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Diana in Search of Herself

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by Sally Bedell Smith


  2 “as if no other woman”: DT, 4/7/98

  3 Diana and Charles had successfully toured: DM, 11/22/86

  4 “It wasn’t a typical seduction”: DEx, 9/3/98

  5 “Charles was involved with Camilla”: DM, 11/28/98

  6 “I always want the unobtainable”: Sun, 1/12/98

  7 for which he compensated: DM, 11/28/98

  8 “I couldn’t read and assumed”: Ibid.

  9 “I had red hair, was short”: Ibid.

  10 During his school days, Hewitt used: Ibid.

  11 “He lost his trust in people”: B-AP, p. 55

  12 as a “decoy,” Emma later said: DT, 4/7/98

  13 “was holding long whispered”: Ibid.

  14 “She let her fingers mingle”: B-AP, p. 86

  15 he had “trusted” the Oxford-educated: DEx, 9/3/98

  16 “vaguely, socially”: You magazine, 9/20/98

  17 it was widely ridiculed: DEx, 9/3/98

  18 “Yes, I adored him”: Pano, p. 27

  19 “factual evidence”: Ibid., p. 26

  20 “there was a lot of fantasy”: Ibid., p. 27

  21 “She knew that somewhere”: B-AP, p. 75

  22 “It was with James Hewitt’s unswerving”: Ibid., p. xiii

  23 “spent hours lying in bed”: Ibid., pp. 87–88

  24 “I was with her because”: DM, 11/28/98

  25 “release from the tension”: B-AP, p. 34

  26 “emotional roller coaster”: Ibid., p. 171

  27 In the beginning she would sit: Ibid., p. 156

  28 “violent paroxysms of despair”: Ibid., p. 171

  29 “struck her as a form”: Ibid., p. 170

  30 “he had never seen anyone so distraught”: Ibid., p. 138

  31 “Often she felt as if she was perching”: Ibid., p. 142

  32 “lack of control … unmitigated greed”: Ibid., p. 117

  33 he couldn’t reveal: Ibid., pp. 124–25

  34 “I view depression as a sign”: DM, 11/28/98

  35 “Some people go to psychiatrists”: DEx, 9/3/98

  36 Diana expressed her affection: DM, 7/18/91; ES, 9/13/92

  37 “head to foot”: Sun, 8/24/92

  38 At least one maid worried: B-WB, p. 87

  39 “she would try anything to win”: B-AP, p. 126

  40 “an attempt by others”: Interview with David Puttnam

  41 she began to tell Hewitt she hated: B-AP, p. 127

  42 When their guests arrived: B-WB, p. 66

  43 “That is the total agony”: B-JD, p. 477 (PC letter 10/24/87 to unnamed recipient)

  44 stripped of the basic civility: NOTW, 9/20/87

  45 “an obsession for her”: B-AP, p. 160

  46 then retreat to her room: B-WB, p. 69

  47 “the biggest story they’d ever”: R&R-Doc, Part II, p. 24

  48 “a version of the facts”: B-JD, p. 574

  49 The first significant clue: DEx, DS, DM, 2/12/87

  50 “the last time we were close”: B-AM1, p. 50

  51 Charles had resumed: NOTW, 12/28/86; DT, 8/28/86

  52 invariably prompted rebukes: B-JD, p. 483

  53 hinted unfairly and incorrectly: Ibid., p. 482; DM, 10/19/87

  54 “eclipsed by the Princess, resentful”: B-JD, p. 476

  55 “I can’t see a light”: Ibid., p. 483 (PC letter 10/24/87 to unnamed recipient)

  56 “unable to turn to his parents”: Ibid., p. 476

  57 “When marriages break down”: Ibid., p. 480

  58 tried to get Charles to build: B-WB, pp. 46–47

  59 “The very fact that she felt”: B-AP, p. 142

  60 “slashed … adjusted to hide the damage”: B-PJ2, p. 137

  61 “She was like the sun coming up”: TNY, 9/15/97

  62 “undignified”: DM, 2/18/87

  63 “black lover”: ST, 9/23/90

  64 she smirked while reviewing: B-PT, p. 44; B-SF, p. 124

  65 “sexy” Diana … “grumpy” Charles: DS, 2/23/87

  66 Diana’s bulimia had again: B-AP, pp. 144–45

  67 Waterhouse and Dunne: SuPe, 6/28/87; DM, 11/2/88; MOS, 2/17/91

  68 “mystery fat man”: NOTW, 6/28/87

  69 “stormed off”: Ibid., 6/21/87

  70 “in a huff”: DM, 6/21/87

  71 The tabloids castigated: Sun, 6/23/87

  72 “We are not having”: Ibid.

  73 “frequent visitor to Kensington”: B-JD, p. 481

  74 Waterhouse also visited: B-WB, p. 82

  75 “repeatedly tried to reassure”: B-AP, p. 260

  76 which especially galled: B-JD, pp. 476, 482

  77 accused Diana: B-WB, p. 60

  78 “positive hurricane”: B-JD, p. 483 (PC letter 10/24/87 to unnamed recipient)

  79 They spent several weekends: B-WB, pp. 78, 80; SuMi, 2/14/88

  80 A group of advisers: NYT Magazine, 2/21/88

  81 “Disco Di,” the femme fatale: DM, 9/25/87

  82 “so many cock-ups … stop fighting”: B-AM1, p. 64

  83 “rediscover the real”: Ibid., p. 157

  84 “comparatively civilized ‘space’ ”: B-PT, p. 52

  85 “They were back in sparkling”: SuMi, 2/14/88

  86 “glanced affectionately at his wife”: DM, 1/27/88

  87 “she now hated with a vitriolic”: B-AP, p. 166

  88 they appeared to their staff more calm: B-WB, p. 84

  89 “worse than her usual melancholy”: B-AP, p. 185

  90 Charles acted heroically: Ti, 3/12/88

  91 “He just pushed me aside”: B-PT, p. 61

  92 She insisted that they take: B-AM1, p. 60

  93 “so inadequate in every”: Ibid.

  94 “We cried for Prince Charles”: DEx, 3/15/88

  95 “the beginning of a slow process”: B-AM1, p. 161

  96 Back in England with Hewitt: B-AP, p. 186

  97 She lashed out: Ibid., p. 191

  98 “most beautiful woman … found her attractive”: Ibid., p. 193

  99 She said that her skin: B-AM1, p. 61

  100 But by 1988, people had begun: Interview with William Haseltine

  101 “painfully thin, almost gaunt”: To, 3/25/88

  102 “suddenly woke up”: B-AM1, p. 61

  103 “sweetheart … four or five”: Ibid.

  104 “born again”: Ibid.

  105 “finished”: Ibid., p. 60

  106 suffered from the symptoms in 1990: Ibid., p. 61

  107 who only overcame: WO, 4/8/78

  CHAPTER 14

  1 “She’d never ask if she”: Sun, 1/15/98

  2 “tended to seek out people”: B-PT, p. 207

  3 “from one person to another”: B-JK, p. 78

  4 “immediately began to pour”: Sun, 1/15/98

  5 “easily defeated … strong character”: B-AM1, p. 208

  6 “What is going to happen”: Sun, 1/15/98

  7 “believe [astrology] totally”: B-AM1, p. 66

  8 “She was not ruled”: Ibid., p. 200

  9 “her belief [was] at times”: Ibid., p. 237

  10 “go through a transformation”: Sun, 8/24/92

  11 “willful and capable of … inner strength”: Rita Rogers, From One World to Another (1998), p. 246

  12 Diana believed she communicated …“nut”: B-AM1, pp. 65–66

  13 “deep emotional problems”: B-RK, p. 148

  14 “I think the most important thing”: ITV-Doc

  15 For four years, energy healer: B-RK, p. 148

  16 “truckloads of negative”: B-SS, p. 19

  17 “rarely met anyone”: Ibid., p. 18

  18 routinely fielded eight-hour phone calls: Ibid., p. 34

  19 “always seemed completely compos”: Ibid., p. 19

  20 Diana claimed to experience: B-AM1, p. 66

  21 “I know this sounds a bit”: Sun, 8/24/92

  22 she had been a nun: B-AM1, p. 243

  23 she told Penny Thornton: B-PT, p. 79

  24 She spo
ke of voices: B-AM1, pp. 34, 62

  25 “strange feeling … drop down”: Ibid., p. 29

  26 “visualize … burning it”: B-AM2, p. 14

  27 “take all the aggro”: Ibid.

  28 “so that they would be in different”: B-SS, p. 132

  29 “a peculiar mixture”: Interview with Kent Ravenscroft

  30 “helps me to keep calm”: B-RK, p. 148

  31 “she had reached a very low point”: SuEx, 7/5/92

  32 “an eating disorder which in Chinese”: DM, 2/24/98

  33 research studies have shown: WP, 10/13/98

  34 “just to tell me what she had”: Rogers, p. 241

  35 “Most of all … she needed”: Sun, 1/15/98

  36 “support and love”: Pano, p. 8

  37 “they weren’t aware”: Ibid.

  38 “created a new royal role”: DEx, 11/14/89

  39 “I want to feel I am needed”: SuTel, 9/7/97

  40 “the toughest battle of”: SuEx, 8/25/91

  41 “Diana was a good friend”: Interview with William Haseltine

  42 “She was very, very nervous”: Interview with Michael Adler

  43 “We hope if people see”: DEx, 1/10/87

  44 “Princess Diana should shake”: Mi, 1/29/87

  45 “It was highly programmed”: Interview with Michael Adler

  46 “I found myself being more”: Pano, p. 4

  47 “The caring princess has thrown”: To, 5/24/88

  48 “a cooler and more independent”: ST, 9/25/88

  49 “fully fledged emergence”: DM, 1/25/89

  50 “the line between recreational”: DM, 5/19/89

  51 250 engagements: DM, 6/10/89; Sun, 6/9/89

  52 “I say, ‘Did you see’ ”: B-AM1, p. 66

  53 “I would have an ongoing”: Interview with Michael Adler

  54 “fulfilled her public”: Interview with William Haseltine

  55 “I used to write her the most”: ITV-Doc

  56 In 1988, Diana began visiting: To, 11/30/88; DEx, 12/15/88; DM, 4/21/89

  57 “She was totally involved”: To, 5/24/89

  58 She even kept a copy: Sun, 4/16/91

  59 “Some people find it very”: DT, 6/17/89

  60 “was completely intuitive”: Sutel, 9/7/97

  61 “She did have a powerful”: Interview with Michael Adler

  62 “This morning I arrived”: Requiem: Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961–1997: Memories and Tributes (1997), edited by Brian MacArthur, p. 107

  63 “She often felt powerless”: Sun, 1/15/98

  64 “she knew exactly what”: Interview with Cosima Somerset

  65 “more open and more vulnerable”: Pano, p. 4

  66 “was declared a loser”: B-SF, p. 138

  67 “opened a vacancy”: Ibid., p. 137

  68 “appalling … crass, rude”: Ibid., p. 138

  69 DUCHESS OF PORK!: Ibid., p. 143

  70 when her father was caught: To, 5/23/88

  71 “as cozy and personal”: B-SF, p. 110

  72 Besides his £35,000 ($55,000) salary: B-SF, pp. 158–59

  73 Diana and Charles, on the: B-JD, pp. 614–15

  74 Fergie was amassing: B-SF, p. 159

  75 “gray men”: Ibid., p. 149

  76 “hopelessly erratic”: Ibid., p. 154

  77 In a conversation with her friend: Sun, 8/24/92

  CHAPTER 15

  1 Since they irritated: B-WB, pp. 86, 92–94, 107–9, 120

  2 “I was very bad about”: I-FSK

  3 “The media descended”: MOS, 3/9/97

  4 “You have seduced”: Sun, 11/9/88

  5 “sexy dance”: DM, 11/11/88

  6 “We got the balance”: TV Times, 11/11/89

  7 “triumphant tour”: SuPe, 11/13/88

  8 “disaster … all evening”: SuPe, 3/17/91 (The article’s byline was “Frances Cornwell,” one of James Whitaker’s pseudonyms.)

  9 “valiant front”: B-AP, p. 195

  10 “were sticking together”: TNY, 9/15/97

  11 “painful emotions and thoughts”: SuEx, 7/5/92

  12 “presence of Camilla”: Sun, 1/12/98

  13 “a voice inside me said”: B-AM1, p. 62

  14 “the most famous welfare”: Ti, 2/3/89

  15 DI-VINE: Gua, 2/13/89

  16 “hold her head high … having done her bit”: B-AP, p. 206

  17 “needled me the whole”: B-AM1, p. 62

  18 “as if we were all best”: Ibid., p. 63

  19 Diana said she realized she was “in the way”: Ibid.

  20 “It was … seven years’ pent-up … “I just said”: Ibid.

  21 “For a few weeks she would”: B-AP, p. 144

  22 She took Hewitt: Ibid., pp. 197–203

  23 Diana viewed it as abandonment: Ibid., p. 220

  24 “She loved with an everlasting”: Interview with Paul Johnson; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Vol. 1, pp. 150–51

  25 “their respective love lives”: B-AM1, p. 188

  26 “secret late date”: SuPe, 10/29/89

  27 “It’s very hard”: To, 10/31/89

  28 “darling”: Descriptions of the Gilbey conversation are drawn from the transcript published on 8/24/92 in The Sun. The reference to “playing with yourself” was not included in the Sun transcription but appeared in B-JW, p. 89.

  29 “adulterous relationship”: Pano, p. 22

  30 It had none of Diana’s: Descriptions of the Camilla conversation are drawn from the transcript published on 1/17/93 in the Sunday Mirror.

  31 “Saint Diana”: DEx, 11/14/89

  32 “Faced with the horror”: SuMi, 11/5/89

  33 “turns a blind eye to”: DEx, 7/11/90

  34 “heat-wave hairstyle”: DS, 7/25/90

  35 Andrew Morton’s report: ST, 6/17/90

  36 “ill-informed”: ES, 6/26/90

  37 Diana sat by his bedside: DM, 6/30/90, 9/5/90

  38 “brushed aside”: B-PT, p. 76

  39 Camilla was a frequent: B-WB, pp. 125–26

  40 “snap out of the gloom”: To, 10/22/90

  41 “an affectionate accommodation”: ST, 9/23/90

  42 “blackmail-style notes”: NOTW, 8/30/92

  43 “I knew about Charles”: Interview with Max Hastings

  44 Over the Christmas holidays: B-WB, pp. 134–35

  45 “We went through the various”: Interview with Stuart Higgins

  46 “Patsy Chapman, the editor”: Interview with Andrew Knight

  47 “Diana certainly knew”: Interview with Stuart Higgins

  48 “someone very close”: Interview with Richard Kay

  49 Since Iraq’s invasion: B-WB, pp. 130, 136

  50 Throughout the autumn: B-AP, pp. 224, 253

  51 Diana began writing: Ibid., p. 235; DM, 4/2/98

  52 “long, flowing letters”: B-AP, pp. 235–36

  53 “finally trying to understand”: Ibid., p. 239

  54 “the truth about Charles and Camilla”: Ibid., p. 251

  55 Diana constantly vacillated: Ibid., p. 263

  56 “Something had to be done”: Ibid., p. 252

  57 “we first put the words”: B-SF, p. 187

  58 “cause for concern”: DM, 2/17/91, 2/25/91

  59 when he reached Diana: B-AP, p. 262

  60 his estranged girlfriend: SuMi, 3/17/91; ES, 7/2/91

  61 “Diana cannot afford”: Mi, 3/18/91

  62 When Hewitt returned: B-AP, pp. 270–71

  63 “rejected … used”: Ibid., p. 274

  64 “She simply stopped”: DEx, 9/3/98

  65 “glimpse of the old magic”: SuEx, 7/14/91

  66 “a united front”: SuMi, 4/28/91

  67 “I walked in”: Interview with William Reilly

  68 “very tense. The marriage was”: DM, 1/15/98

  69 “If Charles was off to see”: Interview with Andrew Neil

  70 “often has to act as”: DM, 4/4/91

  71 “Charles insists that his”: Mi, 4/13/91

  7
2 “depressed fracture”: Mi, 6/4/91

  73 At that point, Charles decided: B-JD, p. 576

  74 “bedside vigil”: Mi, 6/4/91

  75 “a fractured skull is not”: Sun, 6/5/91

  76 PHANTOM FATHER: DEx, 6/5/91

  77 THE EXHAUSTED FACE OF A LOVING MOTHER: To, 6/5/91

  78 Diana later told Morton: B-AM1, p. 179

  79 “horror and disbelief”: Ibid., p. 176

  80 shifting back and forth: These reports included DEx, 2/8/91, 2/9/91; DM, 3/12/91; Sun, 4/16/91; DM 4/17/91; Mi, 5/6/91

  81 “Since the Prince broke”: Sun, 5/20/91

  82 “He ignores me everywhere”: B-AM1, p. 57

  83 “It was an open secret”: Interview with Peter McKay

  84 “came back very excited”: Interview with Sue Douglas

  85 “Princess Diana is to spend”: DM, 6/28/91

  86 “That was straight PR”: Interview with Nigel Dempster

  87 “It was a well-bred lady’s”: Ibid.

  88 “growing coolness”: DM, 7/2/91

  89 “The sad truth”: Sun, 7/3/91

  90 “friendship with Hewitt”: ES, 7/2/91

  91 “finds Mrs. Parker Bowles”: DM, 7/18/91

  92 “supper for two”: Sun, 7/9/91

  93 “Charles and Diana’s summer”: ST, 7/7/91

  94 “I was told that both”: DT, 1/13/93

  CHAPTER 16

  1 “cozy supper”: DEx, 7/25/91

  2 “She thought she was a wise soul”: ITV-Doc

  3 “a huge amount of hostility”: ITV-Doc

  4 “everything was in her”: Interview with Roberto Devorik

  5 Diana told friends that she believed: DM, 1/15/98

  6 “the lid was being”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  7 “at the end of my tether”: Pano, p. 17

  8 “horrible sadness … the very worst time”: Hello!, 11/22/97

  9 “She was on the verge”: ST, 11/1/98

  10 “She was a woman scorned”: Interview with Andrew Roberts

  11 “Most people who knew her”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  12 she and Diana formed: Interview with Andrew Knight

  13 “Angela was very important”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  14 “conduit”: B-AM1, p. 14

  15 “nibbling around”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  16 “royal sniper”: DS, 12/1/82

  17 “It is just another indication”: NOTW, 5/4/86

  18 “I didn’t know about the bulimia”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  19 who was also a friend of Morton’s: B-PT, pp. 120–21

 

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