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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.

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- Squadron Leader Graham Laurie.

I've flown him 760-odd times.

- Petronella Wyatt.

I've known Camilla, the Queen Consort,

since I was 17.

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- 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.

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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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- 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.

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- 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.

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[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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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- 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.

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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.

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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.

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[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]

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- 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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- 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.

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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]

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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.

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- 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.

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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.

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And I was knifed because it was a quote from me.

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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.

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- In the late '70s, there was a development

when it came to Camilla and Charles.

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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.

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- 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.

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- 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.

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- 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.

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- 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.

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[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.

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♪

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.

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- 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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