Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Morton's is the headliner because his sources include Diana's brother Charles and Carolyn Bartholomew, a close friend. It may be that the impetuous princess, despairing of the prince's love, got sick of all those saccharine tomes and decided to get her real story out. The result is avidly pro-Diana. But was it worth it -- publicizing the distasteful bouts with bulimia, the pitiful suicidal gestures, the shouting matches in which she shows up as a fishwife...
...outlines are clear enough. Neither the prince nor the princess got much parental love. The best part of Morton's book is the simple, affecting account by Diana's brother of their childhood, ruptured when their mother ran off with another man. Prince Charles saw his mother an hour a day -- 30 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes at night. If she was around...
Charles dithered his way through a lengthy list of girls, some suitable, some not. But Camilla Parker-Bowles, one that got away early and married another, has remained his very dear friend -- and Diana's nemesis. In Morton's book she is depicted as a schemer, vetting the prince's girls, not for their potential as royals but "to see how much a threat they posed to her own relationship." When the naive Diana said she didn't enjoy hunting, Camilla, a horsewoman, brightened at once. Then there was the discovery of Fred and Gladys -- the pet code names...
...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...
...most- admired, most-beautiful and most-popular royal lists. Closer to home, that is not the case. If her husband admires her efforts for AIDS victims and drug addicts, he keeps it to himself. By her in-laws, she is watched "in doubtful and often jealous silence," writes Morton. "The world judges that she has dusted off the dowdy image of the House of Windsor." But inside it, "she is seen as an outsider and a problem. She is tactile, emotional, gently irreverent and spontaneous." Adds Davies: "Basically separated from her husband and most of her royal in-laws...