knees. diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. diana seems to have defied her critics, people who wanted her to shut up and go away. we will all feel cheated always, but you were taken from ul us so young. diana was a pioneer. she was ahead of her time. she haunted the royal family, and she still haunts the royal family to this day. diana s never far away. i had dreams as a young girl if i want this, that and the other. not want. hoped. this is cnn breaking news. i m jean meserve in washington. in paris, france a tragedy. britain s princess diana has been in an automobile accident. she has been injured. her companion dodi al fayed with whom she has been romantically linked over the last month or so, reportedly was killed. i saw there was a message on the phone answering machine, and it was from a fleet street editor saying had i seen the news about princess diana. and did i want to say anything. we have reports from paris th
around diana. it was like having a rock star join the family. the world was waiting for someone, and diana delivered. did you find it difficult to adapt? i did, yes, clearly because there was so much attention on me when i first arrived on the scene. the more the media attention grew on heck the more troubles it created in her marriage. as in all families, there will be jealousies caused by this glamorous newbie coming in. she quickly became one of the most famous women in the world . diana! diana! diana has no idea what s about to hit her. she s only 21, and she s about to make her debut on the world stage. she s embarking on a six-week tour of australia and new zealand. it s her first international outing as her royal highness. it s an unbelievable responsibility for a 21-year-old, and she has got to prove she is up to the job. the prince of wales led the way, but it was his princess who drew most attention. young prince william after strong lobb
about was diana. to the core of the issue first, had the princess enjoyed her dance with mr. travolta. well, i m not a glove puppet so i can t answer for that, i m afraid, but i think you enjoyed, it didn t you, darling? would be an idiot if she didn t enjoy dancing with john travolta, wouldn t she. all right. the tension there was palpable. he was exasperated. not diana s idea. nancy reagan asked john travolta to ask her to dance. she was very much trying to make her husband and his family proud, but if these moments when her star shown so bright it just overshadowed everything that he was doing and he could not hide his disgust. charles had been to the united states a number of times and everywhere he went he was the center of attention, of adulation. when he was in los angeles
away into the pages of history. not diana. the tragedy is that we ll never know what diana could have become. diana had this fairy tale that young girls are brought up on of you marry the prince and you live happily ever after. and in a time when there was a lot of change for women in general she broke away from this fairy tale and said i d kind of rather do it on my own. but even in fairy tales being a princess is like living in a gilded cage and anyone who does actually become a princess in real life you realize that that is just an illusion. but she crafted a new image of a modern princess, of
their own terms and i do think diana would have loved that for harry. in the way that princess diana brought up her sons, she really shaped the men they would become. and in doing so, she changed the direction of the royal family. diana s legacy is rippling through history in an extraordinary way. and i think a way we ve never seen before. it is a story that if we are intelligent and perceptive, we can see, still has a continuing relevance not just for the modern-royal family but for many other aspects of of society. for people in the public eye. what we should expect of them and what we shouldn t. usually, famous figures fade away into the pages of history. not diana. the tragedy is that we ll never