Diana's Nightmare - The Family (28 page)

Puppy Love: Diana was noticeably chubby at the time of the royal engagement in 1981. As she posed with Charles at Buckingham Palace, it was also apparent that she was taller than her husband-to-be and that the hem of her blue Harrods dress had been hastily lowered. (
Alpha
)

Slenderella: Painfully thin and tense, Diana nevertheless attended the Birthright Ball in 1989 as her marriage to Prince Charles disintegrated. (
Dave Chancellor/Alpha
)

The Kiss-Off: Two pictures capture the love that turned to scorn in the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Diana fondly embraces Charles after a polo match at Windsor Great Park in 1987 but she deliberately avoids his lips during their State visit to India in 1992. (
Rex Features
)

(
above left
)Robber Baron: Prince Charles allows his son William to be photographed with Robert Maxwell, the crooked Daily Mirror publisher, at an air display by the Red Devils in June 1985. The picture shows how close Charles had grown to the robber Press baron. (
Daily Mirror
)

(
above right
) Shopafrolic: Diana enjoys nothing more than taking her sons William and Harry into the High Street for a casual day's shopping under the watchful eye of Inspector Ken Wharfe, the royal bodyguard. (
Dave Chancellor/Alpha
)

(
above left
) Trunk Call: Charles keeps some distance between himself and Camilla Parker Bowles during a polo meeting before their affair was exposed in a late-night phone call. (
Rex Features
)

(
above right
) Deb's Delight: The Hon. Mrs Rosalind Shand and her eldest daughter Camilla pose in front of a family portrait at her coming out party in March 1965 before her first meeting with Prince Charles led to romance. (
Desmond O'Neill
)

(
above left
) Fond Blonde: Charles embraces Lady Tryon, the Australian friend he calls Kanga, after a polo match. He confided his feelings for Camilla to her during his troubled marriage. (
Alpha
)

(
above right
) Battle Front: Looking terribly strained, Camilla bites her lip as she faces the camera before the El Alamein service at Westminster Abbey prior to the break-up of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1992. (
Daily Mirror
)

(
above left
) Galloping Major: Princess Diana coyly rests against an armoured vehicle while Major James Hewitt enjoys a private joke during the time he was giving her riding lessons. (Les Chudzicki)

(
above right
) Pedal Power: A worried James Gilbey arrives by bicycle at the British Grand Prix in April 1993 after the notorious Squidgy phone call had attracted interest in his friendship with Diana. (
Daily Mirror
)

The Work: Princess Diana comforts William Drake, a patient at the London Lighthouse AIDS Centre in July 1992 after the publication of Andrew Morton's book revealed the heartache of her private life. (
Reuter
)

The Presence: Resplendent in a diamond-encircled sapphire set in a seven-strand pearl choker, Diana follows her friend the Hon. Rosa Monckton into the midsummer cocktail party at Tiffany's in Mayfair on 30 June 1993 - the eve of the Princess's thirty-second birthday. (
Alan Davidson
)

(
above left
) Turning Point: Diana called the Queen 'the best mother-in-law in the world' and just before the birth of Prince William in 1982 they presented a united front on the balcony of the royal pavilion at Smith's Lawn - even if they were looking in opposite directions. (
Alpha
)

(
above right
) Joint Favourites: Diana and the Queen Mother enjoy Derby Day at Epsom racecourse before Charles's grandmother began to unsettle the Princess with her 'strange looks'. (
Sporting Pictures
[UK])

(
above left
) Devoted Couple: Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh provided this charming profile for Karsh of Ottawa in 1951. Elizabeth succeeded the throne a year later and she made her husband The Prince Philip in 1956. (
Camera Press
)

(
above right
) Prince's Pin-up: Cobina Wright Jnr, an American film star, enchanted Prince Philip of Greece when they met before his romance with the King's daughter. They have remained close friends for more than fifty years.