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Diana in Search of Herself

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by Sally Bedell Smith


  20 By one account, Diana: B-RK, p. 146

  21 “She didn’t see him until late”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  22 “James was always with her”: Ibid.

  23 “confusion … that line”: Ibid.

  24 “The classic was the suicides”: Ibid.

  25 “breathless haste”: B-AM1, p. 17

  26 “hope for the best”: Ibid., p. 16

  27 “had doubts about her veracity”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  28 “secret friendship”: Ibid.

  29 “much to Diana’s annoyance”: Ibid.

  30 “She procured them because”: Ibid.

  31 Like Diana, Knight had been: Interview with Andrew Knight

  32 “Angela rang me”: Ibid.

  33 “Angela is a very private”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  34 “Yes, if [Diana] says”: Interview with Andrew Knight

  35 “She wants it in The Sunday Times”: Ibid.

  36 As the project advanced: Interview with Andrew Morton

  37 “Just remember we always”: B-AM1, p. 64

  38 “trivial, like mosquitoes”: WO, 4/9/88

  39 “Someone said to me recently”: Sun, 6/9/89

  40 “ingratitude”: Sun, 9/10/91

  41 “Diana doesn’t understand”: To, 3/30/92; Sun, 9/10/91

  42 “I love people for”: DM, 5/20/97

  43 they might not communicate: DEx, 6/6/88

  44 “It was not an easy”: Interview with Richard Kay

  45 “I don’t understand why I have”: SuEx, 10/11/92

  46 “a close friend … she told friends”: B-AM1, p. 136

  47 “There were 4,000 of her words”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  48 “made a number of alterations”: B-AM1, p. 19

  49 “presumably out of deference”: Ibid.

  50 “the man she longed to marry”: Ibid., p. 11

  51 When Angela Serota called: Ibid., p. 174

  52 “extraordinary … grieving family”: DM, 8/24/91

  53 “Diana’s tears flowed”: Sun, 8/30/91

  54 “What do you suppose”: Independent, 11/30/91

  55 “more positive and balanced”: B-AM1, p. 176

  56 “second honeymoon … lovebirds”: DS, 8/13/91

  57 “happier and closer”: Sun, 8/13/91

  58 Meanwhile, the Waleses: B-JD, p. 579

  59 “Their lives are spent”: B-AM1, p. 182

  60 “While the caring princess”: DEx, 9/23/91

  61 “actually very healthy”: B-JD, p. 585

  62 “the greatest year of her life”: Good Housekeeping (British edition),10/91

  63 “wistful solitude”: DM, 2/12/92

  64 “poignant reminder of the royal wish”: Mi, 2/12/92

  65 “The marriage was indeed”: B-JD, p. 592

  66 Diana was well aware: Ibid., p. 591

  67 “all eyes will be on them”: ES, 2/12/92

  68 placing the blame for: Mi, 2/14/92

  69 “It was she who seemed”: ST, 2/16/92

  70 “Here she was again”: ST, 5/17/92

  71 “tabloid mauling”: B-JD, pp. 579–80

  72 they arrived and departed: B-AM1, pp. 180–81

  73 “leaving Diana to attend”: DM, 4/2/92

  74 “I asked, ‘Are you aware’ ”: Interview with Roberto Devorik

  75 she was visibly shaking: Interview with David Puttnam

  76 “It was a hard-boiled crowd”: Interview with Andrew Knight

  77 “suddenly she started”: Interview with David Puttnam

  78 “I think it would be better off”: Neil, p. 262

  79 “effectively … too fantastical”: Ibid., p. 261

  80 “He started going through”: Interview with Andrew Neil

  81 “gushing prose”: Interview with Sue Douglas

  82 “We have something serious”: Ibid.

  83 “I was able to say”: Interview with Andrew Knight

  84 “I never had any doubt”: Interview with Andrew Neil

  85 The Sunday Times upped: Neil, p. 263

  86 “there were large chunks”: Interview with Sue Douglas

  87 “Treat that book”: Interview with Stuart Higgins

  88 “It is believed”: DEx, 5/9/92

  89 “I still see myself”: ST, 5/17/92

  90 “The Princess hoped by putting”: Interview with Robert Hardman

  CHAPTER 17

  1 “She thinks he is a bad”: B-AM1, p. 184

  2 “her own privacy”: DT, 1/13/93

  3 “There was no commercial”: Interview with Max Hastings

  4 “coming under strong pressure”: Sun, 6/4/92

  5 Fealty to his sovereign: The Spectator, 1/23/99

  6 The first Sunday Times excerpt: ST, 6/7/92

  7 “I HAVE NOT COOPERATED”: Mi, 6/8/92

  8 “odious exhibition”: B-JD, p. 583

  9 McGregor checked once more: Gua, 1/12/93 (Lord McGregor letter12/11/92 to Sir David Calcutt)

  10 Prince Charles first read: B-WB, p. 165

  11 “Diana and Charles agreed”: B-AM2, p. 29

  12 “pompous”: Interview with Andrew Knight

  13 “she was making his life unbearable”: B-AM2, p. 30

  14 “Are you really telling me”: Interview with Andrew Knight

  15 “This was Diana’s elaborate way”: Ibid.

  16 “She was under huge pressure”: Interview with Andrew Neil

  17 Fellowes knew at once: B-JD, p. 584

  18 “embarrassed the commission”: McGregor letter, 12/11/92

  19 “the thought that the Princess”: B-JD, p. 587

  20 He changed his mind: Ibid., p. 586

  21 When Charles learned: Ibid., p. 588

  22 “if she tried to manipulate”: B-AM2, p. 31

  23 That afternoon, Diana burst: Sun, 6/12/92

  24 “rallied to the Prince”: B-JD, p. 588

  25 “shocked and horrified”: Pano, p. 18

  26 Two days earlier: B-JD, p. 588; ST, 6/28/92

  27 “was led to believe”: ST, 6/28/92

  28 “Left her shaken rigid”: B-AM2, p. 34

  29 “Diana said, ‘When I came’ ”: Interview with Elsa Bowker

  30 by writing Diana a series: ST, 12/13/92

  31 Diana reacted defensively: B-AM2, p. 35

  32 “stinging … irate”: B-AM1, p. 217

  33 “caring and compassionate”: Sun, 6/8/92

  34 “was very upset”: Interview with Andrew Knight

  35 Although their views informed: Interviews with Sue Douglas, Andrew Neil

  36 “dignified silence”: ST, 6/28/92

  37 “campaign of derision”: B-AM2, p. 40

  38 when transcripts of the Squidgy: MOS, 1/18/93

  39 “was done to harm me”: Pano, p. 22

  40 “had enjoyed a ‘physical’ ”: Sun, 9/1/92

  41 while he never took: ES, 9/3/92, 12/3/93

  42 “destroyed”: B-AM1, p. 221

  43 “flowering of [her] true”: Ibid., p. 21

  44 “growing sense of self-belief”: Ibid., p. 27

  45 “emotional roller coaster”: Ibid.

  46 “She dropped most”: Interview with Richard Kay

  47 “incensed … at what she perceived”: DM, 5/6/93

  48 “unpaid adviser”: DT, 10/7/97

  49 “James Colthurst was still my”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  50 “What had been hidden”: Pano, p. 18

  51 each consulting lawyers: B-AM2, p. 48; B-WB, p. 166

  52 “openly talking about”: B-JD, p. 589

  53 “Mrs. Walsh”: DM, 12/10/92

  54 being “exiled”: B-AM1, p. 222

  55 during the Balmoral holiday: B-JD, p. 592

  56 WHY CHARLES AND DIANA ARE BACK TOGETHER: B-JW, p. 129

  57 “often distraught”: B-JD, p. 593

  58 “The Glums”: B-JW, p. 130

  59 “The strain is immense”: Ibid., pp. 593–94 (PC letter 11/8/92 to unnamed recipient)

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bsp; 60 Diana had been on the phone: Ibid., p. 593

  61 “recent wave of misleading”: Ibid., pp. 139–40

  62 Within days, the tabloids: Mi, 1/17/93; Sun, 1/17/93

  63 the tape of this conversation: DS, 11/14/92; MOS, 1/17/93

  64 “I’ll just live inside”: Mi, 1/17/93

  65 prompted questions: DM, 11/14/92

  66 “snapped”: B-JD, p. 595; B-WB, pp. 169–70

  67 “Unable to see any future”: B-JD, p. 595

  68 “not at all”: Pano, p. 19

  69 to tell them the news: Ibid., p. 20

  70 “heard it on the radio”: Ibid., p. 19

  71 “carefree, glossy”: DM, 12/11/92

  72 “Diana sounded flat”: B-AP, p. 297

  73 “The media did not mismatch”: DM, 12/10/92

  74 “report the truth”: ES, 12/10/92

  75 “royal magic … on his judgment”: DM, 12/10/92

  CHAPTER 18

  1 “She lived her life in so many”: VF, 10/97

  2 “to discuss the things”: Interview with Roberto Devorick

  3 “She liked to be the one”: Interview with Marguerite Littman

  4 “She needed to be liked”: Interview with Mark Lloyd

  5 “It was totally one-to-one”: Interview with Cosima Somerset

  6 She retreated: B-RK, p. 108

  7 “I said, ‘When you do’ ”: Interview with David Puttnam

  8 “They are perfect”: Interview with Nicholas Haslam

  9 “Why are you sending”: Ibid.

  10 “She was very clever to give”: Ibid.

  11 “I was not on the same social”: B-SS, p. 18

  12 giving Diana “prophecies”: B-AM1, pp. 130, 163

  13 “the mother I would have liked”: DM, 1/14/98

  14 “the essential ingredient of our relationship”: DM, 9/4/97

  15 The family was also decidedly: VF, 5/97

  16 “At lunch at Annabel’s”: Interview with Cosima Somerset

  17 “She liked my way of living”: Interview with Elsa Bowker

  18 “To be her friend was difficult”: Ibid.

  19 Like Elsa, Hayat was: ES, 6/2/95; DM, 5/9/98

  20 “glass stump”: B-JD, p. 546

  21 “Peter took the approach”: Interview with Nigel Dempster

  22 PALACE DENIES SPIRITUAL CRISIS: Ti, 4/28/93

  23 “her sulky public behavior”: SuTel, 9/7/97

  24 “simply cry [until she was] totally drained”: Ibid.

  25 “compassionate and practical”: Ibid.

  26 The Louisiana-born: NYT, 4/4/99

  27 “I would have loved to”: Interview with Marguerite Littman

  28 “I deliberately didn’t get”: Ibid.

  29 since she had trained as: DM, 5/6/93

  30 “like a brother to her”: Interview with Roberto Devorik

  31 “By 1989, [Andrew and I] were sharing”: B-SF, p. 163

  32 The first was Steve Wyatt: Ibid., pp. 191–92, 198–200

  33 “financial adviser”: Esquire, 6/95

  34 While hiding in some nearby: Ibid.; B-SF, pp. 6–10; B-JW, pp. 112–13

  35 “potent confederacy”: B-SF, p. 187

  36 “its level best to isolate”: Ibid., p. 224

  37 “She’s the only person I know”: B-RK, p. 157

  38 “Palladian jewel”: Spencer, p. 55

  39 after the royal security: DEx, 5/18/93

  40 “brief but bitter silence”: Spencer, p. 55

  41 “I hate you so much”: B-AM1, p. 29

  42 Diana and Raine had met: DM, 5/12/93

  43 As word of their friendship: Mi, 7/13/98

  44 “she felt remorse”: Interview with Elsa Bowker

  CHAPTER 19

  1 “I never found her strong”: DM, 9/1/97

  2 “I was a problem.… busy stopping me”: Pano, pp. 20–21

  3 “Parents sometimes desert”: Ti, 9/12/91

  4 As expected, the press saw: DT, 12/4/93

  5 THE REAL PAIN OF A BROKEN MARRIAGE: To, 11/18/92

  6 DIANA: THE PAIN OF BEING UNLOVED: DM, 11/18/92

  7 “children are not … every household”: Ibid.

  8 “lecture on good parenting”: Ibid.

  9 “astonishing”: To, 11/18/92

  10 “extraordinary”: DM, 11/18/92

  11 She had sixty sessions: DM, 5/26/93

  12 “that didn’t actually say”: ITV-Doc

  13 “I have it on very good”: DM, 4/28/93

  14 “the ‘authority’ was herself”: Ibid.

  15 “astonishing”: DM, 5/26/93

  16 “showed she had beaten”: To, 4/28/93

  17 “dieting, bingeing, and self-hatred”: Susie Orbach, Fat Is a Feminist Issue (1988), p. 13

  18 “the body as the personification.… wrested away from her”: Susie Orbach speech “Protest and Defiance: Surrender and Complicity: Eating Problems in the 90’s” (1993)

  19 “someone who had learned”: DEx, 4/28/93

  20 “not about lack of self-control”: Orbach, Fat Is a Feminist Issue, p. 28

  21 By 1993, she had been taking: B-SS, p. 93; DM, 2/24/98; B-AM2, p. 108

  22 “haze of loneliness”: DM, 6/2/93

  23 a poll in Today: Gua, 12/23/93

  24 “Bad Witch … Good Witch”: B-SF, pp. 187, 196

  25 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd: B-JD, p. 653

  26 Diana’s celebrity even eclipsed: Ti, 12/5/96

  27 THE TRIUMPH OF DIANA: Ibid.

  28 “Nepal,” he was told: DT, 3/23/93

  29 “addicted to the limelight”: B-AM2, p. 80

  30 “relentless”: DM, 7/13/93

  31 a Mirror poll: Gua, 12/23/93

  32 and Tatler magazine: Tatler, 11/93

  33 “dirty tricks”: DM, 3/3/93

  34 “downgrade … marginalize”: DM, 4/8/93

  35 “Palace plots against”: DM, 7/30/93

  36 “I acknowledge that she had to”: Interview with Andrew Morton

  37 “many-headed hydra”: DT, 9/1/97

  38 Kay was thirty-six: Interview with Richard Kay

  39 “our first serious and lengthy”: DM, 9/1/97

  40 “I realized how inadequately”: Interview with Richard Kay

  41 “I saw her at her happiest”: DM, 9/1/97

  42 “I wanted information”: Interview with Richard Kay

  43 “When I was at the Mail”: Interview with Richard Addis

  44 “unofficial press officer”: B-AM2, p. 137

  45 “I couldn’t disclose”: Interview with Richard Kay

  46 “I want to get away from it all”: Interview with Mark Lloyd

  47 “It was totally secure”: Ibid.

  48 “Once Diana made up”: Ibid.

  49 “suffering from stress and exhaustion”: SuPe, 7/25/93

  50 “You make my life hell!”: Sun, 8/3/93; DEx, 8/3/93

  51 “looking angry and strained”: Mi, 10/11/93

  52 PAIN OF A PRINCESS: IS THE STRAIN GETTING TO DI?: Ibid.

  53 DI’S AT BREAKING POINT AS CHARLES WINS THE PR WAR: Sun, 10/12/93

  54 “This is the face of a woman”: Mi, 10/11/93

  55 “increasingly emotional”: Sun, 10/12/93

  56 A meeting on: Ti, 10/31/93; DM, 10/26/93

  57 “Diana told me that Prince Charles”: Interview with Andrew Neil

  58 “The idea I am searching”: Financial Times, 11/22/93

  59 “prolonged eating binge”: Sun, 11/4/93

  60 “rare public display”: ES, 11/4/93

  61 “pathetically damaged … broken”: B-SS, p. 27

  62 “shocked … self-mutilation”: Ibid., p. 19

  63 “were counteracting … tension and panic”: Ibid., pp. 27–28

  64 “it proved impossible”: B-JD, p. 653

  65 “real purpose”: Ibid., p. 654

  66 “The pressure was … owed it to the public”: Pano, p. 24

  67 “little light”: Interview with David Puttnam

  68 “I will be reduci
ng.… kindness and support”: To, 12/4/93

  69 “the tears started”: ES, 12/3/93

  70 “campaign to downgrade”: Sun, 12/4/93

  71 she left her 118 charities: ES, 12/3/93

  72 Indeed, Mike Whitlam: To, 12/4/93

  73 “Carping newspaper columnists”: Ibid.

  74 “bored stiff”: Sun, 12/4/93

  75 “does not know what”: Ti, 12/4/93

  76 “We can reveal today”: DM, 12/6/93

  77 “the great and good”: Interview with David Puttnam

  78 “I don’t think she knew her own”: Interview with Michael Adler

  CHAPTER 20

  1 “There is one man”: Mi, 12/5/93

  2 Hoare was distantly: ST, 12/18/94

  3 her “protégé … study and excavate”: DM, 9/8/94

  4 he embraced Sufism: NOTW, 2/26/95

  5 eyes of “deep velvet”: DM, 8/22/94

  6 “old-fashioned politesse”: ST, 8/28/94

  7 As a figure in the London: DM, 9/8/94; ST, 12/18/94

  8 “Oliver is half child”: DM, 9/8/94

  9 From 1985 to 1989: NOTW, 8/28/94; ST, 12/18/94

  10 Hoare was also close to: ST, 8/28/94

  11 sharing an interest: DM, 8/22/94

  12 Diana began visiting: To, 3/21/94; 9/24/94

  13 “Sometimes she could phone”: NOTW, 2/19/95

  14 “She wrote the letter”: Interview with Elsa Bowker

  15 “there was great love”: Ibid.

  16 The calls began in September: NOTW, 8/21/94

  17 “Whoever it is just wants”: Ibid.

  18 “It was like a war zone”: NOTW, 2/19/95

  19 “Oliver told Diana he had”: Interview with Elsa Bowker

  20 “had been made essentially”: B-SS, p. 98

  21 “asking for trouble”: Ibid., p. 100

  22 The anonymous phone calls ceased: NOTW, 2/19/95

  23 Over the next six days: NOTW, 8/21/94

  24 “rented by the Office … calling her first name”: Mi, 4/30/98

  25 “Yes, I’m so sorry”: NOTW, 8/21/94

  26 This time they were traced: Ibid.

  27 “her head rested trustingly”: To, 9/24/94

  28 “enough to start speculation: Telegraph magazine, 10/29/94

  29 “The Princess has been a regular”: To, 3/21/94

  30 Five months later: NOTW, 8/21/94

  31 Both Hoare and Diana had learned: DM, 8/22/94; 8/23/94

  32 Kay spoke to Clive Goodman: Interview with Richard Kay

  33 “some very loyal, and perhaps misguided”: NOTW, 8/21/94

  34 On Saturday afternoon: Interview with Richard Kay

  35 “poured out her anger”: DM, 8/22/94

 

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