weekend up at balmoral castle. and i guessed, i said, was it prince andrew? she said, no, actually it was with prince charles. prince charles, the country s most eligible bachelor. diana once anonymous is now famous. i think it was over whelming, but she was still trying to come to work because she couldn t spend her life cooped up in her apartment. she was good humor. sometimes she stopped for a chat. but she never stops for an interview or poses for a photograph. that is, until late september 1980, at this london kindergarten where diana works part time. she came out with two of the children from the nursery. halfway through taking the picture, the sun came out. and we saw that beautiful lace.
her own sister. how are you coping with all the press attention? well, as you can see, you can tell. i think she was very protective of him. but every once in a while in private, a very giddy, very love-struck 19-year-old confides in those close to her. she would gush about him, how intelligent he was, how perfect he was. her perfect prince and most agree she could be the perfect princess. she had never had a boyfriend. she was completely pure, untouched. the most eligible woman in the land to marry the h eir to the throne. %-p? on paper, yes, she was. and by winter 1980, he s running out of time. prince charles is 32 years old. the future king needs to settle down, to marry and to produce an heir to the throne.
and a long list of questions hidden in his bag. cycled in, had lunch, maybe a few questions before lunch and a few after, then off again. he delivered the tapes to andrew morton who weaves them into a revealing book, more revealing than anyone expected. she was very open indeed about everything. and to a level where i was almost worrying, cautioned about what was being said. from her struggles with bulimia, depression, to her husband s alleged infidelities and her multiple suicide attempts, one of them happening when she was just three months pregnant with prince william. she threw herself down the staircase and charles just went right out the door and she was very badly bruised. it apparently didn t affect her pregnancy. this was a letter by the end of 1991, the book
and no one could do it better than diana. she was determined to say something. there was no stopping that. it was inevitable, i think, as a vent for the anger. so diana asked her old friend for help. i said a book would be a better format than a mad article or tv thing because she could have control of it. a book like no other. diana s own story personally told to a reporter of her choosing. royal watcher andrew morton. but diana can t be seen meeting with morton here at kensington palace, so she hatches a secret plan. it was almost like you were in a sort of james bond movie kind of. it was much simpler, in a way, than people make. starting in the summer of 1991, he bikes to kensington palace like he has for years to visit diana, but this time he carries a small tape recorder
most anticipated wedding dress. we have packs of press outside our door. we had people across the road renting space so they could just look through our windows. the dress is kept in a secret vault with security guards protecting it around the clock. she came to a lot of her fittings alone. yes. i think a couple times she brought her mother and then she was there with the bridesmaid. but she was on her own with a detective who waited outside. she didn t really know what she was stepping into. and i do think she had second thoughts. of whether she would get married to the heir to the throne of england and second thoughts if she wanted to be queen of england one day. and second thoughts about the prince s true feelings. i think diana always knew that charles was in love with someone else. that someone else,