[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[light, tense music]
female narrator: Prince Charles,
the future King of England, has a dangerous secret.
A secret which threatens the entire House of Windsor.
He's in love with a married woman.
[crowd cheering]
- And isn't that a sight?
narrator: The queen expects him to produce an heir.
And she hopes he's found the perfect bride.
- For better, for worse, - For better, for worse.
- Till death us do part. - Till death us do part.
[crowd cheering]
narrator: But what happens when royal tradition
stops you from following your heart?
♪ ♪
[crowd cheering]
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
[cheering]
[light orchestral music]
♪ ♪
In the medieval fortress of Carnarvon Castle,
Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth,
is crowned Prince of Wales.
- I, Charles, Prince of Wales,
do become your liege man of life and limb.
- There's so much pomp, so much glamour,
but under it all is a nervous 20-year-old
who feels strongly
that whole weight of monarchy rests on him.
[crowd cheering]
- He had no choice in his life at all.
His future was mapped out for him.
He knew from an early age that he was part of a machine.
[crowd cheering]
- Prince Charles is a central figure of this dynasty.
He is the future. He is the great hope.
[orchestral fanfare]
- The young prince who just celebrated his third birthday
carried out his handshaking duties most sedately.
- The prince as a child was quite withdrawn,
very sensitive, very shy.
- But right from the beginning,
there's all this weight of expectation
on this poor little boy's back.
narrator: When Charles was four,
he watched his 27-year-old mother
crowned queen after the unexpected death
of her father, King George VI.
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- She had to juggle
the really onerous duties of being Queen, being monarch,
with being a young mother.
- She went off on long tours for months at a time
'round the Commonwealth, and Charles was left.
- She came back and instead of hugging him,
she was cool and aloof.
This gives you an indication of the formal,
institutionalized nature of their relationship.
- His father, Prince Philip,
was an alpha male, a leader.
Charles was unconfident, diffident,
not at all the sort of son that Prince Philip wanted to have.
- It was clear to the prince that his father
was disappointed in him,
and I think that was very painful.
- His father's method of dealing with that
was to try and toughen him up.
It's the school of hard knocks.
- Gordonstoun, as Prince Charles
arrives with his father,
the school's most famous old boy.
Remember how you felt when you started?
narrator: Gordonstoun, a remote boarding school
in the north of Scotland,
is renowned for its tough regime.
- Philip chose Gordonstoun for his son,
because it had been the school he'd been at in the 1930s.
- Philip had been a terrific success there,
and so he believed that this school
would fit Charles to wear the crown.
You couldn't have a wimp sitting on the throne.
- His parents very much wanted Prince Charles
to be treated just like anybody else,
but he wasn't anybody else.
- And so he was ostracized by the other pupils.
- He was so vulnerable and such an easy target.
- They slept in dormitories,
and they would come across and beat him up at night.
He was unmercifully bullied.
[gentle music]
- He emerged from his education
with a lack of self-confidence and a constant worry
about whether he was doing the right thing.
- Charles' whole existence is totally defined
by the family firm and by his position within it.
- Queen Elizabeth inherited this idea
from her own mother and father
that she's supposed to belong to a model family,
that they're supposed to represent something
to the nation.
narrator: So the heir to the throne
needs a suitable bride.
- The spouse had to be spotless beyond any doubt.
No unpleasant details about their previous lives,
and there weren't that many people around
who could fit the bill.
- When you marry in my position,
you are 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 fulfil this particular role.
[light music]
- In his early 20s,
Charles begins to have a social life.
- He's in London, going to parties,
meeting girls.
- He was slightly uncomfortable
with members of the opposite sex.
He hadn't got a lot of experience.
- One of the women whom he meets is Camilla Shand.
♪ ♪
narrator: Camilla, the daughter
of a military officer, is 24 years old.
- She isn't aristocratic,
but she's easy to be with, she's fun to be with.
- Her ability to talk to everybody,
her ability to communicate and this sense of humour
that she's got always made her a very attractive person.
- Charles was bowled over, head over heels.
Finally, he's found someone he can actually be himself with.
narrator: But Charles knows the queen expects him
to choose a bride who will uphold
traditional royal values.
- There is this prevailing idea that Charles
must marry a virgin bride because he is the future king.
- Camilla had enjoyed life.
She'd had a number of romances.
- And so the problem that Prince Charles has
is that he's fallen for someone thoroughly unsuitable.
- But the more time Charles spends with Camilla,
the more he sensed that she could be someone
with whom he could spend the rest of his life.
narrator: Charles, now an officer in the Navy,
embarks on a six-month tour of duty.
- He thinks that Camilla will be there when he returns.
- But while he's away at sea,
he gets word from England
that Camilla is going to get married.
- Camilla has gotten engaged to a military officer
by the name of Andrew Parker Bowles.
- Camilla knew that she was never
going to marry Prince Charles.
I mean, he was Prince Charles, and she was just Camilla Shand.
So she said yes to Andrew.
[gentle music]
Prince Charles realized that he'd lost
what he suddenly felt might be the love of his life.
- He writes to a friend
that he is devastated by the news.
He says "I will not have someone to come home to."
[lively orchestral music]
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narrator: In the winter of 1973,
Prince Charles arrives at Westminster Abbey
for a Royal celebration
watched by millions around the world.
- The Wedding of the decade,
Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips.
narrator: His younger sister is getting married.
- Instead of celebrating his sister's marriage,
Prince Charles is not full of joy about this.
He feels that he's been left behind.
narrator: Princess Anne's wedding
falls on Charles' 25th birthday.
At his age, his mother was was already queen
and married with two children.
- Here is Prince Charles, a young adult,
but with no clear-cut job
and a very strong sense of duty.
He ought to be marrying the right person and he isn't.
- Prince Charles, if there's a problem, he broods about it.
He talks about it.
He needs a shoulder to cry on.
- And he seems to be really very much left on his own
without much guidance.
He sees very little of his parents.
He has to sort of make a formal appointment
to see them.
- One person in his life who gives him a lot of time
is his great-uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten.
- My grandfather and the Prince of Wales
had a very unique relationship.
Sometimes it's easier to be close to someone
who's not necessarily your parents.
- He calls him "Grandpapa,"
but actually Charles comes to see Mountbatten,
much more, I think, as a father figure.
narrator: Lord Mountbatten is the uncle
of Charles' father, Prince Philip.
It was Mountbatten who acted as matchmaker
to Charles' parents.
- Louis Mountbatten is very free with advice
on love and marriage.
- His attitude was play the field,
sow your wild oats,
enjoy yourself and then eventually
you'll meet some nice, pure girl
that you can marry and make the queen.
- Prince Charles takes his advice
onboard with a vengeance.
[light music]
narrator: And the public sees a new side to Charles.
- He's the most eligible bachelor in the world.
Everybody wanted to go out with him.
Nobody was going to say no.
Nobody was going to turn down
the Prince of Wales, were they?
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- He went on tour all round the world.
There's girls who'd pursue him.
He was in demand.
- He is known as an action man.
He is a heartthrob.
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- The girlfriends that he picks up
get a lot of publicity in the press.
They're known as Charlie's Angels.
narrator: The prince's private life is now front-page news.
- Increasingly in the 1970s,
there's a new era of competition,
especially in the British tabloid press.
So there is now an incentive and a price
for paparazzi pictures
of members of the British royal family.
- He couldn't take any young woman out for anything
without being photographed.
- The latest girl would come in,
and if she fluttered her eyelashes at him
or Charles smiled back, a story would break.
- I think it was very tough for the Prince of Wales
under the pressure and the surveillance which went on.
- I rather feel that being here today
is rather like asking a pheasant
to award the prizes to the best shot.
[laughter]
I've only got a few pellets in my backside,
and you haven't yet brought me down.
[gentle music]
narrator: But soon Charles is concealing something
from the press.
- Charles is having a relationship
with a married woman,
Camilla Parker Bowles.
♪ ♪
narrator: Camilla, Charles' first love,
is still married to Andrew, a cavalry officer.
- Charles never stopped really adoring Camilla.
- He hasn't really ever gotten her out of his mind.
- She was the one who made him feel
as if he'd come home, as if this was his soul mate.
♪ ♪
- They continued to meet on the polo pitch,
and their relationship turned into an affair.
- The royal family doesn't mind a bit of hanky-panky,
but this was adultery.
[light music]
- An officer in Andrew's regiment
gets word to the queen,
and she takes a very dim view of it.
She actually says that Camilla
will no longer be invited to royal events.
- Frankly they were terrified
that he was going to turn into King Edward VIII,
who abdicated to marry Mrs. Simpson.
♪ ♪
Narrator: In 1936, Edward, the queen's uncle,
was forced to give up the throne
after falling in love with a divorced woman.
The queen was ten years old
when this scandal engulfed the monarchy.
- The whole abdication was the great drama
that defined the queen's reign.
She's still living in the shadow of the abdication.
narrator: Throughout her reign,
Queen Elizabeth has fought to maintain
the Windsors' image as stable and dutiful.
♪ ♪
- When I was 21,
I pledged my life to the service of our people.
I do not regret nor retract one word of it.
- The Queen has been building this picture
of her family as an ideal royal family.
I mean, a dynasty is about a family.
[crowd cheering]
- Once that image of
kind of perfect family life becomes tarnished,
well, what do they represent to the nation?
[light string music]
♪ ♪
narrator: 1979,
Prince Charles' great-uncle and mentor, Lord Mountbatten,
is spending the month of August with his family
at their country house.
- We were at Classiebawn Castle in Ireland every summer.
They were pretty magical summers,
until unfortunately in 1979
when that came to an abrupt halt.
♪ ♪
- Lord Mountbatten and several members of his family
set off fishing on a boat that he owned.
- Suddenly the boat is ripped apart by a bomb.
- My brother and I weren't on the boat,
but my brother and I heard the bomb.
We heard it go off, and--and--
and, you know, the chaos that followed was unimaginable.
- Lord Mountbatten has been killed in an explosion
in his boat off the coast of County Sligo.
A local boatman also died, and one of the children
Nicholas Brabourne is said to be missing.
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
narrator: The Queen's Family were targeted
by The Irish Republican Army,
who want to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
- None of the royal family
has left the castle since yesterday
and security operations have been stepped up.
A platoon of extra soldiers was brought
to the castle by lorry to join an undisclosed number
of policemen flown here from Scotland Yard.
- Mountbatten had had a very distinguished naval career,
and so as far as the IRA were concerned,
he was a legitimate target.
♪ ♪
narrator: Lord Mountbatten's
14-year-old grandson Nicholas
and the Dowager Lady Brabourne
are also killed in the blast,
along with Paul Maxwell,
the 15-year-old Irish boathand.
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- It was brutal
and deeply upsetting and disturbing.
You know, we had our childhoods ripped away from us.
- They that go down to the sea in ships
and occupy their business in great waters,
these men see the works of the Lord.
- This is the greatest personal tragedy
in the life of Prince Charles.
His honorary grandfather is dead.
- The one man who made him feel good about himself,
who had his back,
who he could talk to freely
and who was guiding him had gone.
- When Mountbatten's body came back to England,
his father, the Duke of Edinburgh,
didn't want him to weep, didn't want him to cry,
and he started to say,
"Come on, pull yourself together.
Gotta be strong about this."
That gives you a picture
of the complete incompatibility of father and son
on a matter of profound importance to both of them.
- Charles is not only devastated,
but he's also kind of unmoored.
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He is now 30 years old.
Everybody is pressuring him to marry.
- Certainly his father felt he must have a wife.
She would straighten him out
and give him the respectability
that a future king should have.
- Charles' unwillingness to marry was really about
his deep emotional relationship with Camilla.
He knew she was married and he couldn't possibly marry her,
but I think it made him keep not finding, quote, the one.
His parents had to get him out of that relationship.
So they really began to hunt for a bride.
♪ ♪
narrator: In the summer of 1980,
a meeting is orchestrated
between Prince Charles and a 19-year-old
who will change the shape
of the House of Windsor forever.
- The young Diana Spencer was not some girl
just taken out of a nice middle class home.
She was a daughter
of one of the most illustrious families in England.
- The royal family, particularly the queen,
thought she would be ideal,
and they were much taken by her.
- She was an Earl's daughter.
She had a title, and she was a virgin.
She did tick the boxes.
- They arranged for her to be invited
to this house party where they knew he was going to be.
- She talks to him in quite an open
and rather engaging way.
- She speaks to him about having watched
the Mountbatten funeral
and how sad he looked
and how much he needed to be comforted.
♪ ♪
She's charming,
a pretty English rose.
She's 12 years younger than he is,
but he is intrigued by her.
♪ ♪
narrator: The royal family's plan for Charles is working.
- She could not have been more perfect on paper.
[sweeping orchestral music]
narrator: By September of 1980,
Prince Charles is beginning to spend
more time with Lady Diana Spencer.
- Among other places he invites her to
his mother's estate in the Scottish Highlands,
Balmoral.
narrator: The Queen sees her as a prospective bride.
And Diana is falling for Charles.
- Diana was always madly in love with the idea
of marrying the Prince of Wales.
He was the great heartthrob at the time.
I mean, his picture was in her boarding school dorm.
- She tried very hard to make herself
everything that he wanted.
- Diana did this great impersonation of someone
who loved to walk the wet moors,
interested in shooting
and all of the things that she actually hated.
- Because of her childhood,
I think Diana did have an absolute craving
for love and for security.
narrator: Diana was only seven years old
when her parents divorced acrimoniously.
- One of her most vivid memories
was listening to her mother driving away,
and Diana is thinking
that she'll never see her mother again.
- What she saw in Charles was life happily ever after
with her Prince.
narrator: But Diana is not the only person
searching for a fairy-tale romance.
- The royal hacks from the tabloids
are across the river with their long lenses.
- Diana, the press decided, was perfect.
It seemed to the media at the time
that the stars had aligned.
- And the next day in huge headlines:
Diana is the one.
[indistinct chatter]
- When the press get wind of the fact that
Charles and Diana are dating, it is absolute chaos.
It's a nightmare for Diana.
She lives in a flat in London.
They besiege this flat. They are following her.
[indistinct shouting]
- I followed her through the town.
I followed her car.
This was it. We had found a real one.
- Is there any possibility of any announcement
of your marriage in the near future?
Can you tell me?
- It was utterly overwhelming for her.
- I'm not gonna say anything really.
- She was 19.
She was a 19-year-old in that glare of publicity.
- This girl was on the front pages of the newspapers.
She was being offered up as the perfect bride for Charles.
♪ ♪
- Headline after headline.
"Charlie, why aren't you proposing to this woman?"
- Charles had all sorts of reservations about Diana.
He didn't really know her.
She didn't share many of his interests.
she wasn't widely read.
- He was still in love with Camilla,
and he was in a real quandary.
♪ ♪
- He kept agonising and analysing,
but his father Philip's concern was that
so much had been said and written about her
that if he didn't do something,
she was going to be a very damaged young woman.
- Prince Charles gets a letter from his father,
basically telling him it's time to make up your mind.
"You want to marry her, marry her.
If you don't, well then let her off the hook."
- Charles misconstrued it,
thought that his father
was instructing him to marry Diana
way earlier than he would have comfortably
chosen to do it.
The tragedy is that these two men, father and son,
could not simply see one another face to face
and have a conversation.
- He meets her at Windsor Castle,
and he goes down on one knee and proposes.
♪ ♪
narrator: Six months after they tart dating,
Charles and Diana announce their engagement.
- They've only been together 12 times.
They've only had a few times alone together.
They barely know each other.
- He really did think that he was doing his duty,
sacrificing his heart really to do the right thing.
- Can you find the words
to sum up how you feel today, both of you?
- Difficult to find the right sort of word, isn't it, really?
Just delighted and happy.
And I'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me on.
- And I suppose in love?
- Of course.
- Whatever "in love" means. - [chuckles] Yes.
[gentle music]
- The engagement interview
revealed the shape of things to come,
that this was not a love match,
that it was almost, you could say, a marriage of convenience.
narrator: To shield her from the press,
the royal family moves Diana into a suite of rooms
at Buckingham Palace.
- Life in Buckingham Palace was very difficult for her.
It's beautifully appointed and lovely furniture,
but it's not a home by any stretch of the imagination.
- She was suddenly shut off from everybody.
She didn't have her own friends around her.
narrator: Diana's social life
now centers around Charles' friends.
One of them is Camilla Parker Bowles.
- Certainly all his friends knew
that he was in love with Camilla.
Certainly the royal family knew it.
So Diana was really a bit duped in this whole situation.
- Diana's in one of the offices at Buckingham Palace
and notices that there's a little parcel
addressed to Camilla Parker Bowles.
She opens it and finds this bracelet.
Diana just felt, you know,
"Who are you marrying me, or Camilla?"
- Charles is going off
on his trip to Australia,
and there are images of Diana weeping.
- It wasn't because he was going and she was sad.
She'd overheard him talking to Camilla
just before he'd boarded the plane.
She's thinking, "How can I go through with this?
Should I call the wedding off?"
She goes to see her sisters
and she explains the situation.
- And really the response she got from her sister
was fairly--fairly succinct.
"You know your face is on the mugs and the tea cloths now.
That's it."
- There's no backing out now. The nation expects it.
There's going to be a huge royal wedding.
You play your part.
[light orchestral music]
♪ ♪
- Once upon a time,
there was a prince who lived in a palace.
He fell in love with a fair young maiden
and asked her to marry him.
What you will see now is the story
of two very real young people
sharing their day of happiness with us all.
- The wedding was extraordinary.
It spectacular.
Diana's amazing dress.
Charles in his beautiful uniform.
- And have you ever heard such cheers?
- The queen had every reason to be proud
and happy and hopeful for the future.
♪ ♪
narrator: Hundreds of millions of people around the world
watch as Lady Diana Spencer
arrives at St Paul's Cathedral.
[crowd cheering]
- I thought, like so many other people,
that it was an ideal match.
- And isn't that a sight?
- Don't think anybody would have disagreed
with that at the time.
- The public, they're elated.
Totally in love with this ideal couple,
and yet the public can't see everything.
[light, tense music]
- As Diana walks down the aisle with her father,
she sees Camilla.
♪ ♪
- Here is the stuff
of which fairy tales are made.
The prince and princess on their wedding day.
- There she is on this magical day
and the one thing that she is focussing on
is the image of Camilla.
- Charles Philip Arthur George,
wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife?
- I will.
- Diana Frances,
wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband?
- I will.
- Charles persuaded himself
that he could be in love with Diana,
at least enough in love to get married.
♪ ♪
- They went on honeymoon
and they sailed around the Mediterranean.
Diana was hoping that they would sunbathe in the sun
and sit and chat and laugh and have a good time.
- But after a while, she realized
that Camilla was still present on her honeymoon.
- Charles wore cufflinks
that had been given to him by Camilla.
- She overheard Charles making a call with Camilla.
- She finds that Prince Charles
has pictures of Camilla inside his diary.
- That was, for her, an absolute agony.
She was terrified really of what she'd got herself into.
♪ ♪
narrator: But for the cameras, Diana is all smiles.
- How are you enjoying married life?
- Highly recommend it.
- How do you like Balmoral as a place?
- Lovely, beautiful.
[indistinct chatter]
- There's a longstanding contradiction
in what the royal family actually wants in a bride.
Because on the one hand they want somebody meek,
blushing, deferential,
but at the same time they want her,
at the flick of a switch, to be able to manage on her own,
not make a fuss, and not to be too emotional.
- How do you see your role
developing as Princess of Wales?
- My life will be a great challenge.
- Are you going to have time for the private life,
for making a home and running a home?
- You're the one with the domestic responsibilities.
- Are you looking forward to making a home
at Highgrove, for example? - Oh, yes, very much so.
Looking forward to being a good wife.
[crowd shouting]
- Prince, princess and baby Prince emerge
to the cheers of the crowd.
narrator: One year into their marriage,
Diana gives birth to a son,
Prince William Arthur Philip Louis.
- The birth of Prince William
did a great deal for Diana.
Wow, you know, this is great.
You know, and she's done her job.
- The birth of William is a happy moment.
Charles enjoys being in the nursery with him,
and they have that shared love,
but at the same time,
there's a lot of tension between them.
[tense music]
narrator: A princess in the most famous family
in the world,
Diana is a young mother caught in the spotlight.
- She was meant to be a mom, she was meant to do it all,
was meant to do it all with a smile.
That's a pretty tough brief, you know, for anybody,
unless there's a support crew.
- The royal family thought she would be able to cope
with what was expected.
Her family had been courtiers going back generations.
They thought she was one of them.
- And she often said,
"If only just once or twice they'd say well done."
But that's the way the royal family were brought up.
You don't do the praise thing.
- Because of her discomfort in the royal family
and the issue of Camilla hovering in the background,
she was in a very bad way.
- Well, there's no doubt that she has lost weight
since the birth of Prince William.
- She was so thin. She was painfully thin.
Her wrists look like sticks.
- She is, according to the palace, currently fit and well.
The Palace adds the proviso, "as far as we know."
- She sat me down and actually told me
that she had bulimia,
and I was very-- I was shocked actually.
- The bulimia was her way of trying to vent.
She would purge herself
of her emotions and discomfort.
- She is really, really suffering,
and no-one seems to be helping her.
- She just wanted somebody to put their arms around her
and tell her, "It's all right, darling,"
and I know that that didn't happen.
- The queen and Princess Diana
belong to very different generations.
Duty and self-restraint are absolutely
hard-wired into the queen.
- And here the royal family
have a very emotional young girl
who is, to their mind, hysterical.
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- The royal family bring in a doctor,
a psychiatrist.
They prescribe valium,
but Diana doesn't want to take pills.
She wants her life to get better.
- And nobody is addressing the central issue,
which is that Prince Charles' heart lies elsewhere
and Diana feels lost, alone and abandoned.
♪ ♪
[gentle music]
narrator: The royal family is gathered together
at Windsor Castle to celebrate the christening
of Charles and Diana's second son.
[Harry fussing]
Henry Charles Albert David,
known as Prince Harry.
- Granny was christened in this.
- Great-granny. - Great-granny.
And I was.
I was christened in this.
It must get so incredibly hot inside there, doesn't it?
- Yeah, [indistinct]. - Some dribbling too.
- The birth of Harry and having two beautiful children
just meant the world to her.
- Question: What is Prince William's favorite toy?
- 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.
- [whispered] Plastic whale which throws things out.
- We've got a plastic whale that throws things out the top,
little balls.
[both chuckle]
- She thought that bond of parenthood
would help bring their marriage together,
but that's not really what happened.
Charles at the beginning of the marriage
tried to make things work,
but I do believe that Camilla was in his mind from early on.
- Diana didn't talk much about Camilla.
She kept quiet and had her bulimia
and had her upset and hoped it would all come good.
- She wanted love, she craved love.
And what she found she was getting
was love-- the love of strangers.
[upbeat music]
- The public take to Diana like no other royal.
[crowd cheering]
She has a kind of glamour and a kind of wholesomeness
that people found very endearing.
- Here is a popular young princess
who engages with ordinary people.
She seems to be kind, caring, and she's beautiful.
all: We want Princess Diana!
- The children made it clear
in the direct way that only children have
that it was the princess they wanted
on their side of the road.
- Charles became quite a forlorn figure.
The photographers didn't really take many photographs of him
unless he was in the frame with Diana.
- He was very jealous.
His wife is further down
in the royal pecking order than he is,
and yet she is getting the most attention.
- Crowds estimated in the thousands are straining
for a peek at the prince and princess.
narrator: When the royal couple arrives in America
for their most high-profile tour yet,
Diana is greeted with a frenzy
of press and public excitement.
- Princess Diana was a tremendous star
in the United States.
There was a bit of an American hysteria.
- Might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience
to actually see royalty.
- She's beautiful, yeah.
Much skinnier than I thought.
- She fulfilled our dreams.
She grew up and married the prince.
- The dramatic high point of it
was the dinner and dance with the Reagans
at the White House.
Nancy Reagan, recognizing the powerful mix
of Hollywood celebrity and British Royalty,
organizes a publicity stunt.
- John, are you going to dance with the princess tonight?
- If she would like me to.
- My job was to go to John Travolta and I said,
"Mr. Travolta, would you please cut in on the president
and ask the princess to dance."
And he says, "I can't cut in on the president."
[laughs] And I said, "Oh, yes, you can."
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- Diana didn't just upstage Charles.
She eclipsed him actually.
I mean, she made him nothing is the truth.
- He had been the star of the show.
He had been the top of the House of Windsor bill,
and now he was running a very poor second.
- To the core of the issue first,
had the princess enjoyed her dance with Mr. Travolta?
- Well, I'm not a glove puppet,
so I can't answer for that, I'm afraid.
But I think you enjoyed it, didn't you, darling?
Be an idiot if she didn't enjoy dancing
with John Travolta, wouldn't she?
- It actually goes to the heart of, I think,
a great sense of insecurity in him
and a growing resentment of her popularity.
- Why did the prince think there was much
media fascination with their every move?
- It has nothing to do with me. It's my wife here.
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narrator: Charles, the dutiful Prince,
has married the perfect bride.
But that union will pose a threat
to the entire royal family.
- They are already deeply unhappy,
and at the same time she has become a global celebrity.
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- He wants to control what's going on.
Perhaps he's sensing that it's slipping out of his control,
she is slipping out of his control.
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- She is, in essence, a ticking time bomb.
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narrator: Next on "The Windsors"...
- The war between Charles and Diana through the press
could pull down the whole of the monarchy.
- Here she was, undermining the throne,
undermining the dynasty.
- When you unleash the demons of the press,
you then cannot keep them at bay.
- Nobody dreamed that it would end in such a shocking way.
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