TOURIST 1: Tilt it. No, you've gotta hold it
with your hand in there.
Just to...
TOURIST 2: Oh, the cap's on, silly!
No, we're going through the Louvre.
-You must go through the Louvre. -TOURIST 1: Where do we go?
TOURIST 3: No, go straight, yeah. Go straight.
TOURIST 2: Woo-hoo!
Oh, mad, man!
-Where do I go, guys? -TOURIST 2: Are you lost?
TOURIST 3: Go straight ahead.
TOURIST 2: Go straight ahead and don't have an accident.
-Don't-- -TOURIST 3: And then go left.
TOURIST 2: Jamie, where are you?
-TOURIST 3: Um. I'm in Paris... -TOURIST 2: 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.
(REPORTERS CLAMORING)
TOURIST 2: Hey, hey!
James, say something to Adelaide.
-(CROWD CHEERING) -(CLAMORING CONTINUES)
-♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
TOURIST 2: Chasing Princess Diana.
-♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪ -(BIKE REVVING IN DISTANCE)
REPORTER 1: Lady Diana, morning dear.
Morning.
Is there any possibility of any announcement
of your marriage in the near future,
can you tell me?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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. (CHUCKLES)
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. -(REPORTER 1 CHUCKLES)
REPORTER 2: 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?
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lady Diana!
-Um... -PHOTOGRAPHER: Lady Diana?
REPORTER 2: 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. -(AMBULANCE SIREN WAILING)
REPORTER 2: Have you any comment to make about that?
-No. -PHOTOGRAPHER: Lady Di?
-(CHUCKLES) -(REPORTER 2 CHUCKLES)
-No comment all round. -Mm...
REPORTER 2: Did you have a good weekend though?
-I'm going to work now, okay? -(REPORTER 2 CHUCKLES)
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
INTERVIEWER: Your Royal highness,
do you have any thoughts about the lady
that the Prince of Wales should marry?
PRINCE CHARLES: 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.
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
(HORSES' HOOVES POUNDING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(BLADES WHIR)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
♪ (HARMONIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
REPORTER: 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!
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
What do you think we've got in common?
A sense of humor.
Um. Every outdoor activity, except I don't ride. (CHUCKLES)
-Um... -Soon remedy that.
(ALL LAUGH)
Lots of things, really.
REPORTER: 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.
REPORTER: 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.
(CHUCKLES)
-I spoke to you previous to that... -(CHUCKLES)
REPORTER: 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. -(BOTH CHUCKLE)
REPORTER: 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. (CHUCKLES)
And, next to Prince Charles I know I can't go wrong.
He's there with me.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
-(CROWD CHEERING) -(FIREWORKS WHISTLE, BANG)
NEWS REPORTER 1: 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.
(CROWD CHEERING)
NEWS REPORTER 2: 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.
(CROWD CONTINUES CHEERING)
REPORTER: Lady Di, could you wave?
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING) -(REPORTERS CLAMORING)
REPORTER: Good luck, sir.
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING) -(CROWD CHATTERING, CHEERING)
CROWD MEMBER: It's good, it's great, innit?
He's getting on a bit, innit About time he got married.
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BOOKMAKER SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
REPORTER: 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.
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
National Front is the White man's front!
CROWD: Join the National Front!
Bastards!
REPORTER 2: 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.
REPORTER 3: 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... -(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
REPORTER 3: ...we're doing our bit as a celebration
to the regal pair.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO) -(CROWD CLAMORING)
Our children are suffering!
They are crying for help, nobody will listen.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
(MACHINE WHIRS)
(CROWD CHEER)
REPORTER 1: News of Lady Diana's visit
spread quickly.
The crowd saw that, like most brides,
Lady Diana has lost weight as the day approaches.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
TV HOST 1: How many people in this audience
think that the press ought to lay off the poor girl?
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
That was about a 90 to one, I thought.
TV HOST 2: Robert Lacey, do you think that Lady Diana
yet fully realizes how tough life
will be in the full public gaze?
TV PANELIST: Well, I'm sure she does.
I don't think there could have been a future consort
who's been through anything like it.
TV HOST 2: 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?
TV PANELIST: 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.
-(COMMENTATOR YELLING INDISTINCTLY) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-(HORSES' HOOVES POUNDING) -(CROWD CLAMORING, CHEERING)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-(COMMENTATOR CONTINUES YELLING INDISTINCTLY) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-(HORSES' HOOVES POUNDING) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DOG BARKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES)
-SECURITY: Clear back. -PHOTOGRAPHER: Stay back, lads.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
SECURITY GUARD: That'll do, thank you very much.
PRINCE CHARLES: 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? (CHUCKLES)
Just.
ANGELA RIPPON: 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?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 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. -(CHUCKLES)
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.
(PLANE ENGINES ROARING)
REPORTER 1: 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. -(CROWD CHEERING)
REPORTER 2: 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.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CROWD CHEERING)
REPORTER 3: It's frequently said that
this is the sort of pageantry and splendor
that only Britain these days can do.
REPORTER 4: Prince of Wales' escort,
a smaller escort for church...
(CROWD CHEERING, SINGING)
♪ I'm gettin' married In the morning ♪
♪ Ding, dong The bells are gonna chime ♪
COMMENTATOR 1: 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.
(CROWD CHEERING)
COMMENTATOR 2: 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.
-(CROWD CHEERING) - (HORSES' HOOVES POUNDING)
-Her dress is fabulous. -PHOTOGRAPHER: 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.
COMMENTATOR 2: Greeting the bride
as she's arrived here in the glass carriage.
Her father, Earl Spencer has just...
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(APPLAUD)
COMMENTATOR 2 A taffeta dress
and there's lace on the bodice...
Ooh!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-Oh, that's beautiful! -VIEWER 1: Beautiful!
VIEWER 2: 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.
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: I pronounce...
that they be man and wife together.
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
We should all be allowed to wear wedding dresses and celebrate!
-(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING) -♪ (ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEAKER: 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.
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
♪ (FOREBODING CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: 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."
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: Our faith sees the wedding day
not as the place of arrival...
but the place where the adventure really begins.
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
REPORTER: 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.
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
(CROWD SINGING INDISTINCTLY)
(HORSES' HOOVES POUNDING)
♪ (ORCHESTRAL MUSIC CONTINUES, FADES) ♪
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-(HORSE NEIGHING) -(DOOR CLOSING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Your Royal Highness?
-Sir. Sir, please? -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sir?
(CROWD CHEERING)
-RADIO HOST: Hello, Tom. -TOM: Hello.
-RADIO HOST: Yes. -TOM: 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.
HETTIE: I thought it was fantastic!
Really great for the British image.
RADIO HOST: What made it so special for you, Hettie?
HETTIE: Well, to see all of them people.
RADIO HOST: Yes, you weren't actually amongst them then?
HETTIE: No, no, I was at home watching.
RADIO HOST: Very sensible, I should think.
It was pretty crowded out there, wasn't it?
HETTIE: It was, but it was fantastic, marvelous!
Proud to be British, my dear.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ANNOUNCER: 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!
ANNOUNCER: We are sure you will join us in congratulating
the Prince and Princess.
-(CORK POPS) -SPEAKER: Oh!
REPORTER: 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. -REPORTER: 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. -GUEST: Here's to them, indeed. Cheers.
REPORTER 1: Droves of photographers
-gathered at the hospital... -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
...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?
REPORTER 2: A boy or a girl?
-FAN: Boy, definitely. -REPORTER 2: Why?
FAN: 'Cause boys are the best. (CHUCKLES)
REPORTER 2: You're not a feminist then?
FAN: No. (GIGGLES)
FAN 2: No, let's have a girl.
REPORTER 2: You want-- You want a girl?
FAN 2: 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.
FAN 3: Well, I'm hoping she won't keep us
here all night. (GIGGLES)
REPORTER 3: 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.
CROWD: (CHANTING) It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a boy!
It's a boy!
-CROWD: It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a boy! -(CROWD CHEERING)
It's a boy! It's a boy!
-(SMOOCHES) Congratulations. -Thank you, very kind. (CHUCKLES)
REPORTER: Does he look like you, sir?
Uh. No, he's lucky enough not to.
REPORTER 2: How do you feel, sir?
It's a bit difficult to tell at the moment.
REPORTER 2: And how do you feel?
Um. Obviously relieved and delighted. It's marvelous.
REPORTER 3: 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! -(ALL LAUGH)
You ask my wife, I don't think she'd be too pleased just yet.
-(CROWD CHEERING) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
REPORTER 4: May I ask you if you've seen
the royal baby yet?
Not yet, I left early this morning, you see.
REPORTER 4: When are you hoping to see him?
Oh, well, when I get back to London.
REPORTER 5: When you get back to St. Mary's, yeah.
When I get back, that's right.
REPORTER 1: And Princess Anne's reaction
in New Mexico.
-REPORTER 2: Have you heard about Diana? -I don't know, you tell me.
REPORTER 3: And your reaction to her having a son?
I didn't know she'd had one.
-REPORTER 3: This morning. -Well, good.
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING) -(BABY CRYING)
-(GUNSHOT) -♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)
-(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARING) -(TIRES SCREECHING)
BUSINESS OWNER: I'd just like to propose a toast
to Prince Charles, Princess Di and wee Willie
and the Royal Family.
(ALL CHEER)
RADIO HOST: Now, for all of our students on air today,
good morning girls and boys.
-Good morning. -Good morning.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(STATIC SCREECHES)
(ALL CHUCKLE)
Jamie Smith out at Ayres Rock, you have a question.
JAMIE: Does Prince William have a favorite toy?
Does Prince William have a favorite toy?
(PRINCE CHARLES WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY)
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.
(LAUGHTER)
-(AIRPLANE ENGINES RUMBLING) -♪ (WONDROUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CROWD CHEERING)
REPORTER 1: The couple circled the arena
to the kind of reception
normally reserved in this age group for pop stars.
REPORTER 2: 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.
-ONLOOKER: Give us a wave. -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-Am I in the way? -(PHOTOGRAPHERS LAUGH)
SPECTATORS: (CHANTING) We want Di!
Princess Diana! Over here!
(CHEERING)
PRINCE CHARLES: 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... -(CROWD LAUGHING)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
REPORTER: The prince realizes now
that he's taking second place.
He knows it's the princess people have come to see.
(CHEERING)
-REPORTER: They chanted for her... -CHILDREN: We want the princess!
...and cheered again when the prince chose her direction.
(CROWD CHEERING)
PRINCE CHARLES: And I've come to the conclusion
that really it would have been
far easier to have had two wives...
(CROWD LAUGHING)
...to have covered both sides of the street...
(CROWD LAUGHING)
And I could've walked down the middle
directing the operation.
(CROWD LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
♪ (INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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.
ONLOOKER: Three cheers for Lady Di!
-Hip-hip. -CROWD: Hooray!
-ONLOOKER: Hip-hip. -CROWD: Hooray!
REPORTER 2: Charles doesn't like the fact
that she's a superstar and he isn't.
(APPLAUSE)
REPORTER 2: 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.
(APPLAUSE FADES)
♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARING)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
♪ (SOFT TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
REPORTER: 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.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
REPORTER 1: It's not Prince Charles, who's been out there before
-and made little influence. -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
REPORTER 1: It's the Princess of Wales
that's made the influence.
-(CLICKING CONTINUES) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
REPORTER 2: 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.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
INTERVIEWER 1: How do you think he feels about his wife today?
REPORTER: 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.
PRINCE CHARLES: 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... (CHUCKLES)
...trapped.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-(PRINCE WILLIAM BABBLING) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
INTERVIEWER 2: 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...
(CHUCKLES) ...I go on longer, sometimes.
-Yes, but I'm faster. -(LAUGHS)
There we are.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(AMUSED CHATTER)
(CHATTER CONTINUES)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Ma'am! Ma'am, this way please!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Ma'am! Ma'am.
(PRINCE CHARLES TALKS INDISTINCTLY)
(PRINCE CHARLES SIGHS)
INTERVIEWER: What do you say, ma'am,
when you read in the papers
that you are a "determined domineering woman"?
PRINCESS DIANA: 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.
BODYGUARD: Get right back.
Come on, fellas, make some room. We've gotta move out of here.
Can you, please?
-PHOTOGRAPHER: Ma'am, can we-- -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
INTERVIEWER: 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... -(LAUGHS)
(CLAMORING)
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
REPORTER: 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.
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
REPORTER: He has always carried on,
ever since he got married as if he were a bachelor.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)
(HORSE NEIGHING)
REPORTER: 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.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(HORSE NEIGHS)
INTERVIEWER: What do you feel your role is?
PRINCESS DIANA: 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.
INTERVIEWER: 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?
SPEAKER: Yeah, I know.
REPORTER: 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.
♪ (RESOLUTE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
REPORTER 2: Did you get a chance to see her?
-Yes. -Yes.
NEWS ANCHOR: The Princess of Wales
has opened Britain's first
purpose-built AIDS ward and met the 12 patients
who are being treated there.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-I love the red glasses! -(STAFF MEMBER LAUGHING)
What a lovely woman! She's incredible.
-ONLOOKER: She's so natural. -She is, she's totally natural.
ONLOOKER: Yes, yes. Just like somebody walking in...
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
TV PANELIST 1: Diana has got the common touch,
she can sit down,
she can talk to anybody, whoever they are.
TV PANELIST 2: I agree.
But I don't think the public expect the Queen
to go to hospices and kiss AIDS patients.
TV PANELIST 1: It would nice if she did though, wouldn't it?
TV PANELIST 2: I don't think that people expect that of her.
TV PANELIST 1: 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. -TV PANELIST 2: Well, she can't!
Because she wasn't brought up to that.
(PANELISTS DEBATING INDISTINCTLY)
DOCTOR: She spontaneously and unrehearsed,
of her own volition
picked up a little boy who has AIDS
and hugged him.
REPORTER: 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.
PRESIDENT REGAN: Nancy and I are deeply honored
to welcome the prince and the Princess of Wales
to the White House.
REPORTER: John, are you going to dance with the Princess tonight?
If she'd like me to.
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
NEWS ANCHOR: 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.
♪ (SOFT TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
REPORTER: 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.
TV PANELIST 1: 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.
TV PANELIST 2: 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.
-(WAVES CRASHING) -♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
REPORTER: The couple had spent a month apart
when they reunited to visit Welsh flood victims.
RADIO CALLER: 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.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(HORSES NEIGHING)
(INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION)
(HUNTING HORN BLARING)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(DOGS BARKING)
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
-CAMERAPERSON: Okay, rolling. -Do you get the Taj Mahal in?
CAMERAPERSON: 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.
♪ (SOMBER CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
TV HOST: How did this fairy-tale princess
end up in this way?
TV HOST: 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.
REPORTERS: Hello! Hello!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
TV HOST: 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.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
REPORTER 1:
REPORTER 2: Oh, yeah.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
REPORTER 1:
REPORTER 2: A very what, Your Royal Highness?
REPORTER 2: In what way?
SPOKESPERSON: No more questions, guys.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(VAN DOOR SLIDING OPEN)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Oh, lovely!
-(PHOTOGRAPHERS CLAMORING) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
REPORTER 1: 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.
REPORTER 2: 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.
RADIO CALLER 1: Slashed her wrists with a razorblade,
cut herself with a lemon slicer and a pen knife,
and yet, I've never seen any scars in any photos.
RADIO CALLER 2: 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.
REPORTER: 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?
NEWS ANCHOR: 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?
PENNY JUNOR: 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.
INTERVIEWER: You do say in the book though
that Diana and Charles have separate bedrooms.
ANDREW MORTON: Yes, they have separate bedrooms at Highgrove,
they have... essentially have separate lives
and they have done for some time now.
INTERVIEWER: Now, what about the bracelet?
MORTON: 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.
INTERVIEWER: 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... -MORTON: Louise, Louise,
I think... I think really it should be Girl Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
REPORTER: 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.
-(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING) -Diana!
ROBERT KILROY-SILK: How do you think you would have behaved
if you'd been a 19-year-old girl who was...
-AUDIENCE MEMBER: 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? -AUDIENCE MEMBER: The great...
KILROY-SILK: Wouldn't you in that circumstance?
(ELECTRONIC SCREECHING)
PRINCESS DIANA: (ON TAPE) If you wanna be like me you've gotta suffer.
JAMES GILBEY: (ON TAPE) Oh, Squidgy.
PRINCESS DIANA: Yeah, you have to.
-And then you get what you... -GILBEY: You get what you want?
PRINCESS DIANA: No, get what you deserve.
GILBEY: Oh, God!
REPORTER 1: "Hear the tapes for yourself."
The Sun has been inviting its readers,
more than 120,000 have done just that.
PRINCESS DIANA: (ON TAPE) I don't wanna get pregnant.
GILBEY: (ON TAPE) Darling, that's not gonna happen.
(PRINCESS DIANA LAUGHS)
GILBEY: Oh, Squidgy. I love you, love you, love you, love you.
PRINCESS DIANA: You're just the nicest person in the whole wide world.
REPORTER 2: 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.
PRINCESS DIANA: (ON TAPE) He makes my life real,
real torture, I've decided.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
REPORTER 3: 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.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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.
PRINCE CHARLES: (ON TAPE) ...ooh...I want to feel my way along you.
All over you, and up and down you, in and out!
CAMILLA PARKER-BOWLES: (ON TAPE) Oh, Charles!
TV PANELIST : The tapes are frankly filthy. They're disgusting.
I wouldn't allow my daughter, whose 15, to read them.
PRINCE CHARLES: (ON TAPE) I'll just live inside your trousers or something.
It'd be much easier.
TV PANELIST: But the real hypocrisy
is pretending that there is any other reason
for producing the contents of these tapes
than to sell newspapers.
CAMILLA: (ON TAPE) What are you going to turn into? A pair of knickers?
(CAMILLA AND PRINCE CHARLES LAUGHING ON TAPE)
PRINCE CHARLES: (ON TAPE) Or God forbid a Tampax!
(BOTH CONTINUE LAUGHING)
REPORTER 4: There has been no comment
from Mrs. Parker-Bowles...
CAMERAPERSON: Yes!
REPORTER 4: 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.
REPORTER 5: 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 Camillagate tapes.
REPORTER 6: Today, there was no comment at all,
but the two tapes together
have further tarnished the couple's image.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
TV PANELIST: 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.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
TV PANELIST: That was the moment
that told everybody that she hated him.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
KILROY-SILK: 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?
-AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: Yes, I do. -KILROY-SILK: Oh, do you?
KILROY-SILK: She'll be very pleased to hear that, I'm sure.
AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: There was a picture of her, yesterday...
-KILROY-SILK: 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...
AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: 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?
AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: Yeah, well said.
AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: I feel it's the papers,
the tabloids. If they let them alone,
every marriage has its problems.
(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARING)
♪ (MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
TV PANELIST: 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.
♪ (MUSIC TURNS SOMBER) ♪
1992 is not a year on which I shall look back
with undiluted pleasure.
(CLEARS THROAT) In the words of one
of my more sympathetic correspondents,
it has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
(CROWD CHUCKLES)
QUEEN ELIZABETH: In the aftermath
of Friday's tragic fire at Windsor,
it is especially so.
SPEAKER BOOTHROYD: Statement of Prime Minister.
JOHN MAJOR: 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."
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT: Hear, hear.
-♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
REPORTER: Sir?
-Sir... -GUARD: No questions please,
you've had your announcement.
REPORTER: 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.
(WIND HOWLING FAINTLY)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(HOWLING FADES)
-(CAR ENGINES REVVING) -(CAR HORN HONKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: I was relaxed and calm
-and I thought... -(CAR HORN HONKING)
...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.
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
-(TIRES SCREECH) -(CAR HORN HONKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: 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.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
The cops are working out how they can get her out without
us taking a picture.
-Here we go. -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: 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--
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: I feel like I know them.
I feel like I know Princess Anne,
-Fergie, all of them. -KILROY-SILK: Yeah?
AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: 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.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(STARTER PISTOL FIRES)
-(CROWD CHEERING) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: 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?
-CAMERAPERSON: Yeah. -Turn that off.
CAMERAPERSON: Oh, sorry.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(REPORTERS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Are you on the lift, David?
PHOTOGRAPHER: One day she'll use the media
for her own advantages,
and she'll, uh, give you a nice picture.
-(CHUCKLES) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: 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.
PHOTOGRAPHER 1: I can't fucking see her.
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: Is she in the queue?
PHOTOGRAPHER 1: There she is, back of the queue.
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: Which one is she?
Can you see her?
PHOTOGRAPHER 1: There.
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: Oh, I see her.
That's not her.
PHOTOGRAPHER 1: Yes, it is. She's about three behind it,
she's got her head fuckin' in between her...
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: Oh, fucking hell! What is she doing?
PHOTOGRAPHER 3: Where? I can't see her.
PHOTOGRAPHER 1: Don't worry boys, not yet.
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: 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.
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: For fuck's sake, stay still!
-PHOTOGRAPHER 3: Excuse me. -PHOTOGRAPHER 2: Bloody hell!
(PHOTOGRAPHER MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY)
PHOTOGRAPHER 1: She's spotted us.
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: No, she hasn't.
It's just cause we're looking at her.
Can you just imagine how small we...
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: Fuck!
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(CAR HORN HONKING)
REPORTER: 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.
-(PRINCESS DIANA GROANS) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
STAFF MEMBER: Take the lift. This way.
Ma'am, can we just have one more, it'll take two seconds, please.
-PRINCESS DIANA: No! -PHOTOGRAPHER: Please.
Absolutely not!
You've behaved so badly.
-PHOTOGRAPHER: Diana, just one picture! -Yes?
PHOTOGRAPHER: One, huh?
Just give me one picture, mate, and I'll go, all right?
-PRINCESS DIANA: No! Out! Out! -STAFF MEMBER: Out! Out!
Out! Out! O-U-T! Out!
PHOTOGRAPHER: Have a nice trip, ma'am.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales
would like to make a short statement.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PRINCESS DIANA: Ladies and gentlemen,
when I started my public life 12 years ago...
-♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -...I understood
the media might be interested in what I did...
(PHOTOGRAPHER SPEAKING ITALIAN)
PRINCESS DIANA: (IN ENGLISH) ...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.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
When I've completed my diary of official engagements,
I will be reducing the extent of the public life
I've led so far.
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
PRINCESS DIANA: 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.
(ANGRY CHATTER IN SPANISH)
(IN ENGLISH) 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.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
TV PANELIST: It's very Diana, isn't it?
To call a press conference to announce
that she wanted to be left alone.
-Absolutely in character. -AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Yes.
(AUDIENCE MEMBERS CHATTERING ANGRILY)
TV PANELIST: 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.
(MUFFLED APPLAUSE)
-(APPLAUSE FADES) -♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
-(ROLLERCOASTER RUMBLING) -(EXUBERANT WHOOPING)
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(PRINCE CHARLES AND PRINCESS DIANA LAUGHING)
(BOTH CHEER)
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY: This is the story
of the Prince of Wales today.
What he does, what he thinks, what he believes, what he feels.
REPORTER: 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.
REPORTER: 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.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
DIMBLEBY: 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?
PRINCE CHARLES: 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.
DIMBLEBY: Did you try to be faithful
and honorable to your wife,
when you took on a vow of marriage?
Yes, absolutely.
-DIMBLEBY: And you were? -Yes.
Until it became... irretrievably broken down.
Us both having tried.
-(INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
TV AUDIENCE MEMBER: 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.
(SHUTTERS CONTINUE CLICKING)
REPORTER: 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.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
JIMMY TARBUCK: 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.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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?
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I know. It's a fact.
-Oh, it's a fact... -(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
And let her deny it if she dares.
KILROY-SILK: I hope you're indemnified for libel.
REPORTER 1: 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.
REPORTERS: Fourteen ninety-nine?
REPORTER 1: 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.
REPORTER 2: 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.
REPORTER 3: Are you doing any deals with newspapers
-because obviously your opportunity's... -No, no deals.
REPORTER 3: Could you say where this was filmed?
I have no comment. No comment, I'm afraid.
REPORTER 3: Not any time at all?
REPORTER 4: 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. -REPORTER 5: Thank you very much. Thank you.
TV PANELIST: 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.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
TV HOST: 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."
TV PANELIST: 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.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
-(ONLOOKERS CLAMORING) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Ma'am! Ma'am!
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
♪ ("PANORAMA" THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MARTIN BASHIR: Your Royal Highness,
how prepared were you
for the pressures that came with marrying
into the Royal Family?
At the age of 19...
(OVER TV) ...you always think you're prepared for everything.
REPORTER 1: 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.
BASHIR: And with a husband who was
having a relationship with somebody else?
A husband who loved someone else, yes.
BASHIR: You really thought that?
PRINCESS DIANA: I didn't think that, I knew it.
BASHIR: 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. (CHUCKLES)
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.
REPORTER 2: 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?
BASHIR: Did your relationship with James Hewitt
go beyond a close friendship?
-Yes, it did, yes. -BASHIR: Were you unfaithful?
Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him.
(SNIFFLES)
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?
BASHIR: 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.
OPRAH WINFREY: Did you know how miserable she was?
No, she was very...
She was very good at not showing it.
-OPRAH: 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. -OPRAH: 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?
(CHUCKLES)
-(EXHALES) No, I don't, no. -♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BASHIR: Why do you think that?
PRINCESS DIANA: 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.
BASHIR: And why do you think they've decided that?
PRINCESS DIANA: Because I do things differently.
BASHIR: Do you think the Monarchy needs to adapt
and to change in order to survive?
PRINCESS DIANA: 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.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
REPORTER: 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.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
RADIO HOST: What's your verdict on that interview last night?
RADIO CALLER 1: 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.
RADIO CALLER 2: 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.
REPORTER: 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.
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT 1: 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.
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT: Hear, hear.
REPORTER: The Monarchy rules by favor of the people,
and the moment the Monarchy loses that,
it is finished.
And the Queen knows it.
(HORSES' STEPS FADE)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
REPORTER 1: 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!"
REPORTER 2: Can you tell us any of the content, sir ?
SPOKESPERSON: 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.
REPORTER 1: Can you come out? Can you come out?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
REPORTER 1: Come right out, please. Come right out.
Close the door. Come on out.
We can't see you there, close the door.
REPORTER 2: Hang on, hang on.
You wouldn't care to read it, would you?
CLERK: No, I'm afraid not.
REPORTER 1: It would help us greatly if you could.
REPORTER 2: Thank you very much.
Maybe a name and address, please?
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING) -REPORTER 3: Good morning, ma'am!
REPORTER 4: 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.
REPORTER 1: 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.
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING) -(FRANTIC CHATTER)
REPORTER 2: Ma'am, are you pleased with the settlement?
-REPORTER 3: She didn't say no. -♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
REPORTER 4: 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.
(CHATTER CONTINUES)
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?
REPORTER 1: That's what I mean with her.
REPORTER 2: She did have it on.
She did have the ring on.
-Did she have the ring on? -Are you certain, Paul? Are you certain?
REPORTER 3: 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...
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?
SPEAKER: 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."
♪ (BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
TV HOST: 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?
TV HOST: 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.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
-(CROWD CHEERING) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Officer, can you move?
♪ (RESOLUTE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
-Got enough cameras, Colin? -PHOTOGRAPHER: Two, yes. Fully loaded.
REPORTER 1: 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.
♪ (BRIGHT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
She woke me up. I love her. (LAUGHS)
Oh! You've moved rooms! You've moved rooms.
Just in here, she's moved rooms.
-PRINCESS DIANA: How are you? -PATIENT: I've moved three times. Good.
REPORTER 2: 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.
(SPEAKS ITALIAN)
(IN ENGLISH) Thanks for having us. Thank you.
-Thank you. Thank you very much. -(LAUGHS)
REPORTER:
-Excuse me! -(LAUGHTER)
No, no, no, that would be treason, you know.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
IMRAN KHAN: 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.
TV PANELIST: 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.
REPORTER: 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.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, FADES) ♪
(TIRES SCREECHING)
REPORTER: 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.
(CROWD CHEERING)
PRINCESS DIANA: May I hold?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
What's she feeding this young man?
-Oh, he weighs a ton. (CHUCKLES) -(INTERPRETER SPEAKING PORTUGUESE)
-(CHUCKLES) -(PARENT SPEAKING PORTUGUESE)
(IN ENGLISH) How long has she been waiting for a prothesis?
INTERPRETER: She has been waiting for about three years.
PRINCESS DIANA: Will you ask her where the mine was?
INTERPRETER: Yeah, she was trying to get some food
with her mother when she stepped on a landmine.
And... don't her friends help her?
(SPEAKING PORTUGUESE)
(IN ENGLISH) I understand they don't help.
PRINCESS DIANA: Sarim, can we ask him to smile too?
Otherwise, I'm gonna be most upset.
-(SPEAKS PORTUGUESE) -(CHUCKLES)
REPORTER 1:...we have the best people working.
REPORTER 1: (IN ENGLISH)
I'd have thought that was the most important question
out of the two, I'd go for that one.
(REPORTERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
-REPORTER 1: Thank you. -REPORTER 2: Okay.
REPORTER 3:
No, no, I mean the one saying...
-I'm not a political figure. -REPORTER 1: Yes, exactly.
REPORTER 3: I'm ready.
The government will be announcing later today
that we will ban the import, export,
transfer and manufacture of anti-personnel landmines.
(OVERLAPPING CHEERING)
♪ (RESOLUTE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ONLOOKER: Diana! Hey, Diana!
REPORTER: She was named Humanitarian of the Year in America
and mixed with that nation's most powerful
and influential figures.
HILLARY CLINTON: 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.
PRINCESS DIANA: It is humbling to know that some of you
feel that I should be honored in this way.
-♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ -(APPLAUSE)
-(CROWD CHEERING) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(ECG MONITOR BEEPING)
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
-(MONITOR CONTINUES BEEPING) -(VENTILATOR HISSING)
TV PANELIST 1: I cannot think of a single heterosexual male
of my acquaintance
who wouldn't fancy Princess Diana...
-TV PANELIST 2: But we're looking towards-- -...physically, at least.
TV PANELIST 2: Yes, we're looking towards the ideal for her.
TV PANELIST 3: 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.
TV PANELIST 2: 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.
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER 1: Charlie!
Is that her?
(SHUTTERS CONTINUE CLICKING)
(CAMERA RUSTLING)
REPORTER 1: 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.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
REPORTER 2: 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.
(SHUTTERS CONTINUE CLICKING)
REPORTER 3: 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.
BYSTANDER: 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.
REPORTER 4: 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.
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
REPORTER 5: 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.
NEWS EDITOR: 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.
REPORTER 5: 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.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
LAWYER: 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.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Hold it up right.
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
REPORTER: Would she consider a reconciliation
if it's only a friendship?
-No. -LAWYER: No is her answer.
INTERVIEWER: 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.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
-(PHOTOGRAPHER SPEAKING ITALIAN) -(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(CHATTER CONTINUES) -(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARS)
-(LAUGHTER) -ALAN: (IN ENGLISH) These are Jeffrey's cards...
SCOTT: Do you wanna see my cards?
(CHUCKLING)
-ALAN: Whose turn is first? -We're having a swell time
although Princess Diana has been injured gravely
it's been reported allegedly.
(LAUGHTER)
ALAN: Not allegedly, they have pictures.
-We're watching it on... we're watching it on CNN. -SCOTT: "Allegedly."
NEWS ANCHOR: 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.
REPORTER 1: There's still no concrete word on
exactly what the condition of the Princess is...
REPORTER 2: ...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...
-(ALAN SIGHING) -It's breaking news.
-ALAN: So, who's winning? -SCOTT: It's the news, bro.
KEN: Well, Alan's ahead right now.
-ALAN: Oh, I didn't just say that. -KEN: Alan's only got 68.
-ALAN: That's good. -KEN: Clark's next with 88.
(EMERGENCY SIREN WAILING)
REPORTER 1: 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.
REPORTER 2: ...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.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
SCOTT: You know, that could be the most photographed car...
JEFFREY: Gosh. It is. The engine is pushed
-way back into the... -JOHN: Yeah.
KEN: They have to be dead.
They're lucky anybody's alive.
-KEN: Yeah. -JEFFREY: Mm-hmm.
-Well... -Princess Diana dead!
(KEN GASPS, SHRIEKS)
-KEN: Oh, she died. -CLARK: Where's the remote?
ALAN: Oh, my God.
NEWS ANCHOR: You're in the briefing room where you're gathered,
How did you find out? Who told you?
ALAN: Oh.
-REPORTER: Uh, so... -Oh, God!
REPORTER: I had to step out because it was still going on.
ALAN: Get it loud.
REPORTER: 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?
NEWS ANCHOR: 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 Bitterman in Paris. Jim.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(BELLS TOLLING)
Are these for the palace?
(CAR HORN HONKING)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-(SOBBING) -(SHUTTERS CONTINUE CLICKING)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Here he is.
TONY BLAIR: 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.
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(SOBBING) 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.
REPORTER: 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.
ONLOOKER: 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...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: I shouldn't be in these gardens? Who the hell are you?
-Because the people-- people that have respect for Diana-- -HITCHENS: 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.
♪ (MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ONLOOKER: 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!
-CROWD MEMBER: Yes. -(CROWD APPLAUDS)
You're here to pick the bones!
The Times, Mail or The Sun?
CUSTOMER: I'll take one of each.
NEWS VENDOR: One of each? One pound twenty-three, love.
-Yes, please. -The Mail and The Sun.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
ONLOOKER 1: 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.
(SOBBING) Everybody loved Diana.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
ONLOOKER 2: Just typical reaction
of the Royal Family. Stick to protocol.
Don't worry about human emotion.
REPORTER: 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.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
RADIO CALLER 1: 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.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
RADIO CALLER 2: 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.
ANNOUNCER: We share our grief...
with our English and Canadian friends.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, FADES) ♪
(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARING)
(CROWD MURMURING)
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING IN THE DISTANCE)
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
REPORTER: 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. -PRINCE PHILLIP: That's what we've been doing.
-SPECTATOR: Sorry? -That's what we've been doing.
SPECTATOR: I know you have.
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
SPECTATORS: God bless you!
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
-SPECTATOR 1: William! -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
SPECTATOR 2: God bless you, William!
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
SPECTATOR 3: God bless you, young man.
-Thank you. -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
SPECTATOR 4: We love you!
SPECTATOR 5: We loved your mother!
(BELLS TOLLING)
(SPECTATORS WAILING)
(SOBBING) Diana!
SPECTATOR: (SOBBING) We love you!
We love you, Diana!
(BELLS TOLLING)
(CARRIAGE RATTLING)
(BELLS TOLLING)
SPECTATOR: (SOBBING) Oh, my Diana!
(SOBBING)
(BELLS TOLLING)
♪ (HEAVENLY CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
♪ (MUSIC BECOMES DRAMATIC) ♪
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
♪ (MOURNFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪