everybody at that party is part of the charles and camilla axis. they are jaw droppingly astonished when diana marches down stairs and speaks to camilla i was terrified. i said i d like to know exactly what s going on. just for diana to look camilla in the eye and say her piece is a huge show of power. the key phrase in what diana says to camilla is not i know what s going on. it s don t treat me like a fool. she said to me, you ve got everything you ve ever wanted. all the men in the world fall in love with you. so i said i want my husband. the moment camilla basically said, well you should be happy with what you ve got, diana must have realized oh, my god this is going to go on forever.
it s a mistake to think that charles and diana s marriage was always sort of as bad as we all seemed to think. in fact, early on there was a real love connection and a closeness. i was lucky enough to marry her, and we had many, many messages. amazing what ladies do when your backs are turned. i ve got lots of photographs where he s just gazing at her looking into her face, and you could see it. charles was in love with diana. you can t disguise that. there were real genuine moments of happiness, especially when they were with william. does prince william have a
impoverished army officer. there was no question of divorce then and so it was a fantasy for them both. charles absolutely knew about the affair, and in fact approved of it because it gave him more time and space with mrs. parker bowles and amongst the aristocracy that was norm, and what they found unfathomable about diana is she simply wouldn t accept that this was the norm. she did not want that. she wanted the life that she had hoped for on their wedding day, and she kept fighting for it.
rival to diana which began inject competition in that relationship. she enjoyed where she was and she ruled everybody. diana took her husband s criticisms to heart, and when he said why can t you be more like fergie, she said i can be fun. i ll show you fun. alas there were pictures of the two of them poking friends in the bottom with their umbrellas. dressing up as police women and going to an in abelle s nightclub on prince andrew s stag night. they were skiing together and messing around on the slopes. all these kinds of things irritated prince charles beyond belief and diana realized that this wasn t really her. she wasn t this boy strois sloan
her. i was learning to be a royal in one week. pre-diana there zilt interest in the royal family and along comes diana, boom, it all changes. the crowds went absolutely mad about diana. they came up with a name for her. it was di-mania. after the wedding, the royal family really thought that the attention on diana would die out, but diana was lightning in a bottle. she was so different from the rest of the royal family. there s a big difference between the queen. she s sort of above everybody else, untouchable, if you like. diana comes in and she s very much hands on. diana physically embraced the people that were there to see her. the ways in which she reached into the crowd to shake hands and crouched down to hug children. diana herself was totally