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Before the engagement, Diana held a job. "It was through friends," she said, that she found work at the Young England kindergarten in central London. "I wanted to teach children, and they said, 'Well, why not come along.' So I first started off doing afternoons, and then I took over the mornings and did whole days...
...only worked three days a week at kindergarten," Diana told an interviewer. "The other two I looked after an American baby boy--which nobody seems to realize--who was very special...
...absolutely as happy as anyone could be," says Herbert. "But it was dawning on her just what she was getting into. The penny was very much dropping, and it daunted her." "The press were dreadful," says KAY KING, headmistress of the Young England kindergarten. "From the moment the first picture of her appeared at Balmoral until the time of her engagement, it was nonstop. She had no guidance from the palace, because they were trying to pretend it didn't exist...
...wedding approached, Diana, with Charles beside her, spoke on TV. Describing a gift collage from her kindergarten students, she said, "Oh, well, it's the firework display that's going to happen on Tuesday, the one that I'm not going to... I'm going to be tucked up in bed, I think, early night...
When we met her in 1980 she was shy Di, with the streaked pageboy and lanky limbs backlighted through the thin flowered skirt. She was all raw material, charm and skin and a curtsy, the kindergarten teacher who could cross the street without stopping traffic. She would never be a perfect beauty, so the fun was watching her become a great one, the bones and the bearing taking shape before the cameras, as though by an effort of will...