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(bodyguard, only survivor of car wreck that killed Princess Diana)","Trevor Rees-Jones suffered severe facial injuries in the crash that killed Diana.","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070730/diana_where_are_they_now/070730_whereRthey_rees_jones.vmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "left", "Michel Euler", "AP file", "298", "191", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
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THEN
When Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed jumped into a Mercedes on the early morning of Aug. 31, 1997, and headed out into the Paris streets with paparazzi in full pursuit, they were accompanied by two men. One was the driver, Henri Paul, and the other was a bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones.
Rees-Jones, a 29-year-old former paratrooper employed by Egypt-born tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed as “Dodi’s shadow,” was the only one to survive.
Paul, who was drunk, would die, along with the princess and Fayed, when he lost control of the car and it crashed into a concrete support in the Pont d’Alma tunnel. Rees-Jones reportedly was the lone occupant of the car to be wearing a seat belt.
Rees-Jones suffered head injuries so severe that he did not emerge from a coma until 10 days later. His face was flattened, and famed surgeon Luc Chikhani had to reconstruct his fragmented skull using family photographs. The doctor, according to London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, said he had never seen so many fractures on a man who was still alive, and used about 150 pieces of titanium to hold the bones together.
NOW
Investigators were anxious to interview Rees-Jones and get his perspective on the fatal crash. But they were to be disappointed -- the former paratrooper said he remembered nothing of the accident or the three or four minutes that preceded it.
Eventually, he was released from hospital and resumed light security duties with his employer. His job was not to last long. Mohamed Al Fayed, who had become convinced that his son and Diana were the victims of a plot, allegedly leaned on Rees-Jones to come up with memories of the accident that reflected his belief in a conspiracy.
The pressure culminated when Rees-Jones says he was persuaded to talk to Piers Morgan, the editor of the Daily Mirror tabloid. He said he assumed the interview wouldn’t immediately be used, but it was splashed across several pages of the paper.
“I have had flashes of a female voice calling out in the back of the car,” Rees-Jones was said to have told Morgan in articles published in March 1998. “First, it’s a groan. Then Dodi’s name is called. I don’t remember if it is over and over again. But I do remember a voice calling out Dodi’s name. And that voice can only be Princess Diana’s.”
Rees-Jones resigned and Al Fayed denounced him as a traitor. A couple of months later, he returned to his home town in rural Shropshire, where he began working part time at a friend's sports shop.
But it didn’t prove to be an escape from Al Fayed. In August that year, the department store tycoon accused Rees-Jones and another bodyguard of failing to protect Diana and his son on the night of the crash.
In September, Rees-Jones hit back, filing a French lawsuit against Al Fayed’s company and the firm from which the Mercedes was hired, accusing them of \"putting others in danger.\"
More was to come. In March 2000 Rees-Jones published a book, “The Bodyguard’s Story,” which became a best-seller. He defended making money from the tragedy by saying he had written his book partly to pay his legal bills. (Al Fayed, Rees-Jones said, had paid most of his medical bills. The legal actions were later dropped.)
Eventually, Rees-Jones returned to a combination of his two main jobs - as a soldier and a security man – when in August 2000 he took a job with the United Nations in war-torn East Timor.
Meanwhile, there were changes on the home front. At the time of the crash, Rees-Jones reportedly was breaking up with Sue, his wife of two years. He soon found love again in the form of Ann Scott, 36, whom he married in 2002. They set up home in a four-bedroom house in Oswestry, Shropshire, where Rees-Jones had grown up.
After his service in East Timor, Rees-Jones returned closer to home and once again took up work in personal security. In 2002, for instance, he was reported to be working as a bodyguard for veteran tennis players - including Ilie Nastase, Henri Leconte, Pat Cash and John Lloyd - taking part in an event at London's exclusive Hurlingham Club.
Approached by a reporter from the Sunday Mirror newspaper, a smiling Rees-Jones said: \"I'm terribly sorry but I'm not allowed to speak about my job.\" A club official told the paper: \"Trevor has been helping out with security for the last few days. Hardly anyone realized it was Princess Diana's bodyguard working among us.\"
Meanwhile, according to the Telegraph, Rees-Jones has been plagued by the thought that Diana, Dodi and Henri died on his watch. \"There is no one in the world who has got to live with what I’ve got to live with,\" he is quoted as saying.
\"It was like being hit with a shovel,” he said of the moment he was told of the three deaths. “I tried to cry at one stage, but I couldn’t make any noise because of the tube in my throat. It was a complete shock.\"
-- Matthew Diebel
";
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(Princess Diana's much-loved butler)","Paul Burrell has launched his own lines of wine, furniture and china.","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070730/diana_where_are_they_now/070730_whereRthey_burell_paul.vmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "left", "Timothy A. Clary", "AFP - Getty Images", "100", "198", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
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THEN
From Prince Charles through a series of affairs that culminated in her relationship with Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana had little luck with the men in her life. Except one.
That man was Paul Burrell, the butler and close confidant who saw her through thick and thin. Her reliance on him was so great that she even thought to remember him in her will, from which he received about $100,000.
Burrell grew up a long way from the pomp and ceremony of royal family in a mining town. The son of a truck driver, he decided on his career following a family trip to see the Changing of Guard at Buckingham Palace.
\"One day I’m going to work here,\" he quotes himself on his Web site.
His ambition was realized in 1976 when he joined Buckingham Palace as an 18-year-old trainee footman. Within a year he was personal footman to the queen.
Not only did Burrell find a job in the palace, but he also found love - in the form of Maria Cosgrove, then a maid to Prince Philip. The couple were married in 1984, and quickly had two sons, Alexander and Nicholas (coincidentally, similar in ages to Princes William and Harry).
In 1987, the couple joined the staff of the Prince and Princess of Wales and moved to Highgrove, Charles and Diana’s country house, as butler and personal maid.
Soon after, the cracks in the royal marriage began to show and Diana increasingly came to rely on her butler. According to Burrell’s Web site and other accounts, the princess even wrote his name on a wish list of items she wanted when Diana and Charles split up in 1992.
\"She often spoke about how reliable he had been,” one of the princess's closest friends, the American fashion designer Larna Marks, told the British Broadcasting Corporation. “How professional he was and how he was her rock.”
When the princess was killed, Burrell immediately flew to Paris, where, according to the BBC, he was handed the clothes she died in. He then had the task of dressing her body in a clean outfit and applying makeup before returning with the Prince of Wales with her body. He reportedly destroyed the clothes she had been wearing in the doomed car.
The episode left him in a state of despair and possibly suicidal. In an interview two years later, he said if he could have one wish, \"it would be to put the clock back and for everything to be like it was before she died.\"
NOW
After the princess’s burial Burrell was asked to work at the Diana Memorial Fund, the charity founded to deal with the huge donations that poured in from a devastated nation. And a month after the funeral he was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal by the Queen in recognition of his service to the Royal Family and the Princess of Wales.
\"I tried to protect the princess during her lifetime and now I am trying to protect her memory,\" he said.
It was a year before Burrell spoke publicly at length, telling the BBC how he used to accompany Diana on late-night visits to hospitals. He also revealed that the princess often used to don a disguise and roller-blade in the public parks.
He also talked of his task of sorting out Diana's personal and private possessions. \"It's like looking through a window into their world,\" he said. It was a role that would come back to haunt him.
By the end of the year, Burrell was out of a job – he was either fired or resigned from the Diana Memorial Fund, with the chief executive quoted as saying the former butler “would dearly love to be more of a media personality.”
If, indeed, those were Burrell’s wishes, they would soon come to fruition, and Burrell signed a deal for a book, “Entertaining with Style,” and a TV show, “Open House,” in which he commented on stories about the royal family and gave out hospitality advice.
Burrell seemed to have settled into a comfortable role – fulfilling his desire for a job as a media celebrity while at the same time not completely alienating the royal family. But then in January 2001 it all changed – he was arrested in a dawn raid at his home and eventually charged with stealing more than 300 items from Diana and Prince William, including CDs signed by the princess, some of her clothing and family photos. Later that year his brother, Graham, was arrested for allegedly receiving stolen property, though the charges were later dropped.
Thus begun one of the most bizarre episodes in British legal history.
Nine days after his trial started at London’s famed Old Bailey courthouse, it was suddenly stopped and the judge sent the jury home.
The reason? Queen Elizabeth had suddenly remembered that Burrell had told her that he was taking some of Diana’s belongings for safekeeping. In other words, he had royal permission to have them in his possession. The case was dismissed.
The seesaw legal ride proved to be the end of Burrell’s relatively discreet attitude toward his former employers. With a few months he had sold his story to the tabloid Daily Mirror for the equivalent of $500,000.
These revelations were followed in 2003 by a book, “Royal Duty,” in which he talked about his life in the royal family and with Diana.
Since then, Burrell has, like fellow Diana intimate James Hewitt, been embraced by Britain’s growing reality-TV industry. In 2004, he was runner-up in “I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” in which he had to do challenges, such as eating a kangaroo's testicle. This was followed by a role in 2005’s “Australian Princess,” in which he had to groom young women for an imagined life in a palace.
In early 2006, Burrell impersonated the actor Richard Gere on “Celebrity Stars in their Eyes,” singing \"Razzle Dazzle\" from the hit movie “Chicago.” In September 2006 he appeared on \"Trust Me - I'm A Holiday Rep\" in which he spent several days as a trainee vacation company representative. He also released a second book about his life with Princess Diana, “The Way We Were.”
In early 2007, Burrell decided to put the reality-TV world behind him, at last temporarily, to promote his new lines of furniture, rugs, china and wine - oducts he dubbed the Royal Butler Collection. “This is a fine collection ...,” his Web site boasts about his wines, “fit for royalty but good enough to drink by anybody.\"
Burrell has been pushing his products particularly hard in the United States, where he has been spending increasing amounts of his time, including work on “American Princess,” a show similar to the one he appeared on in Australia.
Maybe that’s because he’s not feeling so welcome in his home country. Certainly, he won’t be at the Aug. 31 London memorial service being organized by Princes William and Harry to mark the 10th anniversary of their mother’s death: Burrell and other former servants have been pointedly left off the invitation list, with palace sources reportedly saying that the princes reserve special disdain for Burrell, whose accounts of life with their mother they regard as a cold and overt betrayal.”
-- Matthew Diebel
";
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(Diana's brother, who delivered controversial eulogy at her funeral)","Earl Charles Spencer speaks to the press outside his home following the death of his sister Princess Diana. ","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070730/diana_where_are_they_now/070730_whereRthey_spencer.vsmall.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "left", "Sasa Kralj", "AP file", "198", "131", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
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THEN
Ten years ago, as the attention of Britain and the world turned from Princess Diana’s tragic death to her funeral, anticipation was mostly focused on the royal side of her family, embodied mostly in her sons, Princes William and Harry.
But when the service at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 6 ended, almost all the talk was about her brother, 33-year-old Charles Spencer, whose devastating eulogy – which he said he had shown to no one before he delivered it – brought protocol-shattering applause from the crowd assembled in the cathedral.
Though mainly a heartfelt remembrance of his sister, along with promises to take care of William and Harry, it is most remembered for its attacks on two powerful forces, the royal family and the press.
It was the House of Windsor that received got the first tongue-lashing, as Spencer indirectly referenced Queen Elizabeth’s decision a few years earlier to take away Diana’s Her Royal Highness title following her divorce from Prince Charles.
“Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty ...” Spencer told the audience, “a very British girl who transcended nationality. Someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.”
But his most poisonous venom was reserved for the media, which he accused of hounding her both in life and death.
“My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum,” Spencer went on. “It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this – a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.”
NOW
After Diana was buried, Spencer was viewed as something of a hero, especially in light of the bumbling performance of the royal family in the wake of her death. The young aristocrat, who had inherited his title as 9th Earl Spencer upon his father’s death in 1992, was seen as someone in the mold of his sister – unconventional and unafraid to display his emotions.
His position as an icon, however, was not to last very long.
First, there was matter of his crumbling marriage of eight years, to former model Victoria Lockwood, with whom he had four children. Before 1997 ended, the couple were divorced after a contentious court case in which Lady Spencer accused her husband of being “a domineering bully” and of having affairs with at least a dozen women.
Indeed, it was reported that one of his girlfriends, Calvin Klein fashion model Josie Borain, had accompanied Spencer to Diana’s funeral. That relationship, though, ended in January 1998, with Borain telling London’s Mail on Sunday newspaper that she “found him calculating and manipulative” and that he had cheated on her at least once. “Generally,” she told the Mail, “it was a bad investment, a waste of good quality loving time.”
But Spencer soon picked himself up, and in 2001 wed for a second time, to Caroline Hutton, with whom he had two children. The marriage, however, was not to last, and ended in another ugly divorce, including the publication of e-mails sent by the second Lady Spencer. \"The time has come,” she wrote in 2006, according to a report in Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper, “when I have to ask you to choose between me and Charles. I'm afraid it is impossible for me to trust those of you who wish to side with him and you can't be with both.\"
That same year, there was also another altercation, this time physical – with his former best man, Darius Guppy, who was reported to have lured Spencer to his home in South Africa and beaten him black and blue after accusations that Spencer had tried to seduce his wife many years before (allegations he denied).
And then there was the matter of Diana’s grave and memorial, at Althorp, the stately home at which both grew up and which Spencer inherited on the death of their father. A vast mansion and estate built over many centuries, Althorp had long been open to the public, in part to defray the huge cost of keeping it open. But Spencer’s decision, soon after his sister’s death, to open a Diana museum – and charge the public a pretty penny (now the equivalent of $25) to visit it – immediately attracted condemnation that he was cashing in on her.
Spencer told a local newspaper, The Northampton Chronicle, he was \"battered, but unbowed\" by criticism of the Althorp memorial. \"If it was more subtle, it would be hard to deal with. But as it is, it is just ludicrous,\" he said. \"She was my sister after all ... and if we are proud of what we are doing, then that is all we can achieve.\"
Meanwhile, Spencer’s famous speech has resulted in a new line of work for the earl – as a public-speaking coach. \"It is incredibly satisfying and rewarding to take highly successful but tongue-tied executives and teach them how to project themselves,\" he told London’s Daily Telegraph this year. \"I video them and then we analyze their hang-ups and what's bugging them and work from there.\"
And he has found love again – with an American. In December 2006 it was reported that Lord Spencer had begun a relationship with Coleen Sullivan, an Ohio television news anchor. Sullivan and Spencer met earlier the same year when she was interviewing him regarding a Dayton Art Institute exhibit honoring Diana.
The relationship appears to have legs – in June London’s Daily Telegraph recounted that Spencer had just returned from a \"personal trip\" to California, where Sullivan had moved after quitting her Ohio job.
-- Matthew Diebel
";
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(companion to princes William and Harry after their mother's death)","Prince Harry and Tiggy Legge-Bourke watch Prince Charles foxhunting in March 1997, just a few months before Princess Diana's death.","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070730/diana_where_are_they_now/070730_whereRthey_legge_bourke.vmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "left", "Anwar Hussein", "Getty Images", "146", "198", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
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THEN
When Diana and Charles separated in late 1992, the Prince of Wales handed over some of the parenting of young princes William and Harry to a nanny, Alexandra “Tiggy” Legge-Bourke. The spirited twentysomething became a key figure in the lives of the boys, who were 10 and 8 at the time.
Not that Legge-Bourke was a typical nanny. The product of an aristocratic British family, she grew up on a 6,000-acre estate in Wales before attending finishing school in Switzerland. Adopting the standard route of a so-called “Sloane Ranger” – one also followed by Princess Diana, among other upper-class girls – she then went to take a job at a nursery school in a tony area of London (usually a precursor to snagging an eligible bachelor and heading off to a comfortable life). She also had considerable royal connections – her mother, Shan, is a lady-in-waiting to Charles sister, Princess Anne, and was part of the countryside set that Prince Charles prefers to hang out with.
Legge-Bourke proved to be a hit with the princes, so much so that Diana reportedly became jealous at the role she was playing in their lives and reportedly spread rumors that she was involved with Charles.
“I give [the princes] what they need . . . fresh air, a rifle and a horse,” Legge-Bourke was quoted as saying by the Sunday Times of London. “[Diana] gives them a tennis racket and a bucket of popcorn at the movies.”
In fact, the tension over Legge-Bourke’s role led, in early 1997, to her leaving the royal staff. That was all to change following the crash that took Diana’s life.
On the weekend of Diana’s death, Legge-Bourke happened to be visiting Balmoral, the royal home in Scotland, where Prince Charles, his sons and the rest of the royal family were vacationing. Thus she found herself drawn back into the boys’ lives, even traveling with them a couple of months later when Charles took them on a trip to southern Africa (where Harry bought her a Zulu-made bracelet).
“They tease her,\" royal-watcher and writer Judy Wade told People magazine in late 1997. “They hide, they do naughty things. She's like a cousin or a young auntie ... and a country person, which the boys love. She's one of the only women I know that can skin a rabbit or gut a stag.”
NOW
After Diana’s death, Legge-Bourke soon found herself back on the royal payroll, reportedly drawing the equivalent of about $50,000 a year for her services, and quickly regained her up-close role in the princes’ lives.
In particular, Prince Harry, who turned 13 just a few days after his mother’s death and was reportedly the more disoriented of the two boys, formed an even closer bond with Legge-Bourke, fueled in part by the high-jinks favored by the energetic aide.
Sometimes this led her into trouble, such as the time in 1998 when she took the princes abseiling off a 160-foot dam without helmets or safety lines, a lark that reportedly brought Charles close to firing her. Her job was only saved when the princes pleaded with their father.
Her royal job did end, though, when Legge-Bourke, by now 34, got married in 1999, to Charles Pettifer, a divorced father of two and owner of a firm that employs ex-military men and women to protect top businessmen. Princes Harry and William attended the wedding, held at the Legge-Bourke estate.
Since then, the couple have had two sons of their own, and Pettifer has forged a new career – as the operator of a bed-and-breakfast. Situated near her family estate, the guesthouse, Ty’r Chanter, charges about $150 per couple per night.
“Charlie and I have four boys, three dogs and a menagerie of animals here at Ty’r Chanter and if you decide to come and stay you really are part of our family,” Pettifer tells visitors to the B&B’s Web site.
“If you have come for rest and recuperation,” she continues, “an action-packed weekend, whether you're old or young, just two of you or two families, I very much hope you will enjoy sharing this diamond that we are lucky enough to live in.”
Meanwhile, Pettifer continues to stay in touch with the princes, even getting into similar scrapes as in earlier times. For instance, in 2000 a local paper in southern England reported that Pettifer and Prince Harry drove away from a gas station without paying for the gasoline they had pumped.
All was forgiven, however. “She has been in contact with us and has apologized,” the paper quoted gas station manager David Haskell as saying. “It was a genuine mistake. Tiggy is regular customer here. She is always lovely and friendly.”
The former nanny and the prince were said to be \"pretty embarrassed\" by the mistake, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said, and a check was sent to cover the cost of the fuel.
The friendship continues - in 2006 Pettifer was on hand when Prince Harry graduated from Sandhurst, Britain’s elite military college.
-- Matthew Diebel
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THEN
When the marriage between Prince Charles and Princess Diana started to fall apart - just a few years after it had started at a glittering 1981 ceremony - Charles went back to his old flame, Camilla Parker-Bowles. Diana, however, had no old flames, having met the prince while in her teens and marrying him just a few weeks after her 20th birthday. Indeed, part of the reason she was chosen was that she appeared to have had no romantic past.
And so it was that a handsome army officer, James Hewitt, came into her life. Educated at one of England’s top private schools and the country’s elite military academy, Sandhurst, Hewitt reportedly first met Princess Diana at a party in London's posh Mayfair district in 1986. She was 25, he was 28.
But it wasn’t love at first sight. Instead, Diana hired Hewitt as a riding instructor – initially just for her and then also for her young sons. However, the lessons soon became something else, and in 1987, according to most accounts, the friendship turned into an affair.
Technically an act of high treason for which he could have been hanged, the relationship was to last five years. It even survived several months of absence when Hewitt was called up to serve in the 1991 Iraq war, during which the pair exchanged a voluminous correspondence. In 1992, however, Diana decided to call it quits and ended it with a phone call.
\"Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him,\" Diana was to tell interviewer Martin Bashir in the landmark 1995 TV interview that came after her official separation from the Prince of Wales. “But I was very let down.”
Part of her anger was the 1994 book “Princess in Love,” in which Hewitt spilled the beans about their affair to author Anna Pasternak.
After the book and Diana’s acknowledgement of the affair, Hewitt found himself the center of a media storm, branded as a “love slug,” a “cad” and a “love rat” by England’s voracious tabloids. Hiding out at the country retreat he had bought with the proceeds of the book, the Sunday Times of London reported him as saying that “I'm deeply distressed that everything had to come out this way. I want to get on with my life.”
He was to get his wish – but not for long.
NOW
After Diana was killed in 1997, it was only a matter of months before the British press abandoned its fawning coverage of the so-called “People’s Princess” and once again focused on the stories of scandal and intrigue that had sold millions of newspapers and magazines during her lifetime.
And it wasn’t long before Hewitt found himself back in the limelight. The subject of the tabloids’ interest centered on the letters exchanged during his service in the first Iraq war.
The first salvo came less than a year after Diana’s death, when Hewitt’s former fiancee, model Anna Staiano Ferretti, was arrested after the Daily Mirror newspaper claimed she tried to sell the letters to the tabloid for the equivalent of $250,000. The paper then turned over the letters to Diana’s sisters, acting as her executors.
It then took a lawsuit by Hewitt to get them back from Lawrence Graham, the law firm representing for the princess’s estate. Police eventually dropped charges again Ferretti.
But that was nothing compared with what was to follow.
In 2002 Hewitt was accused by a Sunday tabloid of asking for 10 million pounds (about $20 million) for the letters. The News of the World claimed that Hewitt tried to sell the 64 letters to an undercover reporter posing as a wealthy Swiss businessman during an elaborate sting operation (a quite common method employed by England’s fiercely competitive tabloids).
Hewitt is reported to have told a reporter at a meeting at Claridge's Hotel in London: \"I want 10 million pounds for the lot.\" The article sparked similar outrage to that following his book. It was also pointed out that, although the physical letters were his, the words written on them belonged to the estate of Diana. In other words, to him they should only be worth the paper they were written on.
A year later, Hewitt was back hawking the letters, this time in an appearance on American TV. \"I think it is important to understand that they are, or will become, important historical documents,\" he told CNN's Larry King. \"I think it might be irresponsible not to sell them and to generate something one can do some good with.\" He did not specify what that might be.
The correspondence, mainly written on blue airmail paper, according to London’s Daily Telegraph, reportedly includes passages in which the princess refers to their physical relationship as well as to Hewitt’s dalliances with other women.
Hewitt dismissed King's suggestion that he donate the letters to the British Library to be displayed in 100 years' time, saying selling the letters was better than donating them to \"rot in a safe somewhere.\" He also brushed aside a suggestion that he give them to Princes William and Harry.
In 2004, Hewitt was once again back in the headlines when, together with a girlfriend, he was arrested outside a London wine bar on suspicion of possessing cocaine. He was later let off with a caution.
He has also had to deal with persistent rumors that he is the father of Prince Harry, with whom he shares a shock of red hair. He is adamant that he is not.
\"There really is no possibility whatsoever that I am Harry's father,” he told the Sunday Mirror in 2002. \"I can absolutely assure you that I am not.\"
Prince Harry, born in 1984, was \"already walking\" by the time his relationship with Diana began in 1986, Hewitt added.
\"Admittedly the red hair is similar to mine and people say we look alike,” he went on, but \"I have never encouraged these comparisons and although I was with Diana for a long time I must state once and for all that I'm not Harry's father.”
Anyway, he added, \"I have to say he's a much more handsome chap than I ever was.\"
As the decade wore on, Hewitt’s interest in selling the letters seemed to diminish, no doubt fueled by his frequent appearances in Britain’s burgeoning reality-TV industry, in which he has proved a quite adept competitor.
For instance, in 2003, Hewitt set a weightlifting record in “The Games,” a celebrity athletics tournament. He came second in the overall contest. And in the same year Hewitt won the show “Back to Reality,” in which 12 contestants share a mansion and compete in various challenges.
In 2004, he took part in the Swedish TV show “High Chaparall,” in which he was interviewed over several days while carrying on his regular life, followed in 2005 by “Celebrity Wrestling” and “Car Cruzin’,”a UK documentary series showcasing the cars of rich and famous individuals.
In 2006 Hewitt starred as a contestant in “The X Factor: Battle Of The Stars,” but was voted off just before the final, despite being mentored by “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell, who found it impossible to overcome Hewitt's lack of vocal talent.
Hewitt has also been busy on the writing front, releasing a second book, 2005’s “Moving On,” which offered more details about his romance with Diana as well as updates on his life since her death.
-- Matthew Diebel";
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THEN
In mid-July 1997, British rock star Elton John and Princess Diana traveled to Italy to attend the funeral of designer Gianni Versace, who had been murdered at his mansion in Florida. Little did John know that he would be playing a major part, just a few weeks later, in a memorial service for Diana.
Singing a reworked version of his hit “Candle in the Wind” – with the key line “Goodbye Norma Jean” transformed to “Goodbye English Rose” – John played and sang unaccompanied in the packed Westminster Abbey.
Onlookers were concerned that the singer, who had had a somewhat rocky, on-and-off friendship with the princess over the years, would not be able to make it through the song without breaking down. But, drawing on his classical training and decades of concert-giving, he made it through the three verses.
\"I had to call on all my professional experience,” he told the Web site ContactMusic.com. “My voice cracked a little bit on the third verse, but I just hung in there and sang it as a tribute to her. Then I went home with my partner, David (Furnish), and then we cried.
\"The most moving thing for me was the coffin in the car going up to her home and people by the side of the road just throwing flowers on it. That's when it hit home.\"
NOW
Soon after Diana’s funeral, John went into a studio to make a recording of the song. \"Candle in the Wind 1997\" then became the fastest and biggest selling single of all time, eventually selling 5 million copies in the United Kingdom, 11 million in the United States and around 33 million worldwide, with the proceeds of approximately $100 million going to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which was set up in the aftermath of her death. John would win the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the single, which he vowed never to perform again - a promise he has kept.
After Diana’s death and his poignant performance, John’s remarkable career – one of the longest and most successful in rock music - once again resumed. In particular, he did several collaborations with other artists, including rapper Eminem and R&B singer Luther Vandross. He also wrote the score to two Broadway musicals, “Aida” and “Lion King,” and continued writing music for movies.
But perhaps his most important partnership was in his personal life, where in 2005 he entered into a civil union with his longtime boyfriend, David Furnish. The party that followed the official ceremony was reported to have cost the equivalent of $2 million.
On July 1, 2007, John performed at the Concert For Diana, held in London and organized by Princes William and Harry. Despite much speculation, he did not play “Candle in the Wind.”
-- Matthew Diebel
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THEN
In 1995, British television journalist Martin Bashir landed an interview with Princess Diana in which she publicly admitted having had an affair with her equestrian instructor, James Hewitt. It was to change both their lives.
Born Jan. 19, 1963, Bashir had made a name for himself as an investigative journalist in Britain. But it was his interview with the princess of Wales that brought him to worldwide prominence.
Diana’s revelation during the hour-long televised interview on Nov. 20 followed Prince Charles own admission, several months earlier, of marital infidelity with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Discussing the affair with Bashir, Diana said, “There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
Despite her hurt, Diana told Bashir that she did not want a divorce.
The 20-year veteran broadcaster also spoke with Diana about her depression, Princes Harry and William, the media and the monarchy.
The interview drew an estimated 15 million viewers – a record for the TV magazine program, “Panorama” – and ranked as one of the BBC’s highest-rated programs.
NOW
Having established his “Big Interview” credentials, Bashir’s career took off. In 1998, he conducted the only TV interview with Louise Woodward, the English au pair convicted of involuntary manslaughter of an 8-month-old boy in Massachusetts, a case that was a sensation in Britain.
His main claim to fame, though, was a documentary, “Living With Michael Jackson,” the result of eight months spent with the so-called King of Pop. The February 2003 broadcast, which mostly cast the singer in an unflattering light, drew more than 14 million viewers in Britain and an estimated 27 million in the United States, where the piece was aired a few days later.
Bashir’s 110-minute film featured the pop singer on his Neverland Ranch in California, on a multimillion-dollar shopping spree in Las Vegas and denying having had plastic surgery on multiple occasions. But most important, the piece also highlighted how the entertainer shared a bed with children visiting his home. Although Jackson vigorously denied that anything inappropriate had transpired with his young guests, the admission spurred a police investigation. Jackson later hit back with a rebuttal interview, filmed by his personal cameraman.
Bashir’s involvement with Jackson served to increase his profile in America, a move that led in 2004 to his hiring by ABC’s “20/20” news magazine as a correspondent. In late 2005, he was named as one of the three anchors brought in to replace Ted Koppel at ABC News’ “Nightline,” a post he still holds.
Over his career Bashir was lauded for his journalistic efforts with a BAFTA Award, the British equivalent of an Academy Award, and named the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year.
-- Bruno Navarro
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THEN
England had never seen anything like Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed. Arriving on its shores in 1974, the Egyptian businessman snapped up its most famous department store, spent numerous time in court and on tabloid covers, and eventually purchased a struggling soccer club.
But if the British thought they had become inured to the colorful antics and controversy that seemed inevitably to swirl in his wake, they were in for a rude awakening when his eldest son, Dodi, died in a Paris road tunnel with Princess Diana.
While his exact birth date is a matter for debate, Mohamed Al Fayed was raised in Alexandria, Egypt, during the early 1930s. Al Fayed’s modest childhood gave way to a successful career in business, built on close ties in the oil-rich Arab gulf states.
Upon his arrival in Great Britain, he began leaving his mark on the European business scene, buying Paris’ Hotel Ritz in 1979 and Harrods soon after. The purchase of Harrods (and the House of Fraser, a group that owned the store) was probed by the British government, but was eventually resolved by settlement.
In the summer of 1997, Al Fayed went on to buy London-based soccer club Fulham with the long-term goal of creating a team on the scale of Manchester United. While Fulham has yet to reach the same level, its progression to the English Premier League is due much in part to the money Al Fayed pumped into the club.
NOW
Shortly after suffering the tragedy of burying his son, Al Fayed became convinced that Dodi and Princess Diana were the victims of a plot.
Al Fayed told anyone who would listen that the fatal car crash was not a careless mishap, but the result of a wide-ranging murder conspiracy.
On his personal Web site (www.alfayed.com), he writes, “In 1997, there was joy for the Fayed family when Mohamed’s eldest son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales, fell in love. When they were murdered in such a brutal and dreadful fashion, on 31 August, their fairytale was reduced to ashes. The loss of Dodi is a bitter one.”
Visitors to alfayed.com are unlikely to miss the section titled “Mohamed Al Fayed challenges Stevens’ verdict” (referring to the extensive inquiry into the deaths headed by a British judge). “I will never accept this cover up of what really happened,” he says. “For nine years I have fought against overwhelming odds and monstrous official obstructions. I will not stop now in my quest for the truth. It is the only thing I can do for those two wonderful people who lost their lives. I shall keep searching for the truth, no matter what.”
In 1998 he helped found The New School at West Heath in Sevenoaks, Kent, as a tribute to Diana. The princess had attended the school, which had closed in 1997 after suffering financial difficulties.
Al Fayed still owns the Fulham Football Club and remains steadfastly behind it, even though the team has yet to make a solid breakthrough in either the English Premier League or international competition. Al Fayed still owns Harrods as well.
-- Ian Sager
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THEN
The only person who came close to sharing the experiences of Princess Diana as an outsider in the British royal family was Sarah Ferguson, who married Prince Andrew in 1986, five years after Diana married Charles.
Diana and Sarah came from similar backgrounds, though Ferguson had no claim on a title, unlike the princess, who was the daughter of an earl. “Fergie,” as she was soon to be known, enjoyed the trappings of an aristocratic lineage from an early age, counting among her ancestry such names as King Charles II.
And Ferguson, according to some reports, had Princess Diana to thank for playing matchmaker with Prince Andrew, leading to the couple’s eventual marriage on at Westminster Abbey, an event only slightly less glitzy than the one which had taken place in 1981.
The nuptials brought Ferguson a new title: Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of York. The couple had two children, Princess Beatrice of York and Princess Eugenie of York, who are fifth and sixth in line to the British throne.
The marriage, however, was to come to a close even faster than Charles and Diana’s, and officially ended after 10 years.
Before that, Ferguson faced a barrage of negative press, including the publication in 1992 of photos of her topless, having her toes sucked on by an American businessman.
NOW
As with Princess Diana, Ferguson’s divorce stripped the words “Her Royal Highness” from her title. Following the split, Ferguson declined to seek alimony payments, reportedly in order to maintain good relations with the British royal family.
In the years that have followed, Ferguson has successfully reworked her public image, in part by remaining on remarkably friendly terms with Prince Andrew and partly by launching a career as philanthropist, public speaker and author. In the process, she managed to eliminate multimillion-dollar debts from the extravagant lifestyle she led in the previous decade.
Overcoming problems with her weight – a struggle that had been highlighted often in the British tabloids – Ferguson eventually became a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers in the United States and was featured in the company’s ad campaigns.
Ferguson has written many children’s books and in 2008 is scheduled to release her first historical romance novel, set in 1812.
She has made many appearances on British and American television, including “The View” and “The Tony Danza Show,” as well as working as a special correspondent on NBC’s “TODAY” show with her “From the Heart” series. (MSNBC.com is a joint venture of NBC and Microsoft.)
In 2006, Ferguson founded Hartmoor, a New York-based lifestyle and media company “devoted to promoting wellness and supporting motherhood,” and the following year, she was named Mother of the Year by the American Cancer Society for her health-advocacy work.
Although now officially a former member of the British royal family, Ferguson has not fully left behind her blue-blood past: Ferguson portrayed the voice of the queen in the 2004 animated Disney feature, “The Cat That Looked at a King.” She also landed a producer credit in the latest Martin Scorcese film, “The Young Victoria,” billed as a treatment of Queen Victoria’s “first, often turbulent years.” The movie was scheduled to begin filming in August 2007, with a 2008 release date.
-- Bruno Navarro
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THEN
From his contribution toward the Northern Ireland peace process to his unwavering support of President Bush over Iraq, Tony Blair’s decade as Britain’s prime minister saw him at the forefront of the world stage.
Yet after a 10-year career at the top of British politics, Blair may still be remembered most as the man who, in the hours following the death of Princess Diana, brought the nation together as he spoke of “the people’s princess.”
Blair was born in 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second son of Hazel and Leo Blair, a college lecturer, he attended Oxford University. After graduating, Blair enrolled as a pupil barrister, married fellow student Cherie Booth, and joined Britain’s Labor Party.
With his gift for public speaking, Blair proved an able politician and rapidly ascended the party ladder, claiming its leadership in 1994 upon the death of John Smith. On May 2, 1997, Blair was confirmed as the youngest prime minister of Britain since 1812.
Before Blair could even settle into his new role, tragedy struck in Paris. As the world’s prayers were directed at the United Kingdom, Blair stood up and made an impassioned speech in front of the press. Referring to the late Diana as “the people’s princess” he encapsulated a nation’s sadness.
NOW
Blair’s deft performance in the aftermath of Diana’s death only served to strengthen his already considerable popularity, and he pushed ahead with an ambitious political agenda, playing an integral role in the negotiation of the landmark Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
Blair once again flexed his political muscles when he stood steadfastly behind President George Bush as the U.S. launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. When weapons of mass destruction weren’t found in Iraq, Blair and Bush were accused of waging a war on false pretenses. Yet even with the domestic dissatisfaction with Britain’s role in Iraq, Blair’s Labor Party won its third consecutive national election in 2005.
In June 2007, Blair announced that he would resign as prime minister, ending 10 years in power. But his political vacation didn’t last too long - on June 27, he was confirmed as envoy for the so-called Quartet on the Middle East, consisting of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia. The group is trying to mediate a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
-- Ian Sager
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