The Day Diana Died by Christopher Andersen

Author:Christopher Andersen [Andersen, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Andersen Productions
Published: 2017-06-27T22:00:00+00:00

By the summer of 1997, Diana was able to put all her bitter feelings about Charles behind her. “Her love for him never really died,” her friend Natalie Symonds said. “Diana seemed to have only good memories of their years together.”

Relations between the two had warmed to such an extent that Charles and Diana were planning to make their first public appearance together since William’s Confirmation the previous March. The royal yacht Britannia was about to be decommissioned, and Charles was scheduled to board the ship at Cardiff as part of its farewell tour around Britain. When he called with an invitation for Diana and the boys to join him, she accepted on the spot. “They were both very excited,” said a Kensington Palace staffer, “about being seen in public as a family again.”

On the morning of August 30, Charles sat in his study at Balmoral and dashed off a note to Diana on the Queen’s letterhead. Headed “My Dearest Diana,” the note dealt with their mutually agreed-upon plan to have Harry, seemingly less academically gifted than William, stay an extra year at Ludgrove before joining his brother at Eton.

He signed the letter “Lots of love, Charles,” and then put it in the Royal Family’s internal mail system. A courier picked up the note at Balmoral and took it to Prince Charles’s offices at St. James’s Palace in London. From there it was to be delivered to Kensington Palace.

“Make sure this goes straight out,” Charles said as he handed the envelope to a secretary. “I want Princess Diana to have it on her desk when she returns from her holiday. First thing Monday morning ...”

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