management, and martin bashir breached bbc guidelines. the podcaster and mark bashir, both issued full and unconditional apologies. but no matter how the interview came about, the impact at the time was undeniable. the queen was so upset by it, she told the royal couple that they needed to do more than simply separate. queen elizabeth s command came in a letter to the children, telling her son and daughter in law, it s time to stop squabbling and get a divorce. she was pretty much ordered to get a divorce, because they couldn t tolerate the situation where this couple was continuing to fight each other through the cameras, through the newspapers. it would make the monarchy look bad? it made them look ridiculous. and undermine charles s reputation, and damage the future of the monarchy. improbable as it may seem, simone says that diana was
estate, called althorp. we got a look at side diana s stunning childhood home. her brother charles and his wife gave nbc s cynthia mcfadden a tour. this is a room i would sit with diana tap dancing as a teenager. as a teenager, she was endless tap dancing. that s might main connection to this house. inside the grand house, it was not always warm and friendly. the parents divorced, and her mother lost custody of the children. but the father remarried a woman called raine spencer. diana and her brother called her acid rain, and they kept her at arm s length in one of the estate s smallest rooms. we were up in the attic, and for a house like this, i d say very, very modest rooms. but that s the way it was. diana s unhappy childhood would later manifest itself in a big way. she was very, very needy. penny chuner has written extensively about the royals including books on both prince charles and diana.
the peoples princess. simple as that really. for the country, for everybody, she had so much to give. she was so brave. she was one of the most love people in this country. but one person had yet to pay her respects. the queen. who was conspicuously absent in scotland with the two young princes. the queen s initial silence seemed to send a loud message about the monarchy s coolness towards diana, and her remarkable popularity. there was a lot of resentment after diana s death that the queen was somehow not with her people in london and pressure built. another is the queen, we need to hear from her. something needed to be done, so prime minister tony blair, and other government officials, discreetly, but firmly, urged the queen to come to london. tony blair had to basically say, looked at the people! look at those flowers outside of kensington palace. think about this and say something appropriate. so she did. first, i want to pay tribute
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weddings in the world. good evening from a london, where we have come to cover the royal wedding. charles, prince of wales, takes the lovely lady diana spencer as his bride. the royal wedding was fantastic. it was british pomp and pageantry at its best. a lot of people could see the carriage procession in a glass coat, something like cinderella. i was nine years old. i set my alarm for hamm, got up to watch the wedding. i was one of 750 million people watching that wedding. yeah, it was like a fairytale. and diana saw fulfilled all our childhood notions of what a fairytale princess should look like. but there is something else going on at the wedding, a story that no one knew. see the crowd in the church? diana just happened to spot one particular face. diana managed to spot