silence, that you never talk to the press. i first met andrew morton when he first came to st. thomas where i worked at that time. he said, let s set up an interview. i said, andrew, you can t drew diana, how can you do that? you can t go near her. and there was james sitting there, and i said, but you can. i would take a little cheap tape recorder, and then i was initially going to ask the questions. and she just snatched the paper 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
so there is the queen s entire comms department putting out one story, all untrue. very quietly, going around the back, got a book away, got it published. complete secrecy. making the palace look complete idiots. and her getting her story out. i don t think it s manipulative, i think it s an intellect, an instinct for survival. and i tip my hat to her for it. diana s won the hearts and minds of the public. but charles supporters have a counter narrative in mind, and they re going to retaliate in kind. the royal biographer says she was approached to tell the other side of the story. i spoke quite strongly in defense of the prince of wales, because i felt looking at it he had been badly maligned. and unfairly so. the princess is seen by many close to the queen s eldest son as being mentally unbalanced at times from 11 years of suffering
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don t know i m there. diana s visit to her friend was a critical moment, because it showed that diana herself was supporting the book. the royal family was appalled by the book. so they felt justifiably that it was a terrible betrayal. in the ensuing storm, although visibly under strain, the princess made no attempt to deny the stories. all that you do were effected in various ways, the philosophy of tender loving care. may god bless you, and may you always remain, ma am, just you. because of her glamour, because of her perceived vulnerability, you had something like love, real adoration of this really special creature. and that is why the book was so shocking to ordinary people. they really cared about her. and they were horrified that her life wasn t the wonderful thing they thought it was. diana s experience, despite all of her privilege, is strangely universal. how many women know what it s like to be in an unhappy relationship, to feel trapped
diana s taking on one of the oldest and most powerful institutions in the world. she wanted her truth to be told, and she was determined that she was going to control her narrative. 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.