Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about 1987, humor could do little to hide the estrangement. MAINHARDT GRAF NAYHAUSS, a German aristocrat, remembers a party in the Waleses' honor at the German embassy in London. "Diana wore a long red dress," Nayhauss said in a German tabloid. "Around midnight the Munich In crowd was rocking like crazy... Di [was] really with it. She seemed to like the informality of it all. Out of breath from the music, she asked the disc jockey to play something slower. She turned to go back out on the dance floor." But there was a "certain sadness about her," Nayhauss adds...
...Diana tried to preserve a clearly doomed match. "We both liked people," she would later say. "We both liked country life. Both loved children, work in the cancer field, work in hospices." But, says Peter Janson, who occasionally joins the Prince at hunts and last saw the princess earlier this year, "everything he liked, Diana didn't like. Horses and dogs sort of scared her. She couldn't stand the people he had around him, always hunting and shooting. She liked the lights. She liked fashion and music. But a five-mile trek around Balmoral...
RICHARD BRANSON, founder of the Virgin music-and-airline empire, remembers that Diana could grow pointedly funny about symbols of royalty. "She would often take the mickey out of Charles and the royal family," he recalls. "Once at a dinner party, a guest said to Diana, 'I know you don't like dogs.' 'Oh, no,' said Diana. 'It's not dogs I don't like; it's corgis. They get the blame for all the farts.'" Corgis are the breed usually associated with Queen Elizabeth...
...Diana was done with discretion, both politically and emotionally. She said at one point, "I mean, once or twice I've had people say to me that, you know, that Diana's out to destroy the monarchy, which bewilders me, because why would I want to destroy something that is my children's future? I will fight for my children on any level in order for them to be happy and have peace of mind and carry out their duties...
...even as she saw herself as an angel of mercy, Diana was also the world's most famous divorce. Everyone wanted to know, what she would do next. She recruited freelance photographer JAYNE FINCHER to advise her on how to handle photos and to deter intrusion by the photographers who stalked her. Says Fincher: "Several other photographers were in fact also helping Diana with this problem. It was getting out of control. The paparazzi would abuse Diana, physically and verbally. With no policeman on hand, they would push the lenses right up to her face and obstruct...