you took on the vow of marriage? yes. until it became irretrievably broken down. there was this bombshell confession that yes, he had been unfaithful with camilla parker bowles. it s not something that i went into marriage with the intention of this happening. or in any way in a cynical frame of mind. i mean, i charles clearly was fighting against it. you could see it with every sort of inflection, every move of his body. because it reflected not just on him and, of course, camilla, but also on diana. it must have been so incredibly hard for her to hear those words. but if she refused to simply sit at home when a documentary goes out in which she s represented as the cheated-on wife diana, she has a public engagement that night. she reached into her closet, she
it was unthinkable. they were effectively leading separate lives. prince charles was based in highgrove in gloucestershire. diana was left on her own at kensington palace a hundred miles away. they only came together at the weekend when diana would drive down with william and harry and spend the weekend at highgrove. the way the staff told it was that no sooner had the princess car receded out of view than they could hear the gravel crunching of another car, and that would be camilla arriving. camilla was effectively the mistress of the house and would organize dinner parties and other events for a close circle of friends. diana was constantly fobbed off. she would raise it with courtiers and they d just say, it s not true, you re imagining things. it was corroding the whole organization. adultery isn t exactly a novelty for the british crown.
it was the summer of 1990, and charles was playing polo, and he fell badly off his horse and broke his arm. and he was rushed to the local hospital. it was a major fall, a major break. and it takes time for the swelling to go down. diana was 100 miles away in london when she heard about the accident, and she jumped into the car with her bodyguard and drove to the hospital. it was a very big story. lots of reporters, photographers, film crews outside of the hospital he was being treated. inside royal palace staff were stunned to discover charles very first visitor wasn t diana, it was camilla parker bowles. she had sidled through the backdoor so the media hadn t caught sight of her. prince charles bodyguard from buckingham palace were
writing a note about how she s feeling. she writes, i m sitting here at my desk today in october, longing for someone to hug me, and encouraged me to keep strong and hold my head high. diana is feeling very vulnerable. it s the first time that she s actually feeling that she s losing the support of the public. as well as being sidelined and undermined by charles supporters. diana continues, i ve been battered, bruised and abused mentally by a system for 15 years now. and weary of the battles but i will never surrender. she felt she really needed to put her case directly to the public. everyone wanted to get a sit down with her and says diana. this was the biggest tv interview you could get. this was the ultimate get. some of the top names in both america and britain were angling for diana to sit on the couch oprah winfrey, barbara walters, david frost, really big hitters.
out of my hand with all andrew morton s questions on. it was like a floodgate opened. everything just came out. diana was establishing the fact her marriage was a wreck. that no one in the royal family cared for her. she self-harmed. she would stuff herself with food and then make herself ill. she was sharing her innermost personal secrets. she was risking it all, not knowing where it would lead. just imagine how tortured diana must have been to get to this place. she hadn t considered deniability. so we had the idea of getting friends to give interviews and use those as cover for diana s story. the title of the book became diana, her true story, against