the couple themselves in the palace, undoubtedly a feeling of relief that it was all out in the open." "It's good." "It's great, isn't it?" "Cheers everybody up, you know, too, something like this." "He's getting on a bit, isn't it?" "About time he got married." "Immediately after lunch, the Earl Spencer," "Lady Diana's father, most surprisingly appeared in the middle of the crowd." "His object, he said, was to take happy snaps of the palace." "You must get her." "We're so..." "He'd always done this sort of thing on important days in his daughter's life." "At 3 o'clock, Prince Charles and Lady Diana appeared for the first time in public." "Do you find it a very daunting experience that yesterday you were a nanny looking after children, now you're about to marry the Prince of Wales, and one day, you would in all likelihood be queen?" "It's a tremendous change for someone, if I may say, of 19 to make all of a sudden, the transition." "It is, but I've had a small run up to it all in the last six months." "And next to Prince Charles, I know I can't go wrong." "He's there with me." "I'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me on." "And I suppose, in love." "Of course." "Whatever 'in love' means." "You can put your own interpretation." "Obviously, it means two very happy people." "Yes." "As you can see." "Well, from us, congratulations." "Thank you very much." "Thank you very much." "Very kind." "The gilded surroundings of the Goldsmith's Hall in the city of London were chosen quite deliberately by the palace in order to show Lady Diana off to the best advantage for her first public appearance." "In this life?" "In this life." "Yes." "Yeah, I remember my first engagement so well." "I remember being so excited." "I got this black dress from Emanuel's." "It was in black taffeta, it was off-the-shoulder, and by normal royal standards, it was fairly revealing." "I thought it was okay 'cause girls of my age wore this." "I hadn't appreciated that I was now seen as a royal lady, although I'd only got a ring on my finger as opposed to two rings." "And I remember walking into my husband-to-be's study and saying, 'I'm ready.'" "And he said, 'You're not going in that dress, are you?" "'" "And I said, 'Yes, I am.'" "He said, 'It's black!" "'" "I said, 'Yes, it's black.'" "'But only people in mourning wear black.'" "And I said, 'Yes, but I'm not part of your family yet.'" "Black to me was the smartest color you could possibly have at the age of 19, it was a real grown-up dress." "She looked pretty relaxed, considering this must have been something of an ordeal for her." "And I was quite big-chested then, and they all got frightfully excited." "I learned a lesson that night." "I remember meeting Princess Grace." "One of the performers was Princess Grace of Monaco." "She, of course, is very experienced at this sort of occasion, and the often-tricky business of making small talk." "She also knows how to give a helping hand to a newcomer, and how to pose for the cameras, which Lady Diana is now learning." "I didn't know whether to get out the door first." "I didn't know if your handbag should be carried in your left hand, not your right hand." "Everything was all over the place." "I remember that evening so well." "I was terrified." "Nearly sick." "At the end, something else Lady Diana is going to have to get used to... the fusillade of camera flashbulbs." "After the royal wedding and honeymoon this summer," "Prince Charles will bring his 19-year-old bride here to Highgrove in Gloucestershire." "This is the 18th-century manor house bought last summer by the Duchy of Cornwall for one million pounds." "Prince Charles's neighbors living a mile away in Tetbury were as pleased as the prince himself must be at the prospect of a royal wedding at last." "I was absolutely overcome." "I'm very, very pleased for them." "And I feel like going out and getting a card and sending it, actually, but it's probably a bit silly." "I think they're a really super couple." "You know, they'd have a lovely sort of life round here if they do sort of live in Highgrove most of the time." "It's really smashing, so romantic." "And I think really when the country's so, everyone's so depressed and everything," "I think really it's nice to sort of cheer everybody up with a lovely wedding in the summer, hopefully." "You know, so, what more can you say?" "Smashing." "Thanks very much." "When I arrived at Clarence House there was a letter on my bed from Camilla dated two days previous saying," "'Such exciting news about the engagement." "Do let's have lunch soon when Prince of Wales goes to Australia and New Zealand." "And love to see the ring." "Lots of love, Camilla.'" "And that was... wow." "Two young and loving and happy faces are, in their own very individual way, putting a smile back into a broken-hearted, miserable Britain." "300 million pounds are the spoils of their wedding." "Lot of money, that, 300 million pounds." "But of all the souvenirs, of all the presents winging their way to the happy couple, the nicest, I think, comes from the Black Country." "A man who grows four-leaf clovers is sending them one apiece." "He says, no matter how much money they may have or might have, they still have to have Lady Luck riding on their shoulders." "How very true." "The Royal Family made the traditional carriage drive down the course at Ascot today." "In the third carriage, Lady Diana, but no Prince Charles." "He's having an away day on Concorde to New York." "As if to make up for this, she'd splurged a bit on the fashion, an outfit that brought sighs of approval from people in the royal enclosure, particularly that hat." "The effect, displayed somewhat shyly today, suggests that Lady Diana, when she becomes Princess of Wales, is going to be a leader of fashion of the kind not seen in the royal family for 50 years." "News of Lady Diana's visit spread quickly." "Shoppers waited in pouring rain while staff from nearby offices abandoned work for half an hour." "Lady Sarah Spencer was there to give a sister's opinion of the wedding dress." "It's been slightly altered." "The crowds saw that, like most brides," "Lady Diana has lost weight as the day approaches." "I think she saw all the press around her, all the television crews from all around the world." "Probably went through her mind about the big day next Wednesday." "It's also her third public engagement in two days." "I just think she was surrounded, she felt claustrophobic, and she felt she had to move." "A lot of press today." "Very many more, of course, next Wednesday." "How will she cope on that?" "I think she'll cope magnificently Wednesday," "I think it's just a little lapse." "Bit of pre-wedding nerves." "It's not much fun, actually, watching polo, when you're being surrounded by people with very long lenses, poking in from all directions at you the entire time." "And then taking a photograph, which is quite easy to do, and saying, you know, 'Looking bored.'" "And I think all this adds up to a certain amount of strain each time." "So I would only hope that after we get married, it will be a bit easier to come to a polo match without this kind of, you know, intensity of interest." "We got married on Wednesday, and on the Monday we'd gone to St. Paul's for our last rehearsal, and that's when all the camera lights were on full." "And I sobbed my eyes out, absolutely collapsed." "And it was collapsing because of all sorts of things." "The Camilla thing rearing its head the whole way through our engagement, and I was desperately trying to be mature about the situation, but I didn't have the foundation to do it, and I couldn't talk to anyone about it." "Lady Diana, meeting so many people is still quite new to you." "How have you reacted to this warmth and affection?" "Well, it's been a tremendous boost, and just a mass of smiling faces." "It's wonderful." "Quite emotional, too." "Oh, very, very." "Yes." "One thing that I know St. Paul's have done to make it, from their point of view, very personal, they were telling me that where you're going to make your vows, they've made a platform" "so that at least you can feel that you're together and alone, because I think everyone would agree, when you make your vows, that's the most solemn, the most precious, and a very personal moment." "Is it going to be that for you, even though you'll know the eyes of the world are watching you at that very important moment?" "Well, I hope so, yes." "I don't know about Diana, but I'm more used to it, I think, probably now, knowing for years that the camera's poking at you from every quarter and recording every twitch you make." "So you can get used to a certain extent, and on those occasions, you accept that that's part of it." "I think that if you don't try to work out in your own mind some kind of method for existing and surviving this kind of thing, you would go mad, I think." "I don't know, do you find that after the last six months, you're beginning to get used to it?" "Just." "It is, I suppose, one of the most important things you're going to have to adjust to, really, isn't it?" "Well, of course." "Yes." "And Prince Charles has been a great help to you in that, I should think." "Marvelous." "A tower of strength." "Gracious." "I have to say that because you're sitting there!" "I'm sure you would anyway." "I remember my husband sent me a very nice signet ring the night before to Clarence House with the Prince of Wales feathers on it, and a very nice card that said, 'I'm so proud of you." "I'll be there at the altar for you tomorrow." "Just look 'em in the eye and knock 'em dead.'" "I had a very bad fit of bulimia the night before." "I ate everything I could possibly find, which amused my sister, because she was staying at Clarence House with me." "Nobody understood what was going on then." "It was sort of hush-hush." "I was sick as a parrot that night, and it was such an indication of what was going on." "Next morning when we were getting up at Clarence House," "I must have been awake about 5:00." "And I was very, very deathly calm." "Deathly, deathly calm." "I felt I was a lamb to the slaughter, and I knew it." "At the household cavalry barracks, horses were awakened and mucking out began in preparation for a day for which both men and horses had been practicing for weeks." "Along the route, both crowds and excitement were building." "By 8 o'clock, police estimated 900,000 people were already out in Central London." "Before he left home, Lord Spencer, the proudest of men today, wanted a few words." "I'd just like to say a word." "May I say a word?" "Please do." "The Spencers have, through the centuries, fought for their king and country." "Today, Diana is vowing to help her country for the rest of her life." "She'll be following in the tradition of her ancestors, and she will have at her side the man she loves." "And then, just after half past 10:00, from Clarence House came the glass coach and our first chance to see Lady Diana, dress half-glimpsed, veil tantalizingly low." "And so, Lady Diana in her truly stunning dress is well and truly launched on her way to the cathedral." "Course this is the moment where she could exercise the traditional bride's prerogative of being late, but somehow I don't think she will." "No." "He was so thrilled." "Waved himself stupid." "We went past St. Martin's-in-the-Field, and he thought we were at St. Paul's, so he was ready to get out." "It was wonderful, that." "I don't think I was happy." "I think I was..." "I never tried to call it off in the sense of really doing that, but..." "I cried a lot on the Monday when we'd done the rehearsal, because the tension suddenly hit me, but by Wednesday I was fine, and I had to get my father basically up the aisle, that's what I concentrated on." "And I remember being terribly worried curtsying to the Queen." "Walking down the aisle, I spotted Camilla, pale grey, veiled hat, pillbox hat." "Saw it all." "Her son Tom standing on a chair." "To this day, you know, vivid memory." "And I thought, well, there we are, that's it, let's hope that's all over with." "Charles Philip Arthur George, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holiest state of matrimony?" "Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health, and forsaking all other keep thee only unto her so long as ye both shall live." "I will." "I, Diana Frances..." "I, Diana Frances..." "Take thee, Charles Philip Arthur George..." "Take thee, Philip Charles Arthur George..." "To my wedded husband..." "To my wedded husband..." "To have and to hold..." "To have and to hold..." "From this day forward..." "From this day forward..." "For better, for worse..." "For better, for worse..." "For richer, for poorer..." "For richer, for poorer..." "In sickness and in health..." "In sickness and in health..." "To love and to cherish..." "To love and to cherish..." "Till death us do part." "Till death us do part." "Here is the stuff of which fairytales are made." "A prince and princess on their wedding day." "And I remember being so in love with my husband that I couldn't take my eyes off of him." "I just absolutely thought I was the luckiest girl in the world, and, you know, he was going to look after me." "It's absolutely fantastic." "They're right in front of me." "They're right underneath us!" "Looking, looking right up at them as they come past us." "Well, that was the moment you've been waiting for, wasn't it?" "Did you get a good view?" "I did." "It was lovely." "She was beautiful." "Yes." "What about Margaret, did you get a good view?" "Marvelous, marvelous." "How much would you give to swap with Lady Di?" "Anything." "Your Royal Highness?" "Sir, sir, please." "Sir." "Went back to Buckingham Palace, did all the photographs, nothing tactile." "I was basically wandering around, trying to find where I should be, touching my long train with my bridesmaids and pages." "Sat next to him at the wedding breakfast, which it's called, but actually it was lunch." "Neither of us spoke to each other." "We were so shattered." "It was exhausting, the whole thing." "We want Charlie!" "The curtains are open." "That's the signal." "The Prince of Wales." "His bride, the Princess of Wales, Diana Spencer." "The Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen Mother helped throw the confetti this afternoon." "Prince Edward and Prince Andrew tied balloons and a suitable notice to the going-away carriage." "And into the afternoon sunshine they came," "Prince Charles and the new Princess of Wales, smiling and looking wonderfully relaxed." "I just had tremendous hope in me, which was slashed by day two." "So every lunchtime or dinnertime, when we were allowed to be on our own, we were supposed to read them." "We were never on our own." "You can now say that the honeymoon has really started." "Actually, it gets more like a romantic novel as the minutes go on." "All the old clichés come to mind, like 'And so we say farewell,' and 'At last, we're alone, darling.'" "Everyone was there to welcome us." "And then the realization set in." "My dreams were appalling at night." "I dreamt of Camilla the whole time." "Everybody saw I was getting thinner and thinner and thinner." "I was being sicker and sicker and sicker." "Basically, they thought I could adapt to being Princess of Wales overnight." "Obsessed by Camilla." "Totally." "Didn't trust him." "Thought every five minutes he was ringing up, asking her how to handle his marriage, da da da da." "And all the guests at Balmoral coming to stay just stared at me the whole time, and you know, treated me like glass." "As far as I was concerned, I was Diana, and the only difference was people called me ma'am now," "Your Royal Highness." "They curtsied; that was the only difference." "We stayed up there from August to October." "By October I was about to cut my wrists." "I was in a very bad way." "It rained and rained and rained." "And I came down early from Balmoral to seek treatment, not because I hated Balmoral, but because I was in such a bad way." "Couldn't sleep." "Didn't eat." "A whole world was collapsing around me." "But the Diana that was still very much there decided that it was just time, patience, and adapting were all that was needed." "Anyway, a godsend, William was conceived in October." "Marvelous news." "Occupied my mind." "In a way, an odd place to arrive." "None of the grandeur and romance and legend of Wales here." "Just a little station with one passenger waiting for the upline train." "There was a minimum of formality at Shotton, just a Lord Lieutenant and a Lady High Sherriff to greet the couple." "Beyond them the flat outline of Shotton's beleaguered steelworks, the reminder of the problems of modern Wales." "The princess went straight into an impromptu walkabout in the station path and received her first unofficial bouquet." "The princess was in a red and green wool suit with a hat faintly reminiscent of a Robin Hood principal Boylan pantomime." "But she can obviously get away with things other royals wouldn't attempt." "Perhaps the highlight of this grueling three days was the conferring of the Freedom of the City of Cardiff on the princess." "All through the tour it was expected at some stage the princess would say something in Welsh." "Desperately trying to make him proud of me, made a speech in Welsh." "He was more nervous than I was." "I am extremely grateful to you, Lord Mayor, and to the city council, and to the city of Cardiff for granting me the Freedom of the City." "I realize it is a very great honor, and I am most grateful." "I would like to try to express my thanks to you in Welsh also." "Lady Diana Spencer became the Princess of Wales in a ceremony watched by the world at the end of July." "Buckingham Palace today said she's expecting." "The baby will be second in line to the British throne." "Oh." "I'm pouring over the counter there, aren't I?" "Don't you think that perhaps it's a bit soon?" "Well, I do really, yeah, I don't really think they've got to know each other really by now." "But they obviously have." "Let's turn to your good lady." "What do you think, a boy or a girl?" "Boy or a girl?" "I don't think it really matters." "Another baby's always good news." "Whether or not the baby's to be born here has yet to be decided." "That's largely a question for the Queen's gynecologist," "George Pinker, who will be attending the princess throughout." "That's just one of many questions for the future." "For the present, though, well, there's really only one way of saying it, isn't there?" "That's, of course, if they'll let me." "Wonder if you might, in her Royal Highness's absence, pass those on from ATV, ATV Today, all its viewers, with our sincere congratulations." "'If only the station was always this full,' said the British rail official." "And the royal train pulled in right on time." "For the hundreds of guests, just one question." "And, yes, her Royal Highness was on board." "Recently the princess has had to cancel several engagements because of morning sickness." "I was sick all day." "I didn't know what to do." "I was very aware that I wasn't being helpful to my husband, and I was just mortified." "Today she looked well enough, although perhaps just a little pale." "I mean, I look gray in all the pictures." "I remember exactly what I was wearing." "Black felt hat, and a sort of, um, Robin Hood green cloak." "Just simply dreadful." "And I felt so sick." "I remember it." "She is young." "She's only just over 20, and she is having a baby, and she is, after all, human." "Just because she's a royal princess, it doesn't mean to say that she has a baby any differently to anybody else." "Very, very difficult pregnancy, indeed." "Sick the whole time." "Bulimia and morning sickness." "And this family's never had anybody who's had morning sickness before, so every time in my evening dress," "I had to go out, I either fainted or I was sick." "So I was a problem." "And they registered, Diana's a problem." "She's different." "She's doing everything that we never did." "Why?" "And what about the photographers?" "Obviously, they're all looking for the ideal picture." "Are they going to take any notice of this?" "I think they might." "I wonder sometimes about some of the foreign photographers, particularly the French and the Germans." "They don't really care about anything except getting a good shot on their camera." "But they might just find that they're gonna have to pack their bags and take a few steps back and have a little bit of a pause." "Because they are literally camping wherever you go." "It was Charles's choice when we first got married not to run around." "He wanted to try and have a home life of some sort." "But he didn't know how to do it because he'd never been taught." "So the whole thing just evaporated." "Charles said I was crying wolf." "And I said I felt so desperate, and I was crying my eyes out." "And he said, 'I'm not going to listen, you're always doing this to me.'" "He said 'I'm going riding now.'" "So I threw myself down the stairs." "Bearing in mind, I was carrying a child." "Quite bruised around the stomach." "Queen comes out, absolutely horrified." "Shaking, she was so frightened." "And Charles went out riding, and when he came back, you know, it was just dismissal." "But one thing is certain." "When the celebrations really begin to bubble, so will many bottles of this," "Earl Spencer's special Althorp champagne for estate workers and locals alike all ready and willing to wet the baby's head." "Went in very early, and I was sick as a parrot the whole way through the labor." "Strawberries and cream, anybody?" "Very bad labor." "They wanted a cesarean." "No one told me this until afterwards." "The boy arrived." "Great excitement." "Everyone was absolutely high as a kite." ""It's a boy, it's a boy, it's a boy"" ""It's a boy, it's a boy, it's a boy"" "I knew it was a boy." "I was just thrilled." ""It's a boy, it's a boy"" "Does he look like you?" "Very kind." "Does he look like you, sir?" "No, he's lucky enough not to." "How do you feel, sir?" "It's very difficult to tell at the moment." "How do you feel?" "I'm obviously relieved and delighted." "It's marvelous." "It's rather a grown-up thing, I've found." "Rather a shock to my system." "What is the baby like?" "He's in marvelous form." "Does the baby have any hair?" "He looks marvelous." "Yes." "Fair." "Fair hair?" "Sort of blondish." "It will probably go to something else later on." "Who does he look like, sir, you or his mother?" "You can't tell yet." "They have been singing," "'Well done, Charlie, let's have another one.'" "Is that on the program of events?" "Bloody hell, give us a chance." "You ask my wife, I don't think she'd be too pleased just yet." "Have you thought of a name yet, sir?" "Have you thought of a name yet?" "We've thought of one or two, but bit of an argument about it." "William Arthur Philip Louis, how about that?" "I said Louis, yes." "You said Louis?" "Yes, yes." "Are you happy with William?" "Yes, I think William's a very nice name." "It's a king's name." "Prince Billy." "Prince Billy." "King William." "Prince William, you think?" "Regal ring?" "King William, indeed, regal ring." "Willy." "Not bad, not bad." "King Willy." "King Willy." "Yes, King Bill." "May we see your son, Your Royal Highness?" "Congratulations!" "William's christening was desperate, because I literally had just given birth." "He was only six weeks old." "And it was all decided around me." "Hence, the ghastly pictures of somebody who is so... and my bulimia, everything was out of control." "Yeah, everything." "I was treated like nobody else's business on the fourth of August." "Nobody asked me whether it was suitable for William." "11 o'clock couldn't have been worse." "There were endless pictures of the Queen, Queen Mother," "Charles, and William." "I was excluded totally in that day." "I wasn't very well, and I just blubbed my eyes out." "Yeah." "Well, he sensed that I wasn't exactly hunky dory." "One minute, I was nobody, and the next minute, I was Princess of Wales, mother, media toy, member of this family, you name it." "And it was just too much for one person at that time." "Well, with the amount of stories that there are in our newspapers and on television, you could hardly fail to notice that the Prince and the Princess of Wales, and, of course, young Prince William," "are now well into the swing of their tour of Australia." "Brisbane was the place where they expected the biggest crowds of the tour, and they got them." "The police estimated there were 80,000 people here, but wise old locals reckoned there were nearer 100,000." "The crowds were just something to be believed." "And, you know, my husband had never seen crowds like it, and I sure as hell hadn't." "Ladies and gentlemen, the last time I was here was two years ago in 1981 shortly before we were married, and at that time everybody was saying good luck, and I hope everything goes well, and how lucky you are to be engaged to such a lovely lady," "and, my goodness, I was lucky enough to marry her." "And we had many, many messages." "It's amazing what ladies do when your back's turned." "The theme of this second week has really been the princess's rapidly growing popularity." "I've come to the conclusion that really it would have been far easier to have had two wives  to have covered both sides of the street." "And I could have walked down the middle directing the operation." "Good evening." "The Princess of Wales's new baby, born at 20 past 4:00 this afternoon is another boy." "Both are doing well." "The new prince, not yet named, weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces." "He has pale blue eyes, and according to his father, indeterminate color hair." "What's your reaction?" "What do you think?" "Have you had any children?" "I've got two, and one on the way." "Marvelous." "What was your reaction?" "Fantastic." "And I was there both times." "Exactly that." "Marvelous." "Were you expecting a boy?" "Can you tell us now?" "No, I mean, it doesn't matter what it was, as long as he was alright." "His name is Henry Charles Albert David, but they're gonna call him Harry." "I did." "I chose William and Harry." "But Charles did the rest." "'Cause he wanted Albert and Arthur, and I said, 'No." "Too old." "No, thank you.'" "Harry arrived, Harry was a boy." "First comment was, 'Oh, God." "It's a boy.'" "Harry." "Yes, four hands, two princes, and a piano." "Harry!" "Harry, don't tread on my toes." "It's a photo session at Kensington Palace, with the Prince and Princess of Wales and family." "Louder!" "Louder!" "Well, now, two questions that everybody will want to have answered." "What do you say when you read in the papers that you are a determined, domineering woman?" "I don't always read that." "I'm... people are very willing to tell me that." "But I don't think I am." "I'm a perfectionist with myself, but not necessarily with everybody else." "And those stories arose a long time ago and have kept coming out again and again." "But I don't think I am." "Do you feel hurt by them?" "Well, obviously one does." "You feel very wounded, and if it comes out, you think, oh, gosh," "I don't want to go out and do my engagement this morning, nobody wants to see me, help, panic." "But you've got to push yourself out and remember some people, hopefully, won't believe everything they read about you." "Because there's far too much about me in the newspapers, far too much." "It horrifies me, when there's something more important like what goes on in hospice, or there's been a bomb or something, they'll put me on the front page." "I feel underdressed." "Why don't you sit down?" "Is this for me?" "Yes." "How are you?" "Nice to see you in the flesh." "In the flesh." "Don't look too near, you might get a shock." "I've seen enough photos." "I know, there's too many of those." "Sell them in the shop downstairs." "Are they?" "How much do you sell them for?" "Three pounds ten that one's going for." "Is that all?" "Misses bought it." "Under pressure?" "A lot of hard work goes into it." "I mean, how long does it take to make something like this?" "I really don't know." "But there is a natural and continuing interest in you." "For example, have you actually tried to change Prince Charles in any way since you got married?" "Not at all." "I mean, obviously, there were one or two things that, maybe the odd tie or something, but nothing..." "Shoes." "Shoes." "We won't go any further." "But, but nothing dramatic." "Just in case you fell in." "This is what Samantha Fox must feel like." "I think you must..." "can I sit down here?" "It's alright?" "Who's that?" "I thought you might ask that." "Who's that?" "Who does she belong to?" "Now, you both like skiing." "And yet, every year, it has become a regular, you don't appear to hit it off exactly eye to eye on the slopes." "What is the secret of this?" "You two read the papers." "Not if I can help it." "I suspect most husbands and wives find that they often have arguments." "But we don't!" "No, no, no." "But occasionally we do." "Because I mean, I, I..." "I go on longer sometimes." "Yes, but I'm faster." "There we are." "Of course, some people say that you're so slim you probably don't eat enough anyway." "When we go on an engagement, if it's a lunchtime one, we often have a buffet lunch, so we can get around the enormous amount of people there sometimes are." "So it's impossible to talk and eat at the same time." "So you end up chasing a bit of chicken around the plate, and then never getting anything yourself." "And by the time you get home, certainly there's no time, you're rushing off somewhere else." "But I'm never on what's called a diet." "Maybe I'm so scrawny is because I take so much exercise." "I don't know." "I think a lot of people tried because they saw that something was going wrong." "But nobody actually, I never leant on anyone." "Especially... none of my family knew about this at all." "After five years of being married, my sister Jane came up to see me, and I had a V-neck on." "She said, 'Duch, what's that marking on your chest?" "'" "I said, 'Oh, it's nothing.' She said, 'What is it?" "'" "And the night before," "I wanted to talk to Charles about something;" "he wouldn't listen to me, said I was crying wolf." "So I picked up his pen knife off his dressing table and scratched myself heavily down my chest and my both thighs." "There was a lot of blood." "It's a particular pleasure to be able to introduce my wife to this great Pacific province and to let her see  and to let her see for herself, and to find out for herself just what a warm, hearty lot you all are." "Yes." "And the expo." "The expo where I passed out." "Yeah." "I remember, I had never fainted before in my life." "And we'd been walking around for four hours, we hadn't had any food." "And presumably I hadn't eaten for days beforehand." "When I say that, I mean food staying down." "And I remember walking around feeling really ghastly, and I didn't dare tell anyone I felt ghastly because I thought they'd think I was whinging." "I put my arm on my husband's shoulder, and I said, 'Darling, I think I'm about to disappear.'" "And slid down the side of him." "And everyone was saying, 'She can't go out tonight, she can't go out, she must have some sleep.'" "Charles said, 'She must go out tonight, otherwise there's going to be a sense of terrific drama." "They're gonna think there's something really awful wrong with her.'" "Inside me, I knew there was something wrong with me, but I was too immature to voice it." "This afternoon, the Prince and Princess said farewell to BC." "They're going to Tokyo to begin a royal tour that includes at least five 12-hour days." "Royal officials say there are no plans to change the schedule." "Princess Diana!" "Diana!" "Diana!" "Please." "Please." "Please, please, please, please, please, Diana." "Please, come on." "This will make my day; my life." "The Princess of Wales felt not the slightest apprehension about her visit to the Middlesex Hospital and its AIDS ward." "All the speculation had centered on whether she would wear gloves when shaking hands with the staff and patients." "In Britain, the public's obsession with the royal family has reached new heights or lows, depending on how you look at it." "The cause of the latest flurry of excitement is the rumor that Prince Charles and Princess Diana may be on the verge of ending their marriage." "But whatever problems they may be having, says Andrew Morton, royal reporter for the British newspaper The Star, there's no chance the two will get divorced." "ANDREW They're as much likely to get divorced as I am to get pregnant." "I would stake my life on the fact that they would never, ever, ever divorce." "24 hours before the royal visit, parts of Carmarthen were still under several feet of water." "Today, the floods had subsided, as the lengthy job of clearing up was under way." "It's only the couple's second public appearance together in over a month." "But tomorrow, they'll go their separate ways again." "The princess stays in London." "Prince Charles goes to Scotland." "For the first formal dinner of the visit, the princess unveiled another new look, her worn up with a tiara that clearly won the approval of state president Von Viesecker." "The cameras were concentrating on the princess, interest in her clothes replacing speculation about the royal marriage." "And she seemed relaxed enough to respond in informal manner when one photographer complimented her hairstyle." "Six, seven, eight, nine, ten." "One, two, three, four, five." "I've got what my mother's got where however bloody you're feeling, you can put on the most amazing show of happiness." "But what I couldn't cope in those dark ages was people saying it's her fault, and I got that from everywhere, everywhere." "The system and media starting to say it was my fault." "And I was the Marilyn Monroe of the 1980s and that I was adoring it." "I've never, ever sat down and said, 'Hooray, how wonderful.'" "Never." "Because the day I do that, we're in trouble." "A wiser prince than I would've opted for a visit to the Taj Mahal, and the Red Fort at Agra, which I believe is where some at least of the greatest pundits of the press think I ought to be anyway," "rather than making a greater fool of myself here." "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." "Not serious attempts, but what it says were desperate cries for help." "The author, Andrew Morton, insisted today that close friends of the princess stand by the integrity of the book." "And he came on ITN's lunchtime news to make his first live defense of the book on television." "The motivation was to tell the truth." "For once, forget the propaganda, tell the truth about what's really going on, because we do face a crisis in the House of Windsor." "It's obvious to everyone." "And make you, and make you a rich man." "If that's a corollary, then so be it." "But hopefully, people, it struck a nerve, because it is true." "It is a true story." "It's a sympathetic account of her life." "'We are not in the business of hyping publications' was the only comment from Buckingham Palace this morning." "Palace officials refused to comment on whether they had a copy of the book, or whether top libel lawyers were examining the text." "The secrecy surrounding one of the most publicized books ever is remarkable." "The bookshops have been straining at the bit for a glimpse of what is arguably the most talked-about book of all time." "The hype behind this book is virtually unprecedented, but according to Andrew Morton, the story stands up." "He says Diana is a victim who became a princess before she became a woman, and as a result she hit what she herself called the dark ages." "The book serialized in The Sunday Times today claims it was the Prince's indifference to his wife that caused her chronic depression and five separate suicide attempts." "At the Queen's Cup polo tournament in Windsor Great Park this afternoon, all attention was on Camilla Parker Bowles, a long-time friend of Prince Charles, a relationship which the book claims sparked off jealousy in the princess." "Buckingham Palace officials have denied once again today that the Princess of Wales cooperated in any way with the book, and refuses to dignify its claims with any further comments." "But the repercussions are continuing." "And what about the role of Prince Charles in this rather sad, if you say, cry for help?" "I think that Prince Charles has a tremendous responsibility towards the Princess of Wales, and I think that Prince Charles is very sad at what has happened to the marriage, and he's even sadder that the princess should have seen fit" "to air the problems in the marriage so publicly." "I am trying to bring some balance to this whole story." "I think that we've had nothing but Diana's misery and Diana's loneliness and Diana's side of the story." "We've heard her say how Charles is a bad father, how he's a bad husband, he's uncaring, he drove her to suicide attempts, and I think the time has simply come to adjust the balance." "Prince Charles is not a cold man." "He is not an uncaring man." "The fact of the matter is that because of Diana's illness everything has built up in her mind." "She has created situations, she has imagined situations." "Charles and Diana's storybook wedding has collapsed into a royal embarrassment." "Separate lives, public scrutiny, whispers of infidelity." "And there were signs today that it's all getting to be too much for the princess." "Royal composure collapsed as Princess Diana, under extraordinary media attention, broke down in tears, red-faced and confused." "This was a side of the princess never seen in public." "In all that you do, you reflect so very sincerely the philosophy of tender, loving care, which is and always will be the hallmark of this hospice." "Diana appeared near tears in her first public engagement since a book detailing her unhappiness was published last week." "It began as a royal romance, but quickly faded." "Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana." "In the latter years, a troubled marriage and mostly separate lives." "She reportedly described it as a loveless misalliance." "Well, today, official word, the union is over." "The couple will continue to carry out separate engagements and duties." "The Princess of Wales has already done much to establish herself as a solo operator." "Whether or not the Princess of Wales will become queen may finally be decided by Queen Elizabeth herself when she chooses to abdicate." "A lot of people would question whether she's entitled to wear the crown." "And it's very important for us that the dignity and the stature of the monarchy is protected, and I think that might well reduce it, rather than enhance it." "Ladies and gentlemen, Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, would like to make a short statement." "Your Royal Highness." "When I started my public life 12 years ago," "I understood the media might be interested in what I did." "I realized then their attention would inevitably focus on both our private and public lives." "But I was not aware of how overwhelming that attention would become." "Excuse me." "At the end of this year, when I've completed my diary of official engagements," "I will be reducing the extent of the public life" "I have led so far." "My first priority will continue to be our children," "William and Harry, who deserve as much love and care and attention as I am able to give." "I couldn't stand here today and make this sort of statement without acknowledging the heartfelt support" "I've been given by the public in general." "Your kindness and affection has carried me through some of the most difficult periods." "And always your love and care has eased that journey." "And for that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart." "Amid the chaos of Luanda Airport, a scheduled flight at the start of an unofficial visit for the newest and most high profile Red Cross volunteer." "For the first time on her own, stepping out into the Third World, reunited with the charity she deserted before her divorce from Prince Charles." "It's an enormous privilege for me to have been invited here to Angola in order to assist the Red Cross in its campaign to ban, once and for all, anti-personnel land mines." "Has the reality of Angola been more shocking than you expected?" "Yes, I knew the statistics, but putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me." "Like when I met Sandra, the 13-year-old girl, two days ago, who had lost her leg." "And for people like her, you know, the rest of her life will be very different." "But we must stop the land mines if we can." "Can we ask you that question about your political role?" "I would've thought that was the most important question out of the two;" "I'd go for that one." "What, the political one?" "No, not the political one, you don't mean the political one." "No, no, I mean the one saying I'm not a political figure." "Yes, exactly." "Were you surprised at the political furore that came out as a result of your visit here to Angola?" "It was merely a distraction, and the fact is I'm a humanitarian figure, not one who is a political, political..." "Sorry, can we do that again?" "Sure." "Were you surprised at the political furore that developed as a result of your visit to Angola?" "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." "It is not the horror of land mines that is making the headlines back home, but reports of the princess's romance with Dodi Fayed." "Confirmation of Princess Diana's first serious romance since her split with Charles will be shown in London's Sunday Mirror tomorrow." "Paparazzi photographer Mario Brenna is said to become a millionaire from worldwide sales of the shots." "She wants this romance on the record, and this is a story that's going to run and run until something wonderful or something ghastly happens." "We interrupt this film to tell you we are getting reports that Diana, Princess of Wales, has been badly injured in a car crash in France." "Stephen Jessel, our correspondent in Paris, what is your view of what is now happening at the hospital?" "Well, I'm, I'm worried by the lack of any news or the lack of any statement." "One wonders if one is being told the whole truth at the moment." "One's heart goes out, especially to the young princes, William and Harry." "William and Harry, indeed." "William, let's remind ourselves, he, particularly close to his mother, he, very sensitive young man, hates photographers." "This is the IRN News Desk." "This message is, I repeat, is not for public broadcast." "Diana, Princess of Wales, has died." "I know that these pictures are being beamed around the world and maybe people in some parts of the world will think this is quite a normal scene." "Little do they know." "In America, I know for a fact, people have got up early to watch live transmissions from London." "In the Far East where it's, well, well into the day now, late afternoon, early evening, they're sitting watching." "Television schedules have been cleared around the world." "This is an extraordinary view we're seeing here." "We've never, as far as I'm aware, seen the royal family standing like this at the gates of Buckingham Palace." "Could they be intending to walk behind the coffin?" "Anything is possible today." "The word Diana on a huge banner on the gate." "And no one said that mustn't be there, you don't put posters or banners on the gates of Buckingham Palace." "'Diana of Love.'" "Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry, and the Prince of Wales." "An almost intolerable moment for the two boys, the two princes." "Impossible to put into words as they take their place behind their mother's coffin." "Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this... a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age." "She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys, William and Harry, from a similar fate." "And I do this here, Diana, on your behalf." "Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty." "All over the world, she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden." "Someone with a natural nobility who was classless, and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic." "There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time." "She talked endlessly of getting away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers." "I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down." "Above all, we give thanks for the life of a woman" "I'm so proud to be able to call my sister, the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, whose beauty both internal and external will never be extinguished from our minds." "She affected everybody, and that's everyone's way of showing it." "Laying their flowers and writing their cards and their poems." "It's just amazing." "But she'll never know how much she meant to everybody, really." "She was just so human, she made so many mistakes and just exactly like we do, and yet she shone through it." "The public side was very different obviously from the private side." "The public side, they wanted a fairy princess." "Touch them and everything will turn into gold and all their worries would be forgotten." "Little did they realize that the individual was crucifying herself inside... because she didn't think she was good enough." "Why me, why all this publicity?" "It didn't get easier." "I just got used to what people required from the Princess of Wales." "What Diana thought wasn't going to come into it yet." "History fascinated me." "But I never anticipated I'd end up in the system, in the books." "I hug my children to death." "I get in bed with them at night and hug them, and I always say," "'Who loves you most in the whole wide world?" "'" "And they always say, 'Mommy.'" "And it's always that, always feed them." "It's so important." "Did you have any expectations looking forwards?" "I had so many dreams as a young girl." "Hopes that my husband would look after me, that he'd be like a father figure." "He'd support me, encourage me, say, 'Well done,' or say, 'No, it wasn't good enough.'" "I knew somehow I had to keep myself very tidy for whatever was coming my way." "I was always different." "I had always this thing inside me that I was going somewhere different." "I didn't know why, couldn't even talk about."