The royals - Kitty Kelley [279]
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Diana and her mother, Frances, who left Diana’s father to marry Peter Shand Kydd. Accused of adultery, Frances lost custody of her children when her mother, Lady Ruth Fermoy, testified against her in the divorce.
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Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, who inherited his father’s title, was known in the press as “Champagne Charlie.”
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Diana is estranged from her older sister, Jane, who is married to Sir Robert Fellowes, the Queen’s private secretary.
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The young Princess of Wales in the fat and thin stages of bulimia before she conquered the disease and put herself under the fashionable tutelage of British Vogue.
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The glamorous Princess became the most photographed woman in the world.
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Diana becomes the first member of the royal family to touch a person suffering from AIDS.
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“I am a humanitarian figure,” said Diana during her 1997 visit to Angola, “always have been, always will be.” After visiting amputee children, she criticized governments for continuing to manufacture lethal weapons and called for a worldwide ban on land mines.
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“My biggest thrill,” said Diana after dancing with John Travolta, the star of Saturday Night Fever, at the White House in 1985.
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“The Prince nearly fell out of his chair,” said the Royal Ballet’s Wayne Sleep after Diana leapt on stage at Covent Garden in a white satin slip to surprise her husband. She had secretly rehearsed a dance routine that she performed in front of 2,600 people who had never seen royalty slink seductively across a stage. Charles later said her “exhibitionism” embarrassed him.
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After Diana found out about her husband’s affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, she began her own love affair with Army Major James Hewitt.
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Diana with art dealer Oliver Hoare. Newspapers reported that for eighteen months the Princess peppered the married man with anonymous telephone calls and screamed torrents of abuse at his wife.
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England’s rugby captain Will Carling, another married man who became close to the Princess of Wales. His wife threatened to name Diana in a divorce suit for adultery.
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British car salesman James Gilbey, whose telephone conversations with Diana were secretly recorded by a mysterious third party. In one transcript, Gilbey reassures the Princess, whom he calls “Squidgy,” that she won’t get pregnant.
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“I never looked better,” said Sarah Ferguson of her July 23, 1986, wedding to HRH the Duke of York, the Queen’s favorite son.
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“At one point, I weighed 250 pounds. I’ve always had a weight problem,” said the Duchess of York, also known as Fergie. “I’d work out, but then I’d eat ten sandwiches with gooey mayonnaise.” She later lost 100 pounds and became the spokesperson for Weight Watchers International.
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“Glamorous at last,” exclaimed Fergie in 1991 after months of strenuous dieting. Like the Princess of Wales, she, too, took lovers outside her marriage. Her excuse: her naval husband’s absence. “He was away at sea all the time,” she said. “But he’s still my bestest friend.”
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Texan Steve Wyatt was “the love of my life,” Fergie admitted. She was five months pregnant when they met. “He bored everyone to tears,” said the columnist Taki, “by talking about diets and good karma and the rest of the bullshit modern Americans