Prince William is close Prince William’s to his dad, Prince family speaks out Charles. Journalist Daphne Barak will be at the festivities, and this week she shares with OK! her exclusive interviews with the groom’s father, Prince Charles, and, for the very first time, whatWilliam ’s grandmother said about Diana ‘I AM VERY NERVOUS,’ ‘I WAS SCARED FOR DIANA,’ ADMITS PRINCE CHARLES her MOTHER REVEALED rincess Diana’s mother, to how people perceive it, her hatever gossips are am very nervous about the Frances Shand Kydd, relationship with Diana was saying about logistics, the details of the had an awkward close before Diana’s wedding Prince Charles wedding, that everything will P W position at the previous royal to Charles. “I didn’t like the resenting the attention go right. Daphne, you just wedding of the century — pressure when Diana was attracted by his son William’s told me how early the when William’s parents, getting married; too much nuptials to Kate Middleton wedding will be airing on Charles and Diana, wed. attention was on them. I was could not be further from the American networks, but I Frances had abandoned her scared for Diana.” truth. When I recently cannot change it; a morning husband and Diana (along Later Frances elaborated attended a private dinner wedding in London is our with her other children) to go that she knew how the palace with Prince Charles and his tradition.” off with another man, and she machine worked and was wife, Camilla, Charles He went on to say that he left behind a broken family afraid of what it would do to reacted like any other proud is helping to pick out the when Diana was young. her romantic, free-spirited — and music and that I met Frances daughter. She concerned he is hosting when I inter- said, “Diana — father of the the short-list viewed her after was very much bridegroom, as dinner Diana’s death — in love with he talked about wedding when she told me Charles on her the upcoming celebration (for she’d lost another wedding day wedding. approximately child (Diana’s and looked He was 300 people), older brother beautiful.” emotional when coordinating Prince John) and was Seeing Diana with her Frances also I asked him if he everything Charles wearing a ring on mom, Daphne says, invites said she was nervous. with with the “inevitable comparisons her hand in dressed up for “Me? Nervous!? Daphne bride- and to Kate and her mom.” memory of him. I the occasion; No. No. No. I am groom-to-be. spoke with her again before after all, she was the mother of not nervous,” he told me at “So why are you still ner- her own death, and both times the bride! But then she first. Then he went on to say vous?” I asked. Frances made a point to tell revealed, “I felt like a guest. I that he has known the “Because of all these many me that Diana, known for her did not have any say about the bride-to-be for a long time, details. Because this wedding charity work, didn’t just wedding arrangements or so there are no surprises, and is of so much interest. I need happen to be devoted to anything else. Nobody called he has embraced her into the to make sure everything goes charities: “She took it from me. me to ask for my opinion.” family; in his eyes, she had all right — the right timing I have always done charities Which reminded her of the already become part of his with no mistakes. This is my without talking about them.” night Diana died in Paris: “I son’s life. But behind his responsibility,” the concerned Frances then said, “Diana’s heard the news and packed a reassuring smile, I sensed prince admitted, knowing full need to find love [which, in suitcase, waiting for the phone that he really was an anxious well that the world will be the end, she didn’t have with to ring, for someone from the father. “So there’s no anxiety watching his son — just as the Charles] turned out to be like palace to tell me where I then?” I probed. eyes of the world watched his me. I could not live without should go, who was picking He surprised me with his wedding to Diana and all that love; neither could Diana.” me up, what I should do. Same honesty: “Yes, I am nervous. I happened afterward. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: CHRIS JACKSON/WPA POOL/GETTY IMAGES; TIM GRAHAM/GETTY IMAGES; N/C. IMAGES; TIM GRAHAM/GETTY POOL/GETTY IMAGES; CHRIS JACKSON/WPA FROM TOP: CLOCKWISE She also said that contrary thing. Nobody called.” Daphne Barak is renowned for her fascinating interviews with A-list celebrities and newsmakers around the world.

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