obsessed with camilla totally. she adored prince charles and wanted to be part of the family and be a credit to the monarchy. she wanted to show the world and show camilla look who i am. look what he s got. the true diana came out. she has a backbone. she knows she s being seen by camilla. i m about to marry the future king of england. diana francis will you have this man to thy wedded husband? i have made it. i m here. you re there. i won. you lost. we ve gone for our last rehearsal and that s when the camera lights were on. about 3,000 have built up, enthusiasm unmistakable. prince charles was so relaxed, he nearly came to grief on the top step. and when it was over, prince charles clap lady diana s land reassuringly and unaffectedly. she was photogenic. she was young. she was beautiful. the world was in love with her. it was like a perfect love story but behind the scenes a whole different story was playing out. a story of struggle. a story of
she was battling with from the outset. my dreams were calling at night. i dreamt of camilla the whole time. obsessed with camilla. she adored prince charles and wanted to be part of the family. she wanted to show the world and show camilla look who i am. look what he s got. the true diana came out. she has a backbone. she knows she s being seen by camilla. i m about to marry the future king of england. diana francis will you have this man to thy wedded husband? i have made it. i m here. you re there. i won. you lost. we ve gone for our last rehearsal and that s when the camera lights were on. about 3,000 have built up, enthusiasm unmistakable. prince charles was so relaxed, he nearly came to grief on the top step. and when it was over, prince charles clap lady diana s land reassuringly and up affectedly. she was photogenic. she was young. she was beautiful. the world was in love with her. it was like a perfect love story but behind the scenes a
The windsors aren t just a family. it s an entire history. it a machine. it s a process, so what your heart wants isn t the same as what the system wants for you. it was courteers and people in suits. life was much more structured in a way that was alien to her. but diana wasn t actually left completely alone. camilla parker left diana a note saying such exciting news, love to see the engagement ring. that s a real like mafia thug move. that s so mean girls, it s unbelievable. that s a power move right there. in diana s own words, she told me any marriage prince charles could have made would never be as strong as the relationship he had with camilla and that was what she was
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 adventurous, outspoken, she was racy. she was popular with men. she had some boyfriends. she d been around. you cannot have the future queen of england with skeletons in the cub bored and 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 happens at camilla s family home. charles, when he introduced diana to camilla never explained
Diana was already beginning to project into the future that this other emotional love affair was going to continue. they moved in exactly the same circles. they were all part of the same group of friends. camilla just remained this unignorable background hum in everybody else s life. but she doesn t back down. she doesn t shy away from that. she really recognizes that she has a power here and she s going to use it. diana was realizing you have to become the heroin of your own story, like the princess in a fairytale. the best place for diana to start was the creation of the wedding dress to end all wedding dresses. david and elizabeth emanuel set up their fashion business in 1977.