Engagement announcement
Di’s bouts with depression and bulimia begin.
Couple bicker about gift bracelet for Camilla.
Wedding day.
Honeymoon in Mediterranean.
Camilla pix fall from Chuck’s diary.
Di pregnant.
Begins therapy.
Tabloids, crowds love smiling Di more than stiff Charles.
Di throws herself down stairs, the first of several “cries for help.”
Prince William born.
Charles and Di disagree on name for child.
Tabs report Di has become a “fiend and a monster.”
Before the first official tour, to Australia, Di clashes with palace over bringing Will.
By some accounts, Diana became pregnant again and suffered a miscarriage.
Several months later, she was pregnant with Harry.
Later described as happiest period of marriage.
Prince Harry born.
Disappointed that his new child is a boy with Diana’s family features, Charles leaves to play polo.
Tabs criticize Di for palace firings, expensive wardrobe.
Di continues to suffer from bulimia, vomiting as many as four times a day.
Tabs report serious marriage difficulties. In a deliberate effort to mend their public image, Chuck and Di grant a cozy, joint TV interview, the first since the engagement.
Couple visits United States.
Di faints at Charles’s side in California.
Charles castigates Di for public fainting.
Fergie marries Prince Andrew. Tabs criticize her and Di for frivolity.
Di starts relationship with James Hewitt, her riding instructor.
Charles renews relationship with Camilla.
Di calls herself “thick as a plank.” Tabs pounce.
Nanny resigns, blames Di for undermining authority.
Di photographed with Capt. David Waterhouse.
Di tryst with banker Phillip Dunne rumored.
Couple tour flooded Wales.
Barely speak to each other during trip.
Di’s former flatmate, Carolyn Bartholomew, forces the princess to seek help for bulimia. Di starts to see Dr. Maurice Lipsedge, a prominent London psychiatrist.
Charles pal Hugh Lindsay killed in avalanche on royal skiing trip. Charles blames himself, Di consoles the widow.
Now leading separate lives, Di visits New York and Charles visits
Together the couple visit British troops stationed in the Persian Gulf
Charles and Camilla vacation together in Turkey. At a party, Diana confronts Camilla about affair with Charles.
Charles breaks his right arm during polo match, needs surgery in autumn.
During Charles’s three-week hospital stay, Camilla hardly leaves his side, cutting his food and reading him books. Di is furious that Charles prefers Camilla’s ministerings.
Caught speeding, Di is fined pounds150 and banned from driving for a month.
Couple attends Japanese Emperor Akihito’s enthronement.
Di begins to encourage friends to cooperate with biographer Andrew Morton.
James Hewitt returns from gulf war. Affair with Di ends soon after.
Prince William is hit on the head at school by a golf club and needs surgery. Tabs criticize Charles, who leaves the hospital for the opera.
Chuck, Di meet with queen. The possibility of divorce is rejected.
“Diana: Her True Story,” by Andrew Morton, reports suicide attempts and bulimia.
Couple discuss separation, involve lawyers.
Tapes surface of mushy 1989 phone chat between Di and James Gilbey.
Separation announced.
Charles hires new nanny, “Tiggy,” to help look after kids. Di enraged.
Steamy 1989 phone chat between Chuck and Camilla leaked.
Camps start argument over who gets kids for Christmas.
Tab snaps pix of sweaty Di at her health club.
Di’s astrologer hints December a good time to make changes.
Di announces retreat from public spotlight.
Kids spend Christmas Day with father; Di alone in Kensington Palace.
Charles admits adultery in TV interview.
300 prank calls to art-dealer friend Oliver Hoare traced to Di’s telephone line.
Di and advisers start discussing a divorce.
“Princess in Love” reports Di’s affair with James Hewitt. “The Prince of Wales,” by Jonathan Dimbleby, portrays Di as a troubled wife, and Charles as the long-suffering victim.
Tabs accuse Di of role in marriage bust-up of England rugby captain Will Carling.
Di drives to Eton to warn William of impending BBC interview. In the interview, Di implies Charles is not suited for the throne.
72 percent of Brits think Di was treated badly by the royal family.
Di reportedly spreads rumor that Tiggy was impregnated by Charles.
Queen demands that Charles and Di divorce quickly.
In a press release, Diana announces that a divorce and terms of a settlement have been agreed upon. Buckingham Palace expresses shock, saying there is no settlement. A new media tug-of-war begins between the camps.
Divorce negotiations continue. Money may prove the biggest sticking point.
