Diana in Search of Herself
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36 “Do you know you’re being”: Mark Saunders and Glenn Harvey, Dicing with Di: The Amazing Adventures of Britain’s Royal Chasers (1996), pp. 114–15
37 “unprecedented interview”: DM, 8/22/94
38 “neurotic nonsense”: The Observer, 8/28/94
39 “thoroughly modern princess”: Ti, 8/23/94
40 “hunting for change”: Telegraph magazine, 10/29/94
41 “with a picture of your mother-in-law”: The Observer, 8/28/94
42 “I feel I am being destroyed”: DM, 8/22/94
43 These claims later proved: DM, 8/23/94; B-PT, p. 204
44 “in the habit of ringing”: DM, 8/22/94
45 “bizarre”: ST, 8/28/94
46 “I reckon she has”: Ibid.
47 “300 silent nuisance calls”: Sun, 9/8/94
48 “whiff of conspiracy”: DM, 10/24/94
49 “I was reputed to have made”: Pano, pp. 22–23
50 the “young boy”: Sunday Independent, 11/26/95
51 “made a lot of calls”: DEx, 11/27/95
52 During late January: Ibid.
53 “she rang him seventy times”: Interview with Elsa Bowker
54 “She said he was a weak”: Ibid.
55 “as late as 1995”: B-SS, p. 91
56 In February: NOTW, 2/19/95
57 “The truth is, she views”: DM, 2/20/95
58 “He put them in a brown”: Interview with Elsa Bowker
59 Diana was growing increasingly: B-RK, p. 134
60 The primary focus: DT, 11/6/98
61 The capstone of the film: ST, 7/3/94
62 Dimbleby’s filmed conversation: JD-Doc
63 “the clear context was”: Sun, 7/2/94; SuTel, 7/3/94
64 two days earlier: DM, 6/28/94
65 By then, Charles had briefed: DT, 11/15/95
66 “to kill off the speculation”: SuTel, 7/3/94
67 audience of 13.4 million: Gua, 11/21/95
68 “She bounded out”: ITV-Doc
69 “I didn’t exactly feel like”: Interview with Graydon Carter
70 “You have to help us out”: Interview with Christopher Hitchens
71 THE THRILLA HE LEFT TO WOO CAMILLA: Sun, 6/30/94
72 “Here was a woman at ease”: DM, 6/30/94
73 “She could have watched”: DT, 6/30/94
74 One poll showed: ST, 7/3/94
75 CHARLES RULES OK: Ibid.
76 “It is something that I think”: JD-Doc
77 “very fair-minded”: Sun, 7/1/94
78 “crowing”: MOS, 7/3/94
79 “I haven’t seen the program”: DEx, 7/4/94
80 “pretty devastated”: Pano, p. 25
81 “I don’t regard myself”: NOTW, 10/2/94
82 “dumped him”: Ibid.
83 “It was a preemptive strike”: MOS, 10/2/94
84 “Diana was happy for it”: NOTW, 10/2/94
85 “anodyne”: DM, 10/3/94
86 “too beautiful”: ES, 10/3/94; Independent, 10/4/94
87 By late July: ST, 10/9/94; Mi, 10/3/94
88 The Mirror later published: SuTel, 4/25/99
89 At the time of publication: Gua, 10/5/94
90 “proof”: ES, 10/3/94
91 “affirming the truth”: Gua, 10/6/94
92 “set the record straight”: Independent, 10/4/94
93 “clogging, nauseating”: Ibid.
94 TRAITOR: DEx, 10/4/94
95 LOVE RAT and CAD: Sun, 10/4/94
96 BRITAIN’S BIGGEST BOUNDER: DM, 10/2/94
97 “He is a revolting”: Mi, 10/3/94
98 “Eight-Page Special”: Sun, 10/4/94
99 “grubby and worthless”: Gua, 10/6/94
100 “wretched”: DEx, 10/4/94
101 “bitterly hurt”: DM, 10/24/94
102 “fevered imagination”: DEx, 10/4/94
103 “there was nothing”: Pano, p. 27
104 CHARLES: I’VE NEVER LOVED DIANA: ST, 11/13/94
105 “lovable … in love with her”: B-JD, p. 339
106 Dimbleby also acknowledged: Ibid., pp. 341–42, 345
107 “insist he was to blame”: Ibid., p. 367
108 Diana went to see William: ST, 11/13/94
109 “Well, there were three”: Pano, p. 26
110 “picture portrayed … revenge attack”: B-RK, p. 134
111 “She feels the furor”: Sun, 10/18/94
112 “had not had any contact”: DEx, 8/20/94
113 “mishmash of tedious”: The Observer, 10/5/97
114 “bitter, jealous, and lonely”: Ti, 11/7/94
115 another self-mutilation … her use of Prozac: MOS, 11/6/94
116 “Jekyll and Hyde”: Sun, 3/4/94
117 “dead common”: Tatler, 4/94
118 “She has been given”: The Observer, 8/28/94
119 “She was schizophrenic”: Interview with Robert Hardman
120 “I got a call from”: Interview with Anthony Holden
121 “She wanted me to touch base”: Interview with Andrew Neil
122 “She wanted to win them”: Interview with Richard Kay
123 “I’ve been walking on air”: ES, 4/13/95
124 “notorious illiterate”: DM, 9/28/95
125 “took Diana’s side”: Interview with Richard Ingrams
126 “Come to dinner Friday night”: Interview with Max Hastings
127 the letter she wrote to Richard Kay’s mother: DM, 9/1/97
128 “The Prince felt too”: Interview with Max Hastings
129 “She was the kind of person”: Interview with Paul Johnson
130 “tacit bargain”: TNY, 9/15/97
131 “native cunning”: Interview with Andrew Roberts
132 In May 1994: DM, 5/18/94
133 “My husband said it”: Requiem, p. 115
134 “To my horror”: Ibid., p. 117
135 Later that afternoon: Interview with Richard Kay
136 The next day’s Daily Mail: DM, 5/19/94
137 “played a role”: Interview with Richard Kay
138 “like a rape”: DM, 5/4/91
139 “two faces … live like a typist”: Sun, 5/5/94
140 “She didn’t understand”: Interview with Peter McKay
141 Diana “hated” being described: DM, 9/1/97
142 “It was manipulation”: TNY, 9/15/97
CHAPTER 21
1 “It was always push”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
2 turning up at only ten royal: To, 12/3/94
3 But in 1995, she appeared: DT, 7/17/96
4 “something positive”: SuPe, 3/20/94
5 “a lot of work … underground”: Pano, p. 24
6 a “hush-hush” visit: MOS, 4/24/94
7 “There were phone calls”: Interview with Richard Addis
8 “she has been attending”: DM, 4/15/94
9 “hidden life”: DM, 10/24/94
10 “without the trumpet blowing”: To, 8/20/94
11 “Super Di”: To, 5/20/94
12 “A normal day”: Pano, p. 28
13 “wobblies”: Harvey and Saunders, p. 11
14 “Sometimes a Loon attack”: Ibid., p. 6
15 a “relaunch”: Mi, 9/23/94
16 “I said, ‘I know you’ ”: Interview with Michael Adler
17 “new role as a behind … solo visit”: Mi, 11/2/94
18 “dressed to thrill”: DM, 11/29/94
19 “tearful retreat”: To, 12/3/94
20 a “real working appointment”: DM, 5/5/94
21 “She is more interested”: Telegraph magazine, 10/29/94
22 “rocketed overnight”: ES, 2/7/95
23 Known to his friends: Money, 10/97
24 “Your presence here today”: South China Morning Post, 4/23/95
25 Scarcely six weeks: SuTel, 6/11/95
26 “in abeyance”: DT, 12/21/95
27 “uneasy … destroying”: DM, 1/11/95
28 “hoping for a third”: Ibid.
29 “stronger than ever”: ST, 11/23/94
30 “grim mood swings”: B-SS, p. 141
31 “spending nearly every free”: Ibid., p. 34
32 “She was hurting because”: 20/20 interview with Peggy Claude-Pierre, ABC-TV, 9/18/97
33 Diana found Carling easy: B-SS, p. 102
34 when he began calling: Sun, 8/7/95
35 one of the tabloids: NOTW, 4/16/95
36 “She thought she had a fine”: Interview with David Puttnam
37 “there was no day when”: ST, 11/1/98
38 “to acknowledge that she was”: Interview with Nelson Shanks
39 which one columnist compared: DT, 10/2/95
40 “Diana was raw”: ST, 11/1/98
41 “all her portraits”: Hello!, 11/22/97
42 “She was slightly juvenile”: Interview with David Puttnam
43 “I said if that happened”: TNY, 9/15/97
44 “He would ask me about”: Interview with Barbara Walters
45 Jephson had worked: DT, 1/23/96
46 “He tried to filter out”: Interview with Michael Adler
47 “She encouraged Diana”: DM, 11/16/95
48 Bashir was a little-known: DM, 4/7/96
49 an investigation into suspicions: DM, 5/7/97
50 in one of those meetings: DM, 4/7/96; 5/7/97
51 But Bashir had struck: DEx, 11/16/95; ST, 11/19/95
52 “secret trysts”: NOTW, 8/6/95
53 “I have done nothing”: Sun, 8/14/95
54 “however much someone is trying”: Ibid.
55 “It was flattering”: NOTW, 9/24/95
56 On September 24: Ibid.
57 “Recent pressure and tensions”: Sun, 9/30/95
58 “Is Will Carling merely”: To, 8/7/95
59 “homewrecker”: Sun, 9/30/95
60 “Is no marriage and no man”: DEx, 9/30/95
61 “She said she found President”: MOS, 9/27/98
62 “like a hot brick”: To, 9/30/95
63 ironically enough, only days: ST, 11/19/95
64 “knew exactly what she was”: Harper’s Bazaar, 11/97
65 Indeed, the shoot was: Memo from Wendell Maruyama, studio manager for Demarchelier, 3/15/99
66 “I supported her choice”: DM, 4/2/98
67 Diana opened the door: DM, 11/16/95
68 “Diana was a very unusual”: SuEx, 11/19/95
69 “Panorama was very well”: Interview with Barbara Walters
70 “There’s no better way”: DT, 11/22/95
71 “It’s a different kind”: SuEx, 11/19/95
72 “counter hostile media”: DM, 11/16/95
73 audience of 15 million: Gua, 11/21/95
74 “personal help”: Pano, p. 17
75 “a queen of people’s hearts”: Ibid., p. 33
76 “give affection … distress”: Ibid., p. 30
77 “She won’t go quietly”: Ibid., p. 23
78 “My wish is that my husband”: Ibid.
79 “was born of some basic”: SuTel, 9/7/97
80 “I said, ‘You said you adored’ ”: Interview with Elsa Bowker
81 “the advanced stages of paranoia”: Gua, 11/21/95
82 “in a personal capacity”: DM, 11/22/95
83 “Everywhere was the stench”: DM, 11/21/95
84 “must now expect the wrath”: Ibid.
85 “manipulative she may be”: Ibid.
86 “some part of her performance”: DT, 11/21/95
87 The public reacted quite: DT, 11/27/95
88 “no regrets”: DM, 11/22/95
89 The next morning, she went: Ibid.
90 “very confusing”: Pano, p. 36
91 “desperately unhappy”: NOTW, 12/3/95
CHAPTER 22
1 “If she had regretted”: Interview with Roberto Devorik
2 “She wanted to meet”: Ibid.
3 THE ADULTERESS DI ARRIVES ON A MISSION OF CHARITY: Gua, 11/24/94
4 LADIES LOOK AFTER YOUR HUSBANDS: SuTel, 11/26/95
5 “Argentina has gradually”: DEx, 11/25/95
6 Buckingham Palace advisers met: DM, 11/22/95
7 “dignified”: SuTel, 12/31/95
8 Malcolm Rifkind specifically ruled out: Ti, 12/6/95
9 “I try to be there”: NOTW, 12/3/95
10 “She again demonstrated”: ES, 12/4/95
11 “young people who have suffered”: ES, 12/7/95
12 “Her timing was wrong”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
13 “He knew her so well”: B-SS, p. 58
14 “It is almost unprecedented”: ES, 12/7/95
15 By that time, the Queen had already: DT, 12/22/95
16 According to Simone: B-SS, p. 65
17 “early divorce … in the best”: DT, 12/21/95
18 Charles took Major’s suggestion: DT, 12/22/95
19 “luminous personality”: Ti, 12/13/95
20 “sharpness of mind”: Sun, 12/13/95
21 “in adoration of its new”: DM, 12/13/95
22 PRINCESS AND HER BIG PAIR WOW ’EM IN BIG APPLE: Sun, 12/13/95
23 “So sorry to hear”: DM, 1/24/96
24 the daughter of a merchant banker: DM, 7/20/95, 8/30/95
25 “She is the closest thing”: Mi, 1/5/95
26 “The word is that Tiggy”: DM, 7/20/95
27 In fact, Tiggy was suffering: Hello!, 9/30/95
28 “false allegations”: DM, 1/22/96
29 “consider her options”: DT, 12/22/95
30 instead she believed: DM, 11/22/95
31 “She couldn’t sleep”: B-SS, p. 136
32 “aggressive and defensive all at once”: Ibid., p. 85
33 “Is she indeed perilously”: MOS, 1/14/96
34 “very stable”: DM, 1/30/96
35 “Diana’s life was in turmoil”: DM, 2/24/98
36 “The Panorama interview left”: Interview with William Deedes
37 “All bets were off”: Interview with Piers Morgan
38 when she later appeared: B-RK, p. 164; DT, 4/24/96
39 “my rock”: DM, 1/23/96
40 His departure coincided: DT, 1/25/96
41 “She was almost the same … a lot of these people”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
42 “She was keen to keep”: Interview with Piers Morgan
43 “she considered the Sun”: Interview with Stuart Higgins
44 “was keen to know what I thought”: Interview with Piers Morgan
45 “manipulated through her looks … not a whinger”: Interview with Richard Addis
46 “For me it was a difficult … she was inconsistent”: Interview with Sue Douglas
47 “Did it turn you on, Mr. Wilson?”: DM, 9/1/97
48 “ ‘Do you think I’m mad?’ ”: Interview with Taki Theodoracopulos
49 “He wants to live in Italy”: Interview with Charles Moore
50 a refrain she repeated: TNY, 9/15/97
51 “She was careful”: Interview with Charles Moore
52 “She gave us more information”: Ibid.
53 “She couldn’t understand when”: Interview with Stuart Higgins
54 “I would deal every day”: Interview with Piers Morgan
55 “Diana held all the cards”: Interview with Peter McKay
56 “If a story concerned what”: Interview with Stuart Higgins
57 “sucker” for Diana’s “Bambi eyes”: Interview with Max Hastings
CHAPTER 23
1 “secret trip”: SuEx, 2/18/96
2 “Doctor Dishy”: Mi, 4/22/97
3 “a dark-skinned Tom Selleck”: DS, 5/24/97
4 “dashing medic”: NOTW, 12/7/95
5 “drop-dead gorgeous”: SuMi, 8/30/98
6 “enjoyed many of the ‘wrong’ ”: B-SS, p. 111
7 “His name is Hasnat Khan”: SuMi, 8/30/98
8 She asked the surgeon: NOTW, 11/22/98
9 “She was very well known”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
10
Diana sometimes stayed: DT, 4/23/96
11 “his wit, his intelligence”: B-SS, p. 112
12 “relished the … sense”: Ibid.
13 “the first man who was”: Interview with Cosima Somerset
14 She took to studying: B-SS, p. 33; SuMi, 11/9/97
15 She bought a custom-made: Sun, 2/22/96
16 she burned scented joss sticks: SuMi, 11/9/97
17 the “inspiration”: NOTW, 12/17/95
18 “new hunk”: Sun, 12/15/97
19 By the end of January: DM, 1/30/96
20 Diana declined to give: Interview with Jane Atkinson
21 they were disturbed by: DT, 2/19/96
22 That concern deepened: Gua, 2/20/96; Ti, 2/23/96
23 “Her mission to reach”: Mi, 2/23/96
24 On February 15, several: SuTel, 7/7/96
25 “The Princess never expressed”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
26 Yet in conversations with friends: SuTel, 7/7/96
27 “she wanted to have things”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
28 “if [Diana] wanted to write”: Ibid.
29 The Palace swiftly issued: DT, 2/29/96
30 “it cultivate[d]”: Ibid.
31 “protesting too much”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
32 her accusation that the Queen: DM, 2/29/96
33 “The decision to drop the title”: DM, 3/1/96
34 “carefully selected insights”: Ti, 3/1/96
35 “first step in building”: DM, 2/29/96
36 “She felt she would meet people”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
37 There was general agreement: Ti, 7/13/96
38 “was put into her head”: Interview with Paul Johnson
39 “that engagingly enthusiastic”: DM, 1/30/95
40 a “chance to prove herself”: DM, 1/30/95
41 “the dreaded C-word”: DEx, 6/6/96
42 “I have never seen this many”: Interview with Anna Quindlen
43 “It was a very funny”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
44 the Daily Express singled out: DEx, 6/8/96
45 emphasizing the trip’s “team effort”: Interview with Jane Atkinson
46 He reassured Diana that Atkinson: Interview with Richard Addis
47 even told friends that Atkinson had: Interview with Jane Atkinson
48 “odd twist”: DM, 6/29/96
49 The Queen had already decided: SuTel, 7/7/96
50 Diana would receive a lump sum: Ti, 7/13/96; DT, 7/5/96
51 “regarded as a member”: “Status and Role of the Princess of Wales,” statement from Buckingham Palace, 7/12/96
52 she would have the use of all her: Gua, 7/13/96
53 “He told her to hang tough”: Interview with John Tigrett