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...with the Queen. Al Fayed's younger brother Ali owns Turnbull & Asser, the prestigious tailor used by Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry. And al Fayed has long courted Diana and her parents; he put her stepmother Raine on the board of Harrods. Diana's father Earl Spencer, while dying, reportedly told al Fayed to "keep an eye" on the family...
...year, in 1980, when he was one year old," says MARY ROBERTSON, now of Morristown, N.J., but then resident in London, where her husband worked as an executive of an oil company. "I called an agency a friend had recommended. She came to us just as Diana Spencer. She did not tell me that she was seeing Charles. When she returned from vacation in September 1980, she talked with me one morning as I was getting dressed to go to work. We'd chat often; she'd stand in the doorway as I blow-dried my hair...
...interview just before her wedding to Charles, Lady Diana Spencer, then 20, said she had one musical request for the ceremony. "[I've asked for] one hymn, 'I vow to thee, my country,' which has always been my favorite since schooldays." Today, through the prism of her whole life, the words of its two stanzas are possessed of the awful poignancy of half-fulfilled prophecy...
...that first cover, we recognized that the glow about Lady Diana Spencer was not a trick of the light but a hint of the sensation she would become: "Center stage right now in history's longest running show is Lady Diana, who entered as an ingenue and was already a star before she got to the footlights." Shortly thereafter, on July 29, 1981, Diana stole one of the grandest shows of the century in a wedding that marked her as both impossibly glamorous and a kind of universal Every Woman. TIME wrote in its walkup to the nuptials: "This wedding...
...moment examine the nature of Diana's fame. One might call it a collateral celebrity, because it relied on no discernible contribution (except to the gaiety, and now the grief, of nations). Lady Diana Spencer attracted the love of the introverted heir to the English throne. And that was all. Brightness of eye, whiteness of tooth, a colluding smile, a certain transparency, a vividness, an exposed vulnerability: it was enough for him, and it was enough for us. Madonna sings. Grace Kelly acted. Diana simply breathed. She was a social-page figure who became a cover girl. One can soberly...