Diana (44 page)
Authors: Bill Adler
March 3, 1995: Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband, Andrew, divorce.
August 1995: Newspapers report a romantic link between Diana and Will Carling, captain of the
English national rugby team. Carling and his wife, Julia, announce separation on September 29.
November 20, 1995: BBC broadcasts Diana’s first solo television interview, in which she admits her affair with Hewitt, excoriates the royal family, questions Charles’s fitness to be king, and says she does not want to divorce.
November 24, 1995: Buckingham Palace announces that Diana will spend Christmas with them at Sandringham Estate.
December 18, 1995: The Palace announces that Diana has changed her mind and made private Christmas plans, but that William and Harry will join their father.
December 20, 1995: Queen Elizabeth urges the Prince and Princess to divorce.
February 28, 1996: Diana announces she has agreed to divorce.
January 13, 1997: Diana visits Angola with the Red Cross to decry the use of land mines.
Summer 1997: Diana is romantically linked with millionaire Dodi al-Fayed, son of the man who bought Harrods of London.
August 31, 1997: Diana and Dodi are killed in a violent car crash in Paris.
September 6, 1997: Virtually the entire civilized world watches Diana’s funeral, which is televised from Westminster Abbey.
Copyright © 1999 by Bill Adler
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997
Diana: a portrait in her own words / edited by Bill Adler.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-688-17003-X (alk. paper)
1. Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997 Quotations.
2. Princesses—Great Britain—Biography Quotations, maxims, etc.
I. Adler, Bill. II. Title.
DA591.A45D531334 1999
941.085’092—dc21
[B] 99-15270
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