. >> diana frances, will thousand have this man as your wedded husband? >> i have made it. i'm here, you're there. i won, you lost. >>> and that's when the camera lights. out of about 3,000 built up enthusiasm. prince charles was so relaxed, he nearly came to grief on the top step. and when it was over, prince charles clasped lady diana's hand assuredly and unaffected. >> she was photo jennic, young, beautiful, the world was in love with her. >> it was like a perfect love story, but behind the scenes a whole different story was playing out. a story of struggle, a story of 19-year-old girl, naive, in this world, trying to find herself. >> here at the bbc we mounted the biggest ever broadcast, there are more than 60 cameras covering the route. the english know how to put on a bigger than life event. the date was getting nearer and nearer and it was starting to sing in how many people were going to be watching this wedding and how important it was going to be. >> is your heart heavy? >> she had just taken on a life of its own. >> just about every network in japan is covering t

diana's father was johnny vicant hp sathrip. and frances, dianeas mother had a difficult time with johnny. >> for women of diana's mother's generation or anyone of her porsche friend you're supposed to keep popping out male children. >> when i married my husband, i discovered this new word called premajenitor. the first born son inherits everything within these alisto accuratic families. can you imagine trying to divide an estate into eight different parts? frances knew that johnny needed an heir. she produced two daughters, sarah and jane. finally frances gave birth to a little boy, john. it's incredibly sad. he lived for barely hours before he died of a lung condition. there was not just the grief of losing a child but the grief of losing this child that her husband so badly wanted. 18 months later after the death of this precious little boy, diana was born, third girl. >> i couldn't understand why i was perhaps news to turn around which in later years i've perceived was being part of the persona which the famili . >> diana's growing up w

. >> he slapped my mother across the face and she's crying. >> it was september in 1967 that frances, diana's johnny that the marriage was over and she was leaving. and then to have your mother just gone, she just left. nobody explains to you what happened that makes any sense. because that's not what that family does. all that she knows is there goes mummy and she didn't come back. age six, the support system for diana has walked out, and never really to be seen again. >> i hated the doubt, the obsession about the doubt. a light outside my door. i used to hear my brother crying at the end of the house crying for my mother. >> she didn't understand that her mother had wanted her, had hoped to take her with her. she'd hoped to take all of her children with her. diana's own mother in a very unhappy marriage left for very good reasons and was shunned in soc society. diana grand mother, a terrible snob, was appalled that her daughter should have left her belted earl. and as a result she gave evidence in the custody proceedings against her own daughter. she called her a bad mother. custody did go

the sanctions that frances threatening, diana unilateral and the french prime minister joan caustics did right to the european commission several days ago saying look, we need your support on this and it, and you need to prove that leaving the a you is, is more damaging than staying in it, so it will be very interesting to see what the 2 leaders do say in the briefings in the next sort of half an hour or hour or so. and, you know, perhaps they will be some form of de escalation. it's almost as though the 2 sides are playing chicken and waiting to see who will move 1st. lexia brian that with all the bases for us from paris. thank you so much. lexie. well, that's now move on to san diego who has more of the view from london best seeing this situation completely differently. and of course this all stems back to that tense fil relationship that the u. k. currently has with the european union in the read out from, from downing street as well, but the prime minister barak johnson did say that he raised the issue of the northern island protocol, which for, for the u. k. is the most importan

. >> but that summer diana accepts an invitation to go to the south of france. the most famous shop on the planet, harod's. >> he had enough skel tons in his cupboard to stock a large graveyard. drinks and drugs and lots and lots of women. >> that princess diana should be wrapped up with him was seen as extremely ill-judged. >> on the 30th of august, 1997, dodi and diana arrive in paris. >> it's a saturday night and she said i'm fed up with it all. i don't care anymore. such was the level of interest in her private life that she'd just had enough. she was desperately looking forward to seeing william and harry. >> the next day diana plans to return home to be reunited with her sons. >> diana and dodi leave the ritz, and they get into a car. and the shoefer who had been drinking says you'll never catch us and he barrels into the night. >> there she is pursued by paparazzi at high-speed through the streets of paris. nobody dreamed that it would end in such a violent and shocking way. >> next on the "windsors." >> harry just looked like he was suffering. he's too y

diana and the caribbean, polynesia, and new caledonia. many were worried that history may have passed them by their call for a less colonial relationship with france. independence even fell on deaf ears between europe and america. the goal, one said, there is nothing but dust and we don't build states on just part of the french strategy and the overseas territories was the same as in africa to put its placement in power. in 1963, the goal, even st. his former prime minister michelle debate to reunion islands, debris stood in the french malim entry election, dismantled local movement, but no, we would look either at all why there was a miniature vollmer of we with my god. so loaded a gauntlet of was image. you probably, if we, which are god we're going to lose all about going to be the legal me. oh, oh. oh, on surprisingly, debris was duly elected as the member of parliament in paris hall reunion islands. a year later, he had his main opponent and leader of the communist party pulled up just charged with undermining the integrity of the states possess suitable burden on cultural destiny. dip all due zone, boyish up here. let me place young ear nucl

france. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. she was one of the best—known figures of the 20th century. after the death of dianaas just had its uk premiere at the film festival and our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba spoke to the star of the film, actress kristin stewart. three days, that's it. it's set over christmas 1991, a period where diana felt trapped by the royal family. taking on the role was empowering, says kristen stewart. to play her, even though it was sad and tumultuous, ironically, i felt taller. i felt like somebody who could lead with love and make people feel good, and it's really contagious. it comes right back at you. do you think i got delayed by someone? oh come on, come on. they are circling us. it seems they are circling just me. performers always feel pressure playing real—life figures. it's an even greater sense of responsibility for someone like diana. i've felt such love for her and still do and, um... you know, in a way that isn't... without implying like a kind of developed spirituality, i felt her. i wanted to protect her. there is no future. the past in the present are th

diana, except fiscal 5th bessie malika, pester wonder who and i'm one local to special. and today's, on the 8th of may 1945, a victory in europe. nasty germany surrendered, and the rest of europe rejoice. france and its empire celebrated the end of 5 years of fierce fighting and the step by step we conquest of home territory. it was epic, awe in tunis, brazza via the car and algiers. people also took to the streets in celebration. ah, but perhaps deep down. they sense that this was a time to ask for their do that shed their lives. now, it was payback time. ah, in algeria, the french colonial authorities allowed public demonstrations on condition that no one fly the algerian flag but in the city of city, the parade would turn into a battle field. one that lives on in memory to day. sure, no. need no idea because yes ma'am, under near do additionally no, don't good food on that one and you know, now i stay thank you on it did not love new point. she buried the city that new socialist got on was edgy. this bessie won't because she blew up there should quit, the gate d losses will suppress you saving up all history. she say, can go and do this. i breeze. i'd fall, duffy v r on mass. she room. she

france said it wasn't us. but the information that jonathan toebbe and diana toebb we're trying to sell was about the virginia class attack submarine which is our new most modern high-tech submarine or the information was about the nuclear propulsion system which toebbe worked on for the navy. what kind of information bonanz would that be for somebody who is a potential adversary or eve an ally of ours? >> it's a dealbreaker and any kind of a contract for this is submarine that could carry nuclear weapons, or conventiona weapons, but they key to this kind of nuclear powered submarine is they can be underwater for months, even years because it has self-sustaining energy system and it's also silent. it's the one weapon system that could attack an adversary or defend against an adversary where the adversary doesn't see it coming, doesn't hear it coming until it's too late. this is the crown jewel of american nuclear technology right there be a hit. >> you know come out when you look at the money that was involved. a grand total of $100,000 for the first two drops, that's not a lot of money if you've got th keys

so frances, having planned to keep all four of her children and to remove them from this abusive household, had lost them. >> because of what happened to dianaher own mother lose her children, this fear of losing children would have played on diana until her death. >> looks absolutely fascinating. let's talk to royal commentator, playwright and broadcaster bonnie greer. bonnie, i'm so glad you could join me to talk about this. hello to you. diana got a lot of attention after joining the royal family, but there's so much we still don't know about her. what do you think the most surprising thing people will learn when they watch this series? >> i think -- it's great to be on your show again. thank you. i think it's to see how candid she is. i mean i was really surprised about that, and that's not an easy thing to do because of the class she came from. very english upper class, aristocracy actually, and they don't do that. so the fact that she did it and she said what she felt and she said what she was thinking makes her really, really, really fasc fascinating. i have to tell you one thing really quickly, don. she really touched me when i -- i