Tina Brown Talks

Was Diana as good a mother as she's cracked up to be?
She was a very good mother. A very loving mother, actually. She lived for those boys.

And not just because they were heirs to the throne?
No, no. I think that was the least of it, actually. No, I think she adored those boys. I think that with the boys Diana got the only unconditional love she's ever had. It was a two-way street. She needed their love like they needed hers. She planned her entire day around them. Her calendar was rigorously protected for the sake of them. Like, "I can't do that, that's William's field day. No, I can't do that, that's Harry's sports day. I gotta be here this weekend. They're home. I don't care who it is. I don't care if it's a sheik wanting me to go ... "

She's ruthless in that period. She's serving Sarah Ferguson up on a plate to the paparazzi.
Oh, yeah, she served Fergie up. Fergie was the person she would feed to the wolves.

You have no feeling that there was any chance of her marrying Dodi?
No.

Or anything remotely like that ... ?
No, I am so convinced that Diana would never have given up being Princess of Wales to be Mrs. Dodi Fayed. The boys didn't like him. That's why she wouldn't have married him. And also, you know, Diana was already giggling about the gold taps and the silly, you know, rugs on the plane. It was meant to be, it was a summer frolic. And even if she thought she might have been in love with him that month, by September the leaves would have turned and so would her feelings for Dodi. I am absolutely sure of it.

What about her love life with Prince Charles? What went wrong there?
I think she just bored Charles in the sack.