The Princess (2022) - full transcript
Princess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. It also illuminates how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is.
Tilt it.
No, you've gotta hold it
with your hand in there.
Just to...
Oh, the cap's on, silly!
No, we're going through
the Louvre.
- You must go through the Louvre.
- Where do we go?
No, go straight,
yeah. Go straight.
Woo-hoo!
Oh, mad, man!
- Where do I go, guys?
- Are you lost?
Go straight ahead.
Go straight ahead
and don't have an accident.
- Don't...
- And then go left.
Jamie, where are you?
- Um. I'm in Paris...
- Oh!
Here we go!
On the right,
everyone is star-studded
because something's happening.
It's the Ritz.
Wow, wow, wow!
Guys, look at this!
Someone's out...
they're very important.
Hey, hey!
James, say something
to Adelaide.
Chasing Princess Diana.
Lady Diana, morning dear.
Morning.
Is there any possibility
of any announcement
of your marriage
in the near future,
can you tell me?
Can you tell me, uh,
if there's any possibility?
I'm not gonna say anything,
I'm afraid. Oh, sorry!
But Prince Charles did give us
a hint himself.
He said we wouldn't
have to wait too long.
Careful.
He said we wouldn't
have to wait too long.
Was he completely off beam?
- Was he?
- Sorry, I...
Was he completely off beam
when he said,
we wouldn't have to wait
too long?
I wouldn't know.
Prince Charles says
we all might know
what's likely to happen
between the two of you.
Can you say if you're likely
to make an announcement soon?
Lady Diana!
- Um...
- Lady Diana?
We thought there was gonna be
an announcement
on his 32nd birthday,
but, uh, there wasn't.
And he's told the reporters
yesterday that
it may be coming soon.
Have you any comment
to make about that?
- No.
- Lady Di?
- No comment all round.
- Mm...
Did you have
a good weekend though?
I'm going to work now, okay?
Your Royal highness,
do you have any thoughts
about the lady
that the Prince of Wales
should marry?
You've got to remember that
when you marry in my position,
you're going to marry somebody
who perhaps one day
is going to become queen.
And you've got to
choose somebody very carefully,
I think, who could fulfill
this particular role,
and it's got to be somebody
pretty special.
Could I ask you first,
your Royal Highness
and you, Lady Diana,
what do you think
you've got in common?
Gracious,
what a difficult question!
What do you think
we've got in common?
A sense of humor.
Um. Every outdoor activity,
except I don't ride.
- Um...
- Soon remedy that.
Lots of things, really.
What about you, sir?
Um. No, I think, certainly,
I mean all sorts of things.
And certainly the...
a sort of a love of the outdoors
and she's a very energetic
character as well, which is
which is very encouraging.
And music and...
and, uh, interests like that.
Can you take us back
to when you first met?
If you can remember?
Can you remember
- when you first met?
- Yes, yes. I certainly can.
It was 1977.
Prince Charles came to stay
at a friend of my sister Sarah's
for a shoot.
And we sort of met
in a ploughed field.
I spoke to you previous to that...
And what did you...
What did you think then?
What was your
instant impression, both of you?
What did you think
about Lady Diana?
Well, I remember thinking
what a very jolly
and amusing and...
And attractive
16-year-old she was.
And I mean great fun
and bouncy
and full of life and everything.
And, um
I don't know what you
thought of me but...
Pretty amazing.
Do you find it
a very daunting experience
that yesterday,
you were, uh, a nanny,
and now you're about to, uh,
marry the Prince of Wales
and one day you would be queen?
It's a tremendous change
for someone of 19
to make all of a sudden.
It is, but I've had a small
run up to it all
in the last six months.
And, next to Prince Charles
I know I can't go wrong.
He's there with me.
In the depths of a recession,
the British now have some
happy news
and a great national event
to look forward to.
The Royal Family
maybe an anachronism
in the dismal 1980s
but it's an anachronism
the British dearly love.
She is said
to be besotted by him.
"Sweet, kind, nice" and "shy"
are all the terms
used to describe her.
And her father, her uncle,
Lord Fermoy, and others
have even vouched
for her virginity.
Lady Di, could you wave?
Good luck, sir.
It's good, it's great, innit?
He's getting on a bit, innit
About time he got married.
The ladies
did their thing for Ladies' Day
as well as ever.
The predominant color
this year was red.
And as if to prove the point,
Lady Diana was wearing a red hat
and that certainly was a winner.
National Front is
the White man's front!
Join the National Front!
Bastards!
You're next in
the queue for a Charles and a Di.
Where are you going to have
your tattoo put?
Uh, on the other side of my leg.
Well, this is the biggest thing
since Farrah Fawcett Major.
Yes, at times like this,
Britain is at its very best.
No matter what concerns us,
like, having no money, no jobs
and riots in the streets...
We're doing
our bit as a celebration
to the regal pair.
Our children are suffering!
They are crying for help,
nobody will listen.
News of Lady Diana's visit
spread quickly.
The crowd saw that,
like most brides,
Lady Diana has lost weight
as the day approaches.
How many people in this audience
think that the press
ought to lay off the poor girl?
That was about a 90 to one,
I thought.
Robert Lacey,
do you think that Lady Diana
yet fully realizes
how tough life
will be in the full public gaze?
Well, I'm sure she does.
I don't think there could have
been a future consort
who's been through
anything like it.
So, she's been through,
in a way, the worst
that can be thrown at her.
Do you think it's going
to be easier from now on?
Oh, I think
it's going to be much easier.
I think we're going to see a
change in the attitude of the press.
Um. I think that now
she's palpably
one of the Royal Family, um,
all this telephoto lens business
will stop.
- Clear back.
- Stay back, lads.
That'll do, thank you very much.
I'm more used to it, I think,
probably now...
knowing for years that the
cameras are poking at you
from every quarter
and recording
every twitch you make.
So, if you don't try to work out
in your own mind,
some kind of method for existing
and surviving this kind of thing
you... you would go mad,
I think.
And so, in the end,
you do get used to it, but
I don't know, do you find
that after the last six months
you're beginning
to get used to it?
Just.
It is,
I suppose, one of the most
important things you're going to
have to adjust to,
- really, isn't it?
- Of course, yes.
The wedding has obviously meant
a great deal of planning
and preparation.
A lot of work, I imagine,
behind the scenes.
How much have you become
involved in that personally?
Well, we both try
to be very much involved.
Have you been able to put in
any small personal touches
that will still make it
very much your day?
Um...
Have we been able to put
any small personal touches?
I think
by inviting one's friends
and all the people
who've helped us.
Are you gonna have time
for the private life?
For making a home
and running a home?
I tend to lead sort of an
idiotic existence of getting...
Trying to get involved
in too many things
and dashing about.
And this is going to be
my problem, is trying to
sort of control myself.
And... and... and, you know,
work out... something,
so that we can have
a proper family life.
It isn't easy.
There's so much to be done.
Are you looking forward
to... to...
To making a home at Highgrove,
for example.
Oh, yes, very much so.
Looking forward
to being a good wife.
At Buckingham palace,
the crowds cheer
at anything and everything
that goes past them,
from a policeman on horseback
to a policeman on foot,
to just a press photographer.
Good morning, America,
this is St Paul's Cathedral,
the wedding will be held here.
Lining the streets of London,
two million well-wishers there
waiting for the royal coaches.
It's frequently said that
this is the sort
of pageantry and splendor
that only Britain
these days can do.
Prince of Wales' escort,
a smaller escort for church...
This will be the first time
for more than 300 years
that the heir to the throne
has married an English woman,
and there seems
little reason to doubt
that this is an affair
of the heart.
No sign of the bride yet.
For many people I think
it will be one of the
high spots for the day.
They're just coming out
of Clarence Gate.
- Her dress is fabulous.
- Is it her?
Oh, no, you're joking!
It's got a bloody roof on,
you can't see her.
Well, I want to thank you
most sincerely about all that.
If I'd have known that,
I wouldn't have
bothered to turn up.
Greeting the bride
as she's arrived here
in the glass carriage.
Her father, Earl Spencer
has just
COMMENTATOR 2 A taffeta dress
and there's lace
on the bodice...
Ooh!
- Oh, that's beautiful!
- Beautiful!
I love the garlands
that the little girls have.
She's wearing
diamond drop earrings
lent by her mother.
- Do you want her shoes?
- Yeah.
I pronounce
that they be
man and wife together.
We should all be allowed to wear
wedding dresses and celebrate!
I wanna see faces, not the back
of fucking heads!
I wanna see the flag, Davey!
A little wider, Davey!
Come on, come on, come on.
Here is the stuff
of which fairytales are made.
The Prince and Princess
on their wedding day.
But fairytales
usually end at this point
with the simple phrase,
"They lived happily ever after."
Our faith sees the wedding day
not as the place of arrival,
but the place where
the adventure really begins.
The escort under the command
of Lieutenant Colonel
Andrew Parker-Bowles,
there's the Royals,
as Charles and Lady Diana
stayed with him
and his wife Camilla
in Wiltshire
on two occasions
at the end of the year.
So, they're among friends
as they ride along the Mall.
Your Royal Highness?
Sir. Sir, please?
Sir?
- Hello, Tom.
- Hello.
- Yes.
- Personally, I think,
that this was nothing
but a waste of time.
Um. I think the money
could have been spent
a lot better elsewhere.
I thought it was fantastic!
Really great for
the British image.
What made it
so special for you, Hettie?
Well, to see all of them people.
Yes, you weren't
actually amongst them then?
No, no, I was at home watching.
Very sensible, I should think.
It was pretty crowded out there,
wasn't it?
It was,
but it was fantastic, marvelous!
Proud to be British, my dear.
It is
with the greatest of pleasure
that the Town Hall
wishes to tell you
that Buckingham Palace
has just announced
that the Princess of Wales
is expecting a baby in June.
Fant... Aw!
We are sure you will
join us in congratulating
the Prince and Princess.
Oh!
Don't you think
- it's happened a bit soon?
- Well, I do really, yeah.
I don't really think
they've got to know each other
- really, by now.
- Well...
But they obviously have.
To the royal heir,
male or female,
I don't mind which,
as long as
the Royal Family continues.
- Here's to them.
- Here's to them, indeed. Cheers.
Droves of photographers
gathered at the hospital...
As soon as it was announced
Princess Diana had gone into
the early stages of labor
between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m.
London time.
Until the baby's born,
all the royals' comings
and goings are St Mary's.
We're awaiting
the historic announcement
of the birth of the Royal child,
who'll be second-in-line
to the throne
after Prince Charles.
Strawberries and cream anybody?
A boy or a girl?
- Boy, definitely.
- Why?
'Cause boys are the best.
You're not a feminist then?
No.
No, let's have a girl.
You want... You want a girl?
Let's be fair,
he's still got time
to have some more, ain't he?
You know? If the first one
don't turn out right,
he can always try again.
Well, I'm hoping
she won't keep us
here all night.
Would you like to see
- a baby boy or a baby girl?
- I would like her to have a boy,
and I should think if she's
having all this trouble,
it's a boy.
It's a boy!
It's a boy! It's a boy!
It's a boy! It's a boy!
It's a boy!
It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a boy!
It's a boy! It's a boy!
- Congratulations.
- Thank you, very kind.
Does he look like you, sir?
Uh. No,
he's lucky enough not to.
How do you feel, sir?
It's a bit difficult to tell
at the moment.
And how do you feel?
Um. Obviously relieved
and delighted. It's marvelous.
They have been singing,
"Well done, Charlie.
Let's have another one!"
Is that on the program of events
do you think?
Bloody hell, give us a chance!
You ask my wife, I don't think
she'd be too pleased just yet.
May I ask you if you've seen
the royal baby yet?
Not yet, I left early
this morning, you see.
When are you hoping to see him?
Oh, well, when I get back
to London.
When you
get back to St. Mary's, yeah.
When I get back, that's right.
And Princess Anne's reaction
in New Mexico.
- Have you heard about Diana?
- I don't know, you tell me.
And your reaction
to her having a son?
I didn't know she'd had one.
- This morning.
- Well, good.
I'd just like to propose a toast
to Prince Charles,
Princess Di and wee Willie
and the Royal Family.
Now, for all
of our students on air today,
good morning girls and boys.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Jamie Smith out at Ayres Rock,
you have a question.
Does Prince William
have a favorite toy?
Does Prince William
have a favorite toy?
Um. Jamie, he loves his
Koala bear he's got,
but he hasn't got anything
particular.
He just likes something
with a bit of noise.
A plastic whale which
throws things out of the top.
Um, we got a plastic whale
that throws things
out the top, little balls.
The couple circled the arena
to the kind of reception
normally reserved
in this age group for pop stars.
Both the media, and the public
want to know about this couple,
not so much Prince Charles.
As a photographer said to me,
you can't give pictures
of him away,
but Diana is
very big news everywhere.
Give us a wave.
Am I in the way?
We want Di!
Princess Diana! Over here!
Ladies and gentlemen,
the last time I was here
was two years ago,
uh, in 1981
shortly before we were married.
And, at that time,
everybody was saying,
"Good luck and... I hope everything
goes well, and how lucky you are
to be engaged
to such a lovely lady."
And my goodness,
I was lucky enough to marry her.
And we had many, many messages...
The prince realizes now
that he's taking second place.
He knows it's the princess
people have come to see.
- They chanted for her...
- We want the princess!
And cheered again when
the prince chose her direction.
And I've come to the conclusion
that really it would have been
far easier to have had
two wives...
To have covered both sides
of the street...
And I could've walked down
the middle
directing the operation.
REPORTER 1:30 years ago,
you wouldn't dare
go up to a member of royalty,
but people are encouraged
by her... her presence
and by her... her happiness,
and the fact that
she's so good with people
to just go up and say hello.
Three cheers for Lady Di!
- Hip-hip.
- Hooray!
- Hip-hip.
- Hooray!
Charles doesn't like the fact
that she's a superstar
and he isn't.
What has happened is
there's been a transformation.
She has become the person
that everyone wants to know,
everyone wants to meet.
He has taken the back seat and
it's not enjoyable for him.
The Princess of Wales
has been the best thing
to happen to the Monarchy in...
In... probably in centuries.
I mean,
she has gone to Australia
which is now 50/50 republican
50 percent monarchist,
and she's turned
that into 80 percent in favor
of the Royal Family.
Now, that's a major achievement.
It's not Prince
Charles, who's been out there before
and made little influence.
It's the Princess of Wales
that's made the influence.
You have a family here
that is used to being the people
that everybody turned out
in their thousands
to see on the streets.
And then suddenly,
Diana's the one
that everybody wants to see.
How do you
think he feels about his wife today?
Well, of course,
one shouldn't forget
that Charles and Diana
got married
for the single purpose
of having a child
to secure the succession
for Charles's family.
To begin with, it was
a marriage of convenience.
Go and have a look,
have a look through there.
You can see all those people
at the other side.
Look through there.
You see, you can see people
on the other side.
Can you see their faces?
The people in there.
Look at them
Trapped.
Now, you both like skiing,
and yet every year
it has become a regular,
you don't appear to hit it off
exactly eye-to-eye
on the slopes.
I suspect most husbands
and wives find that, uh,
they often have arguments.
- But we don't.
- No, no, no.
Well, occasionally we do
because I mean...
- No, we don't.
- I'm... you know, I.
I go on longer, sometimes.
Yes, but I'm faster.
There we are.
Ma'am!
Ma'am, this way please!
Ma'am! Ma'am.
What do you say, ma'am,
when you read in the papers
that you are a "determined
domineering woman"?
I don't always read that.
Um, people are very willing
to tell me that,
but I don't think I am.
I'm affectious with myself,
but not necessarily with
everybody else.
Get right back.
Come on, fellas, make some room.
We've gotta move out of here.
Can you, please?
Ma'am, can we...
There is a natural
and continuing interest in you.
For example, have you actually
tried to change Prince Charles
in any way
since you got married?
Not at all.
I mean, obviously there are
one or two things,
like, maybe the
the odd tie or something.
But nothing...
- Shoes.
- Shoes, we won't go any further.
But that... but...
nothing dramatic.
I mean he's...
At the entrance
to Kensington Palace,
the prince and princess
and their baby
arrive from the hospital
at speed
and swept in without stopping.
Then less than an hour later,
Prince Charles
left to play polo.
Something most new fathers
would hardly dare to suggest.
He has always carried on,
ever since he got married
as if he were a bachelor.
He's made absolutely,
and he never did
from the word go,
almost any concession at all
to being a married man
with the responsibilities
of a wife and now, two children.
What do you feel your role is?
I feel my role
is supporting my husband,
um, whenever I can
and always being behind him,
encouraging and also,
most important thing,
being a mother and a wife.
And that's what I try to achieve
whether I do is another thing,
but I do try.
But you are developing
your own interests
and your own specialization?
Yes, but that's taking time
because I don't want to dive
into something
without being
able to follow it up.
It's nice to see you
in the flesh.
- In the flesh?
- Hmm.
Don't look too near,
you might get a shock.
I've seen enough photos of you.
I know, there's
too many of those.
Sold them in
the shop downstairs.
- How much do you sell them for?
- Three pounds ten that one's going for.
Is that all?
What about the three fifteen?
- I don't, I don't, I don't...
- Should I choose something there?
Oh look, Charles Dew,
let's grab that one.
- I don't...
- There you are.
Eleven forty, it's very apt,
my husband, right?
Yeah, I know.
Diana demonstrated her ability
to make royal conversations
last a little longer than the
"Where do you come from?
How long have you been here?"
type.
Did you get a chance to see her?
- Yes.
- Yes.
The Princess of Wales
has opened Britain's first
purpose-built AIDS ward
and met the 12 patients
who are being treated there.
I love the red glasses!
What a lovely woman!
She's incredible.
- She's so natural.
- She is, she's totally natural.
Yes, yes.
Just like somebody walking in
Diana has got the common touch,
she can sit down,
she can talk to anybody,
whoever they are.
I agree.
But I don't think
the public expect the Queen
to go to hospices
and kiss AIDS patients.
It would nice
if she did though, wouldn't it?
I don't think
that people expect that of her.
But you would like a Queen
that actually could talk
to ordinary people.
She doesn't have the common
touch in the same way.
- That's why Diana's so special.
- Well, she can't!
Because she wasn't
brought up to that.
She spontaneously
and unrehearsed,
of her own volition
picked up a little boy
who has AIDS
and hugged him.
Staff told the princess
they were surprised
that she'd come
to Harlem Hospital,
a place never visited
by any American president
and few major political leaders.
Nancy and I are deeply honored
to welcome the prince
and the Princess of Wales
to the White House.
John, are you going
to dance with the Princess tonight?
If she'd like me to.
At his first press conference,
he wanted to talk about
the exhibition,
but they wanted to ask
about her.
She'd be an idiot
if she didn't enjoy dancing
with John Travolta,
wouldn't she?
How many of you manage to reply
on behalf on your wives
on these occasions?
I'm not a glove puppet
so I can't answer for that
I'm afraid.
A state
of rather cool indifference
has settled over this marriage
and the one problem
that we were all aware
was there from the start,
the 12-year age gap
really has begun to tell.
Prince Charles,
instead of going to his home
at Highgrove in Gloucestershire,
and talking to his plants
and his trees,
he should be at home,
and he should be talking
to his wife.
How do
we even know they're sulking?
What proof have we got?
It's all paper supposition,
surely?
It's the media that's causing
the problems and the reporters.
- The snoopers.
- Leave them alone.
The thing is if... if married
couples have an argument,
the best thing to do,
shove 'em off in a room
on their own
and let them sort it out.
Not everybody else trying to
do it for 'em.
The couple
had spent a month apart
when they reunited to visit
Welsh flood victims.
I think it must be dreadful
for the two of them,
they are going around
doing their duties side by side,
carrying out an engagement
and they're just
not even acknowledging
the other person's presence.
She does one thing on her own,
he does another,
and they just don't meet
physically, mentally,
or emotionally.
- Okay, rolling.
- Do you get the Taj Mahal in?
Yeah, rolling.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
will spend today
as they've spent
much of this royal tour, apart.
He will concentrate on issues
such as housing benefit schemes
and industry investment.
She will concentrate on
the welfare
of the Indian people.
How did this fairy-tale princess
end up in this way?
In my humble opinion,
it's because
the institution of the Monarchy
makes demands on people.
We simply cannot be satisfied
in the world in which we live.
Hello! Hello!
When you put a modern person
in an ancient institution,
they will be destroyed.
Anyone would be destroyed.
But once an institution starts
destroying people,
it's time to recognize
that there is something
fundamentally wrong
with that institution
and not with the people
it destroys.
Oh, yeah.
A very what,
Your Royal Highness?
In what way?
No more questions, guys.
Oh, lovely!
This week,
a sensational new book
has exposed dramatic insights
into the private life
of the royal couple.
Shocking revelations of a hollow
and tormented marriage
are giving the British media
and it's public
little else to talk about.
According to Morton,
Princess Diana's
suicide attempts
which included throwing herself
down a flight of stairs
when she was
three-months pregnant
and slashing her wrists
with a razor blade
were a desperate cry
for help and attention
from her husband,
Prince Charles.
Slashed
her wrists with a razor blade,
cut herself with a lemon slicer
and a pen knife,
and yet, I've never seen
any scars in any photos.
And I just find it very strange
to think that this girl
has tried to commit suicide,
unsuccessfully five times
and wants it to be publicized.
I find that very difficult
to... to believe.
Especially... she's a mother too,
she's got young children
who are gonna be affected
by this.
The author insisted today
that close friends
of the princess
stand by the integrity
of the book.
He came on ITN's lunchtime news
to make his first live defense
of the claims on television.
Mr. Morton, this book is called
Diana: Her True Story.
It's not her story, is it?
It's what you say
unnamed friends told you.
That's rather different,
isn't it?
I think that the reason
why this book is authentic
is because many
of her closest friends
have spoken to me on the record,
and more than that,
they've stood by
their statements.
Nevertheless,
unlike other journalists,
you don't really
have to check your facts
that thoroughly, do you?
Miss Junor, doesn't the silence
of Buckingham Palace
and the absence
of even a single lawsuit
give evidence to the idea
that perhaps Mr. Morton
was telling the truth?
No. I think they all recognize
that the princess is ill,
she has bulimia.
The Palace know about it,
Prince Charles knows about it.
He knows that this is the result
of a sick mind.
She has said
some terrible things
about her husband,
she's accused him of being
a bad husband,
a bad father,
and carrying on an all
but adulterous affair
with Camilla Parker-Bowles.
You do say in the book though
that Diana and Charles
have separate bedrooms.
Yes, they
have separate bedrooms at Highgrove,
they have...
essentially have separate lives
and they have done
for some time now.
Now, what about the bracelet?
Well, this is a bracelet
that Diana discovered
at Buckingham Palace,
a gift that Prince Charles
bought for Camilla.
It was inscribed F and G,
Fred and Gladys,
the two nicknames
which they use for each other.
And I think
there's a teeny point,
that actually the GF
stands for Girl Friday
which is his secret pet nickname
for Camilla.
- And, uh...
- Louise, Louise,
I think... I think really
it should be Girl Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Buckingham Palace officials
have denied once again today
that the Princess of Wales
cooperated in any way
with the book
and refuses to dignify
its claims
with any further comments.
But the repercussions
are continuing.
Diana!
How do
you think you would have behaved
if you'd been
a 19-year-old girl who was...
- Difficult to imagine but go on.
- Seduced as you were
in the best sense of the word,
by a 32-year-old man,
the future King of England
who doesn't love you,
didn't wanna marry you,
has another woman
who he's really in love with.
And it's surprising that
that young girl
- suddenly had a whole series of problems?
- The great...
Wouldn't you
in that circumstance?
If
You wanna be like me you've gotta suffer.
Oh, Squidgy.
Yeah, you have to.
- And then you get what you...
- You get what you want?
No, get what you deserve.
Oh, God!
"Hear the tapes for yourself."
The Sun has been
inviting its readers,
more than 120,000
have done just that.
I don't wanna get pregnant.
Darling,
that's not gonna happen.
Oh, Squidgy. I love
you, love you, love you, love you.
You're just the
nicest person in the whole wide world.
A tape recording of
a highly personal telephone call
reporting to be between
the Princess of Wales
and a friend, James Gilbey,
was given to The Sun newspaper
by a retired bank manager.
He makes my life real,
real torture, I've decided.
It was only a matter of time
before the tabloids printed
what's been circulating
in private for days.
The full transcript of an
alleged conversation between
the Prince of Wales
and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Did we hear the tape
of the conversation
between him
and Camilla Bowles-Parker?
Did you hear that?
I did. I was very shocked by it.
Ooh... I want to feel my way along you.
All over you, and up
and down you, in and out!
Oh, Charles!
The tapes are
frankly filthy. They're disgusting.
I wouldn't allow my daughter,
whose 15, to read them.
I'll just
live inside your trousers or something.
It'd be much easier.
But the real hypocrisy
is pretending that there is
any other reason
for producing the contents
of these tapes
than to sell newspapers.
What are you
going to turn into? A pair of knickers?
Or God forbid a Tampax!
There has been no comment
from Mrs. Parker-Bowles...
Yes!
In the past,
her husband has dismissed
such allegations
- as rubbish.
- I have nothing to say.
So, you're wasting
your time here. Thank you.
Prince Charles
was doing his best to look
as if personal problems
were the last thing on his mind
and he avoided all questions
about the Camilla gate tapes.
Today,
there was no comment at all,
but the two tapes together
have further tarnished
the couple's image.
Do not let in
daylight upon magic.
I think we've got an unhealthy
obsession with the Royal Family.
The Monarchy now is in danger
of being glared out of existence
by too much publicity.
That was the moment
that told everybody
that she hated him.
Is this a marriage
which has now gone badly wrong?
There can be
no doubt about that.
Is this a couple that can
barely be together,
be seen together,
they can't even act out
a public charade?
Do you think she's happy
in her marriage at the moment?
- Yes, I do.
- Oh, do you?
She'll be very
pleased to hear that, I'm sure.
There
was a picture of her, yesterday...
- Yeah.
- In The Sun or whatever it was
saying, "Diana looking miserable
and lonely laying a wreath."
How the hell do you want her
to look laying a wreath?
You find a miserable shot
and you put a caption
that suits your witch hunt.
I promise you,
we're not on a witch hunt.
I would love to write
nice things
about this particular marriage.
So, when are they gonna get
the time to actually do that,
to sort out their marriage if
they're not going to get any privacy?
This marriage is finished,
it's a great shame,
a great shame,
but we are reporting...
No way
is this marriage finished.
Don't you think that
we love our Prince and Princess,
our Queen,
respected all over the country,
the world?
Yeah, well said.
I feel it's the papers,
the tabloids.
If they let them alone,
every marriage has its problems.
There is something wrong
in the internal workings
of that family
that creates
such a problem as this.
It's not the press' fault,
the press are there
to print news and it is news.
1992 is not a year
on which I shall look back
with undiluted pleasure.
In the words of one
of my more
sympathetic correspondents,
it has turned out
to be an annus horribilis.
In the aftermath
of Friday's tragic fire
at Windsor,
it is especially so.
Statement of Prime Minister.
With, uh,
permission, Madam Speaker,
I wish to inform the House
that Buckingham Palace are,
at this moment,
issuing the following statement.
"It is announced with regret
the Prince and Princess of Wales
have decided to separate.
Their Royal Highnesses
have no plans to divorce,
and their constitutional
positions are unaffected.
Her Majesty
and His Royal Highness
particularly hope
that the intrusions
into the privacy
"of the prince and princess
may now cease."
Hear, hear.
Sir?
- Sir...
- No questions please,
you've had your announcement.
The Prince of Wales,
it now appears,
didn't actually marry
the first woman
he fell in love with,
Camilla Parker-Bowles,
but seems to have
felt that he had to,
by some sort of obligation,
choose, um, a woman who had not
had any previous partners
and was clearly seen
as a very suitable catch.
Unfortunately, we no longer live
in an era where
once you've got married
it's an arranged marriage
and that's that.
I mean, we live in 1992.
I suspect there's been this
terrible problem, really.
And it stems really right back
to the upbringing
of... of the royal children.
I was relaxed and calm
and I thought...
It was gonna be a long...
Come on!
I thought it was gonna
be a long day.
Mamma mia, get out the way.
It's just a matter of
getting there,
you know, I'd rather be there
than hanging around here.
Everyone says,
"Is the loon out today?"
Or "Is the loon..."
"Is she having a loony lunch?"
or something like that.
It's just a...
a term of endearment, really.
The cops are working out
how they can get her out without
us taking a picture.
Here we go.
She's
rich enough to have a gym of her own.
In my two-bedroom flat
in Peckham,
I've got my exercise bike
in the front room.
You can't tell me a woman
on hundreds of thousands
of pounds a year,
with a house as big as hers
can't have her own gymnasium.
- I think...
- She likes to be with people.
- She likes to be bloody well watched.
- Well, she wants to...
I feel like I know them.
I feel like I know
Princess Anne,
- Fergie, all of them.
- Yeah?
Because we see so much
of them on the television.
And I like it.
I want to know all the ins,
the outs and I love it.
All we do is take pictures.
The decision to buy the pictures
is taken by the picture editors
of the world
and they buy the pictures
so their readers can see them.
So, at the end of the day
the buck stops with the readers.
Turn that off!
Are you filming us?
- Yeah.
- Turn that off.
Oh, sorry.
Are you on the lift, David?
One day she'll use the media
for her own advantages,
and she'll, uh,
give you a nice picture.
And the next day
she will have a bag
over her head,
you know, so, we're never sure
what way she's gonna react.
I can't fucking see her.
Is she in the queue?
There she is, back of the queue.
Which one is she?
Can you see her?
There.
Oh, I see her.
That's not her.
Yes, it is.
She's about three behind it,
she's got her head fuckin'
in between her...
Oh,
fucking hell! What is she doing?
Where? I can't see her.
Don't worry boys, not yet.
They said
she's been laughing and joking?
Yeah, she's been
smiling, joking.
She skied right up in front
of a French photographer,
laid down in the snow
in front of him and said,
"Is that... is that too close
for any of the 5mm lens?"
So... so, she's playing games
with 'em, you know.
For fuck's sake, stay still!
- Excuse me.
- Bloody hell!
She's spotted us.
No, she hasn't.
It's just cause
we're looking at her.
Can you just imagine
how small we...
Fuck!
The Royal Family
decided 15-20 years ago
that they had to be
more populist.
They brought the cameras in,
they encouraged examination
of themselves by the media.
You can't turn the paparazzi
on and off
as they're trying to do.
Take the lift. This way.
Ma'am, can we just have one
more, it'll take two seconds, please.
- No!
- Please.
Absolutely not!
You've behaved so badly.
- Diana, just one picture!
- Yes?
One, huh?
Just give me one picture, mate,
and I'll go, all right?
- No! Out! Out!
- Out! Out!
Out! Out! O-U-T! Out!
Have a nice trip, ma'am.
Ladies and gentlemen,
her Royal Highness,
the Princess of Wales
would like to make
a short statement.
Ladies and gentlemen,
when I started my public life
12 years ago.
The media might be interested
in what I did...
but I was not aware
of how overwhelming
that attention would become
nor the extent to which
it would affect
both my public duties
and my personal life.
When I've completed my diary
of official engagements,
I will be reducing the extent
of the public life
I've led so far.
Over the next few months,
I will be seeking
a more suitable way
of combining
a meaningful public role
with hopefully,
a more private life.
My first priority
will continue to be
our children,
William and Harry.
To the wider public, may I say
your kindness and affection
has carried me through
some of
the most difficult periods
and always, your love and care
has eased that journey.
And for that, I thank you
from the bottom of my heart.
It's very Diana, isn't it?
To call a press conference
to announce
that she wanted
to be left alone.
- Absolutely in character.
- Yes.
She has done untold damage
to the Royal Family,
I bet you she'll be back.
She'll do a song and dance act
to get back on the front pages.
And I think she's very close to
being a monster.
This is the story
of the Prince of Wales today.
What he does, what he thinks,
what he believes, what he feels.
This afternoon the heavyweight
royal correspondents
from the national newspapers
are viewing
the program for themselves.
The Mirror's James Whittaker
thinks the film will do.
Prince Charles no good at all.
The best thing that can happen
is for the Queen
to live for a very long time.
Well, it's going to be very
interesting to see precisely
what Prince Charles does say.
And it's also, of course,
going to be very interesting
to see how his rebuilding
of his public image
is going to work.
Program maker
Jonathan Dimbleby
was giving nothing away.
It appears to have stirred up
quite a fuss
and you'll have a chance
to see it
and then you'll be able
to judge for yourself.
The most
damaging charge that is made
in relation to your marriage
is that you were,
because of your relationship
with Camilla Parker-Bowles,
from the beginning,
persistently unfaithful
to your wife
and thus caused the breakdown.
What is your... your response
to that persistent criticism?
Oh, that's
the persistent criticism, is it?
Mrs. Parker-Bowles is
a great friend of mine.
She has been a friend
for a very long time
and will continue to be a friend
for a very long time.
When marriages break down,
awful and miserable as that is,
it is your friends
who are the most
important and helpful
and understanding
and encouraging,
otherwise you would go
stark raving mad.
Did you try to be faithful
and honorable to your wife,
when you took on
a vow of marriage?
Yes, absolutely.
- And you were?
- Yes.
Until it became...
irretrievably broken down.
Us both having tried.
This is supposedly our next king
who is behaving
like a spoilt child.
Diana, she's been pushed
from the word go
and she has been humiliated
and it... it's just disgraceful.
Princess Diana, who declined
to take part in the program
was tonight attending
a charity dinner
while her husband spoke of their
past and future to millions.
It's
a funny old world, isn't it?
Camilla dresses up like this
to please her man
and Di does it to piss him off.
And what's poor old Charles
supposed to do?
For years,
the papers were after him
to own up to a
little rumpy-pumpy,
and now they're after him
for doing it.
Prince Charles was the man
who committed the adultery...
- Lies, lies, lies.
- And I'm not party to
Diana first, she had an affair
with her bodyguard.
She is the wronged party
as far as I'm concerned.
Do we know that?
Do we know that?
I know. It's a fact.
Oh, it's a fact...
And let her deny it
if she dares.
I hope you're
indemnified for libel.
While Palace officials
are anxious
not to crow about success,
they clearly feel that their man
has withstood well
the ordeal of trial
by television,
that the gamble,
so far at least, has paid off.
It is 14.99 for 'em.
Fourteen ninety-nine?
The book
that has catapulted the Princess
back into the headlines
arrived in the shops
this morning,
after a weekend of intense
speculation about its contents.
Written in the breathless style
of a romantic novel,
it purports to be
an account of an affair
the Princess is alleged
to have had
with a former cavalry officer,
James Hewitt.
Do you think there's anything in
what Major Hewitt is saying?
He seems to be
just relying on... on one factor
to try and sell the book,
that he may or may not
have slept with Diana.
Take your photograph
and then go.
Are you doing
any deals with newspapers
- because obviously your opportunity's...
- No, no deals.
Could you say
where this was filmed?
I have no comment.
No comment, I'm afraid.
Not any time at all?
If you are royalty,
the rocks you're throwing
weigh a couple of pounds a piece
and you can find them
at your neighborhood bookseller.
Last week came an authorized
biography of Prince Charles.
In it, we learn the prince
was pushed into marrying Diana
and that Charles
has had a love affair
with Camilla Parker-Bowles
on and off
for more than 20 years.
If they want to have affairs,
if they want to
make it public, fine.
- But I can't see what the problem is.
- No, no, no.
That's ridiculous,
you can't expect to have the
to have a Monarchy
that's full of magic
and they should be washing
their dirty linen in public.
They can't have it both ways.
- They've always had dirty linen.
- Thank you very much. Thank you.
This couple are conducting
their marital squabbles
in the most extraordinary way,
in public
via the tabloid newspapers
they profess to hate.
It's become
a tactical square dance,
a row in front of the neighbors,
60 million neighbors
in this country alone.
Where do
you see all of this leading
because there... there's been
such saturation,
uh, of this material,
some of it sleezy,
some of it perhaps just sad.
But, uh, but surely
there is a desensitizing process
going on and one wonders
in the end
at what point British people
throw their hands up and say,
"Enough, enough! I just don't
wanna hear any more."
I think what's
happened is that, functionally,
the Royal Family has through
misjudgment and ineptitude,
and a fair degree of stupidity,
turned itself into
something of a
of a branch
of the entertainment industry,
and I'm not sure they're ever
going to recover from it.
I think they're... they're
doomed to continue.
Ma'am! Ma'am!
Your Royal Highness,
how prepared were you
for the pressures
that came with marrying
into the Royal Family?
At the age of 19.
You always think
you're prepared for everything.
This was the moment.
Britain had been waiting for
and they packed the pubs,
just as they did for
the royal wedding 15 years ago.
Millions of televisions
in millions of homes
were tuned in.
Princess Diana in her own words.
And with a husband who was
having a relationship
with somebody else?
A husband who
loved someone else, yes.
You really thought that?
I didn't think that, I knew it.
Do you think
Mrs. Parker-Bowles was a factor
in the breakdown
of your marriage?
Well, there were three of us
in this marriage,
so it was a bit crowded.
She talked openly about having
post-natal depression,
about suffering from bulimia
for more than three years
and about
the self-inflicted injuries
to her arms and legs.
She says she only wanted to put
her side of the story.
Is the House of Windsor
so flimsy,
it can be shaken
by a single interview?
Did your relationship
with James Hewitt
go beyond a close friendship?
- Yes, it did, yes.
- Were you unfaithful?
Yes, I adored him.
Yes, I was in love with him.
Astonishing.
Refreshment was needed
to help us take it all in.
At 10:41
the national grid recorded
a 1,000-megawatt surge.
300,000 kettles
were being switched on,
at least 15 million viewers
were busy brewing.
Even more remarkable,
Newsnight on BBC 2
more used to an audience
of around 800,000
found themselves
with eight million.
In an astonishingly frank
interview,
in which she admitted
adultery and bulimia,
Diana told millions of viewers
of attempts by Buckingham Palace
to intercept her mail
and blacken her name.
Do you really believe
that a campaign
- was being waged against you?
- Yes, I did. Absolutely, yeah.
Why?
I was, uh, separated wife
of the Prince of Wales,
I was a problem, full stop.
Never happened before,
what do we do with her?
Can't we pack her off
to somewhere quietly
rather than campaign
against her?
She won't go quietly,
that's the problem.
I'll fight till the end
because I believe
that I have a role to fulfill,
and I've got two children
to bring up.
Did you know
how miserable she was?
No, she was very...
She was very good
at not showing it.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then when we...
Well, when I was there,
living there, I sort of, uh,
got to know more and more
- about it.
- The pain.
The pain she was in. Yeah.
Most people don't understand
if you have all that stuff,
why don't you just
behave yourself,
do what you're told
and just play the game
and go along with the program?
- You could do that.
- Mm-hmm.
You could do that
and then... and,
and if that's what suits you,
that's what suits you.
But I'm afraid for Diana and I,
we learn, we're like rivers,
we wanna learn more,
we wanna go round
the next corner.
Do you think
you will ever be queen?
Why do you think that?
I don't think many
people would want me to be queen, actually.
When I say many people,
I mean the establishment
that I'm married into
because they've decided
that I'm a nonstarter.
And why do you think
they've decided that?
Because I do things differently.
Do you think
the Monarchy needs to adapt
and to change
in order to survive?
I understand that change
is frightening for people,
especially if
there's nothing to go to,
it's best to stay where you are.
I understand that.
But I do think that
there are a few things
that could change,
that would alleviate this doubt,
and sometimes,
complicated relationship between
Monarchy and public,
I think they could walk
hand in hand
as opposed to being so distant.
By the time she left
a glitzy charity ball
in London tonight,
many were questioning
what exactly
prompted the princess
to grant
such an explosive interview
to the BBC.
As well as admitting adultery,
Diana pulled apart
her failed marriage
and questioned her husband's
suitability to be king.
What's your
verdict on that interview last night?
It's light entertainment.
I mean, we've sent Neighbours
over here,
we've sent Home and Away
over here,
you give us
Diana's interview back.
I was particularly
incensed about her children,
and she wants to be close
to her boys
and she'll teach them
how to throw up
so that they don't have to do
what they want to.
She'll teach them how to stamp
their tiny feet,
she'll teach them to lie,
she'll teach them to
manipulate their friends
so that the world gets
their side of the story.
What do you think about the fact
she did the interview
in the first place?
I think it was wrong.
I think that... I think that... what
Charles did as well was wrong
when he'd done his one,
but I think it's just...
It shouldn't have happened.
You know? I think
that should be... kept private.
I thought she was stunning.
I think it's... I think she's probably
devastated the Royal Family,
Absolutely. Simply
because she's just stripped away
the mystique and that's what
they're based on.
I lost all respect
for the Royal Family
after watching that last night.
To do that to a beautiful woman
and take no notice
of her cries for help
or whatever she's going through,
I thought it was
just... disgusting.
Charles, I've got no respect
for that man at all now.
I think
it would be fair to say that at this time
as a result of the occurrences
over the course of
the past several months,
that we could now be witnessing
the end of the Monarchy
and the reigning queen
could possibly be the last.
Hear, hear.
The Monarchy rules
by favor of the people,
and the moment
the Monarchy loses that,
it is finished.
And the Queen knows it.
This is the time of year
for greetings to be sent
between family members,
but the world's most famous
Christmas card, it seems,
was sent by the Queen of England
to her son Prince Charles
and his estranged wife, Diana.
"Enough already" it said.
"Stop this unseemly bickering.
Get divorced!"
Can you tell us
any of the content, sir?
No, no.
I'm not commenting on that.
There is a...
there is a statement
which is being
faxed to the Press Association
but it's not
going to be read out.
- Hold them out...
- No, no, no.
Can you come out?
Can you come out?
Come right
out, please. Come right out.
Close the door. Come on out.
We can't see you there,
close the door.
Hang on, hang on.
You wouldn't care to read it,
would you?
No, I'm afraid not.
It would
help us greatly if you could.
Thank you very much.
Maybe a name and address,
please?
Good morning, ma'am!
It's quite clear to me that.
Diana's had
a very miserable time
within this marriage
and that she was somebody,
especially, given the problems
of her own childhood, her mother
as it were, walking out on her
when she was only six,
a sense of betrayal
and abandonment all her life.
She genuinely wanted
a happy marriage.
And, uh, it seems
that within that family
it's very difficult to have one.
And so, the world's most famous
dysfunctional family
now launches the world's most
famous divorce proceedings.
There shouldn't be much fight
over the record collection,
their tastes in that
are different too,
but there are the royal houses,
the royal castles,
the royal silver, and of course,
the royal children to consider.
Ma'am, are
you pleased with the settlement?
Grim-faced
but 17 million pounds richer
after her divorce deal.
She will have to give up
being HRH, Her Royal Highness.
She'll be Diana,
Princess of Wales.
Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?
That's what I mean with her.
She did have it on.
She did have the ring on.
- Did she have the ring on?
- Are you certain, Paul? Are you certain?
She looked beautiful,
but I noticed she was wearing
a lot of makeup.
I don't imagine for one moment
that he will marry
Camilla Parker-Bowles...
Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?
Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?
I think
the most remarkable thing was
that she was not only
wearing her engagement ring,
but also her wedding ring.
She was making a statement today
which reiterates
what she said before,
"I never wanted a divorce."
How can we possibly accept.
Charles's succession
to the throne,
especially, as head of nation
and head of the church
when he obviously entered
a marriage of convenience
to produce an heir
and continually maintained
an adulterous relationship
throughout that marriage?
This has been
the start of a debate
and that genie is not
gonna be put back in the bottle
until at least
there are fundamental
changes in the way
the present institution
of the Monarchy
is run in this country.
If the Monarchy wants to survive
then it will have to change.
Officer, can you move?
- Got enough cameras, Colin?
- Two, yes. Fully loaded.
The Princess
of Wales has made it quite clear
that she has no intention
of going away.
She wants to continue
public life,
and the important thing now
is that her role
should be defined.
She woke me up. I love her.
Oh! You've moved rooms!
You've moved rooms.
Just in here, she's moved rooms.
- How are you?
- I've moved three times. Good.
Good work.
Genuinely associating oneself
with good voluntary causes.
That I think
is the sort of direction
that the Princess of Wales
sees herself moving in.
She has 20, 30, 40 years
of active public life
ahead of her.
So, the people who think of this
as the end of something,
misunderstand it, it's just
the beginning of something.
- Open the door, huh?
- Are we in here?
Well, I've got to come back.
Thanks for having us. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Excuse me!
No, no, no,
that would be treason, you know.
Her coming here
and launching this fund means
we have a chance of collecting
25 million dollars.
It gives us
public relationing profile.
We were able to, because of her,
invite the top donors
in this country,
which we wouldn't
have got normally.
She's got
everything that she's asked for.
I think she courts the press,
the media and I feel
as long as she gets
her daily fix
with the media and the press,
she's happy.
You're looking at the scene
outside Christie's this evening.
The charity auction of dresses
direct from the closet
of the Princess of Wales.
Diana, Princess of Wales
has arrived in Angola
to lend her support
to the Red Cross campaign
to ban landmines.
Millions of mines were laid
during Angola's long civil war.
Thousands of civilians
are suffering the consequences.
May I hold?
What's she feeding
this young man?
Oh, he weighs a ton.
How long has
she been waiting for a prothesis?
She has been
waiting for about three years.
Will you ask her
where the mine was?
Yeah,
she was trying to get some food
with her mother
when she stepped on a landmine.
And... don't her friends
help her?
I understand they don't help.
Sarim,
can we ask him to smile too?
Otherwise,
I'm gonna be most upset.
We have the best people working.
I'd have thought that was
the most important question
out of the two,
I'd go for that one.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
No, no, I mean the one saying
- I'm not a political figure.
- Yes, exactly.
I'm ready.
The government will be
announcing later today
that we will ban
the import, export,
transfer and manufacture
of anti-personnel landmines.
Diana! Hey, Diana!
She was named
Humanitarian of the Year in America
and mixed with
that nation's most powerful
and influential figures.
This is one
of the nicest British invasions
that the White House
has ever had.
And it's because
she is a woman who has
had a tireless commitment
to the homeless, to AIDS,
cancer, leprosy,
and other health issues.
It is humbling
to know that some of you
feel that I should be honored
in this way.
I cannot think
of a single heterosexual male
of my acquaintance
who wouldn't fancy
Princess Diana...
- But we're looking towards...
- physically, at least.
Yes, we're
looking towards the ideal for her.
I think she'd
have great difficulty because,
she's been
so spiteful to Charles
which would put some men off.
And she needs so much.
Just look at Jackie Kennedy,
fo... it wasn't a happy marriage,
but she married
the richest guy in the world.
Diana needs a billionaire
on her lifestyle.
Charlie!
Is that her?
The
Saint-Tropez villa of Diana's friend
Mohammed Al Fayed,
in full view of waiting press
and TV cameras
the princess went to
the beach beside it today.
She seemed unconcerned
by all the attention.
There is still
the question tonight
why nobody seemingly
advised the princess
against accepting hospitality
from a man
who arguably helped bring down
the last Tory government.
Revelations
about Princess Diana's
continuing involvement
with the family who own
the Harrods department store
is bound to have her critics
again questioning her judgement.
This is not the kind of man,
with all respect to Dodi,
that one would have envisaged
the mother of
the future king of this country,
uh, walking out with.
People look down
upon us around the world, outside
and say, you know, "Egyptians
are... What are the Egyptians?"
It's just a poor country,"
but that's not true.
We have power and we're gonna go
back to where we were before,
and the proof is in the pudding.
Di is dating Dodi Fayed
and I think it's great.
She wants
this romance on the record
and this is a story
that's gonna run and run
until something wonderful
or something ghastly happens.
Tonight, a Sunday newspaper's
preparing its pages
with what it describes
as intimate photographs
of the Princess
and Dodi Al Fayed,
it's reported to have paid
nearly a quarter
of a million pounds
for the pictures.
Yes, there's a
kiss. Yes, there's a tender embrace,
but this is a woman who
suddenly doesn't care,
uh, suddenly wants to shout
from the rooftops, you know,
"I'm in love and this is
the bloke I'm in love with."
This is a quite
different situation.
But she didn't
know she was being photographed
though, did she?
The Princess of Wales
is the most aware person
in the world
when it comes to photographers.
We are here today to announce
the filing of a lawsuit this morning
in LA County Superior Court
on behalf of Kelly Fisher
against Dodi Fayed.
Until a week ago, Ms. Fisher,
of Malibu, California
was engaged to Mr. Fayed
and publicly wore his ring.
Ms. Fisher learnt
about Mr. Fayed's betrayal
not from Mr. Fayed, but instead
from the kiss photo
that was published
and circulated
around the world
to Ms. Fisher's utter dismay,
shock and shame.
This is the engagement ring.
Hold it up right.
Would she consider
a reconciliation
if it's only a friendship?
- No.
- No is her answer.
If you could say something
to Princess Diana today,
what would that be?
I'd like to tell her
that, uh, sometimes the
things that seem
too good to be true,
are probably
too good to be true.
These are Jeffrey's cards...
Do you wanna see my cards?
- Whose turn is first?
- We're having a swell time
although Princess Diana
has been injured gravely
it's been reported allegedly.
Not allegedly,
they have pictures.
- We're watching it on... we're watching it on CNN.
- "Allegedly."
As the world awaits word on
the fate of Princess Diana,
the Princess of Wales
seriously injured
in a car accident
hours ago in Paris
along with companion
Dodi Al Fayed
who apparently was killed
in that accident.
There's still
no concrete word on
exactly what the condition
of the Princess is,
But I've just
been told that a French eyewitness
at the scene
said that he thought that
Diana had walked away from this,
uh,
uh, crash. Because she said she.
It's breaking news.
- So, who's winning?
- It's the news, bro.
Well, Alan's ahead right now.
- Oh, I didn't just say that.
- Alan's only got 68.
- That's good.
- Clark's next with 88.
Police have arrested
at least seven
so-called paparazzi
who were allegedly
chasing the car
at very high speed...
They just keep breaking the news
over and over again.
At the scene of the crash,
one eyewitness says that within
five seconds of the crash
there was a photographer
taking pictures
of what had happened
and the scenario
that has been, uh,
painted is of, uh, a car which
was being driven too fast
in an attempt to get away
from a photographer.
You know, that could be
the most photographed car...
Gosh. It is.
The engine is pushed
- way back into the...
- Yeah.
They have to be dead.
They're lucky anybody's alive.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well...
- Princess Diana dead!
- Oh, she died.
- Where's the remote?
Oh, my God.
You're in the
briefing room where you're gathered,
How did you find out?
Who told you?
Oh.
- Uh, so...
- Oh, God!
I had to step out
because it was still going on.
Get it loud.
We were told
by a... a hospital, uh, employee
making a public statement
and uh, now
the French Interior Minister,
Jean-Pierre Chevènement,
is speaking and expressing
his condolences.
Can you hear me?
It appears to be official.
Princess Diana at the age of 36
has died of massive
internal injuries
she, uh,
suffered in a car accident
along with her companion
Dodi Al Fayed.
Let's go now live to CNN's
Jim Bitter man in Paris. Jim.
Are these for the palace?
Here he is.
Our thoughts and prayers
are with
Princess Diana's family,
in particular, her two sons,
the two boys.
Our hearts go out to them.
We are today
a nation, in Britain,
in a state of shock.
Oh, Jesus.
Don't even know why we're here,
what we're doing here.
Didn't think we...
They was that important to us,
you know. But there you are.
You are
telling people, "Get a life."
Well, in fact
haven't they gotten a life?
Well, they've got no choice
but to get a life.
She's not coming back.
We can get on without her,
right?
It wasn't such a big deal.
Um, and many, many people, are,
I... I think now, also now,
are not afraid to say
that she didn't mean that much.
You don't know
what you're talking about.
You shouldn't even be
in these gardens, now,
you denigrate Diana
and her image,
you should not be here.
I shouldn't
be in these gardens? Who the hell are you?
- Because the people... people that have respect for Diana...
- Look, I think
you're about as smart
as you look.
You see what...
You see what brain rot...
You see what brain rot descends
on people.
Unbelievable.
They've
taken her life! I'm sorry!
I blame The Sun newspaper
- and their ilk!
- You're wrong.
It's you,
the press that killed her.
You're the scum!
Yes.
You're here to pick the bones!
The Times, Mail or The Sun?
I'll take one of each.
One of each?
One pound twenty-three, love.
- Yes, please.
- The Mail and The Sun.
Our queen
should be here in London
with her people.
This is her nation,
and they should know
how all her people
feel about Diana.
Everybody loved Diana.
Just typical reaction
of the Royal Family.
Stick to protocol.
Don't worry about human emotion.
I think it's time we
stop talking about them
and talked about ourselves,
and what's wrong
with us as a country
that this Royal Family
should apparently mean
so much to us.
People are
showing their grief in this way,
because they want
to show the Royal Family
that they feel that she
was badly treated by them.
That they just can't sweep
her under the carpet.
This incident is gross idolatry.
It is vulgar, it is garish,
it's excessive.
And quite frankly,
I think that the public
is on a flight of fantasy.
We share our grief
with our English
and Canadian friends.
One can already sense
these scenes
beginning to atone for the hurt
that there's been this week.
People grieving need to target
their anger at somebody
and royal protocol
got in the way.
But royal protocol
is being swept aside
en masse today
and it may be
the best thing that
could happen to the Monarchy.
Ma'am, take care of the boys.
- Take care of the boys, ma'am.
- That's what we've been doing.
- Sorry?
- That's what we've been doing.
I know you have.
God bless you!
William!
God bless you, William!
God bless you, young man.
Thank you.
We love you!
We loved your mother!
Diana!
We love you!
We love you, Diana!
Oh, my Diana!
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
No, you've gotta hold it
with your hand in there.
Just to...
Oh, the cap's on, silly!
No, we're going through
the Louvre.
- You must go through the Louvre.
- Where do we go?
No, go straight,
yeah. Go straight.
Woo-hoo!
Oh, mad, man!
- Where do I go, guys?
- Are you lost?
Go straight ahead.
Go straight ahead
and don't have an accident.
- Don't...
- And then go left.
Jamie, where are you?
- Um. I'm in Paris...
- Oh!
Here we go!
On the right,
everyone is star-studded
because something's happening.
It's the Ritz.
Wow, wow, wow!
Guys, look at this!
Someone's out...
they're very important.
Hey, hey!
James, say something
to Adelaide.
Chasing Princess Diana.
Lady Diana, morning dear.
Morning.
Is there any possibility
of any announcement
of your marriage
in the near future,
can you tell me?
Can you tell me, uh,
if there's any possibility?
I'm not gonna say anything,
I'm afraid. Oh, sorry!
But Prince Charles did give us
a hint himself.
He said we wouldn't
have to wait too long.
Careful.
He said we wouldn't
have to wait too long.
Was he completely off beam?
- Was he?
- Sorry, I...
Was he completely off beam
when he said,
we wouldn't have to wait
too long?
I wouldn't know.
Prince Charles says
we all might know
what's likely to happen
between the two of you.
Can you say if you're likely
to make an announcement soon?
Lady Diana!
- Um...
- Lady Diana?
We thought there was gonna be
an announcement
on his 32nd birthday,
but, uh, there wasn't.
And he's told the reporters
yesterday that
it may be coming soon.
Have you any comment
to make about that?
- No.
- Lady Di?
- No comment all round.
- Mm...
Did you have
a good weekend though?
I'm going to work now, okay?
Your Royal highness,
do you have any thoughts
about the lady
that the Prince of Wales
should marry?
You've got to remember that
when you marry in my position,
you're going to marry somebody
who perhaps one day
is going to become queen.
And you've got to
choose somebody very carefully,
I think, who could fulfill
this particular role,
and it's got to be somebody
pretty special.
Could I ask you first,
your Royal Highness
and you, Lady Diana,
what do you think
you've got in common?
Gracious,
what a difficult question!
What do you think
we've got in common?
A sense of humor.
Um. Every outdoor activity,
except I don't ride.
- Um...
- Soon remedy that.
Lots of things, really.
What about you, sir?
Um. No, I think, certainly,
I mean all sorts of things.
And certainly the...
a sort of a love of the outdoors
and she's a very energetic
character as well, which is
which is very encouraging.
And music and...
and, uh, interests like that.
Can you take us back
to when you first met?
If you can remember?
Can you remember
- when you first met?
- Yes, yes. I certainly can.
It was 1977.
Prince Charles came to stay
at a friend of my sister Sarah's
for a shoot.
And we sort of met
in a ploughed field.
I spoke to you previous to that...
And what did you...
What did you think then?
What was your
instant impression, both of you?
What did you think
about Lady Diana?
Well, I remember thinking
what a very jolly
and amusing and...
And attractive
16-year-old she was.
And I mean great fun
and bouncy
and full of life and everything.
And, um
I don't know what you
thought of me but...
Pretty amazing.
Do you find it
a very daunting experience
that yesterday,
you were, uh, a nanny,
and now you're about to, uh,
marry the Prince of Wales
and one day you would be queen?
It's a tremendous change
for someone of 19
to make all of a sudden.
It is, but I've had a small
run up to it all
in the last six months.
And, next to Prince Charles
I know I can't go wrong.
He's there with me.
In the depths of a recession,
the British now have some
happy news
and a great national event
to look forward to.
The Royal Family
maybe an anachronism
in the dismal 1980s
but it's an anachronism
the British dearly love.
She is said
to be besotted by him.
"Sweet, kind, nice" and "shy"
are all the terms
used to describe her.
And her father, her uncle,
Lord Fermoy, and others
have even vouched
for her virginity.
Lady Di, could you wave?
Good luck, sir.
It's good, it's great, innit?
He's getting on a bit, innit
About time he got married.
The ladies
did their thing for Ladies' Day
as well as ever.
The predominant color
this year was red.
And as if to prove the point,
Lady Diana was wearing a red hat
and that certainly was a winner.
National Front is
the White man's front!
Join the National Front!
Bastards!
You're next in
the queue for a Charles and a Di.
Where are you going to have
your tattoo put?
Uh, on the other side of my leg.
Well, this is the biggest thing
since Farrah Fawcett Major.
Yes, at times like this,
Britain is at its very best.
No matter what concerns us,
like, having no money, no jobs
and riots in the streets...
We're doing
our bit as a celebration
to the regal pair.
Our children are suffering!
They are crying for help,
nobody will listen.
News of Lady Diana's visit
spread quickly.
The crowd saw that,
like most brides,
Lady Diana has lost weight
as the day approaches.
How many people in this audience
think that the press
ought to lay off the poor girl?
That was about a 90 to one,
I thought.
Robert Lacey,
do you think that Lady Diana
yet fully realizes
how tough life
will be in the full public gaze?
Well, I'm sure she does.
I don't think there could have
been a future consort
who's been through
anything like it.
So, she's been through,
in a way, the worst
that can be thrown at her.
Do you think it's going
to be easier from now on?
Oh, I think
it's going to be much easier.
I think we're going to see a
change in the attitude of the press.
Um. I think that now
she's palpably
one of the Royal Family, um,
all this telephoto lens business
will stop.
- Clear back.
- Stay back, lads.
That'll do, thank you very much.
I'm more used to it, I think,
probably now...
knowing for years that the
cameras are poking at you
from every quarter
and recording
every twitch you make.
So, if you don't try to work out
in your own mind,
some kind of method for existing
and surviving this kind of thing
you... you would go mad,
I think.
And so, in the end,
you do get used to it, but
I don't know, do you find
that after the last six months
you're beginning
to get used to it?
Just.
It is,
I suppose, one of the most
important things you're going to
have to adjust to,
- really, isn't it?
- Of course, yes.
The wedding has obviously meant
a great deal of planning
and preparation.
A lot of work, I imagine,
behind the scenes.
How much have you become
involved in that personally?
Well, we both try
to be very much involved.
Have you been able to put in
any small personal touches
that will still make it
very much your day?
Um...
Have we been able to put
any small personal touches?
I think
by inviting one's friends
and all the people
who've helped us.
Are you gonna have time
for the private life?
For making a home
and running a home?
I tend to lead sort of an
idiotic existence of getting...
Trying to get involved
in too many things
and dashing about.
And this is going to be
my problem, is trying to
sort of control myself.
And... and... and, you know,
work out... something,
so that we can have
a proper family life.
It isn't easy.
There's so much to be done.
Are you looking forward
to... to...
To making a home at Highgrove,
for example.
Oh, yes, very much so.
Looking forward
to being a good wife.
At Buckingham palace,
the crowds cheer
at anything and everything
that goes past them,
from a policeman on horseback
to a policeman on foot,
to just a press photographer.
Good morning, America,
this is St Paul's Cathedral,
the wedding will be held here.
Lining the streets of London,
two million well-wishers there
waiting for the royal coaches.
It's frequently said that
this is the sort
of pageantry and splendor
that only Britain
these days can do.
Prince of Wales' escort,
a smaller escort for church...
This will be the first time
for more than 300 years
that the heir to the throne
has married an English woman,
and there seems
little reason to doubt
that this is an affair
of the heart.
No sign of the bride yet.
For many people I think
it will be one of the
high spots for the day.
They're just coming out
of Clarence Gate.
- Her dress is fabulous.
- Is it her?
Oh, no, you're joking!
It's got a bloody roof on,
you can't see her.
Well, I want to thank you
most sincerely about all that.
If I'd have known that,
I wouldn't have
bothered to turn up.
Greeting the bride
as she's arrived here
in the glass carriage.
Her father, Earl Spencer
has just
COMMENTATOR 2 A taffeta dress
and there's lace
on the bodice...
Ooh!
- Oh, that's beautiful!
- Beautiful!
I love the garlands
that the little girls have.
She's wearing
diamond drop earrings
lent by her mother.
- Do you want her shoes?
- Yeah.
I pronounce
that they be
man and wife together.
We should all be allowed to wear
wedding dresses and celebrate!
I wanna see faces, not the back
of fucking heads!
I wanna see the flag, Davey!
A little wider, Davey!
Come on, come on, come on.
Here is the stuff
of which fairytales are made.
The Prince and Princess
on their wedding day.
But fairytales
usually end at this point
with the simple phrase,
"They lived happily ever after."
Our faith sees the wedding day
not as the place of arrival,
but the place where
the adventure really begins.
The escort under the command
of Lieutenant Colonel
Andrew Parker-Bowles,
there's the Royals,
as Charles and Lady Diana
stayed with him
and his wife Camilla
in Wiltshire
on two occasions
at the end of the year.
So, they're among friends
as they ride along the Mall.
Your Royal Highness?
Sir. Sir, please?
Sir?
- Hello, Tom.
- Hello.
- Yes.
- Personally, I think,
that this was nothing
but a waste of time.
Um. I think the money
could have been spent
a lot better elsewhere.
I thought it was fantastic!
Really great for
the British image.
What made it
so special for you, Hettie?
Well, to see all of them people.
Yes, you weren't
actually amongst them then?
No, no, I was at home watching.
Very sensible, I should think.
It was pretty crowded out there,
wasn't it?
It was,
but it was fantastic, marvelous!
Proud to be British, my dear.
It is
with the greatest of pleasure
that the Town Hall
wishes to tell you
that Buckingham Palace
has just announced
that the Princess of Wales
is expecting a baby in June.
Fant... Aw!
We are sure you will
join us in congratulating
the Prince and Princess.
Oh!
Don't you think
- it's happened a bit soon?
- Well, I do really, yeah.
I don't really think
they've got to know each other
- really, by now.
- Well...
But they obviously have.
To the royal heir,
male or female,
I don't mind which,
as long as
the Royal Family continues.
- Here's to them.
- Here's to them, indeed. Cheers.
Droves of photographers
gathered at the hospital...
As soon as it was announced
Princess Diana had gone into
the early stages of labor
between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m.
London time.
Until the baby's born,
all the royals' comings
and goings are St Mary's.
We're awaiting
the historic announcement
of the birth of the Royal child,
who'll be second-in-line
to the throne
after Prince Charles.
Strawberries and cream anybody?
A boy or a girl?
- Boy, definitely.
- Why?
'Cause boys are the best.
You're not a feminist then?
No.
No, let's have a girl.
You want... You want a girl?
Let's be fair,
he's still got time
to have some more, ain't he?
You know? If the first one
don't turn out right,
he can always try again.
Well, I'm hoping
she won't keep us
here all night.
Would you like to see
- a baby boy or a baby girl?
- I would like her to have a boy,
and I should think if she's
having all this trouble,
it's a boy.
It's a boy!
It's a boy! It's a boy!
It's a boy! It's a boy!
It's a boy!
It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a boy!
It's a boy! It's a boy!
- Congratulations.
- Thank you, very kind.
Does he look like you, sir?
Uh. No,
he's lucky enough not to.
How do you feel, sir?
It's a bit difficult to tell
at the moment.
And how do you feel?
Um. Obviously relieved
and delighted. It's marvelous.
They have been singing,
"Well done, Charlie.
Let's have another one!"
Is that on the program of events
do you think?
Bloody hell, give us a chance!
You ask my wife, I don't think
she'd be too pleased just yet.
May I ask you if you've seen
the royal baby yet?
Not yet, I left early
this morning, you see.
When are you hoping to see him?
Oh, well, when I get back
to London.
When you
get back to St. Mary's, yeah.
When I get back, that's right.
And Princess Anne's reaction
in New Mexico.
- Have you heard about Diana?
- I don't know, you tell me.
And your reaction
to her having a son?
I didn't know she'd had one.
- This morning.
- Well, good.
I'd just like to propose a toast
to Prince Charles,
Princess Di and wee Willie
and the Royal Family.
Now, for all
of our students on air today,
good morning girls and boys.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Jamie Smith out at Ayres Rock,
you have a question.
Does Prince William
have a favorite toy?
Does Prince William
have a favorite toy?
Um. Jamie, he loves his
Koala bear he's got,
but he hasn't got anything
particular.
He just likes something
with a bit of noise.
A plastic whale which
throws things out of the top.
Um, we got a plastic whale
that throws things
out the top, little balls.
The couple circled the arena
to the kind of reception
normally reserved
in this age group for pop stars.
Both the media, and the public
want to know about this couple,
not so much Prince Charles.
As a photographer said to me,
you can't give pictures
of him away,
but Diana is
very big news everywhere.
Give us a wave.
Am I in the way?
We want Di!
Princess Diana! Over here!
Ladies and gentlemen,
the last time I was here
was two years ago,
uh, in 1981
shortly before we were married.
And, at that time,
everybody was saying,
"Good luck and... I hope everything
goes well, and how lucky you are
to be engaged
to such a lovely lady."
And my goodness,
I was lucky enough to marry her.
And we had many, many messages...
The prince realizes now
that he's taking second place.
He knows it's the princess
people have come to see.
- They chanted for her...
- We want the princess!
And cheered again when
the prince chose her direction.
And I've come to the conclusion
that really it would have been
far easier to have had
two wives...
To have covered both sides
of the street...
And I could've walked down
the middle
directing the operation.
REPORTER 1:30 years ago,
you wouldn't dare
go up to a member of royalty,
but people are encouraged
by her... her presence
and by her... her happiness,
and the fact that
she's so good with people
to just go up and say hello.
Three cheers for Lady Di!
- Hip-hip.
- Hooray!
- Hip-hip.
- Hooray!
Charles doesn't like the fact
that she's a superstar
and he isn't.
What has happened is
there's been a transformation.
She has become the person
that everyone wants to know,
everyone wants to meet.
He has taken the back seat and
it's not enjoyable for him.
The Princess of Wales
has been the best thing
to happen to the Monarchy in...
In... probably in centuries.
I mean,
she has gone to Australia
which is now 50/50 republican
50 percent monarchist,
and she's turned
that into 80 percent in favor
of the Royal Family.
Now, that's a major achievement.
It's not Prince
Charles, who's been out there before
and made little influence.
It's the Princess of Wales
that's made the influence.
You have a family here
that is used to being the people
that everybody turned out
in their thousands
to see on the streets.
And then suddenly,
Diana's the one
that everybody wants to see.
How do you
think he feels about his wife today?
Well, of course,
one shouldn't forget
that Charles and Diana
got married
for the single purpose
of having a child
to secure the succession
for Charles's family.
To begin with, it was
a marriage of convenience.
Go and have a look,
have a look through there.
You can see all those people
at the other side.
Look through there.
You see, you can see people
on the other side.
Can you see their faces?
The people in there.
Look at them
Trapped.
Now, you both like skiing,
and yet every year
it has become a regular,
you don't appear to hit it off
exactly eye-to-eye
on the slopes.
I suspect most husbands
and wives find that, uh,
they often have arguments.
- But we don't.
- No, no, no.
Well, occasionally we do
because I mean...
- No, we don't.
- I'm... you know, I.
I go on longer, sometimes.
Yes, but I'm faster.
There we are.
Ma'am!
Ma'am, this way please!
Ma'am! Ma'am.
What do you say, ma'am,
when you read in the papers
that you are a "determined
domineering woman"?
I don't always read that.
Um, people are very willing
to tell me that,
but I don't think I am.
I'm affectious with myself,
but not necessarily with
everybody else.
Get right back.
Come on, fellas, make some room.
We've gotta move out of here.
Can you, please?
Ma'am, can we...
There is a natural
and continuing interest in you.
For example, have you actually
tried to change Prince Charles
in any way
since you got married?
Not at all.
I mean, obviously there are
one or two things,
like, maybe the
the odd tie or something.
But nothing...
- Shoes.
- Shoes, we won't go any further.
But that... but...
nothing dramatic.
I mean he's...
At the entrance
to Kensington Palace,
the prince and princess
and their baby
arrive from the hospital
at speed
and swept in without stopping.
Then less than an hour later,
Prince Charles
left to play polo.
Something most new fathers
would hardly dare to suggest.
He has always carried on,
ever since he got married
as if he were a bachelor.
He's made absolutely,
and he never did
from the word go,
almost any concession at all
to being a married man
with the responsibilities
of a wife and now, two children.
What do you feel your role is?
I feel my role
is supporting my husband,
um, whenever I can
and always being behind him,
encouraging and also,
most important thing,
being a mother and a wife.
And that's what I try to achieve
whether I do is another thing,
but I do try.
But you are developing
your own interests
and your own specialization?
Yes, but that's taking time
because I don't want to dive
into something
without being
able to follow it up.
It's nice to see you
in the flesh.
- In the flesh?
- Hmm.
Don't look too near,
you might get a shock.
I've seen enough photos of you.
I know, there's
too many of those.
Sold them in
the shop downstairs.
- How much do you sell them for?
- Three pounds ten that one's going for.
Is that all?
What about the three fifteen?
- I don't, I don't, I don't...
- Should I choose something there?
Oh look, Charles Dew,
let's grab that one.
- I don't...
- There you are.
Eleven forty, it's very apt,
my husband, right?
Yeah, I know.
Diana demonstrated her ability
to make royal conversations
last a little longer than the
"Where do you come from?
How long have you been here?"
type.
Did you get a chance to see her?
- Yes.
- Yes.
The Princess of Wales
has opened Britain's first
purpose-built AIDS ward
and met the 12 patients
who are being treated there.
I love the red glasses!
What a lovely woman!
She's incredible.
- She's so natural.
- She is, she's totally natural.
Yes, yes.
Just like somebody walking in
Diana has got the common touch,
she can sit down,
she can talk to anybody,
whoever they are.
I agree.
But I don't think
the public expect the Queen
to go to hospices
and kiss AIDS patients.
It would nice
if she did though, wouldn't it?
I don't think
that people expect that of her.
But you would like a Queen
that actually could talk
to ordinary people.
She doesn't have the common
touch in the same way.
- That's why Diana's so special.
- Well, she can't!
Because she wasn't
brought up to that.
She spontaneously
and unrehearsed,
of her own volition
picked up a little boy
who has AIDS
and hugged him.
Staff told the princess
they were surprised
that she'd come
to Harlem Hospital,
a place never visited
by any American president
and few major political leaders.
Nancy and I are deeply honored
to welcome the prince
and the Princess of Wales
to the White House.
John, are you going
to dance with the Princess tonight?
If she'd like me to.
At his first press conference,
he wanted to talk about
the exhibition,
but they wanted to ask
about her.
She'd be an idiot
if she didn't enjoy dancing
with John Travolta,
wouldn't she?
How many of you manage to reply
on behalf on your wives
on these occasions?
I'm not a glove puppet
so I can't answer for that
I'm afraid.
A state
of rather cool indifference
has settled over this marriage
and the one problem
that we were all aware
was there from the start,
the 12-year age gap
really has begun to tell.
Prince Charles,
instead of going to his home
at Highgrove in Gloucestershire,
and talking to his plants
and his trees,
he should be at home,
and he should be talking
to his wife.
How do
we even know they're sulking?
What proof have we got?
It's all paper supposition,
surely?
It's the media that's causing
the problems and the reporters.
- The snoopers.
- Leave them alone.
The thing is if... if married
couples have an argument,
the best thing to do,
shove 'em off in a room
on their own
and let them sort it out.
Not everybody else trying to
do it for 'em.
The couple
had spent a month apart
when they reunited to visit
Welsh flood victims.
I think it must be dreadful
for the two of them,
they are going around
doing their duties side by side,
carrying out an engagement
and they're just
not even acknowledging
the other person's presence.
She does one thing on her own,
he does another,
and they just don't meet
physically, mentally,
or emotionally.
- Okay, rolling.
- Do you get the Taj Mahal in?
Yeah, rolling.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
will spend today
as they've spent
much of this royal tour, apart.
He will concentrate on issues
such as housing benefit schemes
and industry investment.
She will concentrate on
the welfare
of the Indian people.
How did this fairy-tale princess
end up in this way?
In my humble opinion,
it's because
the institution of the Monarchy
makes demands on people.
We simply cannot be satisfied
in the world in which we live.
Hello! Hello!
When you put a modern person
in an ancient institution,
they will be destroyed.
Anyone would be destroyed.
But once an institution starts
destroying people,
it's time to recognize
that there is something
fundamentally wrong
with that institution
and not with the people
it destroys.
Oh, yeah.
A very what,
Your Royal Highness?
In what way?
No more questions, guys.
Oh, lovely!
This week,
a sensational new book
has exposed dramatic insights
into the private life
of the royal couple.
Shocking revelations of a hollow
and tormented marriage
are giving the British media
and it's public
little else to talk about.
According to Morton,
Princess Diana's
suicide attempts
which included throwing herself
down a flight of stairs
when she was
three-months pregnant
and slashing her wrists
with a razor blade
were a desperate cry
for help and attention
from her husband,
Prince Charles.
Slashed
her wrists with a razor blade,
cut herself with a lemon slicer
and a pen knife,
and yet, I've never seen
any scars in any photos.
And I just find it very strange
to think that this girl
has tried to commit suicide,
unsuccessfully five times
and wants it to be publicized.
I find that very difficult
to... to believe.
Especially... she's a mother too,
she's got young children
who are gonna be affected
by this.
The author insisted today
that close friends
of the princess
stand by the integrity
of the book.
He came on ITN's lunchtime news
to make his first live defense
of the claims on television.
Mr. Morton, this book is called
Diana: Her True Story.
It's not her story, is it?
It's what you say
unnamed friends told you.
That's rather different,
isn't it?
I think that the reason
why this book is authentic
is because many
of her closest friends
have spoken to me on the record,
and more than that,
they've stood by
their statements.
Nevertheless,
unlike other journalists,
you don't really
have to check your facts
that thoroughly, do you?
Miss Junor, doesn't the silence
of Buckingham Palace
and the absence
of even a single lawsuit
give evidence to the idea
that perhaps Mr. Morton
was telling the truth?
No. I think they all recognize
that the princess is ill,
she has bulimia.
The Palace know about it,
Prince Charles knows about it.
He knows that this is the result
of a sick mind.
She has said
some terrible things
about her husband,
she's accused him of being
a bad husband,
a bad father,
and carrying on an all
but adulterous affair
with Camilla Parker-Bowles.
You do say in the book though
that Diana and Charles
have separate bedrooms.
Yes, they
have separate bedrooms at Highgrove,
they have...
essentially have separate lives
and they have done
for some time now.
Now, what about the bracelet?
Well, this is a bracelet
that Diana discovered
at Buckingham Palace,
a gift that Prince Charles
bought for Camilla.
It was inscribed F and G,
Fred and Gladys,
the two nicknames
which they use for each other.
And I think
there's a teeny point,
that actually the GF
stands for Girl Friday
which is his secret pet nickname
for Camilla.
- And, uh...
- Louise, Louise,
I think... I think really
it should be Girl Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Buckingham Palace officials
have denied once again today
that the Princess of Wales
cooperated in any way
with the book
and refuses to dignify
its claims
with any further comments.
But the repercussions
are continuing.
Diana!
How do
you think you would have behaved
if you'd been
a 19-year-old girl who was...
- Difficult to imagine but go on.
- Seduced as you were
in the best sense of the word,
by a 32-year-old man,
the future King of England
who doesn't love you,
didn't wanna marry you,
has another woman
who he's really in love with.
And it's surprising that
that young girl
- suddenly had a whole series of problems?
- The great...
Wouldn't you
in that circumstance?
If
You wanna be like me you've gotta suffer.
Oh, Squidgy.
Yeah, you have to.
- And then you get what you...
- You get what you want?
No, get what you deserve.
Oh, God!
"Hear the tapes for yourself."
The Sun has been
inviting its readers,
more than 120,000
have done just that.
I don't wanna get pregnant.
Darling,
that's not gonna happen.
Oh, Squidgy. I love
you, love you, love you, love you.
You're just the
nicest person in the whole wide world.
A tape recording of
a highly personal telephone call
reporting to be between
the Princess of Wales
and a friend, James Gilbey,
was given to The Sun newspaper
by a retired bank manager.
He makes my life real,
real torture, I've decided.
It was only a matter of time
before the tabloids printed
what's been circulating
in private for days.
The full transcript of an
alleged conversation between
the Prince of Wales
and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Did we hear the tape
of the conversation
between him
and Camilla Bowles-Parker?
Did you hear that?
I did. I was very shocked by it.
Ooh... I want to feel my way along you.
All over you, and up
and down you, in and out!
Oh, Charles!
The tapes are
frankly filthy. They're disgusting.
I wouldn't allow my daughter,
whose 15, to read them.
I'll just
live inside your trousers or something.
It'd be much easier.
But the real hypocrisy
is pretending that there is
any other reason
for producing the contents
of these tapes
than to sell newspapers.
What are you
going to turn into? A pair of knickers?
Or God forbid a Tampax!
There has been no comment
from Mrs. Parker-Bowles...
Yes!
In the past,
her husband has dismissed
such allegations
- as rubbish.
- I have nothing to say.
So, you're wasting
your time here. Thank you.
Prince Charles
was doing his best to look
as if personal problems
were the last thing on his mind
and he avoided all questions
about the Camilla gate tapes.
Today,
there was no comment at all,
but the two tapes together
have further tarnished
the couple's image.
Do not let in
daylight upon magic.
I think we've got an unhealthy
obsession with the Royal Family.
The Monarchy now is in danger
of being glared out of existence
by too much publicity.
That was the moment
that told everybody
that she hated him.
Is this a marriage
which has now gone badly wrong?
There can be
no doubt about that.
Is this a couple that can
barely be together,
be seen together,
they can't even act out
a public charade?
Do you think she's happy
in her marriage at the moment?
- Yes, I do.
- Oh, do you?
She'll be very
pleased to hear that, I'm sure.
There
was a picture of her, yesterday...
- Yeah.
- In The Sun or whatever it was
saying, "Diana looking miserable
and lonely laying a wreath."
How the hell do you want her
to look laying a wreath?
You find a miserable shot
and you put a caption
that suits your witch hunt.
I promise you,
we're not on a witch hunt.
I would love to write
nice things
about this particular marriage.
So, when are they gonna get
the time to actually do that,
to sort out their marriage if
they're not going to get any privacy?
This marriage is finished,
it's a great shame,
a great shame,
but we are reporting...
No way
is this marriage finished.
Don't you think that
we love our Prince and Princess,
our Queen,
respected all over the country,
the world?
Yeah, well said.
I feel it's the papers,
the tabloids.
If they let them alone,
every marriage has its problems.
There is something wrong
in the internal workings
of that family
that creates
such a problem as this.
It's not the press' fault,
the press are there
to print news and it is news.
1992 is not a year
on which I shall look back
with undiluted pleasure.
In the words of one
of my more
sympathetic correspondents,
it has turned out
to be an annus horribilis.
In the aftermath
of Friday's tragic fire
at Windsor,
it is especially so.
Statement of Prime Minister.
With, uh,
permission, Madam Speaker,
I wish to inform the House
that Buckingham Palace are,
at this moment,
issuing the following statement.
"It is announced with regret
the Prince and Princess of Wales
have decided to separate.
Their Royal Highnesses
have no plans to divorce,
and their constitutional
positions are unaffected.
Her Majesty
and His Royal Highness
particularly hope
that the intrusions
into the privacy
"of the prince and princess
may now cease."
Hear, hear.
Sir?
- Sir...
- No questions please,
you've had your announcement.
The Prince of Wales,
it now appears,
didn't actually marry
the first woman
he fell in love with,
Camilla Parker-Bowles,
but seems to have
felt that he had to,
by some sort of obligation,
choose, um, a woman who had not
had any previous partners
and was clearly seen
as a very suitable catch.
Unfortunately, we no longer live
in an era where
once you've got married
it's an arranged marriage
and that's that.
I mean, we live in 1992.
I suspect there's been this
terrible problem, really.
And it stems really right back
to the upbringing
of... of the royal children.
I was relaxed and calm
and I thought...
It was gonna be a long...
Come on!
I thought it was gonna
be a long day.
Mamma mia, get out the way.
It's just a matter of
getting there,
you know, I'd rather be there
than hanging around here.
Everyone says,
"Is the loon out today?"
Or "Is the loon..."
"Is she having a loony lunch?"
or something like that.
It's just a...
a term of endearment, really.
The cops are working out
how they can get her out without
us taking a picture.
Here we go.
She's
rich enough to have a gym of her own.
In my two-bedroom flat
in Peckham,
I've got my exercise bike
in the front room.
You can't tell me a woman
on hundreds of thousands
of pounds a year,
with a house as big as hers
can't have her own gymnasium.
- I think...
- She likes to be with people.
- She likes to be bloody well watched.
- Well, she wants to...
I feel like I know them.
I feel like I know
Princess Anne,
- Fergie, all of them.
- Yeah?
Because we see so much
of them on the television.
And I like it.
I want to know all the ins,
the outs and I love it.
All we do is take pictures.
The decision to buy the pictures
is taken by the picture editors
of the world
and they buy the pictures
so their readers can see them.
So, at the end of the day
the buck stops with the readers.
Turn that off!
Are you filming us?
- Yeah.
- Turn that off.
Oh, sorry.
Are you on the lift, David?
One day she'll use the media
for her own advantages,
and she'll, uh,
give you a nice picture.
And the next day
she will have a bag
over her head,
you know, so, we're never sure
what way she's gonna react.
I can't fucking see her.
Is she in the queue?
There she is, back of the queue.
Which one is she?
Can you see her?
There.
Oh, I see her.
That's not her.
Yes, it is.
She's about three behind it,
she's got her head fuckin'
in between her...
Oh,
fucking hell! What is she doing?
Where? I can't see her.
Don't worry boys, not yet.
They said
she's been laughing and joking?
Yeah, she's been
smiling, joking.
She skied right up in front
of a French photographer,
laid down in the snow
in front of him and said,
"Is that... is that too close
for any of the 5mm lens?"
So... so, she's playing games
with 'em, you know.
For fuck's sake, stay still!
- Excuse me.
- Bloody hell!
She's spotted us.
No, she hasn't.
It's just cause
we're looking at her.
Can you just imagine
how small we...
Fuck!
The Royal Family
decided 15-20 years ago
that they had to be
more populist.
They brought the cameras in,
they encouraged examination
of themselves by the media.
You can't turn the paparazzi
on and off
as they're trying to do.
Take the lift. This way.
Ma'am, can we just have one
more, it'll take two seconds, please.
- No!
- Please.
Absolutely not!
You've behaved so badly.
- Diana, just one picture!
- Yes?
One, huh?
Just give me one picture, mate,
and I'll go, all right?
- No! Out! Out!
- Out! Out!
Out! Out! O-U-T! Out!
Have a nice trip, ma'am.
Ladies and gentlemen,
her Royal Highness,
the Princess of Wales
would like to make
a short statement.
Ladies and gentlemen,
when I started my public life
12 years ago.
The media might be interested
in what I did...
but I was not aware
of how overwhelming
that attention would become
nor the extent to which
it would affect
both my public duties
and my personal life.
When I've completed my diary
of official engagements,
I will be reducing the extent
of the public life
I've led so far.
Over the next few months,
I will be seeking
a more suitable way
of combining
a meaningful public role
with hopefully,
a more private life.
My first priority
will continue to be
our children,
William and Harry.
To the wider public, may I say
your kindness and affection
has carried me through
some of
the most difficult periods
and always, your love and care
has eased that journey.
And for that, I thank you
from the bottom of my heart.
It's very Diana, isn't it?
To call a press conference
to announce
that she wanted
to be left alone.
- Absolutely in character.
- Yes.
She has done untold damage
to the Royal Family,
I bet you she'll be back.
She'll do a song and dance act
to get back on the front pages.
And I think she's very close to
being a monster.
This is the story
of the Prince of Wales today.
What he does, what he thinks,
what he believes, what he feels.
This afternoon the heavyweight
royal correspondents
from the national newspapers
are viewing
the program for themselves.
The Mirror's James Whittaker
thinks the film will do.
Prince Charles no good at all.
The best thing that can happen
is for the Queen
to live for a very long time.
Well, it's going to be very
interesting to see precisely
what Prince Charles does say.
And it's also, of course,
going to be very interesting
to see how his rebuilding
of his public image
is going to work.
Program maker
Jonathan Dimbleby
was giving nothing away.
It appears to have stirred up
quite a fuss
and you'll have a chance
to see it
and then you'll be able
to judge for yourself.
The most
damaging charge that is made
in relation to your marriage
is that you were,
because of your relationship
with Camilla Parker-Bowles,
from the beginning,
persistently unfaithful
to your wife
and thus caused the breakdown.
What is your... your response
to that persistent criticism?
Oh, that's
the persistent criticism, is it?
Mrs. Parker-Bowles is
a great friend of mine.
She has been a friend
for a very long time
and will continue to be a friend
for a very long time.
When marriages break down,
awful and miserable as that is,
it is your friends
who are the most
important and helpful
and understanding
and encouraging,
otherwise you would go
stark raving mad.
Did you try to be faithful
and honorable to your wife,
when you took on
a vow of marriage?
Yes, absolutely.
- And you were?
- Yes.
Until it became...
irretrievably broken down.
Us both having tried.
This is supposedly our next king
who is behaving
like a spoilt child.
Diana, she's been pushed
from the word go
and she has been humiliated
and it... it's just disgraceful.
Princess Diana, who declined
to take part in the program
was tonight attending
a charity dinner
while her husband spoke of their
past and future to millions.
It's
a funny old world, isn't it?
Camilla dresses up like this
to please her man
and Di does it to piss him off.
And what's poor old Charles
supposed to do?
For years,
the papers were after him
to own up to a
little rumpy-pumpy,
and now they're after him
for doing it.
Prince Charles was the man
who committed the adultery...
- Lies, lies, lies.
- And I'm not party to
Diana first, she had an affair
with her bodyguard.
She is the wronged party
as far as I'm concerned.
Do we know that?
Do we know that?
I know. It's a fact.
Oh, it's a fact...
And let her deny it
if she dares.
I hope you're
indemnified for libel.
While Palace officials
are anxious
not to crow about success,
they clearly feel that their man
has withstood well
the ordeal of trial
by television,
that the gamble,
so far at least, has paid off.
It is 14.99 for 'em.
Fourteen ninety-nine?
The book
that has catapulted the Princess
back into the headlines
arrived in the shops
this morning,
after a weekend of intense
speculation about its contents.
Written in the breathless style
of a romantic novel,
it purports to be
an account of an affair
the Princess is alleged
to have had
with a former cavalry officer,
James Hewitt.
Do you think there's anything in
what Major Hewitt is saying?
He seems to be
just relying on... on one factor
to try and sell the book,
that he may or may not
have slept with Diana.
Take your photograph
and then go.
Are you doing
any deals with newspapers
- because obviously your opportunity's...
- No, no deals.
Could you say
where this was filmed?
I have no comment.
No comment, I'm afraid.
Not any time at all?
If you are royalty,
the rocks you're throwing
weigh a couple of pounds a piece
and you can find them
at your neighborhood bookseller.
Last week came an authorized
biography of Prince Charles.
In it, we learn the prince
was pushed into marrying Diana
and that Charles
has had a love affair
with Camilla Parker-Bowles
on and off
for more than 20 years.
If they want to have affairs,
if they want to
make it public, fine.
- But I can't see what the problem is.
- No, no, no.
That's ridiculous,
you can't expect to have the
to have a Monarchy
that's full of magic
and they should be washing
their dirty linen in public.
They can't have it both ways.
- They've always had dirty linen.
- Thank you very much. Thank you.
This couple are conducting
their marital squabbles
in the most extraordinary way,
in public
via the tabloid newspapers
they profess to hate.
It's become
a tactical square dance,
a row in front of the neighbors,
60 million neighbors
in this country alone.
Where do
you see all of this leading
because there... there's been
such saturation,
uh, of this material,
some of it sleezy,
some of it perhaps just sad.
But, uh, but surely
there is a desensitizing process
going on and one wonders
in the end
at what point British people
throw their hands up and say,
"Enough, enough! I just don't
wanna hear any more."
I think what's
happened is that, functionally,
the Royal Family has through
misjudgment and ineptitude,
and a fair degree of stupidity,
turned itself into
something of a
of a branch
of the entertainment industry,
and I'm not sure they're ever
going to recover from it.
I think they're... they're
doomed to continue.
Ma'am! Ma'am!
Your Royal Highness,
how prepared were you
for the pressures
that came with marrying
into the Royal Family?
At the age of 19.
You always think
you're prepared for everything.
This was the moment.
Britain had been waiting for
and they packed the pubs,
just as they did for
the royal wedding 15 years ago.
Millions of televisions
in millions of homes
were tuned in.
Princess Diana in her own words.
And with a husband who was
having a relationship
with somebody else?
A husband who
loved someone else, yes.
You really thought that?
I didn't think that, I knew it.
Do you think
Mrs. Parker-Bowles was a factor
in the breakdown
of your marriage?
Well, there were three of us
in this marriage,
so it was a bit crowded.
She talked openly about having
post-natal depression,
about suffering from bulimia
for more than three years
and about
the self-inflicted injuries
to her arms and legs.
She says she only wanted to put
her side of the story.
Is the House of Windsor
so flimsy,
it can be shaken
by a single interview?
Did your relationship
with James Hewitt
go beyond a close friendship?
- Yes, it did, yes.
- Were you unfaithful?
Yes, I adored him.
Yes, I was in love with him.
Astonishing.
Refreshment was needed
to help us take it all in.
At 10:41
the national grid recorded
a 1,000-megawatt surge.
300,000 kettles
were being switched on,
at least 15 million viewers
were busy brewing.
Even more remarkable,
Newsnight on BBC 2
more used to an audience
of around 800,000
found themselves
with eight million.
In an astonishingly frank
interview,
in which she admitted
adultery and bulimia,
Diana told millions of viewers
of attempts by Buckingham Palace
to intercept her mail
and blacken her name.
Do you really believe
that a campaign
- was being waged against you?
- Yes, I did. Absolutely, yeah.
Why?
I was, uh, separated wife
of the Prince of Wales,
I was a problem, full stop.
Never happened before,
what do we do with her?
Can't we pack her off
to somewhere quietly
rather than campaign
against her?
She won't go quietly,
that's the problem.
I'll fight till the end
because I believe
that I have a role to fulfill,
and I've got two children
to bring up.
Did you know
how miserable she was?
No, she was very...
She was very good
at not showing it.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then when we...
Well, when I was there,
living there, I sort of, uh,
got to know more and more
- about it.
- The pain.
The pain she was in. Yeah.
Most people don't understand
if you have all that stuff,
why don't you just
behave yourself,
do what you're told
and just play the game
and go along with the program?
- You could do that.
- Mm-hmm.
You could do that
and then... and,
and if that's what suits you,
that's what suits you.
But I'm afraid for Diana and I,
we learn, we're like rivers,
we wanna learn more,
we wanna go round
the next corner.
Do you think
you will ever be queen?
Why do you think that?
I don't think many
people would want me to be queen, actually.
When I say many people,
I mean the establishment
that I'm married into
because they've decided
that I'm a nonstarter.
And why do you think
they've decided that?
Because I do things differently.
Do you think
the Monarchy needs to adapt
and to change
in order to survive?
I understand that change
is frightening for people,
especially if
there's nothing to go to,
it's best to stay where you are.
I understand that.
But I do think that
there are a few things
that could change,
that would alleviate this doubt,
and sometimes,
complicated relationship between
Monarchy and public,
I think they could walk
hand in hand
as opposed to being so distant.
By the time she left
a glitzy charity ball
in London tonight,
many were questioning
what exactly
prompted the princess
to grant
such an explosive interview
to the BBC.
As well as admitting adultery,
Diana pulled apart
her failed marriage
and questioned her husband's
suitability to be king.
What's your
verdict on that interview last night?
It's light entertainment.
I mean, we've sent Neighbours
over here,
we've sent Home and Away
over here,
you give us
Diana's interview back.
I was particularly
incensed about her children,
and she wants to be close
to her boys
and she'll teach them
how to throw up
so that they don't have to do
what they want to.
She'll teach them how to stamp
their tiny feet,
she'll teach them to lie,
she'll teach them to
manipulate their friends
so that the world gets
their side of the story.
What do you think about the fact
she did the interview
in the first place?
I think it was wrong.
I think that... I think that... what
Charles did as well was wrong
when he'd done his one,
but I think it's just...
It shouldn't have happened.
You know? I think
that should be... kept private.
I thought she was stunning.
I think it's... I think she's probably
devastated the Royal Family,
Absolutely. Simply
because she's just stripped away
the mystique and that's what
they're based on.
I lost all respect
for the Royal Family
after watching that last night.
To do that to a beautiful woman
and take no notice
of her cries for help
or whatever she's going through,
I thought it was
just... disgusting.
Charles, I've got no respect
for that man at all now.
I think
it would be fair to say that at this time
as a result of the occurrences
over the course of
the past several months,
that we could now be witnessing
the end of the Monarchy
and the reigning queen
could possibly be the last.
Hear, hear.
The Monarchy rules
by favor of the people,
and the moment
the Monarchy loses that,
it is finished.
And the Queen knows it.
This is the time of year
for greetings to be sent
between family members,
but the world's most famous
Christmas card, it seems,
was sent by the Queen of England
to her son Prince Charles
and his estranged wife, Diana.
"Enough already" it said.
"Stop this unseemly bickering.
Get divorced!"
Can you tell us
any of the content, sir?
No, no.
I'm not commenting on that.
There is a...
there is a statement
which is being
faxed to the Press Association
but it's not
going to be read out.
- Hold them out...
- No, no, no.
Can you come out?
Can you come out?
Come right
out, please. Come right out.
Close the door. Come on out.
We can't see you there,
close the door.
Hang on, hang on.
You wouldn't care to read it,
would you?
No, I'm afraid not.
It would
help us greatly if you could.
Thank you very much.
Maybe a name and address,
please?
Good morning, ma'am!
It's quite clear to me that.
Diana's had
a very miserable time
within this marriage
and that she was somebody,
especially, given the problems
of her own childhood, her mother
as it were, walking out on her
when she was only six,
a sense of betrayal
and abandonment all her life.
She genuinely wanted
a happy marriage.
And, uh, it seems
that within that family
it's very difficult to have one.
And so, the world's most famous
dysfunctional family
now launches the world's most
famous divorce proceedings.
There shouldn't be much fight
over the record collection,
their tastes in that
are different too,
but there are the royal houses,
the royal castles,
the royal silver, and of course,
the royal children to consider.
Ma'am, are
you pleased with the settlement?
Grim-faced
but 17 million pounds richer
after her divorce deal.
She will have to give up
being HRH, Her Royal Highness.
She'll be Diana,
Princess of Wales.
Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?
That's what I mean with her.
She did have it on.
She did have the ring on.
- Did she have the ring on?
- Are you certain, Paul? Are you certain?
She looked beautiful,
but I noticed she was wearing
a lot of makeup.
I don't imagine for one moment
that he will marry
Camilla Parker-Bowles...
Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?
Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?
I think
the most remarkable thing was
that she was not only
wearing her engagement ring,
but also her wedding ring.
She was making a statement today
which reiterates
what she said before,
"I never wanted a divorce."
How can we possibly accept.
Charles's succession
to the throne,
especially, as head of nation
and head of the church
when he obviously entered
a marriage of convenience
to produce an heir
and continually maintained
an adulterous relationship
throughout that marriage?
This has been
the start of a debate
and that genie is not
gonna be put back in the bottle
until at least
there are fundamental
changes in the way
the present institution
of the Monarchy
is run in this country.
If the Monarchy wants to survive
then it will have to change.
Officer, can you move?
- Got enough cameras, Colin?
- Two, yes. Fully loaded.
The Princess
of Wales has made it quite clear
that she has no intention
of going away.
She wants to continue
public life,
and the important thing now
is that her role
should be defined.
She woke me up. I love her.
Oh! You've moved rooms!
You've moved rooms.
Just in here, she's moved rooms.
- How are you?
- I've moved three times. Good.
Good work.
Genuinely associating oneself
with good voluntary causes.
That I think
is the sort of direction
that the Princess of Wales
sees herself moving in.
She has 20, 30, 40 years
of active public life
ahead of her.
So, the people who think of this
as the end of something,
misunderstand it, it's just
the beginning of something.
- Open the door, huh?
- Are we in here?
Well, I've got to come back.
Thanks for having us. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Excuse me!
No, no, no,
that would be treason, you know.
Her coming here
and launching this fund means
we have a chance of collecting
25 million dollars.
It gives us
public relationing profile.
We were able to, because of her,
invite the top donors
in this country,
which we wouldn't
have got normally.
She's got
everything that she's asked for.
I think she courts the press,
the media and I feel
as long as she gets
her daily fix
with the media and the press,
she's happy.
You're looking at the scene
outside Christie's this evening.
The charity auction of dresses
direct from the closet
of the Princess of Wales.
Diana, Princess of Wales
has arrived in Angola
to lend her support
to the Red Cross campaign
to ban landmines.
Millions of mines were laid
during Angola's long civil war.
Thousands of civilians
are suffering the consequences.
May I hold?
What's she feeding
this young man?
Oh, he weighs a ton.
How long has
she been waiting for a prothesis?
She has been
waiting for about three years.
Will you ask her
where the mine was?
Yeah,
she was trying to get some food
with her mother
when she stepped on a landmine.
And... don't her friends
help her?
I understand they don't help.
Sarim,
can we ask him to smile too?
Otherwise,
I'm gonna be most upset.
We have the best people working.
I'd have thought that was
the most important question
out of the two,
I'd go for that one.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
No, no, I mean the one saying
- I'm not a political figure.
- Yes, exactly.
I'm ready.
The government will be
announcing later today
that we will ban
the import, export,
transfer and manufacture
of anti-personnel landmines.
Diana! Hey, Diana!
She was named
Humanitarian of the Year in America
and mixed with
that nation's most powerful
and influential figures.
This is one
of the nicest British invasions
that the White House
has ever had.
And it's because
she is a woman who has
had a tireless commitment
to the homeless, to AIDS,
cancer, leprosy,
and other health issues.
It is humbling
to know that some of you
feel that I should be honored
in this way.
I cannot think
of a single heterosexual male
of my acquaintance
who wouldn't fancy
Princess Diana...
- But we're looking towards...
- physically, at least.
Yes, we're
looking towards the ideal for her.
I think she'd
have great difficulty because,
she's been
so spiteful to Charles
which would put some men off.
And she needs so much.
Just look at Jackie Kennedy,
fo... it wasn't a happy marriage,
but she married
the richest guy in the world.
Diana needs a billionaire
on her lifestyle.
Charlie!
Is that her?
The
Saint-Tropez villa of Diana's friend
Mohammed Al Fayed,
in full view of waiting press
and TV cameras
the princess went to
the beach beside it today.
She seemed unconcerned
by all the attention.
There is still
the question tonight
why nobody seemingly
advised the princess
against accepting hospitality
from a man
who arguably helped bring down
the last Tory government.
Revelations
about Princess Diana's
continuing involvement
with the family who own
the Harrods department store
is bound to have her critics
again questioning her judgement.
This is not the kind of man,
with all respect to Dodi,
that one would have envisaged
the mother of
the future king of this country,
uh, walking out with.
People look down
upon us around the world, outside
and say, you know, "Egyptians
are... What are the Egyptians?"
It's just a poor country,"
but that's not true.
We have power and we're gonna go
back to where we were before,
and the proof is in the pudding.
Di is dating Dodi Fayed
and I think it's great.
She wants
this romance on the record
and this is a story
that's gonna run and run
until something wonderful
or something ghastly happens.
Tonight, a Sunday newspaper's
preparing its pages
with what it describes
as intimate photographs
of the Princess
and Dodi Al Fayed,
it's reported to have paid
nearly a quarter
of a million pounds
for the pictures.
Yes, there's a
kiss. Yes, there's a tender embrace,
but this is a woman who
suddenly doesn't care,
uh, suddenly wants to shout
from the rooftops, you know,
"I'm in love and this is
the bloke I'm in love with."
This is a quite
different situation.
But she didn't
know she was being photographed
though, did she?
The Princess of Wales
is the most aware person
in the world
when it comes to photographers.
We are here today to announce
the filing of a lawsuit this morning
in LA County Superior Court
on behalf of Kelly Fisher
against Dodi Fayed.
Until a week ago, Ms. Fisher,
of Malibu, California
was engaged to Mr. Fayed
and publicly wore his ring.
Ms. Fisher learnt
about Mr. Fayed's betrayal
not from Mr. Fayed, but instead
from the kiss photo
that was published
and circulated
around the world
to Ms. Fisher's utter dismay,
shock and shame.
This is the engagement ring.
Hold it up right.
Would she consider
a reconciliation
if it's only a friendship?
- No.
- No is her answer.
If you could say something
to Princess Diana today,
what would that be?
I'd like to tell her
that, uh, sometimes the
things that seem
too good to be true,
are probably
too good to be true.
These are Jeffrey's cards...
Do you wanna see my cards?
- Whose turn is first?
- We're having a swell time
although Princess Diana
has been injured gravely
it's been reported allegedly.
Not allegedly,
they have pictures.
- We're watching it on... we're watching it on CNN.
- "Allegedly."
As the world awaits word on
the fate of Princess Diana,
the Princess of Wales
seriously injured
in a car accident
hours ago in Paris
along with companion
Dodi Al Fayed
who apparently was killed
in that accident.
There's still
no concrete word on
exactly what the condition
of the Princess is,
But I've just
been told that a French eyewitness
at the scene
said that he thought that
Diana had walked away from this,
uh,
uh, crash. Because she said she.
It's breaking news.
- So, who's winning?
- It's the news, bro.
Well, Alan's ahead right now.
- Oh, I didn't just say that.
- Alan's only got 68.
- That's good.
- Clark's next with 88.
Police have arrested
at least seven
so-called paparazzi
who were allegedly
chasing the car
at very high speed...
They just keep breaking the news
over and over again.
At the scene of the crash,
one eyewitness says that within
five seconds of the crash
there was a photographer
taking pictures
of what had happened
and the scenario
that has been, uh,
painted is of, uh, a car which
was being driven too fast
in an attempt to get away
from a photographer.
You know, that could be
the most photographed car...
Gosh. It is.
The engine is pushed
- way back into the...
- Yeah.
They have to be dead.
They're lucky anybody's alive.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well...
- Princess Diana dead!
- Oh, she died.
- Where's the remote?
Oh, my God.
You're in the
briefing room where you're gathered,
How did you find out?
Who told you?
Oh.
- Uh, so...
- Oh, God!
I had to step out
because it was still going on.
Get it loud.
We were told
by a... a hospital, uh, employee
making a public statement
and uh, now
the French Interior Minister,
Jean-Pierre Chevènement,
is speaking and expressing
his condolences.
Can you hear me?
It appears to be official.
Princess Diana at the age of 36
has died of massive
internal injuries
she, uh,
suffered in a car accident
along with her companion
Dodi Al Fayed.
Let's go now live to CNN's
Jim Bitter man in Paris. Jim.
Are these for the palace?
Here he is.
Our thoughts and prayers
are with
Princess Diana's family,
in particular, her two sons,
the two boys.
Our hearts go out to them.
We are today
a nation, in Britain,
in a state of shock.
Oh, Jesus.
Don't even know why we're here,
what we're doing here.
Didn't think we...
They was that important to us,
you know. But there you are.
You are
telling people, "Get a life."
Well, in fact
haven't they gotten a life?
Well, they've got no choice
but to get a life.
She's not coming back.
We can get on without her,
right?
It wasn't such a big deal.
Um, and many, many people, are,
I... I think now, also now,
are not afraid to say
that she didn't mean that much.
You don't know
what you're talking about.
You shouldn't even be
in these gardens, now,
you denigrate Diana
and her image,
you should not be here.
I shouldn't
be in these gardens? Who the hell are you?
- Because the people... people that have respect for Diana...
- Look, I think
you're about as smart
as you look.
You see what...
You see what brain rot...
You see what brain rot descends
on people.
Unbelievable.
They've
taken her life! I'm sorry!
I blame The Sun newspaper
- and their ilk!
- You're wrong.
It's you,
the press that killed her.
You're the scum!
Yes.
You're here to pick the bones!
The Times, Mail or The Sun?
I'll take one of each.
One of each?
One pound twenty-three, love.
- Yes, please.
- The Mail and The Sun.
Our queen
should be here in London
with her people.
This is her nation,
and they should know
how all her people
feel about Diana.
Everybody loved Diana.
Just typical reaction
of the Royal Family.
Stick to protocol.
Don't worry about human emotion.
I think it's time we
stop talking about them
and talked about ourselves,
and what's wrong
with us as a country
that this Royal Family
should apparently mean
so much to us.
People are
showing their grief in this way,
because they want
to show the Royal Family
that they feel that she
was badly treated by them.
That they just can't sweep
her under the carpet.
This incident is gross idolatry.
It is vulgar, it is garish,
it's excessive.
And quite frankly,
I think that the public
is on a flight of fantasy.
We share our grief
with our English
and Canadian friends.
One can already sense
these scenes
beginning to atone for the hurt
that there's been this week.
People grieving need to target
their anger at somebody
and royal protocol
got in the way.
But royal protocol
is being swept aside
en masse today
and it may be
the best thing that
could happen to the Monarchy.
Ma'am, take care of the boys.
- Take care of the boys, ma'am.
- That's what we've been doing.
- Sorry?
- That's what we've been doing.
I know you have.
God bless you!
William!
God bless you, William!
God bless you, young man.
Thank you.
We love you!
We loved your mother!
Diana!
We love you!
We love you, Diana!
Oh, my Diana!
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.