the British horizon. It seems a little sad now, taking this astonishing lady´s choice of intensely romantic novel material, that fate had chosen her to be so deeply involved in probably the ultimate and most royal of romantic trajedies of the era. I later pondered on how important it was to the relatively ingenuous Diana to keep her father all to herself and share him with no one other than a woman of her choice. In those early days however, how could anyone have imagined that this shy, introverted, girl would become who she did or that the world would bow at her feet. When did the new foster mother know ? When did Diana´s mother find out ?
It was the shock of dawning realization that dazed me when a close friend of her family and Godmother of one of her sister’s children bamboozled me affectionately about what was what. She did not actually tell me what was going to happen, although she teased me about it much later and after it had been released publically – “No” I had said,” genuinely horrified, No. Not under any circumstances. It just wouldn´t work… .” Of course it will, you will see”. Even now I ask myself what I saw in Diana which told me that it was a ghastly mistake. When she asked what I thought of the picture of the just married Prince Charles bending over his bride showing his well outlined back view, I told her it was contrived and in bad taste and as bad as the one on his bodyguards shoulder in swimming trunks all those years before. I was beginning to get a whiff of romance on demand and realized just how problematic it was going to be to frame this reluctant Prince in accordance with customary protocol. As one of the first and youngest members of the newly incorporated Institute of Public Relations I itched to