All language subtitles for Episode 01 The Girl From Norfolk

I was always different.
I always had this inside me that

I was going somewhere different.
Diana provided a very public

model for defeeyiance and
truthfulness.

She found her voice and
that’s why we continue to care.

She had this courage
engrained within her.

Pre Diana there was zilch
interest in the royal family.

Along comes Diana and boom, it
all changes.

Diana!
She was iconic.

She was box office.
Are you going to dance with

the Princess tonight?
If she’d like me to.

It was like having a rock
star join the family.

There was a kind of sense of
an i’m post tour syndrome.

I was a young girl but I was
a threat.

You see this vulnerability
but also this strength.

She was very keen to make
sure William and Harry

understood there was a life
beyond palace walls.

She wanted to help people who
were marginalized because she

said to me, i’m one of them.
There were two needy people

and they both needed what the
other was unable to giver them.

It was tremendous for me.
Any marriage prince Charles

might have made could never be
as strong as the relationship he

had with Camilla.
The lies, the deceit, boy,

was I troubled.
Looking back, you can see a

pattern throughout her life.
Isn’t it normal to feel angry

and want to change a situation?
Every single story has been

denied by the palace.
It’s not good.

I don’t think anybody in our
time has grown up in public like

Diana has.
I never anticipated i’d end

up in the history books.
Unique, the complex.

The extraordinary and ir
irreplaceable Diana.

I was able to recognize an
inner determination to survive.

People are seeing this as a
state occasion but weddings are

always very personal family
things, as well.

How do you think they put in any
personal touches to make it very

much your day?
I think inviting one’s

friends and all the people that
have helped us.

The very first time I
actually met lady Diana Spencer

was in Buckingham Palace in the
week before her wedding.

Must be enormous putting
together a guest list.

Well, I don’t know because
you have to take a few people

out or whatever.
It been quite difficult, my

side, anyway.
In that interview, it’s

really the first time the world
heard Diana speak.

Looking back on that, it’s not
only is it awkward but they

don’t seem to really know each
other.

They don’t necessarily know how
to answer and you’re thinking

this is a few days before your
wedding.

I find it really painful
watching the interview because

what Diana actually did was go
into the idea of marriage as a

total innocent.
In my immaturity, which is

enormous, I thought that he was
very much in love with me but it

wasn’t a genuine sort.
And for Diana to have a

fantasy of going into a
fairytale wedding and it working

out great, you hit reality with
a bump.

Will you have time for the
private life for making a home

and running a home sort of thing
that young married couples do?

Domestic ‐‐
are you looking forward to

making a home.
Oh, yes, very much so.

Looking forward to being a good
wife.

Gracious.
I have to say that because

you’re sitting there.

I’m sure you would hear me.
After we did the interview,

there was a moment when one of
the courts came and said Diana

would it be all right if we took
a photograph now.

No, not right now.
There was something more to

Diana but not the mash melrsh me
or play Doe that would be molded

into what they wanted.
In it was a book ever backackbon

knowledge of her own self.
You see this vulnerability of

dianna but also this strength
but you have to ask the

question, where does this came
from?

You only have to go back and
look at diana’s childhood to

find the answer.

Diana was born in Norfolk in

the east of england.
It was at that time still

with one foot in the 1950s.
The country people.

It will see wealthy land
owners there is a slight feeling

it’s at one remove from the rest
of the country.

Royalty is asoessociated with
Norfolk.

It’s where the family spends
every Christmas with the family.

They relax and go hunting and
shooting and picnicking.

Being in the country, there
were tall trees.

Diana had had a eyea quiet co
life.

You look at the early
pictures and see the country

girl, you know, in her cheeky
knits.

She’s swimming in the family
swimming pool.

She’s on bicycles.
It all seems to be very happy

and well.
But behind closed doors, it was

not a happy house.
Diana’s father was Johnny.

This man who would be Earl
Spencer and Francis, diana’s

mother had a difficult time with
Johnny.

For women of diana’s mother’s
generation or any one of her

posh friends, you’re supposed to
keep popping out male children.

When I married my husband, I
discovered this new word that

means that the first born son
inherits everything within these

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 the grief of

losing a child but the grief of
losing this child that her

husband so badly wanted.
18 months later after the death

of his precious little boy,
Diana was born.

Third girl.
I could not understand why I

was perhaps a nuisance to have
around, which in eight years I

perceived was being part of the
Sam, the child before me was the

son.
Then comes a third daughter, not

a boy.
We’ll have to try again.

So i’ve recognized this.
Diana is growing up with

feeling that she has already
disappointed her parents because

she wasn’t the right sex.
I didn’t give my parents what

they wanted.
I’m not good enough.

But Diana was determined to
prove everybody wrong.

She was thinking you can be
anything you want to be, you can

do anything you want to do as
long as you put your mind to it.

After Diana, another three
years and then a boy was born.

Johnny 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.
He punched my mother across

the face.
She was crying.

It was September in 1967 that
Francis, diana’s mother finally

told her husband Johnny that the
marriage was over and she was

leaving.
To have your mother just gone,

just left.
Nobody explains to you what

happens that makes any sense
because that’s not what that

family does.
All that she knows is there goes

mommy and she didn’t come back.
The support system for Diana

walked out and never really to
be seen again.

I hated the doubt.
I used to hear my brother cry in

his bed down at the other end of
the house crying for my mother.

She didn’t understand that
her mother had wanted her, had

hoped to take her with her.
She’d hoped to take all of her

children with her.
Diana’s own mother in a very

unhappy marriage left for very
good reasons, and was shunned in

society.
Ruth lady diana’s grandmother

who was a terrible snob was
appalled her daughter left 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

nannies, Diana was finally
packed off to a girls’ boarding

school called rid ded riddleswor
good morning, everyone.

Good morning Ms. Winter.
Diana was brought back by the

chauffeur and not by her dad or
mother.

I cannot imagine what it must
have been like.

Desks going down, windows
being shut, all the time.

Very poignant, very much there.
Diana wanted to be loved.

She wanted wholesome family type
love.

When she was a little girl, she
didn’t have control or power.

She must have felt she was
always struggling to find her

place.
Sure to begin the first team

school in New Hampshire, the boy
born to be king.

Prince Charles may well occupy
the desk once used by his

father.
Diana and Charles grew up in

pretty much the same world.
Yes, there is a 12‐year gap

between the two of them but they
were both send toe boarding

school at age 9.
It’s full on and it’s hard and

it’s strict.
Who is naturegnaw nurturing them

who is looking after them?
When Charles was sent to

boarding school, he was so home
sick he was seen weeping and the

only comfort he had was his
Teddy bear.

Teachers had no mercy for him
because they’re like you have

the wealthiest family in the
world.

I’m supposed to feel sorry for
you?

Sit down and shut up.
I think I know him well

enough to surmise it was
cribbingly

crippling awful.
He had a very unhappy

childhood and Diana was a victim
of her own desperately unhappy

childhood.
They were two needy people and

they both needed what the other

Prince Charles, the future
king of england becomes a

college freshman.
While Diana is at school,

he’s in university.
He’s meeting people.

Charles enjoyed his time at the
university.

First little taste of
independence and hadn’t had much

of that.
Though, for me, looking become

at the pictures of him, he
doesn’t look like your typical

student, does he, with his suit
and tie.

His bicycle e mackturned out.
Do you have any thoughts

about the lady prince of wales
should marry?

It’s difficult.
You have to remember when you

marry in my position, you’re
going to marry somebody that

perhaps one day is going to
become queen and you’ve got to

choose somebody very carefully,
I think.

Part of duty is ensuring a
marriage that will last, one

that will produce and despair
because that is what is expected

of you as a member of the royal
family.

Charles was a very complex
man.

He didn’t feel entirely loved or
appreciated by his parents.

He felt he could never please
them.

He could never win their
approval

approval.
Everyone bows or courtesies

to the queen.
Even her own children and

grandchildren when they first
see her during the course of a

day could call her your magesty.
The kiss from one cheek to

the other, a cold kiss, there
isn’t a lot of warmth.

Despite their surface
differences, young Diana and

young Charles are actually
pretty united.

The desire to feel safe, the
desire to control your

environment, the desire to be in
a solid structure all of that

goes back to i’mmperfect parents
unmaternal mothers, distant

fathers and the feeling of being
an unwanted child.

In 1975 diana’s grandfatherfa
e. R.

Earl.
They had to move to north

Hampton, the family seat.
That’s a truly great house.

It has 13,000 acres of wood land
and park land.

It has 90 rooms.
Having been on the honorable

Diana Spencer, she was the lady
Diana Spencer.

She skipped along the corridors
shouting I am now lady Diana.

She was someone to be
reckoned with.

The Spencers go back an awful
long way.

They were rich enough back in
the 1600s to lend money to the

monarchy.
Another ticket in the box to

say right, i’m now officially
part of this aristocrat I canwor

i’m one of you.
I have the title and my father

has the house.
And then Diana was sent to

another school called west
Heath.

It was a safe and a cozy
environment for Diana.

It is where her two older
sisters Sarah and Jane had gone

to school.

Here in the ballet class so

somewhere she could shine.
If you enjoy dancing, you can be

lost in ourself.
Great leaps and bounds.

Diana.
Left it to her dancing.

Every day.
It was quite formidable.

Yes, it was amazing.
Her legs.

All of her.
Part of diana’s

attractiveness at school is that
she was athletic.

She was gorgeous.
She had a lot of vitality.

So she may not have got taught
marks on her exam papers but she

got taught marks on the playing
field.

Other gillsrls really like her.
She wins best legs competition.

She was able to get along with
her friends.

All she wanted was security, and
a feeling of being validated and

appreciated and that’s something
she thought constant in her

life.
Life.

Diana you have to remember
lived on a diet of reomantic

novels.
She read but she didn’t read

anything of much substance.
She had this rowmantic notion in

her head she would read her
dashing prince like all the

stories she read.
She had like a school girl’s

crush own prince Charles.
I think she had a picture of him

in her bedroom.
At 15, Diana was already

beginning to project into the
future and plan her life and

marriage.
And she wanted somebody that

would not leave her an

While Diana is still at
school, Charles who is 12 years

older is in the Navy.
His nickname is action man.

Interpret that how you want and
he’s having a lot of fun.

All young princes seem to go
into military service and I

think it’s a hugely liberating
time for them.

They’re there with the boys and
lads together and womanizing

together.
How did you find it?

Charming.
Total enchantment.

When you’re the most sought
after man in the land you have

your piblgck of your beauties.
Why don’t you take advantage of

it?
He certainly did.

Women were fleeing themselves at
him.

We wanted to grab it so we’re
looking.

Like his money.
If you were younger, would

you consider him in that as a
sex symbol?

I suppose so.
It would be lovely.

Unveiled girl friends.
Sabrina and then Anna Wallace,

old hopes with a match of a
suitable foreign Princess.

Even Princess was considered a

candidate.
Diana is having a good time

at boarding school.
She’s safely tucked away and

then the life of prince Charles
actually begins to over lap with

that of Diana in the most extra
extraordinary way.

She receives news Charles is
dating her older sister Sarah.

This is the moment that Diana
realizes she’s not that far away

from the royal family.
At school, first day back, they

haven’t seen each other for
weeks and there was a lot of

chatter before class.
Diana, tell me about the

holidays.
Did you see Charles and Sarah?

What happened?
Let me know all.

Any young girl would have loved
to have been his girlfriend,

even more importantly, his wife.
In November 1977, diana’s eldest

sister Sarah invited the prince
of wales for a shoot.

Diana insists on going home.
I don’t think she wanted to

steal Charles from her sister
but I think she wanted to start

rubbing shoulders with the
absolute top level of English

society at the time.
And that’s the royals.

The night before, there was a
dinner and that was the first

time that she and Charles
noticeably met one another.

My sister was all over him.
I kept out the way.

I suspect that when she met
prince Charles that weekend, she

fell for him.
She went back to west Heath to

her school and newurtured dreams
about him in a way any teenage

girl nurtures dreams about a pop
star.

Sarah’s relationship came to
a grinding halt in the interview

with the press she says she had
no interest at all in marrying

prince Charles and not only
that, but he was merely one of

thousands of boyfriends.
Just giving an interview to the

press was completely
unacceptable to the royal

family.
You never do that.

I think he was extremely aware
that every woman he went out

with, he had to be able to trust
them.

Charles is quite tortured
about the future.

Everyone is looking at him
waiting for him to get married,

to continue the royal family.
He knows h

In the summer of 1979, Diana
came into money when she reached

18 and with it, she bought her
herself a nice flat in London in

the royal part of Chelsea and
invited school friends to come

and join her there.
Nice hanging out in the flat

with girls.
I love that.

Diana had a girl squad of
posh friends and they lived in

and played in what we call the
tiara triangle.

Basically, the poshest parts of
London.

Diana’s youthful life is a
circuit.

It’s a marriage market, and the
young ladies have to put

themselves in the way of
eligible young men at a range of

venues.
Polo matches, friends ss wedding

and parties, weekends away.
Shooting and hunting.

In the aristocrat world, a
arrestistocrats only hang out wi

aristocrats.
The women would play at having a

job.
Not a career like i’m going to

become a lur orawyer or doctor.
It was no, i’ll be a nanny or

nursery schoolteacher.
When Diana came to me as a

shy 18‐year‐old babysitter, she
had very little world

experience, none at all and she
was just wonderful with Patrick.

She sat on the floor with him
and was totally focused on him.

She worked at a nursery school
the days she was not working

with me.
One of her strongest

characteristics was she was very
tactile.

She wanted to hug people, reach
out and touch them.

That basic warm trusting loving,
caring personality was always

there.

Diana had this idea that she

was cut out destined, if you’d
like to be different.

To be something a little bit

special.
She becomes clear in her

goals.
Diana would use the kind of soft

power, very feminine power.
She realized despite not having

overt drive, overt ambition, she
had something else.

In the ’80s, still around a
arrestistocrat society and withi

the royal family, as a woman you
still wanted to be perceived as

unblemished, as virgin, as, you
know, not having a lot of gossip

around you.
There had been so many

wonderful young women in
charles’ life at that point but

it was expected of Charles to
marry someone that came from a

certain social strata that
checked all the boxes.

Yes, she was expected to be a

virgin.
In July 1980, diana’s life

begins to change dramatically.
Charles had been playing Polo

in Sussex.
Diana receives this

invitation and she immediately
packs her bags and goes.

And Charles was told she was
jolly, which meant she was a lot

of fun.
She’d make him laugh.

She was cute.
This was her opportunity at

this house party when they were
flown together, I think she sees

that chance with both hands.
Diana looks in the mirror and

says to herself, remember you’re
a Spencer.

There was a barbecue on the
night of the Polo and Charles

and Diana were sitting together
on a hay bail and Diana started

to talk about lord Baton who
died the year before and to tell

Charles how sorry she felt for
him.

Lord Baton was prince charles’
father’s uncle.

So he was a great uncle.
His death was devastating for

prince Charles.
He’s lost the one person in his

life who was a real father
figure to him, who would give

him advice and whom he would
actually listen to.

And Charles was so moved by this
young woman, her everyonempathy,

caringness.
And for Diana, Charles was

sort of prince charming.
She saw a sensitivity in him

that chimed with her.
She feels like a human being.

She’s list pingenlistening.
He writes poetry.

He tells her.
He plays the cello.

Nobody wants to know that.
She cares about him, as a

person.
Person.

Having initially thought of
Diana as his girlfriend’s little

sister, he looked at her with
new eyes and that was the

beginning of their relationship.
She was young.

She was aristocrat, titled, she
checked air will the of boxes

for a future king.
They were chaperoned when they

went to the races they did the
routine things in his royal life

in a very stayed and proper way.
Charles is pretty old school

in the royal family, you go
along with protocol.

Charles used to bring me out
and say would you like to come

for a walk?
Would you like to come for

barbecue?
I said yes, please.

I thought it was all wonderful.
January 1981 Diana is invited

to Princess margaret’s 50th
birthday party at the ritz.

If you get invited to that,
you’re in the family.

That was her stamp of approval.
Can you imagine what Diana is

thinking, the future king is
interested in me.

We’re meeting up at these super
posh society parties.

I’m being scene.
I’m on his arm.

And Diana was still a virgin and
I have to say, at this time, by

the 1980s, there were very few
arrestistocrat virgins around.

It was the fairlyytale come true
Diana came into work bright

and early Monday morning.
Said she had something important

to tell me.
When you go out to work this

morning, you will see our
reporters and photographers at

the end of the news.
They’re actually out there for

me.
And I said good heavens, Diana,

who have
what have you done?

She said I speak last weekend
with prince Andrew and she said

no, ac

What they describe as press
harassment ‐‐

it comes from scenes like
these, which occurred daily as

lady Diana leaves her flat ‐‐
you can’t overstate the role

of the media in diana’s royal
life.

She was a tantalizing target.
From 1980‐81, she was thrown

into the deepened.
You seem to be doing very

well.
Diana was straight out of

central casting.
She was young, blond and

gorgeous and intriguing.
She was iconic.

She sold newspapers.
She was box office.

And then it all starts to
build up.

The press were being unbearable,
following her every move.

Some reporters rented the
room opposite her flat to look

into her bedroom.
They climbed drain pipes and

pretended to be delivery men.
Every time she left the

building, she was followed.
She went to her car, and they

followed her on motor bikes.
Life began to be out of control.

Diana!
Is lady Diana Spencer, a

19‐year‐old kindergarten
teacher, really the one?

Where do you all come from?
Australian.

Bloody hell.
The handsome prince, told the

press they did not have their
happy ever after ending, at

least not yet.
At this point charles’ father

wrote to his son and said you
have to make your mind up about

Diana, you must either ask her
to marry you or let her go,

because you are going to damage
her reputation.

Charles misinterpreted his
father’s words and thought it

- was instruction 20
- to marry.
The relationship with his

father was frosty and tilted,
it’s very bad luck that Charles

thinks that what his father is
saying is you better marry this

lady, quick.
They had only met each other

on 13 occasions before they got
engaged.

On all of those oweccasions, the
had been other people with them.

It was not getting to know
somebody in a real way that

couples normally do.
There was very little intimacy.

I arrived at 5:00, and he sat
me down.

There was never any tack time
about him.

What every happened with
Charles was fantasy of how

people behaved.
She didn’t really know how

people behaved when they were in
love, and in a funny way Charles

was as far removed from the real
world as Diana was.

Anyway, he said will you
marry me, and he was deadly

serious, so I said yes.
He said, I love you so much.

I love you so much.
We ran upstairs and rang his

mother.
When Diana says yes at

windsor castle, she must have
been feeling that I have made

it.
I am the ultimate, right?

But on the other hand,
frightened, confused and bea

bewildered.
What have I just said yes to?

11:00 a. M., Buckingham
palace, the beginning of a day

to remember for prince Charles,
lady Diana and other people,

too, the long awaited
much‐written about engagement

had happened.
Now you were about to marry

the prince of whales and you
would in all likelihood be

queen.
It’s a tremendous change for

somebody the age of 19 to make
all of a sudden, the transition.

It is.
The run up to the last six

months, and please bear with me.
Can you find the words to sum

up how you feel today?
No words, really, just

delighted and happy.
I am amazed that she has been

brave enough to take me on.
And I suppose, in love?

Of course.
Whatever in love means.

Yes.
It obviously means two very

happy people.
Yes.

Congratulations.
Thank you very much.

As a viewer this was the most
ghastly moment.

Being asked about love or his
feelings in public was just

completely and utterly alien to
him.

This was a man who had grown up
internalizing everything, in a

very untactile family.
He did not want to answer the

question.
Questions that Diana was asking

herself, what do I need to be
for him?

What does the railoyal family ne
from me?

But what do I need from me as
well?

It was deathly calm.
I felt like I was a lamb out for

slaughter, and I knew it.
Here is the stuff of which

fairy tales are made.
Behind the scenes, a whole

different story was playing out.
She wanted to show Camila

that she was the prize.
Diana was taken and put into

a guilded cage.
What your heart wants is not