so even though diana was free by this point, she was still just as lonely. she was finding it extremely difficult to form relationships outside the glare of the publicity that surrounded her. one of the most damaging episodes in diana s life came when the newspaper discovered that she d been making a series of most obsessive phone calls to a friend of both hers and prince charles with whom she had been conducting an affair. she spoke to me that night about it, and she realized she d made a big mistake. she was very in love with him, but he was married. he wasn t going to leave his wife. she was trying to find love and affection, but she was looking in all the wrong places. will colling was a former