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00:13In the summer of 1980, the Queen told me that a young girl was coming to stay for the weekend.
00:20Will you meet her at the front door and show her a room?
00:23Of course, Your Majesty.
00:25So I'm standing in the front hallway of Balmoral Castle under black and white tiles,
00:30waiting for this car to arrive.
00:32And out of the car comes a shy young girl that nobody knew who she was.
00:38She had one little suitcase in the back.
00:41Is that all you've brought with you?
00:43You're here for the weekend.
00:44You have to go to hunting, shooting, you have to go to the ghillies ball,
00:49tea parties, lunch parties, and that's all you have.
00:52She says, will it do?
00:53I said, I think we'd better take you to her room and find out.
00:56I showed her to her room.
00:58Will you stay for a while?
00:59And have a chat with me?
01:01I'm completely out of my depth, she said.
01:03So I stayed.
01:04What time do you go down for tea?
01:06Four o'clock.
01:07You go down to the small drawing room.
01:09The Queen will pour you a cup of tea.
01:11I don't like tea.
01:12I'll make sure she has coffee there waiting for you.
01:15Then what happens?
01:17I said, when tea's cleared, you go into the drawing room.
01:19And then the Queen will pour you a gin and tonic.
01:21I don't drink.
01:23I'll make sure there's a glass of water there for you.
01:25Then what happens?
01:26Then the Queen plays cards on her card table.
01:29Do you play bridge?
01:30Yes.
01:31Then make sure you're sat at the card table to play bridge with the Queen.
01:35That's a good way to get to know Her Majesty.
01:37Then the Queen will take the dogs into the garden.
01:40Maybe you could suggest you went for a walk with her.
01:43Also a good time to get Her Majesty's ear.
01:47That's what you want to do.
01:49This young girl was fascinated by this routine of royal households.
01:53And as I closed the door that day, I noticed the name on the door.
01:57Lady Diana Spencer.
02:03It's almost impossible to describe to a stranger or someone who's never met Princess Diana what she was really like.
02:11What I usually say is she was as beautiful inside as she was out.
02:18But to meet her was something special.
02:21She lit up a room.
02:22She stopped traffic.
02:24And when she entered into a room, everything stopped.
02:27And all eyes were on her.
02:29I've never met another human being who had that aura, who had that charisma.
02:38The same as Princess Diana.
02:47The princess changed enormously from the time I met her, aged 18, to the very end.
02:53I was there from the beginning to the very end.
02:56And I can tell you, in the beginning, she was a shy, naive, quiet girl who knew nothing about the
03:05world.
03:05She transformed.
03:07She had to.
03:09She had to survive.
03:10She was thrown in at the deep end and told to swim.
03:14And she learned quickly.
03:18My years at West Heath were certainly very happy ones indeed.
03:21I made many friends who I often see, and in spite of what Miss Rudd and my other teachers may
03:28have thought at the time, I did actually learn something.
03:34So you would never have known by my O-level results.
03:39Do you find it a very daunting experience that yesterday you were a nanny looking after children, now you're about
03:47to marry the Prince of Wales, and one day you would, in all likelihood, be Queen?
03:54It's a tremendous change for someone, if I may say, of 19, to make all of a sudden the transition.
04:00It is, but I've had a small run-up to it all in the last six months.
04:05And next to Bruce Charles, I know I can't go wrong.
04:08He's there with me.
04:10Did you find it a very hard decision, Lady Diana?
04:13I had a long time to think about it, because I knew the pressure was on both of us.
04:20And it wasn't a difficult decision in the end.
04:23It's what I wanted.
04:24It's what I want.
04:25I haven't seen the ring, may I have a look at you?
04:28Yes.
04:29Ah, is it?
04:29Wonderful sapphire and diamond.
04:31When were you given that?
04:33Just last night?
04:34Near Sunday.
04:36But not wearing it?
04:38No.
04:39No, pretty hidden.
04:40What about the proposal, Your Royal Highness?
04:43How did that come about?
04:46Well, I asked Diana before she went to Australia, two or three days before.
04:52Because I thought it would be a good idea that, apart from anything else, if she went to Australia,
04:55she could then think about it.
04:56And if she didn't like the idea, she could say she didn't know.
05:00She did.
05:01She could say that.
05:02But in fact, you actually said...
05:04Yes, quite well.
05:05Yes, quite well.
05:06Before you went to Australia?
05:07Yes.
05:08Well, they've got to sit on it for three weeks.
05:09Must have been an agonising three weeks.
05:11Did you speak at all?
05:13The phone lines must have been pretty busy between here and Australia.
05:15Yes, we tried.
05:16But it was quite difficult, because I think there was a certain amount of press interest
05:19there.
05:21Although they never actually found you, did they?
05:23No.
05:24But I rang up on one occasion, and I said, can I speak?
05:28And they said, no, we're not taking any calls.
05:30So I said, well, is the Prince of Wales speaking?
05:33How do I know that Prince of Wales came back and replied?
05:36So I said, well, you don't, but I am in a little rage.
05:40The most watched event in human history was her wedding day.
05:46St. Paul's Cathedral was the setting.
05:56Very well, thank you.
05:57I'd just like to say a word.
05:58May I say a word?
05:59Please.
06:00Yes.
06:01The Spencers have, through the centuries, fought for their king and country.
06:07Today, Diana is vying to help her country for the rest of her life.
06:14She'll be following in the tradition of her ancestors, and she will have at her side the
06:21man she loves.
06:22And the diamonds of the Spencer family tiara were glinting in the sunshine, and she was
06:28racing towards me, just me and her in one corridor.
06:33She was like a galleon in full sail.
06:36What a picture of hope and happiness and love.
06:41She didn't eat a morsel.
06:44And she said to me later, I couldn't eat St. Paul.
06:46My stomach was in knots.
06:48I was just totally wound up by the day, by the excitement, by the spectacle.
06:54She says, but you know, the most wonderful thing was walking down the Isle of St. Paul's
07:00Cathedral with my father.
07:02She says, but did you ever look at the footage of that?
07:05I said, I've seen it many times.
07:07She says, next time you look at it, watch me.
07:10She says, can't you see me looking from side to side?
07:15Can you see me doing that?
07:16Do you know what I'm doing?
07:18I'm looking for her.
07:21I'm looking for Camilla.
07:23And she was there.
07:25She was even at my wedding.
07:30Here is the stuff of which fairy tales are made.
07:36The prince and princess on their wedding day.
08:01The princess was brimming with hope and love for the future.
08:06She fell in love with her prince.
08:08And there they were, a golden couple.
08:11He'd also courted her older sister, of course.
08:15Sarah had been a suitor.
08:18And on Diana's wedding day, her sister, Sarah, turned to her and said,
08:23I thought all this was going to be mine one day.
08:25And now it's yours.
08:27There was sibling rivalry in the Spencer household.
08:31Diana wasn't meant to achieve.
08:34The fact that Diana became princess of Wales,
08:38probably future queen of England,
08:40was beyond the Spencer family to comprehend.
08:43It wasn't for her to achieve.
08:46The brother should have achieved.
08:49It was his estate, not Diana's.
08:52So there was always some jealousy coming from the Spencers.
08:57Madam, how are you enjoying married life?
09:00Highly recommended.
09:02How do you like to put more moral as a place?
09:05Lovely.
09:09Have you cooked a breakfast yet?
09:10Let us know.
09:12Good-bye.
09:21You
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