Chapter 48 3. Betrayed, or Missed?

With beauty and sorrow, with tons of flowers and condolences in front of Kensington Palace, with Elton John's tearful lament, on that day in 1997, the land of tolerance hosted England's most beautiful that rose... Diana came and went.As the most beautiful rose in England, she has returned to the beautiful atmosphere of fairy tales.Facing the test of time, it seems that she will become an eternal human legend, passed down for a long time... Surprisingly, amidst people's praise and memory, it seems that the power of the media and money has not let her go.There are still people who tell her stories with relish and dig out her secrets.She is mentioned again and again.Almost every year on her anniversary, when people commemorate her in Paris or Althorp, a memoir or two is published about her.Among the authors who reveal the secrets of Diana's life, there are her old lover Hewitt who she loved the most and who was hurt more, Burrell, her most trusted housekeeper, and her personal doctor, beautician, etc. Wait.Everyone is claiming that they are reversing the case for Diana, telling a more real Diana, and all of them, without exception, have been paid huge sums. The "Diana economy" continues, with her mother, Lady Frances Shand Kidd, angrily pointing out that her daughter has been betrayed by many.

Books about her are still bestsellers.The question is, after all the facts or "facts" are exposed in the sun, will the fairy tale still exist? Will people miss the eternally beautiful, young and healthy Diana? Hewitt first sold his love story with Diana when he wrote The Princess in Love in 1993.For this reason, he was unanimously spurned and despised by the British.British newspapers dubbed him "the love mole" and "Britain's most hated man". In 1999, he published another autobiography "Love and War", which featured his love affair with Princess Diana.The ex-lover at one point tried to sell his love story with the princess to a British tabloid, only to sell it to Australia after the tabloid withdrew its bid. In 2002, Hewitt was again selling Diana's love letters to him.

In 2000, Diana's private secretary Patrick Jefferson wrote a book called "The Shadow of a Princess - Diana, Princess of Wales 1987-1996".Jefferson served as Princess Diana's private secretary from 1987 until 1996, the year before Diana was killed in a car accident.This period of time was the ups and downs of the marriage between Diana and Prince Charles, so Jeffson heard and witnessed the ups and downs of the British royal family, and also knew many inside stories about Diana's marriage. Jefferson believes his purpose in publishing the book is "in memory of the late princess".All kinds of rumors after Princess Diana's death are not only very different from the facts, but also some are defamation of Diana's reputation.His book is a "true, unbiased account."

In 1998, Diana's personal doctor Simon Simmons published "Secret Years--Memoirs of Diana's Personal Doctor". In 2002, China Social Sciences Press published a Chinese translation.This book is one of the few books written about Diana that has been well received.In the book review, someone called it "a woman's interpretation of a woman".Simon Simmons was Diana's personal physician from 1993 to 1997.As a doctor, she is competent, and as a true recorder of Diana's mental journey, she is also competent.In the book, she also exaggerates her so-called supernatural medical skills, but more often she gets along with Diana as a patient listener and a considerate friend.

As the introduction of the book said, the Diana shown in the book is no longer the princess with a graceful appearance under the spotlight.She is also "a lonely woman who spends time on the phone; a relaxed and mischievous big girl; a caring socialite for the underprivileged; a competent mother; a demanding and sometimes moody friend..." Simon Simmons writes in the book: When I first met Diana in 1993, she was like a poor little animal, a swan that no longer wants to imitate the swan that glides across the water with regal ease.The swan was tired of the frantic fatigue that lay beneath the calm surface.In the public eye, cracks began to show.Her marriage turned out to be a tragic sham; James Hewitt, the lover she trusted and adored, betrayed her in public; Rejected trap.

Through the memories of her own pain and encounters, Diana was able to truly understand the trials and traumas of others.There is nothing artificial about her concern for people, and those who say that she intends to sanctify herself must be mistaken.No one forced her to work so hard for the charity, and most of the work was done in private.The rest of the royal family is always keen to keep in touch with various charities and other prestigious business groups.They offer nominal support and let their names dominate the headlines.With the possible exception of the devoted Princess Diana and the Duchess of Kent, royal "good deeds" appear to have focused more on festive feasts and pleasantries than on the neglected coalfields Working quietly and attentively is something Diana prefers to do.

In 2002, Diana's personal bodyguard Ken Wolfe broke years of silence and published "Diana: A Kept Secret".Wolff served as Diana's bodyguard from 1988 to 1993.He had a very good relationship with Diana and became one of her confidants.The book once again reveals a large number of details of Diana's emotional life.For example, the book describes the emotional development of Diana and the equestrian coach James Hewitt; it describes the first time that Diana saw Charles and Camilla's intimacy, and realized that her marriage had come to an end; Diana's grief when she fell into unhappiness in her marriage and the inside story of her attempt to commit suicide several times, and so on.Wolff was paid £250,000 for the manuscript.

The British royal family believes that this book contains many false statements, and publishing it on the fifth anniversary of Diana's death will cause many new contradictions.Prince Charles and Prince William were even more furious, accusing Wolff of "selling out secrets". Following this book, Diana's biography, written by Diana's former friend and beautician Judy Wade, was also published in October 2002.There are quite some explosive fragments in the book. Contrary to the princess who everyone is trying to praise, it seems to pay more attention to the shallow side of Diana's life.The book revealed that Diana said that US President Clinton was an "incredibly sexy" man, but she was not optimistic about Clinton's wife Hillary, and Diana said she was too "cold".

On the 6th anniversary of Diana's death in 2003, "Diana: Secrets and Lies" caused quite a stir in the UK.The cause of Diana's death deduced in the book is really shocking: it was the joint planning of Diana's death by British and French intelligence agencies! The cause of the accident varies.In the book, author Nicholas Davies claims that Diana and her millionaire boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, were apparently murdered by the British intelligence agency MI5 and the French intelligence agency DST.Davis said that the agents of the British and French intelligence agencies shot a white laser in the face of the driver Henry Paul driving at high speed in the tunnel, causing Paul to have a car accident because he could not see the direction clearly.

For all these books and statements about Diana, Diana's family finally couldn't keep silent. On the fifth anniversary of Diana's death in 2002, Diana's mother, Ms. Frances Shand Kidd, was interviewed by ITV.Frances said, I am very grateful that everyone keeps the memory of Diana in their hearts.But the commercialization now surrounding my daughter's death has gone too far beyond dignity and decency.They never considered the feelings of William and Henry's two children and other family members.We have a hard time accepting these. "The pictures of Diana plastered across the shop windows made me turn my head in painful disbelief," she said. "It seems that the desire to make money is endless and relentless, and sometimes I feel as if I am undergoing repetitive emotional surgery without anesthesia."

The family's anger did not stop the book from being published. Among the memoirs about Diana in 2003, the most dazzling is the new work "Royal Duties" by Burrell, Diana's most trusted housekeeper. After Diana's marriage to Charles fell apart, friends asked the princess what she wanted to salvage from the past decade-plus? She had one name on the paper: Paul Burrell. After divorcing the prince, Diana became more and more dependent on the manservant who had been by her side from the day of her wedding. In Angola, she was advocating for the anti-landmine campaign with only him as her confidant.She calls him her "emotional washer," and "she's always pouring out joy or sorrow to me, and then letting go of more emotions," Burrell said. When she died in a car accident in France in 1997, it was he who flew to Paris to arrange her funeral clothes and put the rosary beads given to her by Mother Teresa in her palm. In 1998, Burrell made a public statement: "I am honored and proud to keep Diana's secret, and I will always do so." After the accusation was kicked out of the royal family, he no longer chose to remain silent. In the interview after the publication of the new book, Paul revealed some super "crazy facts", such as the list of 9 people who pursued Diana after her divorce, Diana's sweetheart Hasnat Kahn, and Diana predicted her own love. Death, she never wanted to marry Dodi Fayed, etc. Paul's fondest memory of Diana comes from Bosnia, where he found a seriously ill and blind little girl hiding behind dusty curtains in a dilapidated cabin near Sarajevo. , he told Diana that he should go and see the little girl. "As soon as she saw the little girl, she took her into her arms and stroked her cheek. There was no cameraman present and no record was made. In fact, no one saw it except me. It was pure love, it was pure instinct. I think of that scene every time I hear people say that the princess does certain good things to attract attention." What does this new book bring him? The Daily Mirror has already paid £500,000 for the serialization. On October 27, the first edition of "Royal Duties" with a price of 17*9.99 pounds and a printing of 13*95,000 copies began to be distributed in major bookstores in the United Kingdom and the United States.On the same day, the book was sold out in the WHSmith bookstore chain; as of 11 am, another third of the inventory of Waterstone, another major bookstore, had been sold.Diana's former friend Rosa Monckton wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: "He (Paul) has joined the ranks of greedy ghosts who are chasing Diana's privacy and making money from her bones!" The British royal family is once again outraged.Charles and Prince William and Henry told Burrell to shut up, pointing out that it was a public betrayal of their mother.In the eyes of Diana's family, most of these biographies are desperately digging into Diana's private life, revealing her various secrets, and do not show her extraordinary life from a fair and objective standpoint.Therefore, Diana's sister Sara took the lead in organizing personnel, preparing to launch the first "official" biography of Diana in 2004, telling people a real Diana, and publishing many precious photos that have never been seen.It is reported that former South African President Nelson Mandela has written a preface for this biography. The biography, currently titled A Portrait of Diana, was commissioned by the Diana Charitable Foundation, and all profits from it will also go to the Diana Foundation. The biography will include a large number of wonderful articles, written by many relatives and friends who knew Diana, some telling the unknown story of Princess Diana, some commenting on Princess Diana's life, and others expressing their deep feelings for Princess Diana missing.In short, this biography "will present an important and enduring aspect of Princess Diana's life from a new perspective, telling people about her character, the historic philanthropy she advocated and engaged in throughout her life, and encouraging the British people Continue Diana's unfinished business with people overseas." Diana, who lost her soul in Paris in order to avoid being followed by reporters, would not know how she would feel if she had a spirit after death and knew all kinds of books.The dead are dead, the living are sad! Diana's ex-husband Charles and Princes William and Henry were angry at the publication of the biography.They have experienced too many betrayals.Every time a biography is published, they are always placed in the center of the media's attention again.Charles could only watch with heartache as those past events reappeared again and again.Can love and not love be forgotten? The pain of marriage, who would like to put it on display and be savored by the world? For William and Henry, the quarrel between their mother and father was already their childhood nightmare.When the mother's lovers were exposed one by one, and some people emphasized that their father had never loved their mother, their hearts were probably far more than anger and sorrow.After his mother died, the prince just wanted to get "a little bit of peace and harmony" away from the quarrels and hurts.It seems that this wish is a demanding one. For the royal family, secrecy is the code of conduct for the royal family. Diana's confession made the royal family never forgive.Today the royal family may understand that this is not Diana's problem alone.As royals, they are privileged and destined to be in the public spectacles, and the audience is always interested in knowing the secret history that was not known before.Privilege gives them freedom without scruples, they encounter more temptations, and they indulge their lusts more than ordinary people.But when these were put on display, they were outraged.What they were angry about was the betrayal of their servants, and they were saddened by the decline of the royal family's reputation.But it's definitely not just a matter of servant betrayal. Are the members of the royal family maintaining their own privacy or their own privileges? For the press and the public, press freedom can truly reflect all representative events.The public's right to know is the starting point of press freedom in western society.Media critics believe that "the public's right to know" must be combined with "public interests" to have legal justification.Under the principle of weighing the pros and cons and choosing the lesser of two evils, the privacy of some people (such as public officials and public figures) may be violated conditionally to ensure that the public interest is not damaged.Therefore, when discussing the issue of privacy, there is a concept of "public figure" associated with public interest. Diana, or other members of the British royal family, are undoubtedly public figures.Their every move is closely related to the public interest. Books about Diana are all-time bestsellers, and the enthusiasm of readers, that is, the public, is more out of nostalgia for Diana.They are willing to see the beautiful myth, and they are also willing to learn more about Diana's story and watch the real Diana being restored to life.As for whether this authenticity is reliable and whether it will destroy their good impression of English roses, they have their own choices. Those who write Diana's memoirs, except for out-and-out love betrayers like Hewitt, their purpose is divided between monetary interests and restoring a "real Diana" Proportion? After Diana's natal family accused these books of being commercial hype, how much suspicion would their own publishing have to bear? Regardless, Diana's memoirs continue to sell well, and people will forever miss this beautiful rose who died young.Love her, know her because of love, sympathize with her because of understanding, this is people's choice