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>> he went away. he was studying. he was in the navy. she got married. she had her kids. then he was engaged. camilla was not deemed a suitable lady to join the royal family, and certainly not a suitable future queen. she was adventurous, she was outspoken, she was a bit racy. she was very popular with men. she'd had some boyfriends. she'd been around. >> you could not have the future queen of england with skeletons in the cupboard, with lovers in the past. you could not have that. >> camilla and diana did know each other. some of the courtship that charles and diana enjoyed actually happens a...

Do not approach the queen and do not talk to them. >> i was treated like nobody else's business. it couldn't have been worse. >> william never stopped crying. >> why did she have to go along with it? that is because it is the way it has always been done and it is the way it is done and the way it always will be done in the royal family. >> i was -- . >> the christening fed into diana's worst fears of this royal and stuffy protocol. there is literally no getting away. >> it is everything she doesn't want. i have to figure something else

Diana to camilla, never explained to her that camilla had been a girlfriend. and when she discovered that there had been a relationship, would have felt embarrassed and humiliated. >> and she began to have misgivings about marrying somebody that had had such a significant other relationship. and she was talking about how she would handle this. >> she fights to become that perfect modern princess, not only for the royal family and the world, but for charles.

>> a godsend. we have a baby on the way. i got married in july, and william was on the way by october. >> if there was one thing about diana, she was just born to be a mother. she was magic with children. >> but charles wasn't always there with her. charles was a busy working member of the royal family. that didn't stop when she announced her pregnancy. it couldn't stop. >> being a young pregnant woman with not enough support was not a good place for diana to be. >> diana is alone and facing the challenge of early motherhood entirely by herself. and she has no mother of her own to talk to. is ...

>> joy of welcome seen in the eyes of a child. >> she knew what to say to people. >> when the princess stopped to ask mr. walter mills if he was cold, he was so overcome he burst into tears. >> she kissed children. this was not what we'd seen on a royal tour before. >> when you think the royal family, they're looking down on you, diana didn't do that. she broke that mold and did something extraordinary. she got down on the same level as the rest of us. she met us eye to eye. she opened up her arms and took us in. never been done before. >> she got the recognition within that environment of bei...