Word: princess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While still married, she became involved with cavalry officer James Hewitt in a five-year affair that ended in the most humiliating way possible for any woman: Hewitt sold their story in a trashy account, Princess in Love, which was said to have left her heartbroken. Following Hewitt was an equally disastrous relationship with James Gilbey, which ended in scandal when a tabloid publication printed a tape of a private phone call between them. Then came a rugby captain, Will Carling, and then a prominent businessman, Christopher Whalley. Next, Diana was said by the tabloids to have fallen in love...
...Diana as the hunted, Diana as victim, that accounts for her phenomenal worldwide appeal. She is mourned by both men and women, but it's her significance for women that approaches the mystical. In Diana, the fairy-tale princess who was cruelly awakened to the world of hurt, betrayal and humiliation, women of all ages found a mirror image of themselves, however magnified and glamourized. In her ordeals, in the courage, stubbornness and idealism of her attempt to reinvent herself as an independent woman, women have found a model for themselves. It was this Diana, stronger for her own suffering...
...remembered, how she was kind. Others, even in their triteness, resonate with intriguing new meanings now that the arc of her life is completed. TIME has collected some of these fragments, personal reliquaries of encounters with Diana, to form an oral history, a profile of the people's princess in her own words and in the words of the people whose paths she crossed in her brief life...
Miss Diana had become Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales...
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...