MEERA SYAL: June 1997,
and New York City is host to the world's hottest celebrity,
selling history's most famous wardrobe.
It was the auction of the century.
The auction was a hit parade of iconic moments
in Diana's life and times.
There was the fairy-tale princess from a more innocent age.
So-called "Dynasty Di" from the '80s.
Hollywood glamour for a glitzy new world.
And the newly independent woman of the '90s,
just when Girl Power was in the air.
The clothes were symbolic
of the life that she led, and they were being left behind.
The auction would prove a tragic swansong
rather than a new beginning, and Diana's death
two months later revealed just how caught up we all were in her life.
Against the backdrop of the old order crumbling
and a new one taking its place,
Diana was a modern woman for every age.
Hugging has no harmful side-effects.
Who made the waves as well as riding them.
I am not a politicalfigure. My interests are humanitarian.
To tell the story of Diana's life is to revisit the final decades
of the 20th century, in which she played so great a part.
CHEERING, FIREWORKS
On December 31st 1989,
the world marked the arrival of a new decade that seemed
full of promise, nowhere more than Berlin...
...where, just a few weeks earlier, the wall had come tumbling down.
The '90s had that feel of life, rejuvenation.
When the wall started coming down, literally, Berlin Wall,
Mandela, my daughter was born in '89,
and I almost called her Liberty, because it was a time of freedom.
It was almost like time had caught up with Diana's ethos
of embracing, of caring, you know, of reaching out to people.
What did you call your daughter in the end?
Billie! LAUGHS
But that same New Year's Eve,
Princess Diana seemed to be searching
for a different kind of freedom.
She spent much of the night on the phone to a lover.
Unknown to either, somebody was listening in.
And tapes of the conversation were sent to the national press,
with consequences that would resonate for the rest of the decade.
MAN: I love you, love you, love you, love you.
But for the time being, it was Royal business as usual.
The first overseas tour of the decade,
to Nigeria, served up the familiar Royal fare.
Diana's role was purely ceremonial.
But this visit represented everything that Diana was not
going to be in the '90s - silent, ornamental,
and put upon by the patriarchy.
And back home, she was cultivating a kingdom of her own.
One in which she would reign as queen of hearts.
CHEERING
I was about eight or nine,
and I just felt so excited
to meet Princess Diana.
I can just remember her saying
what a lovely, beautiful singing voice I had.
I'm totally blind, but she just touched my hand,
and that's what made me trust her.
Diana first visited Chickenshed,
a theatre company open to all abilities,
after she'd been invited by a friend.
Diana came along to a performance that we did in 1990,
and it was love at first sight, really.
After the show, she came backstage, and she was due to meet
I think about six kids, but there was 150 on stage,
and she said there's no way she'd leave anybody out,
and she met everybody.
I felt that Diana always felt a bit of an outsider to the Royal Family,
and I think that she saw
what you might call other outsiders in Chickenshed.
In its early years, Chickenshed was based out of just that.
But the combination of Diana's megawatt celebrity
and the emotional engagement had a transformative effect.
She did actually agree to become our patron.
I cannot express the difference from when she first became our patron.
We would do a fundraising event, and instead of raising 5,000,
we might raise 250,000.
So, Princess Diana was a real-life fairy princess for us,
because she did sprinkle her magic dust over us.
Diana's fundraising prowess made her
the poster girl for the caring, sharing '90s.
But for the reporters covering Diana, it wasn't her charity work
that kept their journalistic appetites whetted.
Especially when a feast of revelations
was about to be served up.
I received a cassette tape through the post to my office
in an unmarked envelope, simply addressed to me at the Daily Mail,
in around September 1991.
I remember playing it in my editor's office.
DIANA:
MAN:
I was astonished, because it became clear that she was...
she had a very close relationship with the man she was speaking to.
MAN:
The explosive recording was sent to at least three newspapers
in what some suggested was an orchestrated campaign
to smear the Princess of Wales.
I mean, the irony is that at the time that the newspapers
had this tape, none of us thought that it could ever be published.
It was sort of seen as something that won't and couldn't happen.
Was Diana aware that it was circulating?
I suspect she was.
I don't know that for certain, but I think
it must've been known by 1991 that this tape was doing the rounds,
so it is entirely plausible that this was at the back of Diana's mind
when she decided she wanted to unburden herself to Andrew Morton.
It was like, you'd been given a secret,
and that secret could be very dangerous.
DIANA:
Well, it's a question I never asked Diana - why did she choose me?
Why did she ask me?
I think that she knew that I was
independent of the BBC, ITV, Fleet Street.
She knew that I was a freelance writer.
She knew that I'd written sympathetic pieces about her.
So, at the time,
she was looking to, I think, tell her story,
and I happened to be the right guy in the right place
at the right time.
Andrew Morton's bestselling book, Diana: Her True Story,
would change the course of Diana's life,
the monarchy, and, arguably, history.
Unknown to almost everyone at the time, Diana herself instigated,
directed, and did everything but actually write it.
In the '90s, there wasn't social media.
You know, and I don't think you can write that off,
because, in order to talk about her issues,
it meant the summoning of a writer, a journalist.
It meant inviting other people in to have your story told,
and that's a huge step.
It's much more difficult than picking up a mobile phone
and talking to a phone and posting it.
Here's the world's most famous princess, saying,
"Do you want an interview?" Of course!
And it happened in the most incongruous of circumstances.
I met a mutual friend at a cafe.
All around, there were people eating bacon and eggs and beans.
My friend came with his little battered tape recorder,
inserted a tape, I put the headphones on,
and I listened as Diana poured out this story.
She was talking about bulimia, she was talking about a woman
called Camilla Parker Bowles, never heard of her.
She was talking about attempted suicides. It was... breath-taking.
And after that meeting,
it was as though you'd been admitted into a secret circle.
The unravelling of the Royal marriage was taking place
against the crumbling of all sorts of orthodoxies.
With the Cold War over and nuclear Armageddon no longer on the cards,
in the '90s, we could have a bit of me, me, me time.
In the '90s, sexuality changed. We were coming out of, sort of,
the greedy '80s, and we started reflecting
on what really mattered, and what really mattered
was how we felt about ourselves and how we felt about our relationships.
Inhibitions were thrown off.
Basic Instinct was one of the top grossing movies of 1992.
While in the UK, a magazine culture flourished,
where sex talk was out in the open.
We started to see sex as more integrated into conversation
and also into your life, that we knew people were having sex,
but people weren't really talking about it in an acceptable way.
And I think in the '90s, we started being honest
about what we're feeling, and not having to fake orgasms
or pretend that you're happy in a marriage where you're not.
Diana was part of the movement in the '90s,
and I think she was a real spearhead of it, of being able to talk about
that which otherwise would've been embarrassing or shameful.
Diana wasn't the only global icon in 1992
with a book that left little to the imagination.
It's a sealed item, so it's not gonna shock children.
But while Madonna's weapon to reclaim the narrative
was her sexuality, for Diana, it was searing, emotional honesty.
I think the reaction was one of... absolute shock,
that a member of the Royal Family could have any kind of life.
It's that kind of revelation, that maybe the Queen goes to the loo!
I mean, it's just not spoken about.
And here it was - mental health problems, bulimia,
all laid out.
I think the public have been outraged by the intrusive nature
of the authors and the journalist concerned.
You know, the Establishment was bloodying tooth and claw.
Extracts were published in Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times.
Proof positive for some that the British constitution itself
was under attack.
The Establishment were distressed because of the fact that it was,
it seemed to be true and authentic,
and it compromised their long-cherished views
about the monarchy and the heir to the throne,
and the fact that the heir to the throne was effectively
living with another man's wife was not something
that they wanted to see splashed all over the Sunday broadsheets.
Although Diana was sticking her neck out...
ALL TALK AT ONCE
...it was Morton's head on the block.
Well, the Daily Telegraph
thinks he should be hung by the neck very slowly until he dies.
The motivation was to tell the truth.
For once, forget the propaganda,
tell the truth about what's really going on.
I was bit like a fairground boxer, fighting all comers with one hand
tied behind my back, because I could not say Diana was behind this book.
Everyone I've spoken to,
people who are close to the Princess of Wales, are assured,
have assured me that the portrait
is a fair, sympathetic and accurate one.
I had to basically say her friends and her family helped,
but not the Princess.
It is an accurate story, it's a true account.
The people at the centre of it have stood by their stories.
And if we were talking today and she was alive,
I'd still be saying the same thing.
She wanted the world to know what her life was like,
make no mistake about it.
She never regretted doing the Morton book,
because she felt it was important to people
to realise that it was all an act.
This great union between her and Charles had not been
the stuff of fairy-tales, and she felt that
she owed it to the public for them to know what was going on.
THIS MORNING THEME
I seem to remember
from phone-ins that we did around the time of Morton's book,
that Morton actually came in to take calls.
CALLER:
There was a tranche
of public opinion that thought that he wasn't telling the truth
or that he'd in some way transgressed Diana's privacy.
That died away quite quickly,
and the public quickly came to understand
that he hadn't done anything of the kind -
that actually, they were hearing the authentic voice
of Diana, Princess of Wales. And I think things changed quite a lot,
and I think people felt very sympathetic towards her.
And I think, for her, if she wanted to have a breakthrough moment
with the public and reach them, I think she did.
Diana had always reached the parts of the country
other Royals could not.
But now, in the wake of the Morton revelations,
opinion polls showed she was more popular than ever.
So, Mum, I remember this book we had of Diana.
I'm guessing you, like, tore through that book pretty quickly? Yep!
LAUGHTER
And the relationship with her public assumed an almost intimate quality.
How often would my mum mention Diana?
It's probably easier to say how often didn't she mention Diana.
She'd speak about her as if they had just gotten off the phone.
It was very personal.
If she wore an outfit, Mum would be like,
"That was a great choice for her. She needs to accentuate her legs
"and her shoulders." Or she'd be like,
"Oh, I wouldn't have done that, Di, if I were you."
It was very personal, as in, I genuinely, as a kid,
thought they were best friends.
I had no clue that she was a member of the Royal Family.
I really thought her and my mum used to just gab on the phone.
Writer and director Alegria was born the same year that Morton wrote his
pioneering misery memoir, which mum Simi snapped up hot off the press.
So, when you read it, was it sort of, like,
kind of, confirming everything you thought
about her life and the things she went through?
I identify the fact that she's married into a family where
the in-laws don't talk to her, they're cold, they reject her.
Right. You know, in Nigeria, when you marry,
you marry the man, then you have to deal with the in-laws.
So you marry the family.
And that's what Princess Diana did.
So you have to try and get on with them.
You have to try and get on with them.
You know, you dare not disrespect his mother, or else your suitcase
would be out through the door, you know? Mm.
So when you see what happened in the inside,
the way... the queer looks she was given,
like there was something wrong with her,
and she was going through bulimia, rejection by her husband,
she was labelled mad.
Here she was, putting in words
what millions of women all over the world were going through.
It was empowering. Yeah, must've been.
She empowered a lot of women,
especially women, you know, women of colour.
We just thought, "This woman is our sister. She's one of our kindred."
Morton's book sold over 2 million copies globally.
But as the world began to learn
about the rot at the heart of the Royal marriage,
the Windsor family's misery was just beginning.
In August came news that the Duchess of York had been photographed
having her toe sucked by her financial advisor, John Bryan.
Fergie was very publicly banished from the Royal fold.
Four clays later,
the unexploded ordinance that had been sitting in the safes
of national newspapers finally detonated.
The Sun published the Squidgy Tapes.
DIANA:
MAN:
That whole summer of 1992 was incredibly febrile,
and it's almost like there was a competition
between younger members of the Royal Family
to see who could plumb the depths further and fastest.
Every day there was...
the story was twisting and turning one way and the next.
Yeah, it was, immediately after the Morton book, many people
characterised the Squidgy Tape as some sort of corrective.
"Oh, well, this will bring Diana down a peg or two."
That was the sort of, the underlying message.
The annus horribilis climaxed in November, with the incineration
of Windsor Castle.
And even the most literal-minded could grasp the symbolism
for the House of Windsor.
As Windsor Castle lay in smouldering ruins,
Prime Minister John Major
heralded the beginning of the end of the Royal marriage.
Newly separated, Prince Charles decamped to his country estate
and busied himself creating a pastiche of the past -
a model village in Dorset.
What I want to try and see is how to design on a traditional basis.
Diana's rival court was based out of Kensington Palace.
Her chosen causes were more contemporary,
and she spoke with that most valuable of '90s currencies...
Ladies and gentlemen...
...authenticity.
Eating disorders have,
at their core, a far deeper problem than mere vanity.
Feelings of guilt,
of self-revulsion, and low personal esteem.
Diana, during the '90s, heralded a very different approach,
where it was OK to talk about things that weren't,
you know, going right in your life.
Eating food has now become an expression
of how we feel about ourselves.
Suddenly, here she was, talking from the heart.
And I think that whole phrase, "from the heart",
I look back at the '90s, and I think that's when it started to become
something that people could do, and gradually almost became the norm.
Diana's newfound candour didn't come out of thin air.
Following Oprah's lead in the States,
in the '90s, even buttoned-up Brits
were getting used to regular Joes and Joannas
spilling their emotional guts on TV.
But with all this emoting came a sense that nothing was off limits.
If Diana was now considered an open book,
more and more, she was viewed as a book that anyone could leaf through.
On an average day outside Kensington Palace,
there would be four, five, six, seven photographers, all waiting
and hoping to do the same thing, ie, photograph Diana.
Waiting, waiting, all for, you know, ten, 15 seconds of action.
And you can spend days, days not seeing anything sometimes.
These clays, Max Cisotti only photographs the rich and famous
with their full consent.
But back in 1993, he was just starting out.
I became a paparazzi by accident.
I was in the right place at the right time with my camera,
got a few decent pictures of a few celebs,
sold them, and thought, "Ah, this is quite fun."
More than the money, it was the excitement.
Cos you had to go out
and search for whoever it is you wanted to photograph.
It was almost primeval instinct of hunter-gatherer, in a way.
Instead of going out hunting for food,
we were going out hunting for pictures.
For Max and his fellow "hunter-gatherers",
it was worth going the extra yard
to snap the newly-separated Princess Diana.
So we're just outside the Harbour Club,
where Diana used to come quite frequently.
As you can see,
this wall's quite tall, and so, to be able to photograph her,
we would have to have stepladders,
sort of about this high, or a bit less.
But I didn't do it too much, because...
I'm a photographer, not a window cleaner, so...
ladders, not for me.
Often viewed as ruthless mercenaries,
the paps could sometimes be recruited
into one of the bloodiest media battles of the decade:
the War of the Waleses.
Even the most innocent excursions could be weaponised.
And this was war fought in theme parks,
and at sea...
...and on the ski slopes.
Marvellous.
The war of the Waleses, when it took off, was something
quite spectacular, cos both of them had very different weapons,
and both of them were quite happy
to use them against each other as cudgels,
to get their case across in the press.
It all comes flooding back to me,
and it seems like it's only yesterday.
Richard Kay of the Mail
was one of the foot soldiers in this battle royal.
I'd just forgotten how much there was of it.
It was... It was every day.
Mad.
And his key source on Diana turned out to be...
Diana.
It moved, obviously, from being
reporter and subject to a proper... A friendship.
I mean, you know, it's just... that was the way it was, that's all.
I suppose I was on the frontline in terms of reporting it,
but I wasn't partaking in the battle.
Some of the reporters, I think, like Richard Kay,
were probably part of the battle.
There was a famous picture, I think, that was taken of Diana and him
in a car together chatting.
That was a major story at the time, because, of course,
it showed just how complicit Diana was.
Course I felt I was being used, but, I mean,
I know that I was in a position
where any of my rivals would've given their right hand for.
I mean, we're in the information business, and I was getting
information about a hugely interesting
and controversial subject, and obviously,
I was only doing what anyone else would've wanted to do.
I was lucky in that I could go to the main source, if you like.
As the war raged on, everyone had an opinion.
I'm Welsh, but I don't like him as Prince of Wales.
No, I'm in favour of Charlie, not her.
Fatefully, in 1994, Charles invited in a documentary crew
to see things from his perspective.
An otherwise flattering portrait contained one moment of TV infamy.
Yes.
Until it became irretrievably broken down.
The meaning was clear,
and the defenders of the faithless Charles stepped up.
I'm afraid heirs to the throne throughout the ages
have had affairs.
After all, if you are the Prince of Wales,
everybody, every attractive woman, has an eye on the Prince of Wales,
and has had throughout the ages.
What leg does he have to stand on?
The guy was very frank, and I feel sorry for him.
Wouldn't like to be in his position.
On the night that Charles's TV confession aired,
Diana showed her mastery of the art of media warfare,
by deploying what was immediately dubbed "the revenge dress".
That black dress that she wore, the revenge dress. Oh, my God.
You liked it? Oh, yeah.
Who didn't? It's a great dress.
You know, in Africa, we have hairstyles,
you know when, the ones they braid? Oh, the fancy designs?
The fancy designs of hair.
In the olden days, when men had more than one wife,
those hairstyles mean... mean very abusive.
They're like swear words. There's one that means "shut up".
OK. So, when she put on that dress,
I said, "Oh, girl, you can't braid your hair, but you said it all."
It was amazing, you know. That black dress, you know, off the shoulder.
Off the shoulder. Her nice legs. Oh, my God.
By the mid-'90s, it was no longer just about newspapers.
Satellite TV was now firmly a part of the media landscape
And news was truly global and real-time.
With the information superhighway getting wider and wider.
What's more, information was getting easier and cheaper to disseminate.
Although the Internet was only in its infancy, a transfer of power
from established broadcasters and publishers was well underway.
The media is changing and growing very fast,
so you need stories all the time, even if they're small,
even if they're insignificant, even if they're a bit intrusive,
you're gonna try and run them somehow,
because you need to feed the beast,
and the beast has an unending appetite.
The roads are this one and that one.
It fell to Max and his fellow "foragers" to gather titbits
to feed the beast.
And of course, Princess Diana was their most lucrative quarry.
Towards the mid-'90s,
new celebrity magazines were... literally one was being born
every six months.
So there was more space, more pages to fill.
For us, it was a bonus, because there were more outlets
and prices rose.
If you look at this picture,
the two other guys that I was working with
were concentrating on Diana, so there's no point in rne
getting... trying to get the same picture,
so I thought, "OK, well, I'll go for a wide shot
"which shows Diana with photographers."
We were driving past here and just saw her car.
HE CHUCKLES
With an average Diana picture, because of her popularity,
she would sell all around the world.
And very few celebrities have that appeal.
So with her, even if you would make, you know, perhaps £500, well,
you might make that in, you know, 15, 20 territories,
which, yeah, is still a lot of money,
but it might be the only money that you earn for two, three months.
The final volley in the War of the Waleses
came with the now discredited Panorama interview in November 1995,
where Diana famously revealed that,
"there were three of us in an overcrowded marriage".
An audience of 23 million people
also saw her admit that she'd had love affairs of her own.
In the age of Oprah, Diana was singing a heart-breaking lament.
And she largely succeeded in winning the sympathies
of her most reliable constituency: the public.
Well, it's gotta be the truth, hasn't it?
She does come across as if she's been done wrong by the Prince.
In July 1996, Diana's solicitors served up the latest morsel
to the ever-ravenous press pack.
No, I'm afraid not.
The terms of her divorce from Charles.
The day after the divorce was announced,
I was working for the Sunday Mirror,
and myself, and, I wanna say four, five other photographers
were on the south side of Kensington Palace. She drove out
and we followed her all the way out towards Richmond.
And she pulled in to a cul-de-sac...
...did a U-y...
...and one of the photographers on a motorcycle
followed her into this road.
Right here.
Princess Diana was roughly where I am right now,
and the chap that she was having a go at was approximately there.
I was just there, perpendicular on the main street,
and I was able to take a few pictures.
Literally, the whole thing lasted three to four seconds.
So, in that first picture, you can clearly see,
and I'm pretty sure that it... I'm not sure you can see it.
In fact, you can just about make it out, the reflection
of a chap on a motorcycle who was standing
parallel to where Diana was,
and you can see that she starts having a go at him.
And it's only at the last minute that she saw me.
CAMERA CLICKS
Obviously, there was a lot of excitement at the Sunday Mirror.
I mean, they did take a while to decide whether to use them or not,
because they were quite dramatic, quite strong,
and visibly, she was quite upset.
But the following day,
I saw that they used it on page one, four and five, as a spread,
with the headline, "Princess of Wails".
If the fairy tale was officially over,
then it was time for Diana to write a new narrative.
Although no longer HRH,
she was something the late 20th century esteemed even more.
Like the Spice Girls, who were soaring their way
up the global charts,
Diana was busy breaking America.
This is one of the nicest British invasions that the White House
has ever had.
The indisputably posh spice,
Diana channelled her own version of girl power.
The evil that men do lives after them.
The summer of '97 was a wild dance...
...involving Diana, the press, the paps, and, of course,
the millions of us who devoured their stories and photos.
But then, in the early hours of August 31st 1997,
the music stopped.
We have reports from Paris that Diana, Princess of Wales
has been killed in a car accident,
and that her partner, Dodi Fayed, has also been killed.
I mean, I remember about an hour after hearing the news
that she'd died,
I was in the shower, and I suddenly burst into tears.
And it's funny, I can actually connect with that emotion right now,
I can feel it coming up now.
THIS MORNING THEME
It was, without doubt,
the biggest story of my career, without question.
Our whole show today is dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales...
Every single day - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
was 100% Diana. That's all we did.
When Diana first appeared in public,
she unwittingly revealed more than she intended.
But by the time she died, it seemed as though
there was almost nothing the world didn't know about her.
Let's face it, most people didn't know her personally.
They all thought they did, through all of our pictures,
paps and official, and interviews and so on and so forth that she did,
and that's why everybody felt connected to her.
Just need to be here, and everybody else feels the same.
The whole world was in mourning.
She was someone people could relate to.
They knew about her problems, her heart, she'd gone through divorce,
she'd been spurned, she'd... there'd been another woman.
You know, so many people
could identify with what she'd been through.
She'd, you know, talk to people.
She'd embrace people, no matter what their background, their faith,
their colour, what have you, and you saw
a reflection of that when it came to the crowds grieving.
If you want to talk about
your feelings on this terrible, terrible event,
then we're making space for you on this grimmest of mornings.
I vividly remember the sheer anger
that was felt towards the media generally, but the tabloids
in particular.
And it was at that point, actually, for me, that I realised that
this was going to be huge in terms of the public reaction,
and God knows where it was gonna go.
This was the vox populi, this was the voice of the people.
I think once the first couple of days
had gone by, somebody noticed that
the flagstaff above Buckingham Palace didn't have a flag on it.
Where's the Queen? Where's the Queen?
It suddenly seemed as if there was an almost sort of
imperious dismissal of what had happened coming down from Scotland,
from the Royal Family on their summer break.
You think the Queen should abdicate?
So there was a sudden palpable sense of the grief and the anger that was
being directed at the tabloids suddenly switching like a spotlight
and targeting Balmoral, and this great shout of,
"Where are you, and where's the flag?"
And as for Prince Charles, well,
I think there's not a lot he can say really, is there?
And a lot of resentment, which people, some people,
felt towards the Royal Family for the treatment of Diana,
and resentment towards Charles for his affair with Camilla,
and all of that was coming out.
And then of course, against her own judgement,
the Queen came down to London.
I think there must've been five or six seismic mood shifts that week
in public opinion, and all in the same sort of broad direction,
almost like those murmurations of starlings,
you know, that kind of randomly pitch around the sky.
That was public opinion that week.
But I think we kind of forget just how...
dangerous, actually, the mood became.
Funnily enough, this was exactly
the spot I was in for the funeral cortege as well.
Because it came out of Kensington Palace,
and it was right here, and I was somewhere along here,
I can't exactly remember where.
I could've been a little bit further along, but roughly here.
It was almost, you know, like us paying our respects in a way,
you know, photographing the funeral.
It was something I felt I needed to do.
The Britain that's on display
at the funeral and the response to it,
that completely unfettered outpouring of emotion,
is so different from this very orchestrated,
very hierarchical Britain that's on show
at the time of the Royal wedding.
There's going to be a completely different public response,
it's not going to be the restrained mourning
that would've been expected years before.
And that's a world away from the Diana in the big dress.
The country has changed. It changed very profoundly.
We used to live just up there, past the bus stop, near the library.
We came - me, my sister and my mum -
and we walked down this street, up to the dual carriageway,
where her hearse was going to be passing by.
My sister and I were hitched up on the railings,
cos I was five and she was about three,
and people had flowers and were throwing them
onto the hearse as it passed by.
So, like, I'd actually never seen you...
well, to this day, I've never seen you cry.
And I remember seeing you cry when Diana passed,
cos I just remember you kind of standing at the dual carriageway,
looking very sad. Yeah.
That's when I think I knew it was something quite big and serious.
I think, because of the way we followed Diana,
when she died, it was like you've lost one of your best friends.
Yeah. So we were all crying.
You know, we changed.
The British never showed emotion.
And that's the way we all were, you know, hiding our emotions,
killing ourselves inside.
But her death, the beauty of it is simply
that it made us realise that we were also human
and we found ourselves as well in it.
That was the last thing that she gave to us.
In the twists and turns of Diana's life,
it's possible to chart
the changing world at the end of the 20th century.
And her death revealed that it was never just about her.
It was also always about all of us.
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