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pretty magical summers until unfortunately 1979 when that came to an abrupt halt. >> lord bat op and several members of his family set off fishing on a boat that he owned. suddenly, the boat is ripped apart by a bomb. >> my brother and i went on the boat but my brother and i heard the bovmt we heard it go off and the chaos that followed was unimaginable. >> lord baton has been killed in an explosion of his boat. a local beatman died and one of the children of nicholas breaburn is said to be missing. the queen's family were targeted by the irish republican army, who want an end to british rule in northern ireland. >> none of the royal family has left the castle since yesterday and security operations have been stepped up. the platoon of extra soldiers was brought to the castle by lorrie. >> as far as the ira were concerned, he was a legitimate target. >> lord baton's 14-year-old grandson nicholas and the dowager lady breaburn are also killed in the blast, along with maxwell, the 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wales. he was the great heart throb at the time. his picture was in her boarding school dorm. >> she tried very hard to make herself everything that he wanted. >> diana did this great impersonation of someone who loved to walk the wet moors and shooting and all the things she actually hated. >> because of her childhood i do think she had an absolute craving for love and for security. >> diana was only seven years old when her parents divorced angry moan yusly. >> one of her most vivid memories was listening to her mother driving away and diana is thinking she'd never see her mother again. >> what she saw in charles was life happily ever after with her prince. >> but diana is not the only person searching for a fairly tale romance. >> the royal hacks from the tabloids are across the river with their long lenses. >> diana, the press decided, was perfect. it seemed to the media at the time that the start of a life. >> and the next day in huge headlines, diana is the one. >> when the press get wind of the fact that charles and diana are dating, it is absolute chaos. it's a nightmare for diana. she lives in a flat in london. they besiege her flat, they followed her. >> i followed her through town. i followed her car. this is it. >> is there any possibility that any announcement will emerge in the future, can you tell me? >> it was utterly overwhelming for her. >> she was 19. she was a 19-year-old with that glare of publicity. this girl was on the front pages of the newspapers. she was being offered up as the perfect bride for charles. >> headline after headline. charlie, why aren't you proposing to this woman. >> charles had all sorts of reservations about diana. he didn't really know her. she didn't share many of his interests. she wasn't widely read. >> he was still in love with camilla and he was in a real quandary. >> he kept agonizing and analyzing, but his father's philip's concern is that so much had been written about her, that if he didn't do something, she was 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will thousand have this man for your wedded husband? >> i will. >> charles persuaded himself that he could be in love with diana. at least enough in love to get married. they went on honeymoon and sailed around the mediterranean. diana was hoping they would sunbathe in the sun and sit and chat and laugh and have a good time. but after a while she realized that camilla was still present on her honeymoon. >> charles wore cuff links that had been given to him by camilla. >> she overheard charles making a call with camilla. >> she finds that prince charles has pictures of camilla inside his diary. >> that was for her, an absolute agony. >> she was terrified really of what she'd got herself into. >> but for the cameras, diana is all smiles. >> how are you enjoying it? >> highly recommend it. >> there's a long-standing contradiction in what the royal family actually wants in a bride. on the one hand they want somebody blushing, deaf remember shall, but at the same time they want her at the flick of a switch to be able to manage on her own, not make a fuss and not to be too emotional. >> how do you see your role developing as princess of wales? >> when life will be a great challenge. >> are you going to have time for a private life, for making a home and running a home? are you looking poured to making a home? >> oh, yes, very much so. looking forward to being a wife. >> prince, princess and baby prince emerge to the cheers of the crowd. >> one year into their marriage, diana gives birth to a son, prince william arthur philip louis. >> the birth of prince william did a great deal for diana. wow, you know, this is great. she's done her job. >> it's a happy moment. charles enjoys being in the nursery with him and they have that shared love. but at the same time, there's a lot of tension between them. >> a princess in the most famous family in the world, diana is a young mother caught in the spotlight. >> she was meant to be a mom. she was meant to do it all, she was meant 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really suffering and no one seems to be helping her. >> she wanted somebody to put their arms around her and tell her it's all right, darling. and i know that that didn't happen. >> the queen and princess diana belonged to very different generations. duty and self-restraint are absolutely hard wired into the queen. >> and here the royal family have a very emotional young girl, who was to their mind his ter cal. >> the royal family, a doctor, a psychiatrist. they prescribed valium. but diana doesn't want to take pills. she wants her life to get better. >> and nobody is addressing the central issue which is that prince charles' heart lies elsewhere and diana feels lost, alone and abandoned. your skin isn't just skin, it's a beautiful reflection of everything you've been through. that's why dove renews your skin's ceramides and strengthens it against dryness for softer, smoother skin you can lovingly embrace. renew the love for your skin with dove body wash. 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>> jamie, he loves his kaola bear that he's got. he just likes something with a bit of noise. got a plastic whale that throws thing out the top, little balls. >> she thought that bond of parenthood would help bring the marriage together but that's not really what happened. charles at the beginning of the marriage tried to make things work. but i do believe that camilla was on his mind from early on. >> diana didn't talk much about camilla. she kept quiet and had her upset and hoped it would all come good. >> she wanted love. she craved love. and what she found she was getting was love the love of strangers. >> the public take to diana like no other royal. she had a kind of a dplamor and a kind of wholesomeness that people found very endearing. here is a popular young princess who engages with ordinary people. she seems to be kind, caring, and she's beautiful. >> the children in a more direct ways that only children have. it was the princess they wanted. >> charles became quite a forlorn figure. photographers didn't take many photographers unless he was in the frame with diana. he was very jealous. his wife is further down in the royal pecking order than he is, and yet she's getting the most attention. >> crowds estimated in the thousands are straining for a peak at the prince and principle es. >> when the royal couple arrives in america, diana is greeted with a frenzy of press and public excitement. >> diana was a tremendous star in the united states. >> it was a bit of an american hysteria. >> once in a lifetime experience to actually see royalty. >> yeah. >> she grew up and married the prince. >> the dramatic high point of it was the dinner and dance with the reagans at the white house. >> nancy reagan, recognizing the powerful mix of holiday celebrity and british royalty organizes a publicity stunt. >> are you going to dance with the princess tonight? >> if she'd lying me to. >> my plan was to go to john travolta. i asked him if he would cut in on the president and ask diana to dance. he said i can't cut in on the president. i said, oh, yes, you can. >> diana didn't just upstage charles. she eclipsed him, actually. she made him nothing is the truth. >> he had been the star of the show. he had been top of the house that windsor built and now he was running a very poor second. >> to the core of the issue first, had she enjoyed her dance with mr. travolta. >> i can't answer for that, i'm afraid. but i think you own joyed it, didn't you? she would be daft if she didn't enjoy dancing with john travolta. >> a great resentment of her popularity. >> why does the press think so? >> my wife here. >> charles, the dutiful prince has married the perfect bride. but that union will pose a threat to the entire royal family. >> they are already deeply unhappy. and at the same time she has become a global celebrity. >> he wants to control what's going on. perhaps he's sensing that it's slipping out of his control. she is slipping out of his control. >> she is in essence, a ticking time bomb. >> next on the windsors, the war between charles and diana. it pulled down the whole of the monarchy. >> here she was undermining the throne, undermining the dynasty. >> when you release to press, you continues keep them at bay. >> nobody dreamed that it would end in such a shocking way. the world has a new icon. diana, princess of walgs. >> here is the stuff of which fairy tales are made. >> but behind the fairy tale, the couple are living a lie. the story of the windsors becomes a soap opera. as a voracious press hounds diana. >> could you in future respect my children? 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