As the 20th century drew to a close, support for the royal family was at a low ebb. This decline was precipitated by the separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in December 1992. That year also saw the publication of Andrew Morton’s Diana: Her True Story.
What Queen Elizabeth II called her “annus horribilis” (terrible year) was compounded by Prince Charles’s ITV interview with Jonathan Dimbleby (1994), in which he confessed to adultery, and by Diana’s tell-all conversation with the BBC’s Martin Bashir (1995).
In this controversial interview, Diana said:
