Back and forth she swung that last summer until the pendulum took her to Paris. And yet in the days in between her boat trips with Dodi she seemed to have such a clear new future outlined in London. She plotted with Shirley Conran something she'd never had: a career. "She wanted professional fulfillment," said Conran. "She wanted to do something herself that would show she wasn't an idiot." The something was a great idea—to produce documentaries like the well-received film she had made with the BBC of her trip to Angola. She was all excited about the project—a film every two years, each one the centerpiece of a discrete humanitarian campaign. First, she told Conran, she would raise awareness of the issue, then produce a documentary in partnership with one of the television channels, and ultimately leave a structure in place to maintain her involvement with the cause. It was Diana's version of a Clinton global initiative—and she had the idea first. The issue she wanted to start with was illiteracy.
Diana, who had once described herself as "thick as a plank," was getting herself an education after all. Mike Whitlam reminded her during their time in Angola, "Don't forget there are ten million landmines left by the British in the deserts of North Africa." She replied, "Mike, I think you'll find it's twenty-three million." And she was right. "We had a public meeting on land mines," says Lord Deedes, "and she really knew what she was doing. She wasn't just a royal observer."
She wasn't just a royal anything. That was the beauty of it. Had she lived, losing her H.R.H. might have turned out to be the best thing that had ever happened to her, just as her mother had said. Yes, she was losing most of the perks and protections of the royal cocoon. But the power of her magic touch with the media and the public was something no one could take from her. And what she was gaining was freedom—the freedom to act without the constraints and limitations of palace and political bureaucrats, the freedom to embrace causes of her own choosing regardless of their potential for controversy, the freedom to make a difference on things that mattered and to see results.
Back and forth she swung that last summer until the pendulum took her to Paris. And yet in the days in between her boat trips with Dodi she seemed to have such a clear new future outlined in London. She plotted with Shirley Conran something she'd never had: a career. "She wanted professional fulfillment," said Conran. "She wanted to do something herself that would show she wasn't an idiot." The something was a great idea—to produce documentaries like the well-received film she had made with the BBC of her trip to Angola. She was all excited about the project—a film every two years, each one the centerpiece of a discrete humanitarian campaign. First, she told Conran, she would raise awareness of the issue, then produce a documentary in partnership with one of the television channels, and ultimately leave a structure in place to maintain her involvement with the cause. It was Diana's version of a Clinton global initiative—and she had the idea first. The issue she wanted to start with was illiteracy.Diana, who had once described herself as "thick as a plank," was getting herself an education after all. Mike Whitlam reminded her during their time in Angola, "Don't forget there are ten million landmines left by the British in the deserts of North Africa." She replied, "Mike, I think you'll find it's twenty-three million." And she was right. "We had a public meeting on land mines," says Lord Deedes, "and she really knew what she was doing. She wasn't just a royal observer."She wasn't just a royal anything. That was the beauty of it. Had she lived, losing her H.R.H. might have turned out to be the best thing that had ever happened to her, just as her mother had said. Yes, she was losing most of the perks and protections of the royal cocoon. But the power of her magic touch with the media and the public was something no one could take from her. And what she was gaining was freedom—the freedom to act without the constraints and limitations of palace and political bureaucrats, the freedom to embrace causes of her own choosing regardless of their potential for controversy, the freedom to make a difference on things that mattered and to see results.
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