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Administration: Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Breena Clarke, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Lina Lofaro, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...
...Campbell's book Diana is the schemer and Charles the hapless one: "She knew he wasn't a scrap interested in her, but she also saw that he was vulnerable." Diana got herself invited to royal occasions by making friends with Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret's daughter. Whatever the reality was, Diana expected that when they were married, her husband would devote a great deal of time to her. She was cruelly disappointed. Charles was chilly, his routine masculine and inflexible...
...birth of Prince William in 1982 brought the couple closer together; Prince Harry's arrival in 1984 did not. Charles wanted a girl and, according to Morton, even objected to the infant's "rusty hair," a Spencer family trait. The couple were now battling constantly. Drama came naturally to Diana. Charles loathed confrontation, and his retreat to a virtually separate life in Gloucestershire, not far from Parker-Bowles, began...
...while Diana pined and battled weight loss. Then around 1986 she got effective treatment for her disease and, through Fergie and Prince Andrew, consulted an astrologer. The celestial message was simple: Do something positive with your sufferings. She did and, as Campbell says, "the Royal Family's answer to Mother Teresa . . .Diana the Good was born." Always magic in public, Diana turned much of her attention to charities involving the suffering, the dying. Her work has transformed her image from a lovely clotheshorse to a unique figure: a woman who uses her glamour and power to help others...
What empire? Diana is the dominant partner in what is left of the marriage. In avoiding her, Charles has to a degree withdrawn from his sons. The boys palpably adore their mother, who lavishes time and affection on them. Was the Morton book not the impetuous blowout it seems to be but a prelude to divorce? In her more florid moments, Diana has said she may never be Queen. (A current story around London is that if Elizabeth II lives another 20 years, Charles may stand aside in favor of William.) But Diana has reportedly told the Queen she would...