On Duty With The Queen: My Time As A Buckingham Palace Press Secretary - Plot & Excerpts
Always in the limelight, Diana was well aware of the emotional toll royal life could take, and as a result she was eager to protect her children from the media glare for as long as possible. She took great pains to separate her role as a mother from her role as the wife of the heir to the throne. In doing so she hoped to provide the boys with as normal a childhood as one could have within the confines of Palace walls. She took them to movies, theme parks and burger restaurants, each activity allowing for the boys to have a life in common with their friends. She rarely brought them into the office at St James’s Palace. Unless there was a photo call at Ludgrove, their prep school, I seldom had the opportunity to spend time with them, but there is one occasion in particular that sticks out in my mind. In December 1992, the Princess held a pre-Christmas drinks reception at Kensington Palace to thank her charities for their work over the course of the year. At the time Diana was president or patron of over 100 organizations including Barnardo’s, Centrepoint, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, the Leprosy Mission, the National AIDS Trust, the Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust and Help the Aged, to name but a few.
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