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Charles invited Diana to accompany him on a royal yacht Britannia during his one week holiday and “he took great pains“ 6 to it (Bradford 79) and asked his personal secretary´s assistant Oliver Everett to take care of her. Charles wanted to avoid the situation when Diana had refused his invitation to Buckingham Palace (Bradford 79). It was during their
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13 meeting in Petworth in July 1980, where Diana was surprised by his intimate behaviour towards her: “Again, he was still tagging along me and it was very strange. I thought:’This is a little bit impertinent’” 7 (Diana qtd. in Bradford 78). As Stephen Barry in Diana remembered , on Britannia the crew fell in love with Diana the same as the royal domestic staff who considered Diana to be very suitable for “that task” (Bradford 80). Diana won their hearts thanks to her openmindness and sincere treating the others.
On the contrary, Nicholas Davies describes how the staff hated Diana “we knew that some- times she would appear to be a beast, but we did not know it would be so soon” 8 (Diana. A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage 108). 2.2 Engagement Charles was under the increasing pressure to marry not only by his father (his mother has never interfered in her children’s affairs) but also by Camilla who was persuaded that Di- ana would not jeopardize her place in Charles’s heart. In fact she preferred Diana to Charles’s other acquaitances. Also, Diana met all needed qualifications. Legally, the only requirement was that the Prince could not marry a Roman Catholic; a member of the Church of England was pre- ferred. In order to gain the approval of Charles’s family and their advisers, any potential bride was expected to have a royal or aristocratic background, to be a virgin as well as to be a Protestant (wikipedia). It was clear that also the Queen Mother was delighted with her grandson’s relationship with the charming and innocent Diana and during Diana’s visit of Birkhall there was no doubt that she was trying to make Diana comfortable (Bradford 81). She checked the bed- room and all the things she would not have done for a nineteen-year-old girl. So it was obvious that there were some plans or hopes (Bradford 81). But it is unbelievable, how cynical 7 „Zase se na mě lepil bylo to velice divné. Pomyslela jsem si: ,,Tohle je trochu neomalené.“ (translated by the author)
8 ,,Věděli jsme, že se z ní někdy vyklube mrcha, ale nevěděli jsme, že to bude tak brzy.“ (translated by the author)
14 attitude took up Ruth Fermoy, Diana’s grandmother and Queen Mothers’s friend. She en- couraged this wedding in spite of that she was aware about Charles’s relationship with Camilla (Bradford 81). Nevertheless, Diana adored Charles and in some way also Charles, who called her ‘My Shy Di’ (Davies 72), loved Diana, although they differed from each other in many aspects. For example, part of public did not consider the uneducated Diana to be suitable for him. They had different taste in friends and Diana hated his spending the leisure time shooting birds or hunting. Each of them listened to different kind of music and while Charles de- bated with the philosophers, Diana liked chating with her friends about clothing and hairs- tyles and watching soap operas. Charles was surprised by Diana’s disinterest in politics, economy, industry and issues connected with the British government (Davies 108). On 24
th February 1981 the engagement between the nineteen-year-old Lady Diana Frances Spencer and the thirty-two-year-old heir to the British Throne Prince Charles was officially announced and so Diana could pose for the photographers with her walnut-sized engage- ment ring. The ring, consisting of 14 diamonds and a sapphire, cost 34000 pounds. But the Queen would prefer to donate her some time-honoured one from her family jewels (Da- niels 71). Stephen Barry describes the first months of their romance: “It seemed, because of Charles, Diana was completely nonplussed. She adored even the ground under his feet. She was still kissing and touching him and repeating how much she loved him. Anytime he had to leave for his royal duties or just deal with some papers, she was saying good-bye to him, as if he was leaving at least for a year and she could hardly wait for his return. She still kept asking me, when he would come back and was nervous until she saw him again. Then she ran after him and started hugging and kissing him“ 9 (Davies 74-75). Before their engagement, on 5th November, when Diana was staying in Sandringham, the 9 ,,Zdálo se, že Diana je z Charlese úplně vyvedená z míry. Ona zbožňovala i půdu pod jeho nohama, po které kráčel. Neustále ho líbala, dotýkala se ho a opakovala mu, jak ho miluje. Kdykoliv musel odejít za svými královskými povinnostmi, nebo jen vyřídit nějaké papíry, loučila se s ním, jako kdyby odcházel nejméně na rok a vůbec se nemohla dočkat jeho návratu. Pořád se mě ptala, kdy už se vrátí, a byla nervózní, dokud ho opět nespatřila. Potom k němu přiběhla, začala ho objímat a líbat.“(translated by the author).
15 scandal of the “royal train of love“ broke out. According to Sunday Mirror Diana slipped into the royal train that was standing on the siding in Wiltshire and spent a night there with Charles (Bradford 85). While Davies described this event as a “made-up story“ (69), Bradford brought the evidence, that the woman definitely was not Diana, but Camilla Par- ker Bowles (85). There is also some discrepancy in these books connected with the flowers that Charles should have sent to Diana after her arrival from Australia, where she, according to Char- les’s suggestion, spent some time with her mother before their wedding. In Diana.A Prin- cess and Her Troubled Marriage there is described the event, how romantic Charles sent a huge bunch of flowers to Diana (Davies 70). In the book Diana Diana was persuaded that the malodorous bouquet was not from Charles, it was just a very tactful deep of somebody from the office, because there was not a message (Bradford 90). 2.3 Wedding …‘the most emotionally confusing day in my life‘…(Diana qtd. In Morton 65) During the wedding preparation Charles cautiously controlled all details and also chose music and singers, what he considered to be the most important. Diana’s favourite hymn I Vow to Thee My Country was included, too (Davies 79). This hymn was heard also during Diana’s funeral ceremony. On the eve of the wedding, which Diana spent at Clarence House, her mood was much improved when Charles sent her a signet ring engraved with the Prince of Wales feathers and an affectionate card which said:‘I’m so proud of you and when you come up I’ll be there at the altar for you tomorrow. Just look ‘em in the eyes and knock ‘em dead‘(Morton 64-65). Around 750 million television viewers and 600 thousand onlookers followed the dream wedding of Charles, who was thirty-three years old, and Diana, who was twenty years old, routing from Buckingham Palace to London´s St. Paul´s Cathedral on 29th July 1981, five months after their engagement. For the first time in 300 years an English girl is betrothed to a British Heir to the Throne. The girl,who, when she was nine, bravely declared that she would marry only once and only for love and never, never divorce (Howard).
16 The archbishop of Canterbury, who married this pair in love, declared this wedding to be a fairy tale (Howard, Bradford 105). Although all those present noticed that Diana left out the expression “to obey” her husband from her promise of marriage (Davies 82). 2.4 Marriage “Charles was too old for his age, and Diana in her youth extremely immature“ 10
(Bradford 112). Diana was always such a shy girl that during the school performances she was used to playing just non-speaking parts. Now, she was in the centre of attention and she tried to hide her real feelings in public. So, her role really was not easy. In Diana, Her True Story she remembers, how she tried to cope with the journalists: “I´ve got what my mother has got. However bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness. My mother is an expert at that and I´ve picked it up. It kept the wolves from the door”(Morton 76). Although Diana, from the very beginning, managed to behave perfectly in public, she often suffered from sickness and she felt uneasily. These feelings got worse during her pregnancy. The first son and Heir to the Throne, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis was born in St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London on 21 st June 1982 and his birth was greeted with fourty-one salvos.The second son of Princess Diana and Charles, Prince Henry Charles Albert David, named Harry was born at the same hospital on 15 th September 1984 (How- ard). Diana claimed that the early years of her marriage were lucky. She was really happy to have her own family and even Charles tried to spend as much time as possible with his sons. But there already appeared quite serious troubles. On the one hand there was still the shade of Camilla Parker, the woman with whom Charles did not mean to quit his relation- ship, on the other hand Charles was not able to accept the fact that Diana was so popular with people that she (unintenionally) put him in the shade (Bradford 138-145).This is also the period when Diana went through several suicide attempts. One of the first ones ap- peared in January 1982 when she, three months pregnant, jumped down the staircase. 10 ,,Charles byl na svůj věk starý, a Diana ve svém mládí mimořádně nevyzrálá.“(translated by the author) One of the first members of the Royal Family who arrived was the Queen Mother:
17 She was horrified, physically shaking with the shock of what she had witnessed. A local doctor was summoned while George Pinker, Diana’s gyneacologist, travelled from London to visit his royal patient. Her hus- band simply dismissed her plight and carried on with his plan to go rid- ing. Fortunately Diana was not seriously hurt by the fall although she did suffer severe bruising around her stomach. A full check-up revealed that the foetus hadnot been injured (Morton, Diana: Her True Story 73).
Diana explains her difficult state and termed it as “the desperate cries for help”. “I just needed time to adjust to my new position” (Diana qtd. in Morton 74). That time Prince Charles held very important conversation with his mother and explained her that the journalists do not help pregnant Diana to calm down her frame of mind. He was apprehensive, because Diana’s moods could have dire consequences for the unborn child (Davies 93). The Queen agreed and prepared a plan together with Michael Shea, her press secretary. On Thuesday, eighteen days before Christmas and four and a half month after the wedding, the publishers of nationwide newspaper, television and radio were in- vited in Buckingham Palace. It was the first time in twenty-five years that this kind of meeting was held (Davies 93-94). Michael Shea depicted the situation and explained the Queen’s fears of the haunting of Diana. The short time after this meeting the British press left Diana alone. But, consequently, she became such a draw that the haunting started again (Davies 93-94). The book Diana: Her True Story also contains statements about Diana´s bulimia and the explanation by eating-disorders expert that bulimics are always smiles “and they spend their time trying to please others” (Morton, Diana: Her True Story 77). Diana’s marital discords with her husband are remembered in the Diana book. In the in- terview with her teacher Peter Settel Diana indicated that her sexual relationship with Charles ended before the birth of Harry. She also confided in her new bodyguard and a detective Ken Wharfe about Camilla´s presence. She didn´t know how to deal with this fact (Bradford 165). In 1986 Diana did not manage to pretend in public that she was happy. In Mallorca the quarrels between Diana and Charles intensified. Charles left his wife, William and Harry for Britain. There had already been Camilla waiting for him (Odile and Philippe Verdier 46). As a defense, Diana began to use flirtation in public. Charles was disappointed. But
18 also some newspapers criticised her undignified behaviour. They spent their sixth wedding anniversary separately (Bradford 171). Another desperate situation Diana went through was after Prince Charles had broken his arm during a polo match. It was not Diana, but Charles’s frequent visitor, Camilla Parker- Bowles, who took care of him while recovering from the fracture. “Diana felt subjugated, useless and unloved.” (Morton, Diana: Her True Story 151). 2.5 Morton’s Book Of course, some of journalists were devoted to Charles and some of them indicated their sympathy to Diana. And so, as far as tabloids are concerned, while Nigel Dempster from Mail and Ross Benson from Express spoke up for Charles, Daily Mail, the one destined for the middle and upper classes, were devoted to Diana (especially thanks to their editor-in- chief David English and a royal reporter Richard Kay) as well as the prominent journalist and biographer Anthony Holden and Andrew Morton, in those days writing favourable articles abot her for the influential Sunday Times (Bradford 220). And it was just Andrew Morton, university educated and prominent journalist and writer, who himself was surprised, when Diana was willing to open her heart just to him and as- ked him to write a book about her life with Charles.An intermediary here was doctor James Colthurst, Diana’s long-standing friend and adviser (Bradford 215). In the interview with Sarah Bradford (20.3.2001) Morton admits that this Diana’s action was not well-thought-out and that they were Mike (Michael O’Mara, Morton’s publisher), James Colthurst and him who had to premeditated a lot instead of her. Their idea also was to keep Diana in background and to involve her friends (Bradford 216). 2.6 The Divorce “Whatever happens, I will always love you“ 11 (Diana to Charles on 28th February 1996 qtd. in Bradford 306-307). On 29th June 1994 “in a television interview Prince Charles acknowledges to Jonathan Dimbleby his liaison with Camilla Parker-Bowles and his unfaithfuilness to his wife Dia- na.
11 ,,Ať se stane cokoli, budu tě vždycky milovat.“
19 He explains his adultery by saying that he already saw his marriage as being over“(www.princess-diana.com). This interview took place after Prince Charles’s biogra- phy by Jonathan Dimbleby had been written. Prince‘s biography was considered to be his defence, the same as Morton’s book was Diana’s one. In January 1995 Andrew and Camil- la Parker Bowles divorced (Bradford 269,272). In the autumn of 1995 Diana’s psychological state of mind was unsatisfactory. Her roman- ce with James Hewitt was disclosed, when the book “Princess in Love“ by Anna Pasternak was published based on her letters to him to the Gulf in October 1994 (www.princess- diana.com, Bradford 270). As Hewitt claimed, the initial aim of this book was something like “precautionary measure“ 12 (Hewitt qtd. in Bradford 270), but later he was marked as a “spurned lout and nark“ 13 (daily Sun qtd. in Bradford 271), although Diana had agreed with publishing this kind of book. She had only prefered the interview with Andrew Mor- ton to Anna Pasternak. Then she broke up and began her relationship with Oliver Hoar (Bradford 271, Hrom 13). She was also persuaded about being tapped, dismissed several employees of hers and she even wrote a letter, where she mentioned Charles’s intence to kill her: “My husband is planning an ‘accident‘ of my car, a brake failure and a serious damage of my head, so as to free himself and could marry“ 14 (Diana qtd. in Bradford 292). Her behaviour called forth a response. In the article by Dempster in Mail on Sunday there are described eight typical syndroms of BPD, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Demb- ster claims that most of them fit Diana’s behaviour (Bradford 289). Diana’s response to Charles’s interview came several months later during the BBC pro- gramme Panorama with the journalist Martin Bashir on 24th November 1995. She admited her affair with James Hewitt and spoke about her psychological desperation, eating disor- ders and her attempts to commit suicide. But she also mentioned her “mistrust of the Royal Family and doubts that her husband, Prince Charles, will ever become king“ 12
13 ,,zhrzený hulvát a práskač“ 14 ,,Můj manžel plánuje ‘nehodu‘ v mém autě, selhání brzd a vážné poranění hlavy, jen aby měl Charles volnou cestu a mohl se oženit.“ (translated by the author)
20 (www.princess-diana.com, Bradford 269). In the book Lady Di et Dodi – Destins Croises it is published that she definitely betrayed the rule of the Royal Protocol ”never explain, ne- ver complain“ (Verdier Odile, and Philippe 98), which is the truth. But definitely is not the truth that the only Princess’s performance in public fulfilled its task and the divorce proce- dure increased (Verdier Odile, and Philippe 100). Because it is obvious that Diana did not want to divorce ( Bradford 305, Howard). The Royal Family were shocked with Diana’s performance and so were her friends. Her press officer, Geoff Crawford, resigned from his post immediately, although it was a success with the public, who was touched with this interview (Bradford 298-299). Sir Robert Fellowes, Diana’s brother-in-law who belonged to the high-ranking palace offi- cials, remembered in the book by Brian Mac Arthur: “Much as good will towards her per- sonality was there from Buckingham Palace, the misdemeanour she perpetrated over- stepped the mark. It was a classical case of ‘love for the sinner and hate for the sin’” 15
(Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-1997 96, qtd. in Bradford 300). When Queen Elizabeth II asked her son Prince Charles and Princess Diana to end their marriage on 18 th December 1995, Charles agreed immediately, but Diana postponed her decision for three months. The Queen’s hand-written letter to Diana was addressed “Dear- est Diana” and ended “with love mummy”(Bradford 302, www.princess-diana.com). On 28 th
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February is written, Princess Diana agreed to the wish of Prince Charles and his mother to end the marriage (www.princess-diana.com). Diana considered this date to be “the worst day in my life” (Diana qtd. in Verdier Odile,and Philippe 91). On the contrary, in the book Diana. Her New Life we can read about Diana who confided in her friends during the summer of 1993 that she would like to divorce, but that the resolution has to come from Charles (Morton 182). Nevertheless,”on 28 th February 1996 Princess Diana agrees to the wish of Prince Charles and his mother Queen Elizabeth II to end the mar- riage”(www.princess-diana.com). On 15 th July Princess Diana became divorced after fif- teen years of marriage to the British Heir to the Throne Prince Charles and after six
15 ,,Jakkoli byla ze strany Buckinghamského paláce vůči její osobě dobrá vůle, přečin, jehož se dopustila, překročil meze. Šlo o klasický případ ‘lásky k hříšníkovi a nenávisti k hříchu‘“. (translated by the author)
21 weeks, on 28 th August 1996 the divorce became legal (www.princess-diana.com, Dobro- volny 102, Bradford). Although in Lady Di at Dodi... is published that she kept her title “Royal Highness” (Ver- dier Odile, and Philippe 91) in fact she lost it. She could only call herself “Princess of Wales”(www.princess-diana.com). The Palace later insisted that it was Diana herself who suggested to renounce the title “Her Royal Highness” (Bradford 305-306), but maybe later Download 432.05 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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