Biographie

Once referred to Queen Camilla as a rottweiler.

She was a close friend of Michael Jackson and Elton John. "Candle in the Wind", John's song about Marilyn Monroe, was changed to fit her, and performed by him at her funeral. Coincidentally, both women died at age 36.

Told an intimate friend that, while walking down the aisle in Saint Paul's Cathedral, she thought about turning back like "Elaine" did in Le lauréat (1967).

When Diana went to the LA Fitness Centre in Isleworth, the owner Bryce Taylor planted a camera and caught her exercising in a leotard. The photos were sold for over £100,000 to The Mirror. They printed them saying they were exposing the lapse in royal security, but Diana didn't buy the explanation and took them to court. They reached an out-of-court settlement. This incident impelled Diana to withdraw from public life.

Invited Supermodel Cindy Crawford to Buckingham Palace for dinner, when Prince William of Wales had a secret crush on the model.

[interview in "Panorama" magazine, 1995] There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

My role is about 80% slog and 20% fantastic.

If I'm going to comfort the suffering, I have to understand what they've been through.