Diana in Search of Herself (82 page)

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Authors: Sally Bedell Smith

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   “dressed to thrill”: DM, 11/29/94

19
   “tearful retreat”: To, 12/3/94

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   a “real working appointment”: DM, 5/5/94

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   “She is more interested”:
Telegraph
magazine, 10/29/94

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   “rocketed overnight”: ES, 2/7/95

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   Known to his friends:
Money
, 10/97

24
   “Your presence here today”:
South China Morning Post
, 4/23/95

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   Scarcely six weeks: SuTel, 6/11/95

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   “in abeyance”: DT, 12/21/95

27
   “uneasy … destroying”: DM, 1/11/95

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   “hoping for a third”: Ibid.

29
   “stronger than ever”: ST, 11/23/94

30
   “grim mood swings”: B-SS, p. 141

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   “spending nearly every free”: Ibid., p. 34

32
   “She was hurting because”:
20/20
interview with Peggy Claude-Pierre, ABC-TV, 9/18/97

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   Diana found Carling easy: B-SS, p. 102

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   when he began calling: Sun, 8/7/95

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   one of the tabloids: NOTW, 4/16/95

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   “She thought she had a fine”: Interview with David Puttnam

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   “there was no day when”: ST, 11/1/98

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   “to acknowledge that she was”: Interview with Nelson Shanks

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   which one columnist compared: DT, 10/2/95

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   “Diana was raw”: ST, 11/1/98

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   “all her portraits”:
Hello!
, 11/22/97

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   “She was slightly juvenile”: Interview with David Puttnam

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   “I said if that happened”: TNY, 9/15/97

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   “He would ask me about”: Interview with Barbara Walters

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   Jephson had worked: DT, 1/23/96

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   “He tried to filter out”: Interview with Michael Adler

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   “She encouraged Diana”: DM, 11/16/95

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   Bashir was a little-known: DM, 4/7/96

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   an investigation into suspicions: DM, 5/7/97

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   in one of those meetings: DM, 4/7/96; 5/7/97

51
   But Bashir had struck: DEx, 11/16/95; ST, 11/19/95

52
   “secret trysts”: NOTW, 8/6/95

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   “I have done nothing”: Sun, 8/14/95

54
   “however much someone is trying”: Ibid.

55
   “It was flattering”: NOTW, 9/24/95

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   On September 24: Ibid.

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   “Recent pressure and tensions”: Sun, 9/30/95

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   “Is Will Carling merely”: To, 8/7/95

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   “homewrecker”: Sun, 9/30/95

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   “Is no marriage and no man”: DEx, 9/30/95

61
   “She said she found President”: MOS, 9/27/98

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   “like a hot brick”: To, 9/30/95

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   ironically enough, only days: ST, 11/19/95

64
   “knew exactly what she was”:
Harper’s Bazaar
, 11/97

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   Indeed, the shoot was: Memo from Wendell Maruyama, studio manager for Demarchelier, 3/15/99

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   “I supported her choice”: DM, 4/2/98

67
   Diana opened the door: DM, 11/16/95

68
   “Diana was a very unusual”: SuEx, 11/19/95

69
   “
Panorama
was very well”: Interview with Barbara Walters

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   “There’s no better way”: DT, 11/22/95

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   “It’s a different kind”: SuEx, 11/19/95

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   “counter hostile media”: DM, 11/16/95

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   audience of 15 million: Gua, 11/21/95

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   “personal help”: Pano, p. 17

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   “a queen of people’s hearts”: Ibid., p. 33

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   “give affection … distress”: Ibid., p. 30

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   “She won’t go quietly”: Ibid., p. 23

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   “My wish is that my husband”: Ibid.

79
   “was born of some basic”: SuTel, 9/7/97

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   “I said, ‘You said you adored’ ”: Interview with Elsa Bowker

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   “the advanced stages of paranoia”: Gua, 11/21/95

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   “in a personal capacity”: DM, 11/22/95

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   “Everywhere was the stench”: DM, 11/21/95

84
   “must now expect the wrath”: Ibid.

85
   “manipulative she may be”: Ibid.

86
   “some part of her performance”: DT, 11/21/95

87
   The public reacted quite: DT, 11/27/95

88
   “no regrets”: DM, 11/22/95

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   The next morning, she went: Ibid.

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   “very confusing”: Pano, p. 36

91
   “desperately unhappy”: NOTW, 12/3/95

CHAPTER 22

1
   “If she had regretted”: Interview with Roberto Devorik

2
   “She wanted to meet”: Ibid.

3
   
THE ADULTERESS DI ARRIVES ON A MISSION OF CHARITY:
Gua, 11/24/94

4
   
LADIES LOOK AFTER YOUR HUSBANDS:
SuTel, 11/26/95

5
   “Argentina has gradually”: DEx, 11/25/95

6
   Buckingham Palace advisers met: DM, 11/22/95

7
   “dignified”: SuTel, 12/31/95

8
   Malcolm Rifkind specifically ruled out: Ti, 12/6/95

9
   “I try to be there”: NOTW, 12/3/95

10
   “She again demonstrated”: ES, 12/4/95

11
   “young people who have suffered”: ES, 12/7/95

12
   “Her timing was wrong”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

13
   “He knew her so well”: B-SS, p. 58

14
   “It is almost unprecedented”: ES, 12/7/95

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   By that time, the Queen had already: DT, 12/22/95

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   According to Simone: B-SS, p. 65

17
   “early divorce … in the best”: DT, 12/21/95

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   Charles took Major’s suggestion: DT, 12/22/95

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   “luminous personality”: Ti, 12/13/95

20
   “sharpness of mind”: Sun, 12/13/95

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   “in adoration of its new”: DM, 12/13/95

22
   
PRINCESS AND HER BIG PAIR WOW ’EM IN BIG APPLE:
Sun, 12/13/95

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   “So sorry to hear”: DM, 1/24/96

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   the daughter of a merchant banker: DM, 7/20/95, 8/30/95

25
   “She is the closest thing”: Mi, 1/5/95

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   “The word is that Tiggy”: DM, 7/20/95

27
   In fact, Tiggy was suffering:
Hello!
, 9/30/95

28
   “false allegations”: DM, 1/22/96

29
   “consider her options”: DT, 12/22/95

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   instead she believed: DM, 11/22/95

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   “She couldn’t sleep”: B-SS, p. 136

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   “aggressive and defensive all at once”: Ibid., p. 85

33
   “Is she indeed perilously”: MOS, 1/14/96

34
   “very stable”: DM, 1/30/96

35
   “Diana’s life was in turmoil”: DM, 2/24/98

36
   “The
Panorama
interview left”: Interview with William Deedes

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   “All bets were off”: Interview with Piers Morgan

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   when she later appeared: B-RK, p. 164; DT, 4/24/96

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   “my rock”: DM, 1/23/96

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   His departure coincided: DT, 1/25/96

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   “She was almost the same … a lot of these people”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

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   “She was keen to keep”: Interview with Piers Morgan

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   “she considered the
Sun

:
Interview with Stuart Higgins

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   “was keen to know what I thought”: Interview with Piers Morgan

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   “manipulated through her looks … not a whinger”: Interview with Richard Addis

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   “For me it was a difficult … she was inconsistent”: Interview with Sue Douglas

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   “Did it turn you on, Mr. Wilson?”: DM, 9/1/97

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   “ ‘Do you think I’m mad?’ ”: Interview with Taki Theodoracopulos

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   “He wants to live in Italy”: Interview with Charles Moore

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   a refrain she repeated: TNY, 9/15/97

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   “She was careful”: Interview with Charles Moore

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   “She gave us more information”: Ibid.

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   “She couldn’t understand when”: Interview with Stuart Higgins

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   “I would deal every day”: Interview with Piers Morgan

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   “Diana held all the cards”: Interview with Peter McKay

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   “If a story concerned what”: Interview with Stuart Higgins

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   “sucker” for Diana’s “Bambi eyes”: Interview with Max Hastings

CHAPTER 23

1
   “secret trip”: SuEx, 2/18/96

2
   “Doctor Dishy”: Mi, 4/22/97

3
   “a dark-skinned Tom Selleck”: DS, 5/24/97

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   “dashing medic”: NOTW, 12/7/95

5
   “drop-dead gorgeous”: SuMi, 8/30/98

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   “enjoyed many of the ‘wrong’ ”: B-SS, p. 111

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   “His name is Hasnat Khan”: SuMi, 8/30/98

8
   She asked the surgeon: NOTW, 11/22/98

9
   “She was very well known”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

10
   Diana sometimes stayed: DT, 4/23/96

11
   “his wit, his intelligence”: B-SS, p. 112

12
   “relished the … sense”: Ibid.

13
   “the first man who was”: Interview with Cosima Somerset

14
   She took to studying: B-SS, p. 33; SuMi, 11/9/97

15
   She bought a custom-made: Sun, 2/22/96

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   she burned scented joss sticks: SuMi, 11/9/97

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   the “inspiration”: NOTW, 12/17/95

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   “new hunk”: Sun, 12/15/97

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   By the end of January: DM, 1/30/96

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   Diana declined to give: Interview with Jane Atkinson

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   they were disturbed by: DT, 2/19/96

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   That concern deepened: Gua, 2/20/96; Ti, 2/23/96

23
   “Her mission to reach”: Mi, 2/23/96

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   On February 15, several: SuTel, 7/7/96

25
   “The Princess never expressed”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

26
   Yet in conversations with friends: SuTel, 7/7/96

27
   “she wanted to have things”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

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   “if [Diana] wanted to write”: Ibid.

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   The Palace swiftly issued: DT, 2/29/96

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   “it cultivate[d]”: Ibid.

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   “protesting too much”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

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   her accusation that the Queen: DM, 2/29/96

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   “The decision to drop the title”: DM, 3/1/96

34
   “carefully selected insights”: Ti, 3/1/96

35
   “first step in building”: DM, 2/29/96

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   “She felt she would meet people”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

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   There was general agreement: Ti, 7/13/96

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   “was put into her head”: Interview with Paul Johnson

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   “that engagingly enthusiastic”: DM, 1/30/95

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   a “chance to prove herself”: DM, 1/30/95

41
   “the dreaded C-word”: DEx, 6/6/96

42
   “I have never seen this many”: Interview with Anna Quindlen

43
   “It was a very funny”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

44
   the
Daily Express
singled out: DEx, 6/8/96

45
   emphasizing the trip’s “team effort”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

46
   He reassured Diana that Atkinson: Interview with Richard Addis

47
   even told friends that Atkinson had: Interview with Jane Atkinson

48
   “odd twist”: DM, 6/29/96

49
   The Queen had already decided: SuTel, 7/7/96

50
   Diana would receive a lump sum: Ti, 7/13/96; DT, 7/5/96

51
   “regarded as a member”: “Status and Role of the Princess of Wales,” statement from Buckingham Palace, 7/12/96

52
   she would have the use of all her: Gua, 7/13/96

53
   “He told her to hang tough”: Interview with John Tigrett

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   When he said it made no difference: DM, 7/13/96

55
   
HER ROYAL HUMILIATION:
Ibid.

56
   “It is the face of a woman”: Mi, 7/13/96

57
   
PRINCESS TO GIVE UP HRH STYLE:
DT, 7/13/96

58
   
GO-AHEAD FOR 15
M POUND SETTLEMENT:
Ti, 7/13/96

59
   “give her something lighthearted”: Interview with Jane Atkinson

60
   Diana felt the leprosy charity: Ibid.

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   charities she had “ditched”: DM, 7/17/96

62
   “The move is entirely because”: Ibid.

63
   Atkinson told Diana: Interview with Jane Atkinson

64
   “It was all bad”: Ibid.

65
   “decided that Richard’s draft”: B-SS, p. 58

66
   “Martin Bashir is a humble”: Interview with Paul Burrell

67
   “dreadfully upset”: B-SS, p. 58

68
   she would fulfill three charity:
Hello!
, 7/27/96

69
   “In [her] last two years”: Interview with Michael Adler

CHAPTER 24

1
   “I have decided to give”: Interview with Marguerite Littman

2
   “We’d love Di more if she”: Sun, 6/28/96

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