The royal spoke to Andrew Morton for his 1992 bookDiana: Her True Story,where she shared the struggles she experienced as she navigated life with a newborn heir.
Diana said that she would worry about her husband,Prince Charles: “If he didn’t come when he said he was coming home I thought something dreadful had happened to him. Tears, panic, all the rest of it. He didn’t see the panic because I would sit there quietly.”
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Tim Graham/Getty Images
“Endless pictures of the Queen, Queen Mother, Charles and William,” Diana said. “I was excluded totally that day. I felt desperate, because I had literally just given birth – William was only 6 weeks old. And it was all decided around me. Hence the ghastly pictures.”
She added, “Everything was out of control, everything. I wasn’t very well and I just blubbed my eyes out. William started crying too. Well, he just sensed that I wasn’t exactly hunky-dory.”
Prince Charles, Prince William and Princess Diana.
Prince William, Princess Diana and Prince Charles.Tim Graham/Getty
InDiana: Her True Story,the royal revealed that she felt such enormous pressure from the media surrounding the birth of her first child that she was induced – but they had to pick a day that didn’t interfere withPrince Charles‘ polo schedule.
“When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo,” she said. “William had to be induced because I couldn’t handle the press pressure any longer, it was becoming unbearable. It was as if everyone was monitoring every day for me.”
Princess Diana added, “Anyway, the boy arrived, great excitement. Thrilled, everyone absolutely high as a kite – we had found a date where Charles could get off his polo pony for me to give birth. That was very nice, felt grateful about that!”
source: people.com
