Diana (8 page)

When Charles suggested that she should become better informed so that they could have more intelligent conversations, she retorted, “The whole world thinks I’m fine just as I am. That ought to be enough for you.”

She once told Charles: “You look like a stiff. You embarrass me in front of my friends.”

During her first pregnancy, she said, “I cannot tell you how bloody awful it is. They call it morning sickness. But I feel sick all the time.”

After her second pregnancy was under way, she said, “I haven’t felt well since day one. I don’t think I’m made for the production line.”

At a charity function in 1989, she told a dinner companion: “I want to have three more babies, but I haven’t told my husband yet.”

“My husband knows so much about rearing children that I’ve suggested he has the next one and I’ll sit back and give advice.”

“[Charles] ignores me everywhere and has done so for a long time.”

She once told Charles: “The boys are entitled to happiness and see their father when they need him, not to be told he’s running another meeting
for the Crisis in Britain League. I need to get away from my royal duties, too; so do you.”

Diana discussed the 1994 Jonathan Dimbleby biography of Prince Charles with Peter Stothard, London
Times
editor: “Do you know that it originally was supposed to contain nothing about our relationship at all? How were readers supposed to think that the [children] came? By immaculate conception?”

She told Charles: “My duty [as a mother] lies above my duty to you.”

The Palace insisted that Charles be at Diana’s side after her father died, although she’d intended to leave Charles and their two boys behind. “Why are they bothering about him ignoring me now? He’s been ignoring me for years already.”

In 1991, she still told most friends that Charles was “the same man today as on my wedding day.”

“However bloody you are feeling, you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.”