. >> diana francis will you have this man to thy wedded husband? >> i have made it. i'm here.'re there. i won. you lost. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> we've gone for our last rehearsal and that's when the camera lights were on. >> about 3,000 have built up, enthusiasm unmistakable. prince charles was so relaxed, he nearly came to grief on the top step. and when it was over, prince charles clap lady diana's land 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 19-year-old girl naive in this world trying to find herself. ♪ ♪ >> here is the bbc we've mounted the biggest ever outside broadcaster, more than 60 cameras covering the processional 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 wedding and how important it was going to be. >> is your ha

diana's father was johnny orthrop. this man who would be earl spencer and francis, diana's mother had a difficult time with johnny. >> foren of diana's mother's generation or any one of her posh friends, you're supposed to keep popping out male children. >> when i married my husband, i discovered this new word that means that the first born son inherits everything within these families. can you even imagine trying to divide an estate into eight different parts? >> francis knew that johnny needed an heir. she produced two daughters, sarah and jane. finally, francis 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 his precious little boy, diana was born. third girl. >> i could not understand why i was perhaps a nuisance to have around, which in eight years i perceived was being part of the son, the child before me that died was the son. then comes a third daughter, not a boy. we'll have to try again. so i've

she was crying. >> it was september in 1967 that francis, diana's mother finally told her husband johnnye was leaving. to have your mother just gone, just left. nobody explains to you what happens that makes any sense because that's not what that family does. all that she knows is there goes mommy and she didn't come back. the support system for diana walked out and never really to be seen again. >> i hated the doubt. i used to hear my brother cry in his bed down at the other 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 society. >> ruth lady diana's grandmother who was a terrible snob was appalled her daughter left and as a result, she gave evidence in the custody proceedings against her own daughter. she called her a bad mother. custody did go to johnny. so francis having planned to keep all four of her children and to remove them from this abusive household had lo

diana, another three years and then a boy was born. johnny alstrup finally had his son an heir, little boy charles. once franciss fulfilled her contract. she has done what she was meant to do. she began to plot an escape route for herself. johnny could be violate and she felt that she and her children would be safer out of the home. >> there were terrible arguments in the household. >> it was september, 1967 that frances, diana's mother, finally told her husband 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 mommy and she didn't come back. age six, the support system for diana has walked out and never really to be seen again. >> she didn't understand that her mother had wanted her, had hoped to take her with her. she'd hoped to take all her children with her. >> diana's own mother in a very unhappy marriage left for very good reasons. and was shunned in society. diana's grand mother, a terrible snob, was appalled that

so francis, 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 dianadren, this fear of losing children would have played on d diana until her death. >> let's talk to royal commentator bonnie greer. bonnie, so glad you can join me to talk about this. there's still so much we don't know about diana. what's the most surprising thing they will learn when they watch this series? >> i think -- 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. english up they don't doe 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 fascinating. i have to tell you one thing really quickly, don, she really touched me when i -- i lost a lot of friends to aids, i lived in new york in the '80s and a lot of my friends died and when she shook hands with the man in the aids clinic in london, that really brought me to her side. that was an amazing gesture and