as he remembers his friend Diana.
I think of her as someone who was desperately searching for love.
She would have, I mean, no idea how much people loved her.
It's a shame that she couldn't have known that in her lifetime.
I believe that nicotine is not addictive.
Exposed. The big lie.
Deadly facts the tobacco giants hid for decades.
It's the greatest demonstration of corporate irresponsibility in history.
This man forced the guilty American companies to pay out $500 billion.
The tobacco companies purposely marketed and targeted children.
Now he's on the case in Australia, where the corporate cover-up and deceit continues.
I have some questions about tobacco.
Do you believe that tobacco causes cancer?
I'm Liz Hayes.
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I'm Charles Woolley.
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Those stories and your tributes to Princess Diana tonight on 60 Minutes.
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Here in London, along with millions of others,
I have been privileged to witness an extraordinarily moving event.
The funeral of Diana was much, much more than just a sad tribute to a beautiful young woman.
It was a nation calling out to its royal family to change.
For God's sake, modernise.
Earl Spencer, Diana's younger brother, was brutal.
On behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family,
will not allow your two sons to be so immersed by duty and tradition
that they cannot sing openly as you planned.
We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that drove you to tearful despair.
And this brought enthusiastic applause from the crowds.
Earl Spencer's eulogy captured exactly the mood of a country
demanding an end to media excesses,
demanding that royalty get with the 20th century, or get out,
and that we all recognise the caring and humanity
that is the legacy of the dead princess.
Today, the pomp and ceremony is over.
The millions of mourners have gone home.
And here, in the quiet English countryside, Diana is finally at peace.
Almost at the last minute, the Spencer family decided to bury her here
on this island in the family estate in Northamptonshire,
rather than in the village church.
Diana has now been laid to rest.
The end of the chapter, certainly, but probably not the end of the book.
In the last five years of her life,
Diana and her modern ways gave the royal tree a mighty shape.
And in her passing, she leaves the Queen and Charles
with one of their greatest challenges ever.
It's been a turbulent week for Britain's royal family.
It was no secret that they didn't enjoy
a happy relationship with Princess Diana.
So, in the lead-up to her funeral,
the Queen's silence was seen as, well, at least heartless
and maybe mean-spirited.
Since the age of 26, she's been monarch of this country,
and she has done what she considers to be her duty,
and never until now has she ever been criticised.
This is the first time I've heard the kind of criticism
levelled at the Queen that's been levelled at her in the last few days.
Ingrid Seward is the editor of Majesty magazine
and the author of five royal biographies.
Has the institution been damaged irreparably?
Possibly the institution was damaged by Diana's being,
and, I mean, they didn't understand her in life,
and they are bewildered by her in death.
It wasn't only the Queen who came under fire.
Diana's death has reopened the old wounds,
the wounds caused by her divorce from Prince Charles,
and that astonishing demonstration of affection for Diana
shows that many of the monarch's subjects have judged Charles harshly.
They mishandled it so badly that one begins to think that William,
who obviously is the focus of attention and emotion,
is their only hope of survival.
Charles is a very unpopular man.
Anthony Holden is a royal biographer who now believes that Prince William
has been permanently scarred by his mother's death.
It's very, very tough on him.
He's going to have to spend the rest of his life in a media age
dealing with the media like the monarchies had to in panic stations in the last few days,
and he's going to be thinking, these are the people that killed my mother.
That poor boy, it would be surprising if he didn't grow up with emotional problems anyway
given what's happened in his life so far.
The royals eventually went to see the flowers left at the gates of Balmoral Castle,
and in a rare moment of public affection, Charles held young Prince Harry's hand.
So rare an event was this.
It was a front-page photo in newspapers around the world.
I think Charles is a very cold man.
He's an emotional cripple, really.
It's the way he was brought up.
If you compare, there's a famous photograph of the queen
when he was a tiny little boy, four or five years old, just after her coronation,
coming back from six months away, coronation world tour.
And she arrives on the train, she gets off the train, she greets her mother,
she greets her sister, and then eventually she turns to this little boy
who's standing there forlornly, gives him a handshake, and straightens his collar.
Compare that with the pictures you've seen of Di, after a week away from her children,
jumping into her arms, but that's the kind of family he was brought up in.
It's no wonder, in a way, he's grown up with an inability, all of them have,
an inability to treat other people as equals, to form relationships with other human beings.
So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
On the eve of Diana's funeral, the queen spoke the words everyone had been waiting to hear.
The speech was regal and dignified, but unemotional.
She never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness.
I admired and respected her for her energy and commitment to others,
and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
She only shows emotion to horses and dogs in public, and that's, she's 71 years old,
that's the way she's always been.
It doesn't mean that in private they're not as huggy and friendly as you or I might be.
If there was any lingering hostility to the royals,
it wasn't apparent among the thousands of mourners who came to Hyde Park
to watch the funeral on giant TV screens.
I think the queen has rectified the bad feelings she caused initially,
and I think she meant what she said.
People think it was hypocritical, but I do think she meant what she said.
It's quite the next of a speech, isn't it?
And what do you think of the way Charles has handled himself?
I think people forget that he's had lots of problems with it all.
I saw a picture in a French magazine where he was very emotional and crying,
and people don't see that side of him.
Sad day for everyone, really.
And what do you think of the role Charles played in all of this?
I haven't really got much comment.
Sorry?
I haven't really got much feeling on it, really.
I haven't got much comment.
We didn't come here for them, you know.
Sorry again?
We didn't come here for them.
She was a princess, a great beauty,
and at the time of her death arguably the most famous woman in the world.
No longer officially a royal,
she nevertheless captured public affection on a scale that eclipsed the House of Windsor.
See, the problem with Diana was that as long as she was around,
she was an unguided missile.
Andrew Neil is a former editor of the Sunday Times.
He serialised the biography of Diana that revealed the inner secrets of her troubled marriage.
Because she was an international superstar,
more interesting, more liked than any of the rest of them,
no matter how much the royal family tried to work itself back into favour with the British people,
she, a woman with a grudge as we all know,
could just totally outshine them in whatever they did.
Just one photo opportunity would knock the rest of them off the front page,
no matter what they did.
Despite the glare of publicity,
the cameras intruded into almost every moment of her life,
Diana, herself a daughter of divorced parents,
was determined that William and Harry should have a more realistic experience of life
than some of the other royal children.
She tried to bring them up as normal children.
She used to take them shopping, she used to take them to McDonald's,
she used to let them wear their baseball caps on backwards and wear jeans and go to amusement parks.
Of course their life isn't normal,
but she tried to introduce them to what she considered was the real world.
As if to show the House of Windsor what they should be doing,
Diana involved herself in a range of causes which, if not controversial,
were certainly highly relevant to modern times.
And she showed her compassion came from her heart.
She reinvented the art of royalty.
She recreated what it meant to be royal.
She associated the monarchy with urgent contemporary issues
like AIDS and cancer and landmines,
on which she changed government policy on both sides of the Atlantic in the last months of her life.
Charles, what's he involved with?
Organic farming, homeopathic medicine, going out fox hunting at weekends.
That's a Britain that is gone.
Diana Spencer came from an aristocratic family
whose ties to the royal family went back 500 years.
This was her family home,
Althorpe House, near the tiny village of Great Brington,
90 minutes drive north of London.
Betty Andrew was the family cook at Althorpe House.
She still lives in the nearby village and fondly remembers Diana as a child.
Among her memorabilia are Christmas cards from Charles and Diana,
and later from just Diana herself.
And was the Charles the right man for her?
Well he always seems to stay to me so serious.
I don't really know.
She chose him, he chose her, I don't know which it is.
Do you think being brought up out here in the country prepared her for her duties, her life as a princess?
Well I don't think so.
I often wonder if she realised the enormity of being a princess.
Because I mean she was just a real country girl.
I mean jeans and a sloppy jacket and just running about the park.
She was never elegant in those days.
I mean she hated dressing up.
And then to be like, as she turned out, you can't realise.
When Charles married Diana, the shy country girl became a princess
and took on the duties that go with royalty.
She produced the required air and the spare and loyally supported her husband.
But privately she became increasingly unhappy.
On a trip to the Taj Mahal it became clear she was a very lonely figure
and the end wasn't far away.
I wish to inform the House that Buckingham Palace are at this moment issuing the following statement.
It reads as follows.
It is announced from Buckingham Palace that with regret the Prince and Princess of Wales have decided to separate.
They threw her out of the Royal Family, stripped her of her rank of Royal Highness,
scrapped her name from the prayers that are said for the Royal Family and Church.
There was very brutal treatment a year ago for the divorce settlement
and that's rebounded on them now and they've tried to reclaim her
and get some of the reflected glory of this week.
People have said, no, you're the people that threw her out and you're the people that ruined her life.
This is an expression of love for her, not for you.
If anything, it's against you.
I stand before you today, the representative of a family in grief.
Shattering convention for such an occasion, Earl Spencer made it clear
he was not about to forgive or forget those who he believed were culpable in his sister's death.
All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity,
a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden,
a very British girl who transcended nationality,
someone with a natural nobility who was classless
and who proved in the last year that she needed no Royal title
to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.
What started as a fairytale romance became an ugly separation and then a scandalous divorce.
Tapes of private conversations by both Charles and Diana were leaked to the media
and Charles himself spoke publicly of his infidelity.
Did you try to be faithful and honourable to your wife when you took on the vow of marriage?
Yes, absolutely.
And you were?
Yes.
Until it became irretrievably broken down.
The person was, of course, Camilla Parker Bowles, the woman who Charles always loved but never married.
Why has Charles been condemned for simply loving another woman?
This was a case of a man who throughout the time he was wooing Diana,
engaging her, marrying her, going on a honeymoon, rearing children with her,
was still seeing another woman, was still in love with another woman all the way through.
But at the same time when the people looked at Diana and they looked at Camilla Parker Bowles,
they couldn't understand what he was about, what's his problem?
For a while there was doubt whether Elton John would sing at Diana's funeral.
He'd said yes, but Buckingham Palace wondered if a pop star in Westminster Abbey might be undignified.
And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind,
never fading with the sunset when the rain set in.
And if Diana represented anything, she represented showing your emotions.
Now we Brits are not supposed to be good at that.
We're supposed to be stiff upper lip types.
What has the nation done this week? It's just come out and wept in the streets.
And there's a strong feeling this weekend that the country's really been changed.
I lead from the heart, not the head.
And albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.
But someone's got to go out there and love people and show it.
I'd like to be a queen of people's hearts in people's hearts,
but I don't see myself being queen of this country.
Later in the program, Elton John talks with us about his special friendship with Princess Diana.
Princess Diana.
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The truth is finally out about smoking.
In the words of the tobacco company chiefs themselves,
cigarettes are addictive and they kill.
And by the admission of those same executives,
they've been lying about that for 30 years.
In America, now that the big lie has been exposed,
the tobacco companies are forking out $500 billion,
yes, $500 billion to pay smoking-related health costs.
Here, well, there's been no admission of wrongdoing
from companies, nor a government seeking one,
or for that matter, seeking compensation.
In fact, just this week, the federal government
ignored two damning reports on smoking
and decided that cigarette sponsorship of some sport
could continue.
Watch this, and you'll wonder why.
I believe that nicotine is not addictive.
And I too believe that nicotine is not addictive.
It was a defining moment in the history of the tobacco industry.
The chief executive officers of America's major tobacco companies
lying while under oath to the U.S. Congress in 1994.
I believe nicotine is not addictive, yes.
One of the last acts in a deception unmatched in corporate history,
the big lie of big tobacco.
I don't think any of them die of diseases caused by cigarette smoking.
Zero.
If they do, I think it's an unproven case.
Have you known people, smokers, that had to take courses
or be hypnotized to help them quit smoking?
No, not what I can recall.
As recently as March this year, the heads of the giant tobacco companies
in the United States were still trying to keep their 40-year-old smoke screen intact.
You can sit and calculate the number of people who die of let's say cardiovascular disease
and say, okay, X number of people who eat eggs die of cardiovascular disease.
Eggs cause the death of X number of people.
Nonsensical calculations. What does it mean?
You can do this about everything.
If theoretically you became convinced, yes, cigarette smoking does cause lung cancer,
would you get out of the tobacco business?
Is that a personal question?
Yes.
No, I wouldn't.
And Australian tobacco companies have taken the lead from their parent corporations overseas.
We believe this is an issue of adult choice,
and both those words are relevant, adult and choice.
I can answer your question.
The industry here has hired prominent figures,
like former New South Wales Liberal Premier, Nick Greiner,
to use his proven political skills in the defence of tobacco.
He's now chairman of WD and HO Wills, majority owned by British American Tobacco.
30 years ago, Brown & Williamson and British American Tobacco, its parent,
knew nicotine was an addictive drug, and they knew smoking caused cancer and other diseases.
Professor Stanton Glantz of the University of California
has studied British American Tobacco's own top secret files.
And they also developed very sophisticated legal strategies
to keep this information away from the public,
to keep this information away from public health authorities.
What's now painfully clear is that tobacco companies have been aware for decades
that their product kills, yet have spent their billions in profit
not trying to repair the damage they've caused,
but fighting anyone who dares take them on.
And that's worked in their favour until now.
We are here today to announce what we think is the most historic
public health achievement in history.
In July this year, 40 American states successfully brought
big tobacco to the negotiating table, then to its knees.
Under the terms of an historic settlement, US tobacco companies
will have to pay $500 billion towards health programs,
stop targeting underage smokers.
As well, nicotine will be classed and regulated as an addictive drug.
Tobacco products will be sold only from licensed premises.
But most importantly, the US settlement finally unmasks the big lie.
From now on, tobacco companies must reveal what they've known all along.
And we wanted to make sure that every single person, not only in America,
but this entire world, knows the truth about what the tobacco industry
has done to the people of this world over the last 50 years.
And we are satisfied that we have done that.
The architect of the US settlement was Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore.
Just for the record, what do we now know about cigarettes and tobacco?
Well, we know without any doubt that the use of tobacco products,
smoking cigarettes, will kill you.
I mean, cigarettes cause cancer.
It's not Surgeon General says, it's we say, the world knows.
Nicotine is an addictive drug. There's no question about it.
And we know that the tobacco companies hid and lied about these things
for many, many years. We also know without contradiction
that they purposely marketed and targeted children.
How do we know that?
Well, we know those things three ways.
We know them from the internal documents of the industry.
We know them from whistleblowers who have come out and told us the truth.
And we know it from the mouths of the tobacco executives themselves now.
Yes, we believe for many people smoking cigarettes is very addictive.
Bennett LeBeau, head of the Liggett Tobacco Company,
whose historic admission exposed the big lie.
Mr. LeBeau, does cigarette smoking cause lung cancer, heart and vascular disease and emphysema?
Yes.
The facts about cigarettes are now simple, deadly and undeniable.
In Australia, they cause 18,900 deaths each year
and cost us more than $12 billion a year in health and related costs.
They contain the same ingredients as those sold in the U.S.,
are made by many of the same companies and cause exactly the same damage.
But while in America the tobacco companies are being forced to pay out billions,
here they're not even being asked.
In 1976, we were one of the first countries in the world to restrict tobacco advertising.
According to our Federal Health Minister, Michael Woolridge, we're doing enough already.
Do you not feel as though we could not create some sort of situation
where we too could get a payout, for instance, like the U.S. did at least?
I'm not a lawyer, I'm a doctor.
But you're a man with a great deal of power.
Well, yes, and I've taken legal advice from the experts.
And the advice I'm given is that there isn't immediately applicable here
because our system of law is different.
You can't fight this fight and be squeamish about it.
You have to realize that it's the most important public health problem in your country
and then seize the moment.
You're going to have to take it up as a cause.
If the President of the United States can take on the tobacco industry,
then a prime minister of this country could do the same thing.
And that's the kind of leadership that it's going to take to win this war.
The only way we'll ever improve this problem in our countries
is to focus, really like the problem is, focus on our kids.
Mike Moore and his chief legal adviser, Richard Scruggs,
agreed to come to Australia to a council of war called by the Australian anti-smoking movement,
eager to learn the battle tactics used in the U.S. fight against the tobacco companies.
Even if we lost.
Representatives from the Cancer Council, New South Wales and Victorian anti-smoking groups,
the AMA and Heart Foundation.
This U.S. settlement has shown that the industry's been lying to its customers for the last 30 years.
Now we're determined to do everything in our power
to keep these issues at the top of every government department's list of priorities.
The situation in Australia is no different to everywhere else.
Australians who smoke like Americans die like Americans who smoke.
People across the world die because of cigarette smoking.
In this country, 18,900 people die every year because of cigarettes that are marketed,
promoted and pushed by executives who should know better and, in my opinion, do know better.
Mr. Griner.
How are you? Nice to see you.
Very good to see you.
I'm sorry to bail you off like this, but I do need to.
I've got some questions about tobacco.
Do you believe that tobacco courses cancel?
No, it doesn't.
But none of those Australian tobacco company executives would speak to us.
We particularly wanted an interview with the industry's most prominent executive, Nick Griner.
He replied to our phone calls and letters with a written no, sheltering behind legal advice.
And I do think that 60 minutes ought to be slightly more professional
and I think that haze ought to be more professional than to go on with such stupidity.
Does it surprise you that a former Premier of New South Wales is now the chairman of a major tobacco company here in Australia?
It doesn't surprise me.
That's really what the tobacco companies usually do.
They get somebody who has high respectability, former government officials and put them in a position of responsibility.
They basically buy their reputations.
Is it disappointing?
Well, it is disappointing.
And think of the awesome responsibility you have as a Premier.
And now you take on the job of running a tobacco company and you're in the business of selling a product that kills people.
Well, you ought to at least tell the truth.
And you know that heads of tobacco companies in America have admitted to the ill effects of tobacco.
That's a really good speech.
But it's true.
And do you not have a comment about that?
It's a really good speech and you know the answer.
We can go through it again.
We know that under legal advice we are engaged in litigation which deals with the subject and so I'm not able to answer your question.
But your parent company in America has agreed to a settlement.
Liz, it's been entirely boring.
Remember, Mr. Griner's parent company has signed the US settlement, which includes a provision for full disclosure of the facts.
The company that owns his employer has entered into an agreement with us.
They know that cigarettes cause cancer.
They know that nicotine is addictive and they know that they've marketed to children.
So the company that owns Nick Griner's company has agreed that cigarettes are addictive and can kill.
That's right.
Nick Griner just hasn't got the message.
I know the phones work here, but he just hasn't got the phone call yet.
What about all those cigarette smugglers out there who just want to know what's in their cigarettes?
Enough, enough.
The tobacco industry would have us believe that the high taxes on Australian cigarettes are somehow its contribution to the health costs associated with smoking.
We do collect four and a half billion dollars a year in tobacco taxes, but that's all paid by smokers.
The industry itself pays nothing towards repairing the damage it causes or towards the twelve and a half billion dollars smoking costs this country every year.
Is it difficult for politicians, the fact that we collect something like four point five billion dollars in taxes from cigarettes, does that compromise us in any way?
Not at all, because we spend far more treating tobacco illnesses.
Once again, Minister Wooldridge showed no indication of wanting to follow the lead of the US.
Does it feel comfortable that sixty million of those taxes collected are taxes from tobacco consumed by children?
No, it's very uncomfortable.
But again, I put the question to you, what are we doing or what are we not doing that we should be doing?
In America, we're going to spend five hundred million dollars a year focused on our children, trying to get them to stop smoking or prevent them from smoking.
In this country, you need to have the exact type of campaign. If you don't, you're going to fail.
If there was one word to describe the tobacco industry, what would it be for you?
Irresponsible. Irresponsible. It's the greatest demonstration of corporate irresponsibility in history.
I don't believe this.
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It was said in the oceans of flowers, in the silence of so many, by the two billion or so who watched worldwide.
Diana, the Princess of Wales, became in death what she wanted to be in life, the Queen of Hearts.
As her brother Earl Spencer said last night at the funeral, only now do many appreciate what we are now without.
Not her friends though, the love and admiration of those like Elton John was there for the world to see in his incredibly moving tribute.
Shortly before he performed at Westminster Abbey, Elton John recorded this interview with Barbara Walters of the American Broadcasting Company.
Elton John.
The flamboyant rock star.
He has helped raise millions of dollars for causes like famine relief and the fight against AIDS.
She was the shy Princess Diana, who could hardly have come from a more different world.
But she too was a crusader, dedicated to easing people's suffering with her compassion and grace.
And so the Princess and the rock star became devoted friends and enjoyed each other's company in good times and bad for almost two decades.
How did you meet? How did you become so friendly?
I was playing at Prince Andrew's birthday party at Windsor Castle and this is when she was Lady Diana Spencer.
All that time ago.
Yeah, and I came down after getting changed and they had a big dance band there and there was nobody around except her and she said it was really lovely, thank you very much.
And when we did the Charlton together for about ten minutes, not that I've ever Charlton, but you don't turn that sort of thing down, do you?
She was so funny, she was very charming and lovely, very easy then, and she put me very much at ease.
What do you think the kindred spirit was?
A feeling of love for people, compassion, humor, sadness.
She could connect with everybody, she made everyone feel special.
And that, you know, the royal family has been kind of, through centuries and centuries, remained aloof from that.
And they're brought up in a different way from everybody else. And Diana broke the mold.
But earlier this year, the two friends had a falling out.
And it was not until Gianni Versace, their mutual friend, was brutally slain in July that they came together again.
That reunion meant the world to Elton John.
When I started crying and she put her arm around me and she was, that's exactly what she was like.
She was such a caring, very calming person.
And she comforted you.
Yes. Friendship is not just all about the good times, it's about, we all fall out with each other sometimes, we all have disagreements.
And thank God, through one tragedy, we came back together again.
Elton, you were going to sing at her funeral.
Sarah, her sister, had asked if it was possible that I could sing.
And I said, I'll do anything you want.
I've been invited to the funeral anyway, which I considered an incredible honor with David to pay my last respects.
And now I've been asked to sing something at the funeral, which is quite a daunting thing, but I want to.
I'm not scared about it. I really want to sing for her.
It obviously had to be cleared with the Queen.
Yes, and I think not only just the Queen, I mean, you have to go, it's such an elaborate, sort of labyrinth of people you have to go through.
There's the people, the courtiers of the palace, there's Westminster Abbey, there's, you know, because it's a sacred place.
And people want it to be dignified, as I do, and they don't want it to be demeaned in any way.
What will you sing?
In England, they've been showing montages of Princess Diana with Candle in the Wind.
The song that Bernie talked in my rope about Marilyn Monroe.
So rather than sing that, which I thought was totally inappropriate because it's a song about Marilyn Monroe,
I asked Bernie yesterday evening to write a brand new lyric about her.
What's the first line?
Goodbye, England's rose.
Goodbye, England's rose.
May you ever grow in our hearts.
You were the grace that placed yourselves where lives were torn apart.
You called out to our country and you whispered to those in pain,
Now you belong to heaven and the stars spell out your name.
And it seems to me you live your life like a candle in the wind.
I'm going to go from the Abbey and I'm going to go into a studio and I'm going to record a piano and voice version of that song.
And I'm going to put it on my new single, which is coming out in a couple, two or three weeks.
And I'm going to give all the money to start her foundation off.
The Princess Diana Trust.
Yeah, administered through Kensington Palace by her sister, Sarah,
to carry on the work with the charities that she was associated with.
Since she had little pretension, it seems to me, and you know her so much better, that she kind of liked to, you know, strip people of their pretensions.
Yeah, and she teased people. She was a great teaser too.
Yes, she was great company. I mean, a great dinner guest, great company, great conversationist.
I've never known her to be unhappy as far as when she talks to you.
She's always one of these people that whenever you get off the phone or you see her in person, you always feel elated after you've spoken to her.
And she had the best sense of humor. I think that's what most people are saying now.
What do you remember about Princess Diana? Her humor?
It was kind of a wicked humor.
It was very wicked. She had a very wicked giggle.
She had a very wicked sense of humor.
You and Princess Diana loved the gossip, didn't you?
Mm-hmm. Gossip and shop, but we never shopped together.
Gossip and shop? And I'll bet it was fun.
It was fun, and love.
There was something else the Princess and the rock star had in common.
Both were victims of their own celebrity.
I think because of what I do, she could talk to me about the pressures that were on her, which were enormous.
Anyplace you go, there's somebody following you with a camera, and that's very hard to put up with.
People say, oh, well, that's part and parcel. Let them try it.
What do you think about the paparazzi? Are they in part to blame for this tragedy?
Of course they are.
They are. What can be done about it? Any solutions?
The actual responsibility lies with the editors and the owners of the newspapers.
Because the public isn't saying, please take a picture in the bedroom, please take a picture in the car.
I think some of these things that they publish and some of the photographs that they pay for are disgraceful.
When you look back, was there one particular time when you and Princess Diana just had a ball together?
I had a dinner at my house, Windsor, and we invited about 30 people, some film stars, and Princess Diana was the guest of honor.
There was one special film star that she was very excited to see and spent the whole evening talking to him and cross-legged on the floor.
Who, who, who?
Richard Gere.
I remember reading about him.
And the most incredible thing about Diana, she talked through her eyes.
They're the most expressive eyes that you could possibly have imagined.
And I just remember seeing her sitting on the floor looking up on him in complete awe.
You have the song that you wrote called Your Song.
The last line of that song, yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen.
Yours are the sweetest eyes of everything.
She had the most sweetest and the most beautiful eyes.
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind what I've put down in the words.
How wonderful life is while you're in the words.
You will miss her.
Oh, absolutely.
She's irreplaceable.
Irreplaceable, totally irreplaceable.
How wonderful life is while you're in the words.
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Super League Finals action Monday, 8.30 on Channel 9.
Our story last week on rorts and inefficiencies on this country's wharves
proved a timely piece of reporting.
Too timely, thought some people, as this week Government and the ACTU
attacked each other over plans to reform the waterfront.
The wharfies are nowadays pretty much able to call the shots on the Australian waterfront.
This man was rosted on the midnight shift, 10pm to 5.30am.
And on the night we watched, he was the first to leave the job at 1.13 in the morning.
Now that's not a bad early mark, especially when you're being paid double time.
Come 3am, a few more took off.
Richard Carlton's story, as well as exposing work practices of wharfies, also told of their cost,
poor handling rates and strikes that add hugely to the price of our imports and exports.
Would you acknowledge that Sydney's the worst in the world?
No, I wouldn't acknowledge that at all.
Well look, I tell you, your productivity's gone down.
I can go back to the last six quarters here, Bureau of Transport Economics,
and there they are, they're the worst in the world.
The last six quarters, have a look.
Instead, Maritime Union boss John Coombs chose to attack 60 Minutes
in a letter circulated to various media outlets, claiming we were working in league with Government.
We received a call from an industry source a couple of weeks back
to let us know that 60 Minutes had been approached by the Government
and told to do a job on this union and its members.
Well, that is not the case, far from it.
Though, because of what we exposed, the pressure was on in Federal Parliament this week
for someone to do a job on the wharfies.
And it also showed in that program, the 60 Minutes program,
that wharfies can earn up to $120,000 a year, $120,000 a year.