other as we should.”
As late as 1991, Diana was still involved in attempts to convince the world that her marriage was doing well. In a story that appeared in
Good Housekeeping,
Andrew Morton quoted Diana: “Don’t worry about me, my marriage is fine…. People jump to conclusions so easily. It is so easy for people to judge my marriage, but they don’t understand me or my husband. I am never going to get divorced and that’s that. Whatever people may think and say, I am very happy, thank you very much.”
Responding to tabloid newspaper stories about all the time she spent apart from Charles: “I sometimeshave my friends to lunch if my husband’s out. We have people to dinner whenever we can, but my husband goes out to dinners where the wives aren’t required, so we can’t always find a date to suit both of us.”
“There I was in floods of tears, just needing him. And I’m told I have to book an appointment—with my own husband.”
To Charles’s valet, Stephen Barry: “I don’t know what to do, I feel so unhappy here. Charles doesn’t understand me. He would prefer to be out shooting or stalking or riding or chatting with his mother rather than be with me. Can’t he understand that I need him to look after me? I feel he’s abandoned me. He just leaves me here all day. I hate it.”
When Charles left her for yet another meal with his mother, she asked, “Why do you do this tome? Why can’t we just have a meal alone together for a change?”
Charles offered to throw a grand ball to celebrate Diana’s thirtieth birthday. “I would hope that my husband would know me well enough to know that I didn’t like that sort of thing.”
When Charles suggested that she should become better informed so that they could have more intelligent conversations, she retorted, “The whole world thinks I’m fine just as I am. That ought to be enough for you.”
She once told Charles: “You look like a stiff. You embarrass me in front of my friends.”
During her first pregnancy, she said, “I cannot tell you how bloody awful it is. They call it morning sickness. But I feel sick all the time.”
After her second pregnancy was under way, she said, “I haven’t felt well since day one. I don’t think I’m made for the production line.”
At a charity function in 1989, she told a dinner companion: “I want to have three more babies, but I haven’t told my husband yet.”
“My husband knows so much about rearing children that I’ve suggested he has the next one and I’ll sit back and give advice.”
“[Charles] ignores me everywhere and has done so for a long time.”
She once told Charles: “The boys are entitled to happiness and see their father when they need him, not to be told he’s running another meetingfor the Crisis in Britain League. I need to get away from my royal duties, too; so do you.”
Diana discussed the 1994 Jonathan Dimbleby biography of Prince Charles with Peter Stothard, London
Times
editor: “Do you know that it originally was supposed to contain nothing about our relationship at all? How were readers supposed to think that the [children] came? By immaculate conception?”
She told Charles: “My duty [as a mother] lies above my duty to you.”
The Palace insisted that Charles be at Diana’s side after her father died, although she’d intended to leave Charles and their two boys behind. “Why are they bothering about him ignoring me now? He’s been ignoring me for years already.”
In 1991, she still told most friends that Charles was “the same man today as on my wedding day.”
“However bloody you are feeling, you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.”
“My husband and I had to keep everything together because we didn’t want to disappoint the public, and yet obviously there was a lot of anxiety going on within our four walls.”
“I think in any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want
As late as 1991, Diana was still involved in attempts to convince the world that her marriage was doing well. In a story that appeared in
Good Housekeeping,
Andrew Morton quoted Diana: “Don’t worry about me, my marriage is fine…. People jump to conclusions so easily. It is so easy for people to judge my marriage, but they don’t understand me or my husband. I am never going to get divorced and that’s that. Whatever people may think and say, I am very happy, thank you very much.”
Responding to tabloid newspaper stories about all the time she spent apart from Charles: “I sometimeshave my friends to lunch if my husband’s out. We have people to dinner whenever we can, but my husband goes out to dinners where the wives aren’t required, so we can’t always find a date to suit both of us.”
“There I was in floods of tears, just needing him. And I’m told I have to book an appointment—with my own husband.”
To Charles’s valet, Stephen Barry: “I don’t know what to do, I feel so unhappy here. Charles doesn’t understand me. He would prefer to be out shooting or stalking or riding or chatting with his mother rather than be with me. Can’t he understand that I need him to look after me? I feel he’s abandoned me. He just leaves me here all day. I hate it.”
When Charles left her for yet another meal with his mother, she asked, “Why do you do this tome? Why can’t we just have a meal alone together for a change?”
Charles offered to throw a grand ball to celebrate Diana’s thirtieth birthday. “I would hope that my husband would know me well enough to know that I didn’t like that sort of thing.”
When Charles suggested that she should become better informed so that they could have more intelligent conversations, she retorted, “The whole world thinks I’m fine just as I am. That ought to be enough for you.”
She once told Charles: “You look like a stiff. You embarrass me in front of my friends.”
During her first pregnancy, she said, “I cannot tell you how bloody awful it is. They call it morning sickness. But I feel sick all the time.”
After her second pregnancy was under way, she said, “I haven’t felt well since day one. I don’t think I’m made for the production line.”
At a charity function in 1989, she told a dinner companion: “I want to have three more babies, but I haven’t told my husband yet.”
“My husband knows so much about rearing children that I’ve suggested he has the next one and I’ll sit back and give advice.”
“[Charles] ignores me everywhere and has done so for a long time.”
She once told Charles: “The boys are entitled to happiness and see their father when they need him, not to be told he’s running another meetingfor the Crisis in Britain League. I need to get away from my royal duties, too; so do you.”
Diana discussed the 1994 Jonathan Dimbleby biography of Prince Charles with Peter Stothard, London
Times
editor: “Do you know that it originally was supposed to contain nothing about our relationship at all? How were readers supposed to think that the [children] came? By immaculate conception?”
She told Charles: “My duty [as a mother] lies above my duty to you.”
The Palace insisted that Charles be at Diana’s side after her father died, although she’d intended to leave Charles and their two boys behind. “Why are they bothering about him ignoring me now? He’s been ignoring me for years already.”
In 1991, she still told most friends that Charles was “the same man today as on my wedding day.”
“However bloody you are feeling, you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.”
“My husband and I had to keep everything together because we didn’t want to disappoint the public, and yet obviously there was a lot of anxiety going on within our four walls.”
“I think in any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want
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