love them. they were surprised she had come to harlem hospital, a place never visited by any american president and few major president and few political leaders. at the time the government couldn t get a grip on the aids crisis and she gave it the attention it merited. she chose to come to a small community hospital in the middle of a minority era during a crack epidemic. i can t say enough about the courage that takes. i thought it was amazing she would come to my neighborhood and say let me see your struggle and let me lend some assistance it to it. diana had proved her range that she could be the glamourous uptown princess but then also dive really deep into these taboo social topics ever the time. and accomplish real good in the world.
the princess had meeting with children suffering from aids and wanted to know more about children s who s aids were complicated by mother s drug abuse. i was 8 years old at the time princess diana came to visit harlem hospital and i was excited my mom would be welcoming princess diana to the hospital. she came in and she said where are they? we just took her to where the children were. she could not wait to get there. during the late 80s crack cocaine ravaged our neighborhood and with the drug addiction came sharing of needles and many modes of transmission of hiv/aids. it was a and back then, these children were born with hiv and also severely addicted to crack. as she went to the room there was a little boy she went over and picked him up and he kind of just held on to her arm. and you could just see the love that this woman had. for humanity. she was letting people know that you can be with them and you can
he was put in the boot of cars. he was driven to kensington palace. she was invited to go to his mother s house near exeter, where we would go for weekends. it was a remote location, but it was always a tense time because she was very easily spotted. if the princess of wales and hewitt went for a walk in the woods or on a beach somewhere, she certainly wasn t looking like a princess. she d be in normal day clothes, hoodie, dark glasses. the hair be would be covered up. although she may have some romantic notion of going off with james hewitt, i think she was also very much a realist. she was the princess of wales. she was the mother of the future king. she couldn t just go off and live with this rather 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
clearly, clearly very upset. the popular perception is that the prince of wales was straying all the way through his marriage, and that is definitely unequivocally not the case. the first person that strayed was the princess. he went back to see mrs. parker-bowles after he learned about her affair with mannakee. nobody is the villain. in my view everybody s a victim. he was under a lot of pressure to get married, and she too was a victim of this whole process. just realizing that charles had gone back to camilla. prince charles never really stopped loving camilla parker-bowles. when the opportunity arose, he went back to her. when you analyze these two different affairs, there s a huge difference. charles was rejecting diana because he loved somebody else.
i think diana thrived in these moments where the spotlight shone so brightly on her. diana wasn t fazed at all. she loved to dance. here she was dancing with john travolta, one of the most celebrated dancers in the world at that time. she just came alive. it showed diana s star power was really equal to that of a major hollywood star. screaming for the princess wherever she went. thousands gathered along pennsylvania avenue to catch a glimpse of the motorcade bringing the visitors to the national gallery of art. charles agreed to have a press conference to talk about the exhibit that he was opening, and all they wanted to talk about was diana. to the core of the issue first, had the princess enjoyed her dance with mr. travolta? well, i m not a glove puppet. so i can t answer for that, i m afraid.