Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talked of finding some way to continue her charitable work in private, while allowing more time with her sons William, 11, and Harry, 9. In light of the rumors of a break with the palace, Diana explicitly claimed to have the Queen's blessing. But she made no mention of her husband at all. "She pointedly excluded the Prince of Wales," observed Brian Hoey, author of several books on the royals. "What she's saying is that she has finished with him." By the time she sat down, she was blinking back tears...
This Thursday marks the first anniversary of the Waleses' official separation -- a year that has taken its toll on the entire family. Diana threw herself into her many charities, but she kept some distance from Buckingham Palace. It was hard to know who was dissing whom. The Princess was conspicuously absent from Trooping the Color in June and the Queen Mum's birthday in August...
Even as Charles seemed to regain his footing, with successful foreign trips, there came reports that the princess was falling apart. Diana grew suddenly allergic to the cameras that follow her everywhere. "You make my life hell," she yelled at a photographer who ambushed her outside a London movie theater. She spent more and more nights alone at Kensington Palace, watching TV. There were reports that she was once again suffering from bulimia. Last month she left a royal charity gala in tears: "a migraine" was the official explanation...
...curious way, Diana has grown more dependent on the reporters and photographers whom she lambasted last week. No matter what her standing at the palace, she remains the ubiquitous cover girl. She has cannily used writers and reporters to her advantage, particularly Andrew Morton, whose intimately sympathetic account of her collapsing marriage triggered the break a year...
...latest expose came on Nov. 7, when the Sunday Mirror published a series of photos, ostensibly taken through a hidden camera, of the svelte princess working out at London's LA Fitness Club. Though Diana lividly decried this invasion of her privacy, there were those who thought they saw a plant. The pictures were supposedly snapped sometime last summer; yet they mysteriously appeared on the front pages the very week that Charles was making a high- profile trip through Arab states. Diana appears utterly poised, even posed. Could she actually stoop to stealing the limelight that has always been hers...