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- So I'm India Hicks,
and I happen to be Prince Charles' goddaughter.
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- I am Mervyn Wycherley.
I was head chef to the Prince of Wales
and Lady Diana Spencer.
[camera shutters clicking]
- Squadron Leader Graham Laurie.
I've flown him 760-odd times.
- Petronella Wyatt.
I've known Camilla, the Queen Consort,
since I was 17.
[camera shutter clicking]
- I've been a royal journalist for 30 years.
- I'm Johnny Stonborough,
and I was at school with the king.
The other boys had decided, quotes,
"That they were going to 'Get Prince Charles.'"
He was the boy who walked alone.
- We'd had a friendship and a relationship.
They called me the blonde.
- No other of his girlfriends
have ever really talked to the press,
and that's what turned me into the kiss-and-tell
and the blabber girl.
- I actually had thought I was going...
[laughing] As his girlfriend for the weekend,
but when I got there,
Camilla Parker Bowles was there.
[crowd shouting]
- I'm speaking now about all this
because I've said nothing for 40 years,
and I've just listened so often to lies.
And it's quite frustrating.
- Both princes begged their father to not marry Camilla.
- This is the woman that Diana would've been
crying her eyes out about
who called her "the Rottweiler."
- They're a spectacularly dysfunctional family.
- Right now we're seeing anotherdisastrous scandal
swirling around.
- There are even reports he did say,
"I wish you boys would stop
making my final years miserable."
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[birds chirping]
- It was the end-of-season polo dance
for Cirencester Polo Club.
The dance floor was in the middle like this,
and then the tables were round.
[soft piano music]
Camilla and Andrew's table was at the front.
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I did notice when I was dancing
that Prince Charles was, a lot of the time,
dancing with Camilla.
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A lot of people were slightly surprised
to see how often they were on the dance floor
and that Andrew was just sort of sitting at the table.
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- Yes, people did spot Charles and Camilla
having a fun sort of cuddle, as it were.
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At that time,
he'd just started dating Diana Spencer,
so I doubt he would have thought
he was doing anything terribly wrong if he...
kissed Camilla at a party.
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[cheering]
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- Naval Lieutenant Prince Charles
is taking to the air again, this time in a helicopter.
He's already qualified as a jet pilot with the RAF.
- Being the Prince of Wales and single,
he had this great reputation of being very eligible
and quite rightly so.
- The prince has clocked up almost 1,000 flying hours
in a variety of aircraft.
- He was a man of action.
You know, he flew well, he played polo well.
Prince Philip was the hard man.
Prince Charles was much more sensitive and softer,
but still did them equally as well.
[waves crashing]
- He was handsome, charming, the Prince of Wales.
I think he had a lot of girlfriends.
He would tell me about women
that would come rushing up to him,
like when he was in Australia, and would kiss him.
[film projector whirring]
[birds chirping]
- Has anyone seen the black dog at all?
- He was playing catch with an apple.
- Ugh.
She's just obsessed with apples.
- Well played, sir! [crowd cheering]
- I was given the job at the Guards Polo Club
as assistant manager.
And that's when Charles would come up from Windsor Castle
and come and play.
[indistinct PA commentary]
He was about to become 30,
and I was going through an early divorce
at a very young age, at 23.
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And so I just think we just sort of
gravitated towards each other.
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Here are some photos
of when I was introduced to Prince Charles.
And I do actually feel there was an instant attraction.
I might be imagining it, but looking at it,
it does feel as if there's a little bit of something there.
So that was our first introduction.
And it was a definite turning point in my life.
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What I thought about Prince Charles,
or King Charles,
is that he looked quite a lonely figure.
So I thought that I could introduce him
into the social life of the Guards Polo Club.
So I suggested one day that he came back
and had drinks in the clubhouse after the polo
and meet some of the players.
So he said, "OK, I'll do that."
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One of my bosses had thought it would be quite quirky
to have Pimm's in a plastic container.
And so I was in the room,
but didn't sort of mix with him.
And then I saw that he was about to go,
so I rushed around the back and said,
"And how did that go?"
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And it was fascinating, actually.
And he drew himself up, and he looked at me and said,
"I'm not used to drinking out of a container."
And I went, "Oh, my God!"
And that was virtually almost the end
of him coming in to have drinks.
[laughs]
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I was also given a cottage up at Windsor Castle
close to the polo club, so I was very much on tap.
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We were just very comfy.
We could talk about anything.
He's a very charismatic person.
He's very cheeky.
And flirtatious, I think is the word, you know.
I walked in wearing a shirt with 11 cockerels,
you know, those sort of farmer sweatshirts.
And he didn't realize that Andrew,
my husband at the time, was behind.
And he--as I walked through the door, he said,
"Good God, is that how many cocks you've had?"
[laughs] You can't put that, cockerels.
And then he looked up, and he saw Andrew's face.
And he knew that he-- yes.
Um, but it was just funny, ha, ha.
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Prince Charles had said he very much
liked my company at Windsor Castle.
And then I did go and have dinner.
I think that's about all I'm going to say.
[laughs] And you know.
Yeah.
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- He had lots and lots of girlfriends.
♪
I don't think any of them really came close
to the one girlfriend he had met years before.
That was Camilla Parker Bowles.
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My name is Robert Jobson.
I've been a royal journalist for 30 years.
I've met and covered the king's story for all that time.
I've interviewed him a number of times.
And I've been invited down to Highgrove,
to his garden, and it's a wonderful garden.
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♪
Charles met Camilla-- she was older than him.
It was when he was at university.
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And Charles was single, completely smitten by Camilla.
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- My name is Petronella Wyatt,
and I have known Camilla, the Queen Consort,
since I was 17.
[soft dramatic music]
The nature of that relationship
was a sort of passion that sprang up on Charles' side.
Camilla reminded Charles of the queen mother.
He adored the queen mother.
I think the queen wasn't demonstrative
because of her personality.
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His parents were away such a lot
because the queen became queen very young
and as a result,
she missed Charles' childhood.
And there's that story he often told about his mother
coming back from a very, very long tour.
And he rushes onto the royal yacht to greet her,
hoping for a hug.
And she just holds out her hand to be shaken.
♪
I think Camilla was a very cozy person,
and so was the queen mother.
He felt more comfortable with slightly older people.
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When a young man has his own emotional problems,
he generally tends to go for somebody
who's slightly more mature.
Camilla was fond of Charles.
I don't even know how far it went.
Nobody really knows how far it went.
But I think she found him a bit immature,
and I think she wasn't in love with him then.
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[ship's horn blows]
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- Putting to sea on a six-month tour
of the West Indies, Sub-Lieutenant Prince Charles
reports to his new ship, HMS "Minerva."
- The next stage of his career was with the Royal Navy.
And he was being posted on a tour out in the Caribbean.
Charles and Camilla dated for a few months,
and certainly he was in love with her
and even took her on a tour of the ship before he departed.
♪
He was in the West Indies, I think,
when he heard that she was getting married
to Andrew Parker Bowles,
so he was pretty devastated at that.
♪
And he was definitely brokenhearted.
There's no doubt about that.
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- Charles obviously had a great relationship
with Earl Mountbatten.
He was his great uncle,
but they all called him Uncle Dickie.
He was there to guide him
in most areas of his young life.
And there was a warmth between them
that he didn't actually experience
with the queen and Prince Philip.
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Well, I think Mountbatten said basically
that after Camilla,
that Charles should sow his wild oats,
go out with as many girls as possible,
and just enjoy himself,
and don't even consider marriage
until he was looking towards 30.
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- You're the most eligible bachelor in the world.
You're the Prince of Wales.
Women threw themselves at him.
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- I've got a letter that Prince Charles wrote to me
in 1975 when he was on HMS "Hermes."
And he just writes, "My dear Janet,
"what a glorious evening that was yesterday.
"Thank you a thousand times for making it
"such a fun and particularly special evening.
"I loved every minute of my night out in Montreal
with the most exquisite Welsh girl I've ever met."
[chuckles] I laughed.
I said, "But Charles, how many Welsh girls have you dated?"
So he laughed.
It was very flattering, of course.
It was lovely.
I haven't read them for about 25 years,
and actually, it shows you the essence of who he is.
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In the 1970s in Montreal,
I was working for the British consulate
and met so many amazing people,
including the Prince of Wales, of course.
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His ship had come in to Montreal to dock,
and they were going to give a reception onboard.
So naturally, we were all invited.
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We were in line to be presented to him.
And then he got to me.
And I said, "I hope you get a chance to see Montreal,
and I hope you really enjoy it."
He said, "Well, I will if you'll show it to me."
So that's how it started.
And then he said, "I'll have my private secretary
call you tomorrow,"
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He did actually contact me,
and I showed him a lot of Montreal.
We had a sort of drive around.
And that's how our friendship started.
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♪
We liked the same things.
We both loved the movies that we had chosen,
which was "The Pink Panther."
We're both big fans.
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So we went in to see the movie.
And the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
they were just protecting the whole building
while he was in there, which was quite funny.
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the RCMP,
the Mounties, 5,400 men who maintain the law
superbly well in Canada.
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- We had lots of laughter,
and I find him very, very easy to get along with.
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He came to my apartment.
And we had the RCMP outside my door,
on the roof of the building, on the fire escape.
So it was not exactly an intimate evening,
but anyway it was really nice.
And they'd given him a panic button so that we
would have some time together.
And we just had a very, very fun time.
It was really lovely.
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♪
We were very careful about the press
because they would get word of things,
and they would, you know, be hounding us everywhere.
But we were very lucky, very lucky to keep it quiet.
- Been waiting a long time?
- Yes, sir. - Sorry we were late.
[laughter]
- The first time we met was 1975.
After he left, he went to the Arctic.
[chuckles]
He looks so good there, doesn't he?
I mean, I think he looks pretty handsome there.
I love it when he comes out and he deflates it.
[laughter]
♪
[laughs]
- Very warm. - Can you tell us how it was?
- It was plenty.
It was a very interesting day, but bloody cold.
- He is so funny.
- Well, I'll tell you, we put the air in here, you see.
It will now do an amazing--
[air hissing]
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- I mean, you see how funny he is.
It just goes to show the sense of humor that he's got.
And I think he's still like that.
There's a really fun side of the Prince of Wales.
He's very jolly.
He's not in the least bit closed.
And that's what people don't realize.
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♪
I knew that I was important because I was
getting letters all the time.
Wherever he was, I would phone Buckingham Palace,
and they would page me through to wherever
he was in the world basically.
Here's my letter from the Bahamas.
And he said that he had just come in from the beach.
And he writes to make myself a delicious brown color
and turning thoroughly irresistible.
"Can't wait to hear from you."
And then he sent me a great deal of love
and a salty kiss from the Bahamas.
Charles. It was lovely.
I couldn't wait to see him then.
- Quite flirty then?
- Oh, very flirty.
Of course, he was very flirty and very charming.
And of course, you know, I just loved getting them, of course.
And these I haven't shared with anybody, actually.
These are my private collection.
[chuckles]
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♪
He'd asked me to come over
because it was the Queen's Jubilee.
They called me the blonde, the blonde that popped up.
And then at one of the polo matches,
they said, typical type of girlfriend--
tall, and pretty, and shy, standing back.
But they didn't know my name.
And he was very happy.
He said, you know, it's amazing how
we've been able to do this. I said, yes.
[light music]
♪
He said, you know, why don't you come down to Balmoral?
So I flew into Aberdeen, and then I was met in Aberdeen.
And we were not staying at the castle.
We were staying in the little guesthouse they have.
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And then unfortunately, the press got wind
of somebody there with him.
And they sort of ruined the whole thing
by saying the blonde popped up at Balmoral.
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Said you really have to go back,
he said, because now they've got the long-range things.
They can see us.
[tense music]
And so we both went in different cars
to say goodbye at this little crossroads almost.
He came out, kissed me goodbye.
It was very foggy. It was like a Hollywood movie.
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I was really upset about it.
And he said, oh, you know-- he gave me his handkerchief.
He said, "Oh, you will be all right."
You know, he wasn't good at that.
I think the stiff upper lip was very much what you did.
And so showing emotion like that was just something
that he didn't know how to react to.
- Charles, when it came to his emotions,
was not the most demonstrative person
because Charles had emotional needs of his own.
- Charles was a sensitive young man
bullied by his father, and his father was a man's man
who felt that the King Charles would have to toughen up.
He was quite hard on his son and the schools
that he chose for his son.
- Hi.
I'm Johnny Stonbourough.
And I was at school with the king,
or Prince Charles, as he was then.
♪
Nearly four years, we were in the same class
together at Gordonstoun, which is a boarding school
up in the north of Scotland.
Gordonstoun was famously tough.
Some people actually called it Colditz in a kilt,
Colditz being a German prisoner of war camp.
There was a run every morning.
You just wore a pair of shorts.
Didn't matter what the weather was.
And this is the north of Scotland.
A cold shower, not necessarily because you
had to have a cold shower, but because the hot water ran out.
He was having a very bad time
in the boarding house that he was in.
He was ill treated by the senior boys.
And I think that the housemaster
probably sanctioned it up to a point to toughen him up.
It's what his father would have wanted.
The first time I ever actually saw, myself,
what was happening was playing rugby.
And he was in the scrum.
And a couple of the other boys had decided,
quotes, that they were going to "get Prince Charles."
And this involved punching him, and pulling his ears,
and kicking him.
But you know, the amazing thing is that he never responded.
He never reacted.
He was very stoic about the whole thing.
The never complaining, never explaining
is deeply ingrained in him.
But it was almost impossible for him to have friends
because anybody who was deemed to be a friend of the prince's
was teased brutally as well.
So people tended to avoid it.
He used to have a duffel coat, a blue duffel coat.
And he would have his hands in his pockets.
And he would pull the duffel coat in front of him
and be walking by himself.
And that's very much an image that I have of him.
He was the boy who walked alone.
- Do you have any thoughts about the lady
that the Prince of Wales should marry?
Should she still be a royal or titled lady?
- Um... [chuckles]
Yes, well, I suppose-- you see, it's awfully difficult
because you've got to remember that,
when you marry in my position,
you're going to marry somebody who perhaps one day
is going to become queen.
And you've got to choose somebody very carefully,
I think, who could fulfill this particular role
because people like you perhaps would expect quite
a lot from somebody like that.
And it's got to be somebody pretty special.
- There were some rather strange, medieval conditions
for becoming Princess of Wales
and marrying the Prince of Wales.
Whoever married Charles,
she had to have a sort of clean past.
Obviously, she couldn't be divorced.
She had to be pretty squeaky clean.
Living with somebody meant that you got scratched.
It's another world.
[soft music]
♪
- I was a divorcée.
So the fact that I was a forbidden fruit
made our relationship so much easier and more relaxed,
and, you know, we could just be ourselves totally.
And he did confide in me
about some of the ladies that he brought to the polo
and everything like that, you know.
It was a lovely, easy, open relationship, yeah.
♪
I think it slightly went to my head in the end,
but it was flattering.
And the fact that it wasn't just boom and--
you know, we've been able to talk about anything
and all our problems.
I didn't have any pretensions.
I mean, there were jokes.
My one boss had a T-shirt made, "Jane for Queen," which was--
[laughs] Which was very funny.
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This is the first time I think it hit the press.
The press did start to take photos and were aware of us.
And I think that went into the newspaper.
Officials of the club thought they should sort of protect him
because I was a divorcée.
They would always try and keep him apart.
I mean, the body language is quite telling,
isn't it, really?
Of mine. [laughs]
You know, I don't look as if I'm very worried by it all,
you know--cigarette lighter around the neck, you know.
Must have said something that made me laugh.
I don't know. Nice photos.
[laughs]
♪
The golden rule for Charles' girlfriends
was to never speak to the media
about their relationship with the prince.
As soon as that happened, they were finished.
♪
- A royal correspondent to "The Sun," James Whitaker,
who had become a bit of a sort of friend, he rang me to say,
Jane, I just want to tell you that it's been blown
to the newspapers that you are the new girl
in Prince Charles' life.
And he said, your headline's tomorrow.
And he said, well, can I come down and see you?
And I just was so in shock that I thought
he was a friend at the time.
And they came to the cottage.
♪
I just said, we just like to sort of lark around.
And I probably mentioned something like, you know,
we just like to tease each other.
[tense music]
Unbeknown to me, because it was a quote from me,
that went into the press.
♪
And I was knifed because it was a quote from me.
♪
That's what turned me into the kiss-and-tell
and the blabber girl.
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So it was a stitch-up.
I think it went on for nearly two weeks, the headlines.
I was so mortified.
They feel it's a betrayal.
They do close ranks.
He was probably told, stay away because she's a chatter.
But because he knew that I'd been set up,
he was always there in the background,
hoping that I was coping, which I wasn't.
[chuckles]
I remember asking for some help from one
of the press secretaries.
And he said, you're in it on your own.
So I did feel very vulnerable at the time.
[soft music]
Of course, in hindsight would have been nice,
but don't put me in that category.
[laughs]
I would not be a suitable queen.
[tense music]
- In the late '70s, there was a development
when it came to Camilla and Charles.
♪
Camilla was married,
but her husband Andrew did stray.
And I think Camilla was very hurt.
So I think she gravitated back towards Charles
because I think she wanted to feel that somebody
wanted her like crazy.
And that person was Charles
because he'd never stopped wanting her.
- My feeling is that, actually, Charles
was terribly in love with Camilla,
and I don't think he experienced love like it.
But again, he would know that Camilla would be someone
that he couldn't marry
because she would have to get divorced.
[bells ringing]
- Now that he was 31 years of age,
great conjecture had already been shown over when
and who he was likely to marry.
Often, it was headline news.
- Prince Philip was definitely pressuring him as well
to get married and produce an heir and a spare,
as they say.
He would say to me oftentimes--
you know, he'd say, every time I meet someone,
they're marrying me off to them.
And so the fact that he was seen
with a number of different women, I think,
was something disconcerting to them.
I think they wanted him to just be settled.
This was his fate, and he was going
to go along with it because what
was expected of him basically.
♪
[soft piano music]
[crowd shouting]
♪
- At that time, he'd just started dating Diana Spencer.
- Lady Diana was born into a world
of large country houses set in huge rural estates.
She grew up in Park House practically next door
to the queen, whom she called Aunt Lilibet.
[cameras snapping]
- The queen mother was very old-fashioned.
I think she kept pushing Diana
because she was too young to have a past.
- Let's face it.
She fitted into the small itinerary
that he had to work from.
[chuckles]
- Diana Spencer had no experience
with men whatsoever.
And I was told that their relationship
was not consummated until their honeymoon.
So there wouldn't have been much of a sexual nature
to the courtship.
At the same time, Charles had started seeing Camilla again.
♪
- Going back to when I was at a polo dance in Cirencester.
I did notice when I was dancing that Prince Charles
was a lot of the time dancing with Camilla.
They were in full view of everyone, dancing,
so it wasn't as if they were trying
to be furtive or anything.
Were they having an affair then?
Well, I didn't know any of that then.
But subsequently, it's come about that he
wasn't exactly a saint.
They've admitted it, so it must have been going on.
But yeah.
I didn't know.
- My name is Penny Junor.
The king and queen, I know them well
because I've written about them extensively
for over 40 years now.
I've been on tours with them.
I've had lunch with the Prince of Wales.
Kissing Camilla on a public dance floor
is extraordinarily indiscreet.
I have no idea what was going through Charles' mind.
I imagine what goes through any man or couple's mind when they
are in love with each other, in lust with each other,
fancy the pants off each other.
They had probably had a few drinks.
It was a party.
And he possibly felt that he was amongst friends.
- Her husband Andrew was doing the same thing.
So I doubt Charles would have thought
he was doing anything terribly wrong
if he kissed Camilla at a party.
But having said that, all that did stop
once he and Diana became engaged.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Then on the 24th of February, 1981,
from Buckingham Palace came the news
that the whole world had been waiting for.
The heir to the throne presented
his beautiful bride to be, Lady Diana Frances Spencer.
[soft piano music]
- I was in Bermuda on vacation.
And he phoned me and said, I promised I would tell you
when I was going to get engaged.
He said, I'm not supposed to tell anybody right now,
but they're announcing my engagement tomorrow.
He said, please don't say anything.
I said, of course not.
And I said, well, I'm coming to your wedding.
He said, of course. [chuckles]
- Can you find the words to sum up how you feel today,
both of you?
- Difficult to find words, isn't it, really?
Just delighted and happy.
And I'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me on.
- [chuckles] - And I suppose in love.
- Course.
- Whatever in love means. - Yes.
- Diana made a point about it,
how shattered she was by his answer,
but I think she was being very sensitive
because she knew about Camilla.
[crowd cheering]
- We now know that she was also aware
of Camilla Parker Bowles.
I mean, had he said to her, "OK, it's over.
I will never see her again,"
it would have been a different thing.
But he wasn't prepared to do that.
But I don't believe that he would have married her
or agreed to marry her if he hadn't
had strong feelings for her.
[upbeat music]
♪
[horn honking]
- I remember getting the call that I was going
to be invited to be a bridesmaid
to Charles and Diana.
And I remember thinking, oh, God, I'm going
to have to wear a dress.
And I was quite a tomboy at the time,
and I would always be riding bareback on ponies
and climbing trees.
And so the idea of wearing a dress was a little worrying.
So I'm India Hicks.
And I happen to be Prince Charles' goddaughter.
Or should I say, King Charles.
[light music]
♪
The '80s was all about, you know,
puff balls, and taffeta, and over-the-top-ness.
And Diana wanted a 25-foot train.
No one else had ever had a 25-foot train.
And I had that job of dealing with the train.
And there is Diana with her large and quite ailing father.
And there wasn't much room for all of that train.
So by the time they opened the door and they got her out,
the bloody thing was very crumpled.
It was quite something.
It did look amazing. I mean, it did look amazing.
All you really see is my bum in the air
because I spent most of the time trying
to sort that thing out.
♪
- This is a picture of Diana coming down with her father.
[camera snapping]
And I can see Camilla Parker Bowles
looking across to Diana.
And I know that Diana, when she was coming down the aisle,
she said she was looking everywhere to see
where she was because she was sure
she was going to be there.
And of course, she was, so...
Not a good way to start your marriage.
- I think Camilla, she's a worldly, wise woman.
She would have seen
this beautiful, young girl come along.
She was clearly by that stage in love with Charles
and maybe thought there was nothing wrong that he would
have his wife, they would have a few kids,
but she would still have this role
as the mistress in his life.
And she felt confident in that.
And she was right because, like it or loathe it,
Charles was in love with somebody else.
- By the time Charles and Diana walked up that aisle
in St. Paul's Cathedral, they both, I think,
knew they were making a mistake.
Charles definitely did.
[ominous music]
Diana had changed.
The minute they became engaged,
she became a different woman.
The sweet, lovely, funny, laughing girl
turned into something completely different.
She had very much darker side.
She was jealous. She was enraged.
She was in tears.
He didn't know what on earth had happened.
I think he probably always loved Camilla.
So to have her there, goodness knows what thoughts
must have been going through his head--despair, probably,
but hope, hope that he was going to make it all right.
- I pronounce that they be man and wife together.
Those whom God has joined together
let no man put asunder.
- And everybody was so happy.
Nobody knew what was actually happening.
Nobody knew what was to come, but that was the moment.
And I think genuinely, Charles and Diana thought,
"We're gonna make a go of this. It's gonna be OK."
[upbeat orchestral music]
♪
- Highgrove Charles bought when he was a bachelor
and was close-to-home farm where he
was going to farm organically.
And then he did all the gardens himself.
And so it became very important
to him as a sanctuary.
And then, of course, when he married Diana,
they had that as their country home.
And they had Kensington Palace,
which was their London apartments.
♪
- Mervyn Wycherley.
I was head chef to the Prince of Wales
and Lady Diana Spencer for 13 years
and finished in '95.
[upbeat electronic music]
♪
The early years, it was so exciting.
It was an absolute buzz.
I mean, I don't think they even knew what had hit them,
really, with everything going on.
But it worked, and they got on enormously well.
Those first few years were--it was great fun.
♪
- He had been the playboy, the life,
and so he was the one in the photos.
And then he married this shy, little girl
who turned into an absolute megastar.
And all the press wanted was this very pretty girl.
And I think he had his nose slightly put out of joint.
- Well, I'm not a glove puppet,
so I can't answer for that, I'm afraid.
But I think you enjoyed it, didn't you, darling?
Be an idiot if she didn't enjoy dancing
with John Travolta, wouldn't she?
- I think he became a little bit resentful of the superstar
that he married.
And she was the people's darling, wasn't she?
Whereas he was beginning to come across
as a bit more staid.
♪
- It was always the nanny's way out was just,
why don't you go and play with Mervy down in the kitchen?
[laughs]
And they'd come down and have a play in the kitchen.
You can't keep them out.
So they were very, very different.
William has always been more reserved and thoughtful.
One of the birthday parties, she got a bouncy castle.
We hired some bear suits, five of them,
and we all dressed up in these bear suits.
These kids were playing on the bouncy.
The bears went in, throwing them all.
And I don't know if you've ever worn one of those things.
You can't see a thing.
I swung around, and I caught William straight across.
He flew to the other side.
I thought, oh, God, I've killed him.
[laughs]
None of the children realized, but William,
he looked at the shoes, and he recognized
the people's shoes.
Quite an astute little devil.
- My name is Ken Wharfe.
I was the protection officer of the late Diana,
Princess of Wales, from '87 until '93, '94.
[soft music]
I met the Prince of Wales,
I mean, on a sort of daily basis.
When I first worked with William and Harry--
and they were five and three.
They were young kids.
I look back at their early years,
and Harry was very much the joker, the entertainer.
And that sort of didn't sit very comfortable with William
because, you know, Harry was a bit more popular than me,
you know, and everybody knew that.
♪
His Royal Highness was always busy.
The travel was enormous.
- There was a sense that Charles wasn't always there.
So the Prince of Wales with two boys,
I think they could be quite difficult to handle.
And old bodyguard or backup who used to work for them
was so infuriated once, he fired a gun into a tree,
you know, fired a bullet into a tree
and said if those two boys had been born
in the council estates in South London,
they'd be in care by now
because they used to just run amok.
- But the Prince of Wales, he acknowledged
that his two children were much happier doing what
Diana would arrange for them...
♪
the go-karting, the theme parks,
the adventure holidays, something that he
wouldn't even think about.
Yes, he did take his sons on historical journeys
to friends of his, but they found at that particular time,
you know, being with their father rather boring
and not as exciting as in the fun
that their mother could generate.
♪
- I think Charles as a father was
probably more hands-on than his mother
or father had been with him.
But fundamentally, one parents as one is parented.
And his parents were pretty aloof.
He wasn't totally stiff and cold,
but his life has always been work first probably
and family second.
The bottom line really is that the Prince of Wales
was a workaholic.
- One particular morning, I got a phone call,
and Diana said, "Can you come and see me?"
She said, "I just wanted to let you know, Ken.
"I wanted to tell you all about my relationship,
both with my husband and at that time with James Hewitt."
She told me about the relationship
that her husband was having with Camilla.
I remember asking--I said, "Do you love the Prince of Wales?"
She said, "Yes, of course I do.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be here."
And it was clear to me that the Camilla issue
was there from the very beginning.
And Diana was trying desperately to work out how
she was going to resolve this.
But of course, the matter was never resolved.
And understandably, there was much hatred
for this other woman.
- Squadron Leader Graham Laurie.
From 1981 until 2000, I was the prince's personal pilot.
I've flown him 760-odd times.
As regards Camilla, I didn't ever fly her,
but we did see her involvement in certain trips
when we went abroad.
There would be a civilian charter aircraft
on the tarmac before we got there,
and it was still there when we left.
And I found out afterwards that actually Camilla
had flown in and out on that aircraft.
So they were obviously getting together overseas,
but the press didn't cotton onto that.
♪
- I'm speaking now about all this
because I've said nothing for 40 years.
And I've just listened so often to lies, silly stories.
And it's quite frustrating.
There are only a few of us
that can say what really happened.
And I decided that my time might be coming to an end,
so I'm going to do it now.
My name is Allan Peters,
and I worked as a royalty protection officer
for the Prince of Wales, and then subsequently,
to the Princess of Wales for nine years.
There was a team of three protection officers
with the Prince of Wales,
two of us with the Princess of Wales.
And then there was a small team of what we called baby men,
who were the protection officers
who looked after William and Harry.
And Barry Mannakee was one of those baby men,
as we called him.
Harry must have been about a year old,
something like that.
And on one occasion, we did use Barry Mannakee
to go with her for four or five days up to Scotland.
And when they came back from that trip,
I started to notice her conduct in the presence
of Mannakee getting more and more strange--
what she wore, how she behaved,
and so on and so forth.
[dramatic orchestral music]
It was clear that something had gone on.
So I took it upon myself to challenge her
of what I'd seen, and she eventually agreed.
Oh, yes. It's all so wonderful.
He's so marvelous.
As far as I can ascertain, they were having an affair.
♪
We had this lengthy conversation,
trying to explain it was a recipe for disaster.
The thing was to try and help it
to stop before it got too bad.
Because as I explained to her, she would lose the marriage,
lose the boys, lose everything.
We were trying to move Mannakee on
to get him away, but it was quite difficult.
♪
When Barry Mannakee was told that he
was being transferred out, he obviously rang her
on a direct line.
And I was in my office at Kensington Palace,
and the first thing I knew was
she was in the doorway throwing her shoes
at the back of my head,
upset because she was putting the blame on me.
She was distraught,
and life was quite difficult for everybody.
♪
On one occasion when we got back--
I think it was a black tie engagement or something.
And she got out of the car, ran inside,
and disappeared upstairs.
And the prince said to me,
"What on earth is the matter with her?"
And I said, "Well, I probably can't help you, sir,"
because I didn't want to explain.
♪
And eventually, he said, "Well, the only thing
"that seems to be upsetting her
"is that Barry Mannakee is leaving.
"And if that's the case,
"I'll say that he doesn't need to leave.
He can stay."
And at that point, I felt I had to say,
"Well, if he stays, sir, then I can't stay.
He has to go."
And I think that point, the penny may have dropped
as to what was happening.
And he never said another word and turned and left.
I can categorically say that the first person that strayed
in the marriage was the Princess of Wales,
and he didn't until after he knew
she had strayed.
- Do your tastes coincide?
- On what, pop music? - Pop music.
- Well, yes, sometimes, yes. Not always.
- [laughing] - I mean...
- They were two people who had nothing
on which to build a relationship.
Charles and Diana had an age gap
that seemed even wider than it was
because they had nothing in common.
She hated Balmoral. She hated shooting.
She hated hunting.
She liked being in London,
having lunch in Tallinn restaurants
and Knightsbridge with girlfriends,
shopping, pop music.
Charles liked classical and opera.
She couldn't stand it.
It's worse than chalk and cheese.
♪
- We would speak on the telephone all the time.
He did say that it was very volatile.
He said that they thought she had bulimia at that point.
And he said, you know, she threw herself down the stairs.
Said, you know, she would be crying in the bathroom.
And William would be trying to put Kleenex
underneath the door, saying, "Mummy, it's OK."
That's traumatic for any child to see that instability.
So he was very worried about that.
He did say to me that he hoped that the children would
remember that when, you know, she'd be yelling and screaming
at him that he didn't yell and scream back,
that he was trying to be the voice of reason.
- All her things were a cry of help.
I just think it was alien to him.
It just hadn't been in his orbit before.
And probably he just didn't understand.
- He's not a temperament that can handle that kind of drama.
It was very alien to him.
I mean, you really did not do that kind of thing.
And you had a stiff upper lip,
and you had a certain demeanor.
He wasn't good at that time
with a lot of raw emotion like this.
[soft music]
♪
- Late '80s, I was at a friend's wedding,
and it was then that people really started talking
talking about Charles and Diana and how bad the marriage was.
There were two camps,
those who really supported Charles
and said Diana was mad,
and then there was another camp
who were more sympathetic to Diana and said
that she'd been far too young when she was married
into the royal family, and it would be enough
to unbalance anybody.
As for me, I was torn because I met Diana quite a lot,
and I liked her.
You couldn't help but like her.
The marriage was effectively over.
They didn't live together.
They didn't sleep together.
It was a dead marriage.
And Diana was doing her own thing with various boyfriends.
- By the late '80s, what Charles was after
was what, to some extent, they had,
which was to lead separate lives
but stay together for the sake of the country
and of their children.
This is the way that aristocratic families
have managed their estates for generations.
If the marriage isn't as happy as it might be,
they go off and they find love interest elsewhere,
but they stay together.
But Diana didn't want that.
Diana wanted the world to know that she was unhappy.
[dramatic orchestral music]
- As the Princess of Wales delivered Prince Harry
to his school this morning,
the author of the book which claims to expose
the real state of her marriage said he left
very strong material out of his account
because it would have revealed the identity
of several key sources.
The book, due to go on sale tomorrow,
claims she made several attempts on her life.
The author, Andrew Morton, at the center of the storm
has warned today that the Princess of Wales
now needs help and understanding.
- I think her own involvement with Andrew Morton
in her book "Diana: Her True Story"
was effectively her biography.
And what we got was the truth.
♪
- Morton's book is the most one-sided divorce petition
almost in history.
It's almost saint, sinner, and that's it.
Diana was no saint.
Diana had been having affairs
same as Charles was having affairs.
- How would anybody feel if their wife exposed
every last detail about them,
particularly from a position of fury?
I think Charles found the Andrew Morton book
very wounding, and hurtful,
and damaging to his reputation.
- "The Six O'Clock News" from the BBC
with Anna Ford and Chris Lowe.
- Good evening. The headlines at 6:00.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are to separate,
but they do not plan to divorce.
[tense music]
♪
- I always think there's a camera now, always,
or something like a camera.
And worse than you--
it's extraordinary how now you feel--
I do, anyway-- that wherever you are,
there's somebody hiding behind something somewhere.
I'm quite a sort of private person.
I'm not prepared to just perform
whenever they want me to perform.
- Charles did an interview with Dimbleby
after the Morton book was published.
I think he wanted to justify his relationship with Camilla.
And he wants to point out that they'd only started
seeing each other again after the marriage to Diana
was effectively over and dead.
- Mrs. Parker Bowles is a great friend of mine.
Most people probably would realize that when marriages
break down, awful and miserable as that is,
that so often, you know, that it is your friends
who are the most important, and helpful,
understanding, and encouraging.
Otherwise, you would go stark raving mad.
- Did you try to be faithful and honorable to your wife
when you took on the vow of marriage?
- Yes, absolutely.
- And you were?
- Yes.
Until it became irretrievably broken down,
us both having tried.
- Shouldn't have done the interview,
like I probably shouldn't be doing this,
but he shouldn't have done the interview, really.
When she did the interview, she was still his wife.
- But his was before hers.
- Oh, was it? - Yeah.
That was '95. This is '94.
- So did he admit in this that he had extramarital--
what an idiot.
♪
- There's no dispute that Charles was in a relationship
with Camilla as a married woman before they married in '81.
Diana tells me that that relationship continued
right through their marriage.
It suits the prince obviously, the king he is now,
to say that that wasn't the case.
From my own observation, I have no reason to disbelieve Diana.
- His marriage had irretrievably broken down
because he understood what was happening.
The Princess of Wales, her relationship with Mannakee
was clearly inappropriate.
With him, it's about loyalty, and he'd been betrayed.
But also, he never told the truth.
He protected his sons from that.
And that is to be admired greatly, I think.
[dramatic orchestral music]
- It's the interview that stunned the nation.
Last night, more than 21 million viewers
heard Diana admit adultery,
as well as discussing her bulimia,
self-mutilation, and post-natal depression.
She went on to express her opinions
on Charles, Camilla, and her efforts
to make her marriage work.
♪
- To do that to a beautiful woman
and take no notice of her cries for help
or whatever she's going through,
I thought is just disgusting.
Charles, I've got no respect for that man at all now.
- She's fighting to get her way.
Good luck to her.
[reporters clamoring]
- The most hurtful parts for him
would have been the accusation that he was a bad father
and that he possibly should not become king.
That he wasn't fit for the top job, I think,
must have been incredibly hurtful
and frustrating because he was never going to retaliate.
He never would.
So here he was, powerless and humiliated.
[cheers and applause]
- Neither Diana or Charles thought about their children.
And, I mean, when you give those interviews,
do you think about the repercussions
on your children, maybe not now,
but when they're older?
I mean, those books and that interview is there forever.
And so you have to be so aware of what you're saying.
- William and Harry through their early days
in the '80s would be blissfully unaware
of the personal complications,
Hewitt with Diana and Camilla with their father.
But of course, as you get older
and through into their teens,
you know, they would have become aware,
obviously, of the relationship
that their mother had and father had.
[tense music]
♪
- Her former husband may be adopting a low profile.
There is no sign that Diana, Princess of Wales,
will do so as she heads off into a new and uncertain life.
[ambulance siren blaring]
♪
- Diana, Princess of Wales, has died in a car accident
in Paris, which also killed her companion, Dodi Fayed.
The Prince of Wales, on holiday at Balmoral
with his sons William and Harry,
he has been informed.
Grimly woken in the middle of the night
with just the most awful news.
- Buckingham Palace spokesperson
has just announced that the queen and the Prince of Wales,
she said, are deeply shocked and distressed
by this terrible news.
♪
- At about 10:00, we suddenly got a phone call
to say, you may be bringing the body of the princess
back to Northolt with the prince.
[soft music]
And if there were ever one I wanted to make,
it was this one.
I'd flown the princess over 200 times.
So in a way, I was proud to do this trip, her final trip.
♪
When we got to Aberdeen to pick up the prince,
he didn't come up front.
He just sat down.
I didn't see him at all on the way out to Paris.
♪
When I first saw the coffin,
that's when really the sadness started to come in.
♪
You realize that that life had ended, and there it was.
It was horrific.
♪
I always remember taking off
into a wonderful golden sunset.
It was a moment I will always treasure
because it was her final flight.
♪
When we landed, I know, as he went down the back,
he thanked all the crew as he went back.
And I thought, that's the measure of the man.
After such a shocking day, he still had time
to do the thank yous as well.
♪
- One thing the public don't realize
is that during the last year of Diana's life,
Charles and Diana had reconciled as friends
and had actually managed to create this friendship
that they'd never created when they were married.
Charles was devastated when she died.
I mean, I heard that he spent hours in France
with her body, crying, and he was devastated.
And then he had to deal with his sons.
- He was terrified for his sons.
How would they cope without a mother?
How would the whole thing play out?
And I think he immediately recognized
that he probably would be blamed
for her death in some way.
- Does it smell?
- As an author, journalist, I just wanted to get
to get to the bottom of this man
who was born to be king.
That took a couple of years to pin down,
but it was a couple of years in which they gave me
very good access to him.
And I really got to know him.
- People thought that he was this dry, old stick.
The funny thing is, he's actually one
of the most emotional people I've ever met.
After Diana died,
Camilla's negative popularity was so severe
that it was actually almost dangerous
for her to appear in public.
And yet, he was determined
that she should be part of his life.
There was a very deliberate PR campaign
to make her acceptable to the world.
- He called in Mark Bolland,
who was a young, clever public relations guru,
to handle this operation Mrs. PB, as it was called,
to try to get acceptance of Camilla publicly.
[cameras snapping]
[tense music]
♪
Two years after Diana's death, the Ritz was the moment
when Camilla stepped out into the public limelight--
the flashes going off, the hundreds of photographers
on ladders and whatever outside.
It was Camilla's sister's birthday party,
and it was the first time
they'd been photographed together.
[cheers and applause]
- How much involvement did he actually have in it?
- I'm told that he planned this himself.
He decided enough was enough.
They're fed up sneaking around.
And tonight was the night.
- Everyone knew it was going to happen.
It was tipped off, and it was an arranged moment.
But it was a moment that allowed her
to step out in public.
- I believe that the British people were warming
to Camilla, but I think at that point,
I would have said that marriage between Charles and Camilla
was never going to happen
unless William and Harry accepted her,
very publicly accepted her.
♪
- The woman that Diana had been
crying her eyes out about--
and she called her Rottweiler--
very difficult then to get your sons,
the sons of Diana, to in any way warm
to this woman because they would have
had a particular image of her.
- But Charles went on,
and he proposed to Camilla anyway.
- Buckingham Palace has this afternoon
announced the engagement of Prince Charles
to Camilla Parker Bowles.
- There had remained great hostility
about Charles' relationship with Camilla.
Camilla was always the villain in the picture
as far as the tabloids were concerned.
[soft piano music]
♪
- Come down on the right please.
- What do you mean?
- What have we done wrong?
[laughter] - I'm coming up.
Give me your hand.
[grunts]
- They've got it very carefully planned, I see.
- Can I ask William and Harry
your feelings on the prospect of the marriage?
- Very happy, very pleased.
Be a good day.
- I think we all took that at face value.
And I would say that, for the public to see
that William and Harry accepted her went a good way
to jumping that hurdle.
- It was quite a long time until we actually heard
either William or Harry speaking for themselves.
♪
[upbeat music]
♪
- I believe that Camilla was very, very happy
to remain Charles' girlfriend.
I don't think Camilla was anxious to marry at all.
She wasn't interested in titles, or status,
or the clothes, or the palaces.
And she wasn't a snob.
- Camilla, on the day of her wedding,
had no idea what the public reaction would be.
On that morning, she had to be prised out of bed
because she was so frightened.
She didn't know whether she would be booed
and have rotten eggs thrown at her.
None of them had any idea.
- But I think Charles desperately wanted
somebody who is publicly at his side
to kind of do his job.
And she's proved to be very, very good with him.
He's a much happier person.
- If they want to get together, then that's OK.
- Good luck to him.
I suppose he deserves a little bit
of happiness now, doesn't he?
- He has to be allowed to live his own life.
- People's views began to change a little bit.
I don't think they loved her by the time
Charles and Camilla got married,
but they didn't hate her.
[soft music]
[cheers and applause]
♪
all: ♪ Save the queen
♪
- The first thing that surprised me
was that he's funny.
- There'll be snow for the higher ground
of the Highlands and Aberdeenshire,
the potential for a few flurries over Balmoral--
who the hell wrote the script?
As the afternoon goes on.
- I saw him absolutely in his pomp.
♪
He was finally in the marriage he wanted to be.
He was happy in his family life.
- Prince Harry is to marry his girlfriend,
the American actress Meghan Markle.
- I know she's not an aristocrat.
She's not from a European royal family.
She--I mean, she's thoroughly modern Meghan, you know.
She's everything perhaps we might not expect
of a royal bride.
- All the stars were aligned. Everything was just perfect.
It was this beautiful woman
just sort of literally tripped and fell into my life.
And the fact that she--
I know the fact that she'll be really unbelievably good
at the job part of it as well.
♪
- They recognized that Meghan was a huge asset.
Charles did see that.
And so I think Charles was genuinely
very welcoming to her.
- We're all absolutely delighted.
As you can see, they're so happy.
It's a real joy to have a bit of good news for once.
[cheers and applause]
- As far as I know, Charles fell over himself
to welcome Meghan into the royal family.
I have more reservations about William and Kate.
There seemed to have been some tension.
But the rest of the family--
I think Charles is utterly faultless
when it comes to his behavior towards Meghan.
I really do.
And they generally liked her.
I mean, that's what I heard anyway.
[dramatic music]
- What Meghan and Harry hadn't reckoned with
was two things really.
One was that the press, instead of welcoming her,
really were extraordinarily racist and misogynist.
It was shocking.
- My British friend said to me, "I'm sure he's great.
"But you shouldn't do it because the British tabloids
will destroy your life."
- But there was a culture clash.
To be a star in the Hollywood system
is always to be telling people what you want to do,
and to be a royal woman is always to be being told
what you can't do.
For her, that was a very rude awakening.
Meghan just wanted to be over there
and back in a world that she knows and understands.
Harry claims that there were
five different potential models
of how he and Meghan might continue
to work with the royal family:
The half in, half out model where they could have had
some kind of private, commercial existence
and still be doing royal duties.
- Harry honestly believed that he could
do six months here and six months there,
and they'll buy that.
It was a bit of a shock to him when the queen said, look,
I understand, you know, where you want to go,
and I wish you well.
But there was no way that the queen was going to buy that.
And so now he's been out on his own.
[dramatic music]
- Good evening.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex
have issued a personal statement saying
they will step back as senior royals
and work to become financially independent.
They made the announcement without consulting any members
of the royal family, a decision which is said
to have left the family feeling hurt.
Prince Harry and Meghan say they will continue
to fully support the queen, but now plan to split
their time between the UK and North America.
- If the queen had allowed Harry and Meghan to be
half in and half out, none of what happened later
would have happened.
And perhaps that was a mistake, but it wasn't Charles' mistake.
- But the failure to find something that worked
for everyone is going to haunt the monarchy
and Charles for a very long time.
- Towards the end of her life and the duke's life,
if there were any problems with regards to the way
that they parented, I think that was all put behind them.
Charles was talking to Philip
about his 100th birthday celebrations.
And he said, "I've got to make it first."
And of course, that was the last conversation
they had because he died almost probably out of stubbornness.
Because of course, the Duke of Edinburgh
once said that, you know, he couldn't think of anything
worse than reaching 100.
[shouting orders]
- Prince Philip was a remarkable man.
He and the queen were married, as we know, for 73 years.
And when a figure like Prince Philip
is removed from the scene,
of course it leaves a great void.
- The saddest sight was seeing the queen
during COVID burying her husband
and sitting all on her own.
Horrendous for her and for the family really.
- We have had news from Buckingham Palace
that the queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral.
[somber music]
- The Prince of Wales had to fly up to Balmoral.
The queen had taken a turn for the worse.
Obviously, Charles knew what was going to happen.
My understanding is, he'd gone mushrooming.
He'd gone with his box and his stick,
and gone into the wild woods, but obviously,
thinking that this was the moment that he
was going to become king.
It shows you even at that moment that he wanted
to be at one with nature, which I think
really sums up the king, somebody who is in harmony
with his environment.
[bell tolling]
- Buckingham Palace has announced the death
of Queen Elizabeth II.
♪
- And so the reign of Elizabeth II comes to a close
after 70 years at the age of 96.
Her son Charles is now king.
- God save the king.
all: God save the king.
- Queen Elizabeth's was a life well lived,
a promise with destiny kept.
And she is mourned most deeply in her passing.
That promise of lifelong service I renew to all today.
- He gave that speech that made us feel secure.
And I think we realized suddenly
there was a man, a very empathetic man,
who was going to lead us into a new, modern monarchy.
And I think we felt good about that.
♪
[tense music]
♪
- He's come to the throne in the teeth
of unprecedented challenges-- a cost of living crisis,
the breach with Meghan and Harry,
and, of course, the problems with his brother.
It looks like to be king is to have
pigeons come home to roost.
- Have you become an embarrassment, Prince Andrew?
- At the heart of the prince's current problems
is his 16-year friendship with this American businessman.
- Could you please give us your name?
- Jeffrey Epstein.
- My name is Grant Harrold.
And I was a royal butler to the Prince of Wales
between 2004 and 2011.
While I was there, one of the most difficult things
to hit the royal family in recent years
is Prince Andrew's relationship
with Jeffrey Epstein, him a convicted sex offender.
And then you got Prince Andrew giving an interview on it.
- That you were staying at the house--
- Yes. - Of a convicted sex offender.
- [sighs]
It was a convenient place to stay.
- It just was a disaster.
- I admit fully that my judgment
was probably colored by my tendency
to be too honorable.
- When Charles became king, he dealt very effectively
with Andrew and very ruthlessly.
He told him that he would never be a working royal again
or perform a public duty, which, as we know,
enraged Andrew, but it was what he had to do.
So in that case, Charles very definitely put
the interests of the crown first and quite right.
But Andrew is not his son.
- Harry's new book "Spare" contains salacious revelations
and shocking allegations that his brother Prince William
knocked him to the ground in an argument
linked to Harry's marriage to Meghan Markle,
Duchess of Sussex.
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- I got to know William and Harry
as well as I know my own family.
In all the years I was there, I didn't witness fallouts.
I didn't witness arguments. I didn't witness shouting.
These are things I didn't-- I didn't see any of that.
They were a happy family.
So that bit doesn't add up.
- It was given an air of being not quite ready
for parenthood-- the responsibilities,
the patience, the time.
Even he, though a proud man, would have admitted as much.
But single parenthood, Pa was never made for that.
To be fair, he tried.
- Harry thanked his father for the way
he walked his bride down the aisle.
He thanked his father for the way
he helped shape him as a man and his belief
in the environment.
So I don't really know where he suddenly
had this complete about-face on his father.
It certainly has upset the king, I mean,
because of course it would.
- With everything going on with Harry,
I don't know what made him change so much.
I look at him, and I just think--
I just--it's a very different character.
Something has happened.
Something has changed him
and made him very different.
- He was very close to his brother,
and he loved Kate.
He's changed a great deal.
And it's been since he married Meghan,
so draw the conclusion that you want.
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- The window display wasn't subtle,
but then again, nothing about this has been.
It is the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever.
- Diana is a central theme to his biography.
And I think that what Harry has reflected upon
is understanding that his mother was unhappy
for a lot of her life while married
because of the relationship
that her husband was having with Camilla.
- "We support you," we said. "We endorse Camilla," we said.
"Just please don't marry her. Just be together, Pa."
He didn't answer.
But she answered straight away.
Shortly after our private summits with her,
she began to play the long game,
a campaign aimed at marriage, and eventually the crown,
with Pa's blessing, we presumed.
- William and Harry weren't happy
about Charles and Camilla's marriage.
Camilla was the person who made
their beloved mother unhappy.
- I think that Harry finds it difficult to reconcile,
in a way, with his father because of that.
- I think that Harry is very like his mother.
And I think that there are parallels
in the way they have behaved.
I think what he's doing now is incredibly self-destructive
and destroying everything that he knew and loved.
- The main thing to understand about the Windsors
is they're a spectacularly dysfunctional family.
And why wouldn't they be?
They grow up in the strangest of circumstances
and always this kind of public eye looking in on them.
And they're also, not to forget,
always pitted against each other.
They're in competition.
- Now, how many book deals has Harry signed?
How many more programs have they still got to make?
What is selling those books is the dirt on the royal family.
It's not chicken rearing in Montecito.
So this could go on forever.
- At this moment in time, there's been polls done,
and the monarchy's popularity has dropped.
Charles, his popularity has dropped.
William and Kate's popularity has dropped.
Harry's popularity has dropped.
What does that say for the future of it?
And I don't think Harry realizes that maybe he started
a time bomb, which could actually
be the catalyst to actually destroying the monarchy.
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I think that one thing about Charles is,
he's very protective of the monarchy.
You know, the monarchy is everything, obviously.
And he wants to ensure that it continues,
like his mother did.
So if he feels that his son is going
to damage or affect her, he has to make the decision,
do I support my son?
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Or do I support the monarchy?
He will support the monarchy.
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