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...marriage has been so thoroughly dissected that it can be understood only in retrospect. "I think," said Diana in her riveting 1995 interview on BBC television, "like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents, like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work, and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately wanted it to work. I desperately loved my husband, and I wanted to share everything together. I thought that we were a very good team... Here was a fairy...
...that not all was well. In December she danced onstage at the Royal Opera House to the surprise of the audience--and Charles, for whom the performance was a Christmas gift. Says WAYNE SLEEP, who partnered her onstage: "We took eight curtain calls, and as we left the stage, Diana turned to me and laughingly said, 'Beats the wedding...
...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...