. >> diana frances, wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband? >> i have made it. i'm here. you're there. i won. you lost. ♪ ♪ >>> on monday we'd gone to st. paul's for our last rehearsal, and that's when the camera lights were on full. >> a crowd of about 3,000 have built up. their enthusiasm is unmistakable. 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 reassuringly and unaffectedly. >> she was photogenic. she was young. she was 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 a 19-year-old girl naive in this world trying to find herself. ♪ >> here at the bbc, we've mounted the biggest-ever outside broadcast. there are more than 60 cameras covering the proposal route. >> let's face it. the british know how to put on a big event like this. >> the date was getting nearer and nearer, and it was starting to sink in how many people were going to be watching this wedd

i, diana frances -- >> take thee, philip arthur george -- >> take though, philip arthur george -- >> husband. >> to have and to hold. >> to have and to hold. >> from this day forward. >> from this day forward. >> according to god's word. >> according to god's word. >> and there to i give thee my troth. >> and there to i give thee my troth. ♪ >> here is the stuff of which fairytales are made. the prince and princess on their wedding day. >> so walking down the aisle, i was watching camilla with gray hat, pillbox hat, saw it all. i thought, well, there we are, that's it. that's over with. >> they locked eyes for a quick second. i spot you. i'm in the fairytale dress. i'm wearing the tiara. i'm up here with charles. i'm marrying him, and you're just a guest. >> out to the open air, into the world and the world's cheers. ♪ >> such a perfect story. here is this lovely young woman marrying prince charles. the most eligible bachelor in the world. >> the beauty of diana at this moment, the glory of diana, the genius of diana was to triumph in the fairytale to capture prince charming. >> is.

diana is never far away. >> my dreams as a young girl, i wanted to be -- not want, hoped. ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> i'm jean in washington and paris, francenight, tragedy. britain's princess diana has been in an automobile accident. she has been injureled. s her companion reportedly was killed. >> i saw there was a message on the phone answer machine. and it was from a fleet street editor saying had i seen the news about princess diana? and um, did i want to say anything? >> we have reports from paris that diana, prip ncess of wales has been killed in a car accident. >> the accident happened as their car was being chased by photographers through a road tunnel near the eiffel tower. the princess died in hospital a few hours later. >> our correspondent nicholas owen is with me now. nicholas, one's heart goes out, especially to the young william and harry. >> william and harry, indeed. i don't know whether the -- the princes themselves would have been told yet but certainly the prince of wales has been informed and i am sure the queen will have been told about it, as well. >> the news came through to balmoral directly from paris, our ambassa

diana is never far away. >> i had dreams as a young girl i want this. not want, hoped. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> i'm jean in washington and paris france tonightwith princess diana has been in an automobile accident. she's been injured. her companion with whom she's been romantically linked reportedly was killed. >> i saw there was a message on the phone answering machine and it was from a fleet street editor saying had i seen the news about princess diana and did i want to say anything. >> we have reports from paris that dianna, princess of wales has been killed in a car accident. >> the accident happened as their car was being chased by photographers in a road tunnel near the identical tower. the princess died in hospital a few hours later. >> our correspondent nicolaus is with me now. one's heart goes out to the young princes, william and harry. >> william and harry i indeed. i don't know whether the princes themselves would have been told but certainly the prince of wails has been told and the queen would have been told about it, as well. >> the news came through directly from paris from our ambassador out there, michael jay. i think charl

diana's life is the sense of abandonment. she felt abandoned by her mother during the acrimonious divorce between earl spencer and frances shanonment that they could grow up in. >> she insisted that they go to school so they could mix with their peers, that they weren't off in the palace learning from a governess but they were out in the world. >> she said i'm going to be the school mum, be at sports days and school plays. this made her exceptionally relatable to ordinary people. >> she wanted to make sure that these boys realized that not everybody had the privileged life that they had. >> she took them not just to amusement parks and hamburger rallies but to hospitals, to homeless shelters to really get a sense of what modern britain was about. you can see today that sense of compassion that both young men have got, which is directly related to their relationship with their mother. >> the public image of the fairy tale marriage was very rosy. behind the scenes the couple were rowing. it certainly was not happy families. >> in 1985 they did a television interview, and the whole purpose of it was to show the stories about str