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[Applause] her life from the exterior looked so wonderful gold coaches red carpets
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private jets glamour in reality for her was not a particularly enjoyable experience and the fact that she had
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this to battle every day and ultimately to overcome helped her with that sense of appreciating what people who were
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really suffering terrible illnesses the Prime Minister foreign secretary many of
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the ministers in government could see the benefit of Diana both on the international stage domestically she was
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able to do things that politicians couldn't and they recognized that they admired her for it especially when she
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started to bring the enormous symbolism and influence of royalty to very unfashionable causes just think about
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her impact on the AIDS debate in the United States she went to the Harlem Hospital Center in 1989 and picked up a
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little African-American baby dying of AIDS nobody in public life had done that nobody in public life had even mentioned
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the word AIDS at that time She was drawn towards the cause of AIDS or leprosy or
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mental illness this was not run-of-the-mill routine Royal work to some of the other members of the royal
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family this was a mystery it mystified um some senior members of the royal family that Diana should choose such
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demanding such emotionally draining causes to support because she didn't just turn up and shake a few hands
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listen to a few speeches and disappear she got very involved engaged after a long day uh of emotionally draining work
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I would say good night to her and she would go into her apartment in Kensington Palace and there would be
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nobody there there might be a butler to bring her a boiled egg or something but there was no husband to say Well done um
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there were no children because they were at school or they with their father there was no supportive member of the
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royal firm to say great work today