Quotes from Andrew Morton

Diana said: "Guess what, I'm going on a shooting weekend to Sandringham." Lucinda replied: "Gosh, perhaps you are going to be the next queen of England." As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked: "Beryl, I doubt it. Can you see me swanning around in kid gloves and a ballgown?

But the ones who were there at the beginning are the ones that rumble a lot.

I have learned much over the last years. From now on I am going to own myself and be true to myself. I no longer want to live someone else's idea of what and who I should be. 'I am going to be me.

It was a childhood where she wanted for nothing materially but everything emotionally.

With five emperors, eight kings, and four imperial dynasties rendered obsolete by the conflict, there was never a better time to emphasize that the newly minted House of Windsor—George V changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg und Gotha in 1917 to deflect anti-German sentiment—remained the unchanging keystone in the edifice of an empire upon which the sun never set. The

On one occasion she agreed to pose for photographs on the condition that she would then be left alone. Unfortunately during the photo session the light was behind her and made her cotton skirt seem see-through, revealing her legs to the world. "I knew your legs were good but I didn't realize they were that spectacular," Prince Charles is reported to have commented. "And did you really have to show them to everybody?

While Diana and her mother started planning guest lists, wardrobe requirements and the other details for the wedding of the year, the media vainly attempted to discover her hiding-place. The one man who did know was the Prince of Wales.

She was a hostage to fortune, held captive by her public image, bound by the constitutional circumstance of her unique position as the Princess of Wales and a prisoner of her day-to-day life.

We (the royal family) are not supposed to be human.

Soon they would be together forever, the subterfuge and deceit ended. It was nearly time to let the world into their secret. The night before the engagement announcement, which took place on February 24, 1981, she packed a bag, hugged her loyal friends and left Coleherne Court forever.

When she looked at a rose she savoured its beauty, they counted the petals.

The quest of the handsome prince was complete. He had found his fair maiden and the world had its fairytale.

This needs a woman's touch', was her common refrain. Her view in essence was that so many issues and problems in a male-dominated world derive from the aggressive, secretive and often insensitive masculine ego. Problems could be more effectively addressed, she felt, when female qualities, as she saw them, of intuition, compassion, compromise and harmony were added to the equation.

She went out a girl, she returned home a woman.

They were telling me 'pills'! That was going to keep them happy – they could go to bed at night and sleep, knowing the Princess of Wales wasn't going to stab anyone.

In April 1983

For all their privileges, their legions of servants, their chauffeur-driven cars, private yachts and planes, they are prisoners of society's expectations and puppets of the system.

so many issues and problems in a male dominated world derive from the aggressive, secretive and often insensitive masculine ego.

To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell 1777-1844 Inscription on the gates of Kensington Palace in the days of mourning before the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales

He'd found the virgin, the sacrificial lamb, and in a way he was obsessed with me.

For as long as there are poets, playwrights and men with hearts to break, tales will be told of the princess who died across the water and returned home to be crowned a queen, the queen of all our hearts.

What they say behind my back is none of my business, but I come back here and I know when I turn my light off at night I did my best.

The crowds made it painfully obvious who was the new star of the show--the Princess of Wales. Charles was left apologizing for not having enough wives to go round. If he took one side of the street during a walkabout the crowd collectively groaned, it was his wife they had come to see. "I seem to do nothing but collect flowers these days," he said. "I know my role.

If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion.