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“Diana said to me that when he asked her to marry him … she said, ‘Oh yes, yes I will. I love you so much.’ And Prince Charles, even in the privacy of that moment, said, ‘Whatever love means.’ And he gave that famous television interview, ‘whatever love means.’ So you have to ask yourself: Did he really have any kind of genuine feeling for Diana or was she, as she felt herself, a sacrificial lamb … producing an heir and a spare and then being discarded?”
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Morton added that Diana quietly endured the collapsing marriage and constant attempts to fit in with the royal family because she was struggling with an eating disorder, as well as the pressures that came with a high-profile role, where every public engagement was scrutinized by the press. Somehow, he claimed, she continued to hope things would get better with time.
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“[Diana] was hoping she would come to terms with this new life and move on,” he said. “But she realized she was living this lie … seemingly the wife of Prince Charles. And yet you got Prince Charles, who was effectively with another man’s wife at Highgrove, their country estate, while she languished alone at Kensington Palace.”
There was also one memory in Morton’s book that he insisted left her in tears, which hinted she was also suffering from depression.
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“It was a chapter where she was talking about what she called the ‘dark ages’ and how worthless she felt,” he explained.
However, Diana found a sense of happiness in her marriage with the birth of her two sons. The former couple welcomed Prince William in 1982, followed by Prince Harry in 1984. Morton claimed that while Diana was pregnant with Harry, she and Charles experienced an intimate connection, one that involved him reportedly writing love notes to his wife. But after Harry was born, the relationship soured until they finally divorced.
But even while Diana coped with the end of her marriage, she relied on her sons for support.
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“As the boys got older and became like her counselors and friends as sons, she began to enjoy life a lot more,” said Morton. “Diana was very protective of William and Harry. [If] you ever criticized the boys … she would be on you like a tigress. She was the only one who could criticize those two. Of course, she indulged them … She wanted to be a full hands-on parent herself. And interestingly, Prince William recently said the same about his own children, George and Charlotte. He wants them to enjoy a relatively normal upbringing.”
The sons would tragically lose their mother when William was 15 and Harry 12. TLC’s documentary explores the many conspiracy theories of what really caused Diana’s sudden death, but Morton said the explanation is a simple one.
“Well, I think the paparazzi followed her all of her adult life, so they contributed to her death,” he said. “[But] it wasn’t their fault. It was the fact that she was being driven too fast … by a man who was found with drugs and drink. It’s the banality of her death which I think most people can’t come to terms with.”
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But two decades later, Morton said there’s still plenty to discover and appreciate about “the people’s princess.”
“I think what I did realize was that she left an awful lot of her life in compartments,” he explained. “And you felt like you knew her, but you didn’t. You knew a bit of her … She was a mysterious woman as well as being a compassionate woman.”
“Princess Diana: Tragedy or Treason?” premieres July 31 at 8 p.m.
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