00:05The only secret Diana ever kept from me was the Martin Bashir interview for Panorama.
00:11I'd known Martin Bashir for a long time and he was one of the men that I used to bring
00:14into the
00:15palace under a blanket because he didn't want to be seen by anyone. He was never a lover of
00:20the princesses, he was just a work associate. He persuaded the princess that she had to have a
00:26voice. She needed to tell her story and what better a vehicle than Panorama.
00:35I was sent home on a Sunday afternoon. Strange, I thought. Why would she be sending me home?
00:42Go and spend some time with your family. I'm doing nothing this afternoon. Don't worry about me.
00:48The minute I'd left the palace, in through the back door comes Martin Bashir and his camera crew
00:53and they set up the Prince of Wales sitting room, which she used for that interview.
01:00At the age of 19, you always think you're prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge
01:06of what's coming ahead. But although I was daunted at the prospect at the time, I felt I had the
01:12support of my husband-to-be. I had no idea that was being done. The next morning I came to
01:18work,
01:18I noticed all the furniture had been moved. Why have you moved the furniture? It's not in the same
01:24place. Um, I had a dance class. I had to move the furniture out of the way just so that
01:30we could
01:30exercise. Strange, very strange. She avoided me for the next two days, never spoke to me. How strange,
01:39I thought. She's hiding something. And then she told me that she made a recording with Martin Bashir
01:46for Manorama. What have you said? Well, I just put the record straight, she said. We didn't know what
01:55she said until we saw it. Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit
02:01crowded.
02:0431 million people stopped in their tracks on that Monday night and couldn't believe what they were
02:12seeing. The Princess of Wales bearing her heart on national television. We couldn't take our eyes
02:18away from it. We couldn't believe what we were hearing. There are three people in my marriage.
02:24My husband isn't fit for the top job. I don't, I think it would be, bring him limitations.
02:32She was honest, open and frank. Did you love James Hewitt?
02:36Yes, it did. Yes. Were you unfaithful? Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him.
02:46But I was very let down.
02:50It was all there. I couldn't believe it. It was too raw for most people and an embarrassment for
03:00the royal family. That was the final straw. That was the straw that broke the back of the house of
03:08Windsor. James Hewitt came along at a time when the princess was first looking for someone to love.
03:19I have no comment. No comment. I'm afraid. Will you be prepared to make a comment to us later on?
03:24No, I have no comment. He just happened to be there. He just happened to be a dashing
03:30cavalry officer. Just happened to push all the right buttons. I have to tell you, he was there after
03:39Prince Harry was born, not before Prince Harry was born. Because there's a great myth in the world
03:45world. But people think that Harry is James Hewitt's son. That's impossible. She didn't know James
03:52Hewitt at that time. You have to look at the chronological order of the way things happened.
03:57Oh, good. I'm going off here. That's enough. Thanks.
04:07So Harry was born. Prince Charles had told her, I don't love you. I only married you to have
04:13children. She then begins to look for someone to love. And James Hewitt was there. I was the one
04:21she trusted. No one else knew of this relationship. And I would ferry him to and from High Grove from
04:28Kemble Railway Station, in the back of my car, and take him back to the train station, when
04:34they'd had tea or he'd spent the night. But this was a real big secret. The other big
04:41secret I was keeping was, of course, Prince Charles was seeing Camilla Parker Bowles.
04:46No one knew. The world didn't know at that stage.
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