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>> the fairy tale marriage, so-called, has ended very, very sadly. >> diana is now willing to take risks. >> i think i'm going past everyone else. >> you can't divorce yourself from the media. >> princess diana frolicking with dodi al fayed. >> her clock was ticking and she was about to run out of time. did you know what you were taking on in that kind of sense, not being able to just walk down the street ?
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she's giving her first solo interview. >> the public were riveted. 20 million of them, every one of them hung on to every word. >> she went from military style jacket, very strong, very powerful, extremely chic. she's saying i know you're going to attack me and i'm going into bat battle. >> what do we do with her? >> can't we back her off somewhere quietly rather than campaign against her. >> she won't go quietly. fight until the end. >> she was controlled, on message, well rehearsed. it was a full hour with the camera on her face so she could
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say what she wanted. >> she saw an opportunity to go after charles. what a shot to take for diana. >> i would think the top job as i call it bring it. how dare she question the prince of wales right and ability to be the next king? >> she had no choice. nobody was listening to her so she decided to turn to the public. >> i think she's come across well telling people what she's been under. >> charles had his say about time she had hers. >> 92% of people supported her. >> the kinds of things she said
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about prince charles and the monarchy in general. they viewed it as a massive betrayal. >> it is someone from the inside really being a traitor to the image that the monarchy is infallible institution. queen elizabeth said she had it, time for prince charles and princess dianna to end their troubled marriage. >> she phoned me and said she got a letter from the queen telling her and prince charles to finalize the divorce. she said to me, you know, patrick, that's the first letter she's ever written to me and there is a little catch in her voice. i thought wow, and it's probably the last letter she's going to write you, as well.
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>> she knew this interview would lead to divorce, which she said she didn't want but it's the only way she saw getting any kind of freedom for herself. >> welcome back, we're talking about the fairytale marchrmarri finally, officially the princess of wales will agree to a divorce. >> one of the issues is whether diana would keep her title. >> her royal kindness carries with it an elevated status. it is a badge of honor. she's not a part of the royal family anymore. >> diana would have to courtesy to minor royals. so think about that. >> not for a glimpse of the royal super star but a piece of
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paper says the marriage will be over in 16 weeks. she'll share in the upbringing of 14-year-old prince william and 11-year-old harry. she reportedly gains more than $20 million. >> the day of the divorce and she was putting on one of her oscar performances i'd say. she got out and she was looking confident, looking sexy. this is the day i'm moving forward thanks kind of attitude. >> we noticed she was still wearing her engagement and wedding rings. in spite of the fact that this was the day that her marriage was officially over. when she got home she felt she wanted to ring up prince charles and talk to him.
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she said i didn't. i would have ended up bowling. he would have thought i'd gone mad again. >> here is a young woman that married at 20 and she felt very much she was on her own and she was going to have to prove herself. >> i think i'm going to cut a different path than everyone else. i can do this job so much better. i'm going to break away on this setup.
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it was romance the nation shared. now she seeks a new role and many wonder if charles will eventually remarry. the princess was a sad time for her. she will begin her new life as a single woman without the title your royal highness. diana took on the royal family and needs to take a step back. >> diana was more isolated after her divorce. the whole backup, the palace
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mach machinery. the one saving grace was william and harry but when they weren't there, she was quite alone. >> she'd go back to the palace and there would be nobody there to welcome her home. to say well done or let me pour you a drink. >> she'd lost her sense of trust and security. she began to stream line the people around her and said no to 24-hour protection. >> the only place she felt utterly secure was at her apartment in kensington palace which in many ways was so ironic because she found it
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suffo suffocating. >> we would talk three times a week, two or three days nine hours. >> there is no doubt diana had all sorts of feelings of insecurity and always spoke to me about her feelings of emptiness inside. >> she turned to america and why shouldn't she and why wouldn't she? in america, diana was adored . >> diana is flying into town and chicagoans can't contain their
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excitement. >> it was like the earliest days of dimania. >> we've never seen anything like this. the power is phenomenal. there are so many people who will pay top dollar to sit in the same room. >> if you're anyone who is anyone, you're clutching tickets to the two royal fundraising events. even those in the $50,000 package have been snapped up. >> ladies and gentlemen, would you please stand for the princess of wales. >> diana really loved america. she loved the people. she loved all the personalities she came into contact with at all the events. >> she was being inundated with big america corporations to be the face of this and that. a perfume contact was waved under her nose. she'd have nothing to do with it. she was quite clear she wouldn't
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fall into a trap to become sort sort of rich man's commercial prop property. >> she wanted to prove herself as a human being for who she was as opposed to what she represented. ♪ ♪ >> breakfast at the white house, this highest level engage the gave the prestige of her latest american visit a huge boost. >> she goes to the white house. she had been there before but this was her first trip as an independent woman. >> i want to welcome all of you and particularly our guest of honor, diana princess of wales. this is one of the nicest british invasions the white house had. >> to see diana and hillary in this frame together, for diana that must have felt very empowering because the biggest fear was that she would be
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rejected by everyone if she was no longer married to charles. >> hillary then had a private meeting with her afterwards and they did really hit it off. diana singled out hillary's strength as the thing she admired because strength is what diana wanted to have. >> there would have definitely been a little bit of look at my power, look at my stardom everyone in the royal family and i don't need you anymore. >> she was on the level of jackie o, grace kelly, but she was all of them if i may say so rolled into one. >> diana wasn't just going to do the frilly stuff. she was going to take on
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scheduled flight at the start of an unofficial visit for the newest and most high profile red cross volunteer. >> diana really broke out through her involvement in the anti land mines campaign in angola. taking on board unfashionable issues, issues the royal family stayed away from because it was controversial. >> it is my sincere hope we shall focus world attention on this vital but until now largely neglected issue. >> in the first meeting with diana was clear it was heart felt from diana how serious the position was. at the time, someone lost their life or was injured every 20 minutes in the world easily.
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>> i've never seen scenes like it before. i've never been in this environment. it's very humbling. >> i suddenly thought my gosh after washing royal dirty laundry in public, now we have a real story to tackle. >> how long has she been waiting for a prosthesis? >> for about thoree years. >> i think there was a genuine sense of empathy there. i think she did have a particular connection with people who struggled. whereas the queen, prince charles, that greater sense of a barrier. >> what happened to her? >> all the intestines are outside. >> land mines were controversial. she understand stood it was a political issue. so she wasn't afraid of those.
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>> diana is now willing to take risks and she was in a much more liberal position than the british government was. >> it's 7:00 on wednesday the 15th of january. the headlines this morning. the decision by diana princess of wales to support a campaign against land mines angered ministers. >> a junior cabinet minister said he did not feel diana should be on a campaign like this and she was siding with the labor party, which is a complete no no being party political for a member even an estranged member of the royal family. i seized my moment and stuck my microphone in front of diana as we went on the pavement. >> the government said you're a loose cannon by supporting this campaign. do you have reaction to that? >> many try to hay ighlight a problem going on around the world, that's all.
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>> it's said your aligning yourself with labor policy. do you think that's whiise? >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> we need to move on. thank you very much. >> i really want to burst into tears now. am i -- who said i'm a loose cannon? >> i know i really upset diana because she was doing a good job out there. >> she insisted she'd not been worried by the debate back home that resulted from her comments. >> i saw it nearly as a distraction because i'm not a political figure. i'm a humanitarian figure. >> she knew she would get headlines that could be an im image. >> show knew what the picture was and would work on it in her mind. it was like an instinctive thing. she said well, they can never take away the pictures.
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>> she short circuited 30 years of mostly men in suits talking and probably found a good 300,000 people are alive today who wouldn't be without that trip. >> diana invented the idea of the celebrity activist, the celebrity conscious. she is almost a diplomatic figure by this point. ♪ ♪ >> it what the labor party have been waiting for all these years. >> when in '97 we got a new and young labor trial minister tony blair, that was something good for diana. >> a new dawn has broken. >> we see diana having meetings with tony blair, the new prime minister. diana had a plan.
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the trip to angola was just the start. >> she harbored this ambition to be some kind of ambassador for the country. i've got no doubt whatsoever that had she lived, something would have developed. labor government were all about modernization and energy and a new way of doing things, and she was in that same space. the royal family, charles would have been seen as much more of a force of conservatism. >> she needed to make sure that the narrative around her life moving forward was positive. so diana is clever. she wooed the editors of the papers and would invite them over for these cozy lunches at
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ken kensington palace. >> how much were you in love with diana and her image? she was a manipulator. she could throw you off your guard with a flutter of the eyelids. it was a tactic. she actually phoned her favorite photographers to let them know where she might be. she would telephone gossip writers. she would encourage them to build her up at the expense of the rest of the rather staged royal family. but you get your fingers burned if you mess with the fire, you know, and the fire was the media. to all the kisses... ...that led... ...to this one. celebrate every kiss, with kay.
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this is a beautiful woman in a bad marriage and now everyone is rooting for her to find love again. >> i think the real question is who would want to take diana on? >> one of the great problems for diana was however hard she worked at her good works, the media is like oil seeping. it will get everywhere into every knacnook and cranny. it looks at the personal side. >> now we have the story of princess diana.
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it a wonderful fairytale gone wrong. >> there was an obsessive interest because she had a very unhappy marriage wanting to find out who she is seeing, who she dating, who is going to be the next man in her life. >> she was looking for a new and different kind of life, a happy marriage. >> she said i should get married. >> diana met hasnat khan. a prominent heart surgeon in
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pakistan. >> he mended hearts quite literally. she hadn't had a proper relationship since she had been dating prince charles all those years earlier as a teenager so this was new ground for her. >> she loved the fact that she could live a reasonably ordinary life with hasnat. >> she liked getting in the car and driving wherever she wanted. >> she could wear glasses and a wig and standing in the queue once, she rang a friend. i'm in a queue. i've never been in a queue. >> you did have a small flat at the back of the hospital and diana did go there and clean it up for him and she just loved it. >> she was so pleased to be able to do regular things like wash, iron, cook a meal.
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>> she did meet his family very secr secretly. >> the footage is so delightful. we see her trying to learn more about her partner's family and heritage. she is really invested in trying to make it work. >> it probably was true love but at that stage of her life, i think she would have done anything asked if he said he'd marry her. that probably would have included converting to islam. >> diana and i had a very good relationship with no personal problems. the only problem we did have was with the media and the only place we could have any real privacy was at kensington palace as they could not get to us there. >> hasnat's statement shows for
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this relationship to continue, they needed to free themselves from the press. >> i told her the only way i could see us having a vaguely normal life together is if we went to pakistan as the press don't bother you there. >> she hoped that somehow she'd be able to sort of slip off into some sort of new private world. but it simply wasn't going to happen. >> it was intense the coverage when you're with diana. you just need to find one thing and it would be on the front page of all the newspapers. >> diana was worried about that. she felt hasnat would crack and that would be the end of it. >> but the spotlight was on her. you can't divorce yourself from the media. once you've taken their vows. you can't just decide one
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morning i don't feel like it today. they're camped on your doorstep for life. >> please! give us some privacy, please, thank you very much. >> she hadn't had police protection for a couple years. that barrier between her and the paparazzi no longer existed. >> a hay day for them because they would rush up and it would be right in her face close up, lenses in her face talking to her being rude to her. >> out, out, o-u-t, out. >> you'd be looking for her car or waiting for a tip for someone saying she's at such and such place. >> a block of flats opposite a gym and originally, we paid someone to actually go into their flat and use their window.
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you needed a view. >> she was photographed leaving the gym and the press spotted what they thought was some cellulite on her leg. >> it headlined "princess lumpy legs." they went everywhere from china to colombia. everybody bought those. >> the next die diana has to go to the gym wearing a huge coat. she had to cover herself up because she had been shamed by the press. >> when i was writing a column, a regular used to say pretty bad horrible things about diana. one of the very first things she said to me was why did you write those awful things about me?
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second hand ball gowns for sell as diana cleans out her wardrobe. >> diana decided to auction off 79 of her dresses for charity. so dian ashs once again thrusts herself in the spotlight creating a massive frenzy around her. all eyes are on her. none of us knowing that it was going to be the last time that she would be visiting america. >> it's all right been dubbed the sell of the century. some say it symbolic for her to be seen as a serious world figure. >> diana was eager to redefine herself on her work and her wardrobe followed suit. >> most of us probably couldn't
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fit in the size. she's very tall and very slim. i know i couldn't. i don't have to worry about it. >> i thought it was a wonderful idea that she's kind of shedding her skin. >> everyone in new york came to that auction because it was diana. >> there were so many people there. everybody pressed tight and shuffling around trying to get in there. >> 2,000, 4,000, 36,000, 38,000. >> i remember sitting this and watching the dollar signs just go up and up and up. these dresses were being sold for huge sums. >> at $135,000. [ applause ] >> it raised a lot of money for charity. i think north of $3 million for
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charity in one night. >> 175. >> she said i love the fact that i can raise a million dollars like that. >> i knew she was going to say that. $200,000. [ applause ] >> she's going to these glittering events dazzling the cameras but she was always on her own. >> she did have that duality where she could be in public glowing and charasmatic but her private life was tush larblant. >> there was more and more press interest in him. people started writing about him. investigating his family.
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>> the princess of wales was giving nothing away about her secret overnight meeting. she slipped out to meet the mother and relatives of dr. hasn hasnat khan. the doctor said the princess was a friend, not girlfriend. >> in the trips to pakistan, she wanted commitment from hasnat back to her. >> they'd been together for two years and she wanted to go public. >> my main concern about us getting married was that my life would be hell. i knew i would not be able to live a normal life, and if we ever had children together, i would not be able to do normal things with them. i did not want that sort of lifestyle. >> hasnat khan's statement for the diana inquest shows us
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everything that comes with diana is pushing hasnat khan away and there is nothing diana can do because she'll continue to be the most famous woman in the world. >> diana's relationship with hasnat k hhan came to a natural end because it was not going to progress any further. >> i think she would have married him in a heart beat. it is sad because i think she had found the love of her life. >> diana said she couldn't just sit at kensington palace and watch the four walls. it appears very glamorous but she was lonely. >> she is heart broken but gets
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invited by a billionaire to go on a trip to a yacht to san tropez and she accepts. >> it will be a float off the coast of san tropez. the princess and her sons are holiday guests. >> a very controversial figure. >> he is already just as tangled against the british establishment. he has been denied a british citizen ship. >> one of the reasons she was in the south of france is that was one of the ways she would get a nice holiday for her children. >> not only did she go to san tropez with her children with mohammed but the world press went as well. and it really was the world press. it was basically a shottinoting gallery.
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>> today the princess took a stroll in full view of the press and cameras and apparently not upset by them. >> this is the most wonderful two fingers to the british establishment. >> mohammed and diana were both outsiders. she admired his audacity because he was sticking it to the establishment, which also was her enemy. >> if you look at the bigger picture, back home prince charles was throwing a 50th bi birthday party for camilla parker bowls. >> the bash seemed to be to place camilla firmly center stage. >> prince charles is saying to the world in a covert way, this is my woman. >> diana was disappointed by this, she could be thrown by something she felt
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destabilizing, the emerging of camilla to replace her. >> she found it hard to contemplate the idea of camilla as stepmother to her boys. that was a tough one for her. >> princess diana was preoccupied by camilla barker bo -- parker bowls, rather stressed and angry wanting to provide an alternative picture. >> diana was out posing in her bathing suit, giving the paparazzi so many photos there by relegating camilla's 50th birthday party to the back pages. >> three days into her holiday in san tropez, somebody arrived to take her mind off of the royal family. and that somebody was mohammed's
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and dody began. she immediately starts this relationship after that break up. and i mean, it's pretty obvious. it's to make him jealous. >> royal watchers around the world are buzzing over the latest pictures of princess diana frolicking in the mediterranean chblt. >> he's part of the global elite of the super rich. >> he was a bit of a playboy. he lived a party lifestyle. three or four parties a week. he's a very flamboyant figure and this relationship exposes that diana is very different than the royal family. >> stepped out of the comfort of royal family life. and now she was being welcomed and ushered in to the life which
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was sort of a celebrity version of royalty. >> he was showering her with lavish gifts and filling her apartment with roses. so she was bedazzled by him. he was taken her everywhere. >> he whisked her away for two more luxury holidays. on his uber yacht. >> i remember one point -- it was a crazy time. >> this was a relationship going at rocket speed. in total they only spent just under four weeks together. >> they did have some affinities. they both had difficult childhoods.
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they had a certain vulnerability. they were both outsiders. >> you start to see this relationship evolve with photos in the press. for diana to show the world that she's now happy. >> that was a huge break with diana. from previous relationships. it was saying i'm a single woman. i'm seeing a man. he's available. i'm available. why not? >> the holiday was filled by the paz razz si. now auctions the photographs to the highest bidder. >> there was a real feeling if this relationship were really going to be the one, then we wanted to be ahead of the game. you would pay for those photographs. it became enormously important for the media to follow this story. to its conclusion. >> every newspaper editor was
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buying into this story. and they were already writing the next chapter. they were already writing the wedding bells will be ringing soon . >> right at the end of august they end in paris for one more night. she and i spoke on the saturday night and she was keen to get back to london. she was missing her boys. a lot. and the last few days she kind of lost control. she surrendered to the five machine. >> ant fateful night there was speculation that dody was going to propose. to diana. >> i'm not entirely sure. if she was ready to accept a proposal of marriage. she insisted she wasn't.
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things were moving very fast. and she needed a breather. >> look at these. someone is out. very important. >> they decided to leave the security of the comfort of the ritz hotel. to drive to his apartment. they climbed into the car, the paparazzi were outside leaping on their motorbikes. >> it certainly feels the clock was ticking out and she was about to run out of time.
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>> i think about how things could have been different. she was so looking forward to figuring out the rest of her life. what the priorities were. where she was going to be going. what she was going to be doing. >> i know one day i can either rules of life. i will be able to have those things which i always planned for. thatch more special. and that much more built up. >> diana princess of whiles has been killed in a car accident. >> charles was in absolute shock. >> this is going to be like nothing we have ever seen. >> her death was just so unjust.
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>> you started to see ferocious anger grow across the globe. >> the monarchy was on a knife edge. >> two and a half billion people tuned in. >> williams thinking why are they crying but i can't. >> such a reminder of what has been lost here. >> diana, beauty internal and external. will never be extinguished from our minds. hello, welcome to the viewers in the united states. and around the world. high stakes diplomacy. president biden holds a phone call with his ukrainian counter part promising swift and severe cost if russia invades ukraine. a very exciting finish in super bowl lvi. we are live in california. with highlights from one of the most watched television events of the year. and the decision is expected in just hours for russian figure skater kamila valiyeva. the latest on the doping scandal that i
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