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To play in the bushes. i loved that. >> diana had a quiet, country life. >> you look at those early pictures and you see a country girl, you know, in her wellies and in her cheeky knits. >> she's swimming in the family swimming pool. she's on bicycles. all seems to be very happy and well. but behind closed doors it was not a happy house. diana's father was johnny viscount althorp, this man who would be earl spencer. and francis, diane's mother, had a difficult time with johnny. >> for women of diana's mothers

>> ruth, diana's grandmother who was a terrible snob, was appalled that her daughter should have left her belted earl. and as a result she gave evidence in the custody proceedings against her own daughter. she called her a bad mother. custody did go to johnny. so francis having planned to keep all four of her children and to remove them from this abusive household had lost them. >> because of what happened to diana at such a young age and watching her own mother lose her children, this fear of losing children would have played on diana until her death. ♪ >> after a succession of

Johnny althorp finally had his son and heir, little boy charles. >> once francis has given birth to the son and heir, she's fulfilled her contract. she has done what she was meant to do. >> she began to plot an escape route for herself. johnny could be violent, and she felt that she and her children would be safer out of the home. >> there were terrible arguments in the household. >> i remember seeing my father slap my mother across the face. and i was hiding behind the door and she was crying. >> in september 1967 that francis, diana's mother finally told her husband, johnny, that the marriag...

Generation or any of her posh friends, you're supposed to keep popping out male children. >> when i married my husband i discovered this new word called "premogeniter." what it means basically is that the first-born son inherits everything within these aristocratic families. can you even imagine trying to divide an estate into eight different parts? >> francis knew that johnny needed an heir. she produced two daughters, sarah and jane. finally, francis gave birth to a little boy, john. >> it's incredibly sad. he lived for barely hours before he died of a lung condition. >> there was not just t...

Country. you could always smell the trees. i loved that. >> diana had a quiet, country life. >> you look at those early pictures and you see a country girl, you know, in her wellies. and in her cheeky knits. >> she's swimming in the family swimming pool. she's on bicycles. all seems to be very happy and well. but behind closed doors it was not a happy house. diana's father was johnny althorp, this man who would be earl spencer. and francis, diane's mother, had a difficult time with johnny. >> for women of diana's mothers