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>> no, not particularly. >> this whole machine had just taken on a life of its own. >> just about every network in japan is covering the wedding. why the big interest there? >> well, because it's simply exciting. >> when we realized that she was the one, there was no stopping the press following her. >> every day she read about herself in the newspapers. every time she switched on a television, there she was. >> the pressure must have been absolutely colossal. >> a polo match who found the ever present photographers just too intrusive. she was led away, obviously distressed. >> it's not much fun actually watching polo when you're being surrounded by people with very long lenses, poking them from all directions at you the entire time. i think all this adds up to a certain amount of strain each time. >> it's tempting to look at diana crying at polo matches and thinking she thought everyone was looking at her, expecting her to behave correctly. but diana's learning curve was realizing that charles wasn't really hers. that she was in love with someone else. >> the camilla thing kept rearing its head through our whole engagement. i was trying to be mature about the situation, but i couldn't talk to anyone about it. ♪ ♪ >> diana found out about camilla barker bowls and charles' relationship from the gossipmongerers at buckingham palace. >> she knew at that stage that charles was in love with camilla, even though he had broken off the relationship to be the dutiful and loving husband of diana. >> that must have sounded very follow to her. >> she was too young to understand what charles and camilla had between each other. >> charles and camilla are soul mates. they know each other at a very profound level. >> camilla was uncomplicated. she was sexy. it would have been so much easier for everyone if those two just got together. but the timing didn't quite work out. he went away. he was studying. he was in the navy. she got married. she had her kids. then he was engaged. camilla was not deemed a suitable lady to join the royal family, and certainly not a suitable future queen. she was outspoken, she was a bit racy. she was very popular with men. she had had some boyfriends, she had been around. >> you could not have the future queen of england with skeletons in cupboard, with lovers in the past. you could not have that. >> camilla and diana did know each other. some of the courtship that charles and diana enjoyed actually happened at camilla's family home. >> charles, when he introduced diana to camilla, never explained to her that camilla had been a girlfriend. and when she discovered that there had been a relationship, would have felt embarrassed and humiliated. and she began to have misgivings about marrying somebody that had had such a significant other relationship. and she was talking about how she would handle this. >> she fights to become that perfect, modern princess. not only for the royal family and the world, but for charles. ♪ thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole significantly delayed disease progression versus letrozole. ibrance may cause low white blood cell counts that may lead to serious infections. ibrance may cause severe inflammation of the lungs. both of these can lead to death. tell your doctor if you have new or worsening chest pain, cough, or trouble breathing. before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liver or kidney problems, are or plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding. for more information about side effects talk to your doctor. ♪ be in your moment. ask your doctor about ibrance. when we found out our son had autism, his future became my focus. lavender baths calmed him. so we made a plan to turn bath time into a business. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com to live... is to ask the big questions. like... whoah! how fast was that serve? 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she got to his desk and found and steen bracelet with "gf" on it. >> on the day that charles went to have lunch with camilla parker bowles and give her her bracelet, diana went and had lunch with her two sisters, sarah and jane. she told her sisters she couldn't go through with this. >> she wanted to run away and call off the wedding entirely. fear, anxiety, all playing into this. and they said too late, dutch, which was the nickname they used for her. your face is already on the tea towels. >> she thought about what her sisters said and she rallied because she had -- she was a proud person. >> diana had this sense of courage engrained within her to say nope, i'm going to prove to everybody that i am going to turn up on my wedding day. i'm going to show them. i'm going to do this the right way. >> i think the rebel, the non-compliant diana came out because that was in there already and i think as she gathered strength again, she started to come into her own. >> and this young woman on the verge of her wedding wanted charles to break it off with camilla. she wanted him to love her as much as she loved him. she wanted that from him and that is what he did. charles did break off his relationship with camilla. >> diana really does have courage to stand her ground. >> so i thought fine, i was able to recognize an inner determination to survive. >> wedding day in london. fine weather, ceremony and celebration. in the early morning the roof is already lined with thousands of people. >> it was a carnival in the sun, a festival on the theme of red, white and blue. the huge cheerful crowd that's waited so long and patiently with waves and roars welcome. >> i was the main anchor for the bbc's coverage of the wedding. one of our cameras is just outside the main gate as you can see behind me here. that means we'll get our first glimpse of lady diana and the best kept secret of the wedding, the wedding dress. >> went up the stairs and all the bridesmaids were there. diana was there. it was such a wonderful atmosphere. everybody was smiling and happy. kind of surreal in a way because you could hear the people outside in the crowds. >> everybody was waiting for the famous carriage coming with diana and her father earl spencer. >> then you hear the click clap as the carriage rolls up. >> leaving the house in the glass coach her father beside her, lady diana spencer. >> her father was a big man. there was a lot of diana and the dress and her father in the carriage. a bit of a challenge getting her in there. >> the world gets its first full glimpse of the fairytale princess. >> i remember hearing the director in my ear saying to the camera man who was in the point position to get that shot as she came out of the carriage. go in tight. go in tight. >> this is the moment so many of us had been waiting for. the wedding of diana is a pure silk and look at it. isn't it fairytale. hand embroidered. just look at that train. >> they threw everything including the kitchen sink at that. it had frills. it had bows. it had puff sleeves and ruffles. there was a ton of silk. it was like something out of disney . and then that incredible train at the back of it, which looked magnificent of course as she was going up the steps. >> the fancier came and diana came in on her father's arm. >> the gown was spectacular. and she is such a pretty girl. she has very, very little makeup on today. she is so beautiful she doesn't really need any help from anyone at all. >> with tho love him, comfort him and honor and keep him in sickness and in health and for saking all other, keep only to him so long as you both shall live? 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was this a gift from camilla to charles? diana couldn't shake lingering presence of this woman that's been so much a part of charles' life. >> she's on a royal battleship. then she comes to scotland. she goes onto the royal estate. >> imagine, a rainy, drizly, muddy estate. clothes the same as your parents have been wearing for decades tramping about in the mud. >> it's rainy and dark, even in august and you don't expect that. >> everyone was really delighted when the prince and princess of wales came along, as well. >> they play a role. >> the princess suitably stunning in her suit. >> it's all about being in scotland and not the real scotland but the scotland that victoria and albert invented. it was the royal family shooting, hunting, bagging, all of that. she hated shooting. she hated riding. for her, it's like this is it? i got to be here every august? i got to be here? she looks really, like, get me out of here. >> came down from balmoral. it rained and rained. >> once they moved her over to kensington palace, she assured me that she was going to be fine in her new life and her new role. >> the diana that was still very much there decided it was just time, patience and adapting all that was needed. >> diana is beginning her married life in london. it was right. we need to produce a baby and hopefully that baby will be a boy. that is how the royal family has worked for 1,000 years. >> a god send. we have a baby on the way. i got married in july and we'll have a baby by october. >> if there is one thing about diana, she was born to be a mother. she was magic with children. >> but charles wasn't always there with her. charles was a busy working member of the royal family. that didn't stop when she announced her pregnancy. it couldn't stop. >> being a young pregnant woman with not enough support was not a good place for diana to be. >> diana is alone and facing the challenge of early motherhood entirely by herself. and she has no mother of her own to talk to. is she going to chat with the queen about how warm a mother the queen has been to her own children? no. >> it feeds into her issues around abandonment, low self esteem, is she good enough and all these issues start to resurface for diana. >> we felt so desperate and i would cry my eyes out and threw myself down the stairs bearing in mind i was carrying a child. the queen comes out, actually horrified, she was so frightened. >> and just like with people with bulemia, the self-harming, the cry for help, someone needs to give me some attention. the same holds true with diana intentionally throwing herself down the stairs to have someone in the royal family take notice of her and notice that she is struggling. >> so much of what we know about charles and diana is an assumption, the duty would have made him recognize that his duty was not just to the people but to the woman that he married. his duty to make her happy, giving her the kind of support and advice and comfort that she would have needed. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this... is the planning effect. this is how it feels to have a dedicated fidelity advisor looking at your full financial picture. this is what it's like to have a comprehensive wealth plan with tax-smart investing strategies designed to help you keep more of what you earn. and set aside more for things like healthcare, or whatever comes down the road. this is the planning effect from fidelity. the 41-gun royal salute. then a volley of bells from westminster abbie. the new prince slept through mote of it. the rest of london nursing its celebration hangover wasn't so lucky. >> the birth of the crown prince takes place once in a generation. this was just what the doctor ordered. this was the moment to remember as the prince and princess of wales left st. mary's hospital paddington with their son. there was so much excitement. >> diana is beaming, really, really happy. she's just produced the heir, age 20, which is terribly young. she had become a princess, a wife and a mother. >> one minute i was nobody. the next minute i was princess of wales, mother, you name it. it's just too much for one person. >> diana was preparing for the christening, and you would think that as the mother of the baby, she would have a lot to say. >> royal christenings were done in kuwaitquite a formal way. set photographers. >> michael o'shear the press officer said to me, i will give you a list and this is how it will happen. do not approach the queen. do not talk to her. >> i was treated like nobody else's business. >> william never stopped crying throughout the whole photo court. >> why did she have to go along with it? because that's the way it's always been done. that's the way it is done. and that's the way it always will be done in the royal family. >> it ends with the pictures of the queen. i was excluded totally that day. >> the christening fell into diana's worst fierce of this royal, stuffy protocol. there is literally no getting away. and it's everything that she doesn't want. i have got to figure something else out to start to do things differently. there three months after william was born, princess grace of monica was killed in a car crash, a terrible accident. diana felt very strongly about going to princess grace's funeral. princess grace had been very kind to her. she felt a keen affinity to her. >> there are protocols about who goes to what. charles said initially no, that's not, i don't think that's a good issue. >> she goes straight to the queen. the queen has a refreshing response, she says, if you feel are passionate about this and you want to no, then do it. the queen's response up powers princess diana to step forward and say, i'm going to princess grace's funeral as a representative of the royal family. ♪ ♪ >> this is diana's first appearance on the international stain, and she nails it. she proves to the family but also to herself that she can do this. i've got this. from this point on, diana will dominate all royal coverage. but the question is, can the royal family cope with the new superstar in the palace? 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