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I was very fortunate to meet Princess Diana about four years before she passed away. It was a tough time because it was
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towards the end of her marriage and it was enormously difficult and she just opened up completely and discussed so
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many incredible things. Diana spoke to me quite often about his Royal Highness Prince Charles. And unfortunately, I
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came on the scene right as the marriage had already broken down. And I remember sitting with her at that first lunch at
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Kensington Palace, just the two of us. And I said, "Diana, you and Charles took the world by storm. You're so fabulous.
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Each of you as individuals astonishingly fantastic. What can we do to get the two
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of you back together again? I said, we have an expression in America that it's not over till it's over. What can we do
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to get the two of you back together again? And she expressed her great love for him, her great affection for him,
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but unfortunately at that time, John Major had already mentioned about the divorce in Parliament and the Archbishop
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of Canterbury had already decreed it. So she said, "Unfortunately, the wheels in
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motion were too far advanced for anything to be done at that stage." And I said to her, "Can something be done?"
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And I wanted to be very American and I wanted to say, "Can we pick up the phone and ask him to please come over and just
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talk this through?" I obviously tried very, very hard and I could see the sadness that she was experiencing
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because he was the true love of her life.