Coming in the wake of the flap surrounding Di's alleged nuisance calls to art dealer Oliver Hoare, the latest upheaval is said to have taken a considerable toll on the princess. On the day before the book appeared, a distraught Di is believed to have held a war council with best friend Catherine Soames, a divorced socialite, and the princess's sometime ally, the Duchess of York, over a two-hour lunch at Fergie's Surrey home, Romenda Lodge. Although the press has yet to focus on Diana's part in the affair, friends fear that it will be only a matter of time before she is regarded as a duplicitous adultress who had her own part in destroying the Waleses' marriage. With further revelations about a married confidant (a man expected to be identified in Morton's book) said to be looming, Di's supporters worry that, at the least, she will sink into a depression. "She has never cried so much as she has in recent days," a friend told Today.