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It was very much undercover, very secretive and if the Establishment had got any wind of it then the cover would have been blown and the book would never have come out and the story of Diana, the story that the world knows today would not have been revealed.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eMorton is now able to speak about why Princess Diana wanted to tell her story in such a graphic manner.\u003cbr/\u003eI think the intention really was just to try and tell her story so that the world could understand the real Diana. Because remember, before the book came out she was seen as this rather demure and silent clothes horse - this attractive adornment to Prince Charles and she really wanted to tell her side of the story - what was really going on in her life. One of the things that fascinates me is the difference between myth and reality - the reality was that Diana was living an awful life, the myth was that it was this fairytale marriage. And in a way the book exploded the fairytale and people had to look again, look again at the monarchy, look again at Prince Charles, look again at Diana  and see a woman who was beautiful, but also flawed, vulnerable and desperately alone.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eIntriguingly, Morton also believes it was a last gasp attempt to save, rather than wreck the marriage to Prince Charles.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the reasons for giving her deniability was that she always had - she wasn't painted into a corner - so that at some point she and Prince Charles could say to each other look, yes we've had a tough ten years, Prince Charles could say yes I have had a mistress and we're going to work together to work something out. That was the whole purpose behind deniability as well - it gave them the chance to come together. Obviously it didn't happen because they realised their differences were irreconcilable. \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eThe book detailed the extent of Prince Charles's involvement with Camilla Parker-Bowles for the first time.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's now an accepted part of recent history, but when the truth was told for the first time it came as a massive shock.\u003cbr/\u003eWhat shocked me most was this conspiracy of silence. That not just Prince Charles - that I can understand - but the detectives, the valets, the cleaners, the Buckingham Palace courtiers, the rest of the Royal Family all conspired in the knowledge that Prince Charles was enjoying effectively a surrogate marriage with another woman and that Princess Diana, when she asked people face to face was being told black is white. And she was living in this Kafka-esque nightmare. And it's one of the reasons why she decided to speak to me, because she could no longer bear to live this intolerable lie.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eMorton came under heavy fire for his book.\u003cbr/\u003eHe was condemned as indulging in tittle tattle and nonsense. \u003cbr/\u003eFew believed what he had to say and he could not call upon his main source - Diana - to help him out.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was rather like being a fairground boxer and fighting everybody with one arm tied behind your back. Because I knew the truth of the situation was people saying and various Members of Parliament saying that I should be sent to the Tower of London and I was getting all kinds of nasty letters. It was a very difficult time.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eMorton is still the object of vilification in many quarters - only this time he's attacked for exploiting Diana's name for his own ends.\u003cbr/\u003eI find the criticism of me often quite puerile and rather bewildering because the book that I've written is the only book that's been authorised by the Princess of Wales, the only book that's ever been written with her full undivided co-operation and the world has feasted, picked over that book for the last five or six years - so for the people to attack me, they're really attacking Diana as well.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eWe know Diana as well as we do because of what she chose to tell the world through Morton's book.\u003cbr/\u003eThe catalogue of her suffering and despair undoubtedly drew her closer to many people - resulting in the outpouring of grief at her death.\u003cbr/\u003e 24 Aug, London \u003cbr/\u003e1. Set up shot Andrew Morton walking \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003e3. Morton reading his Diana book\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eFile\u003cbr/\u003e5. Diana and Charles with William and Harry at Eton \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eFile \u003cbr/\u003e7. Camilla Parker-Bowles\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eAPTV File\u003cbr/\u003e9. Diana at charity event, Washington DC\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003e11. File of Diana at charity event\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: Andrew Morton, Royal author\u003cbr/\u003eAPTV  File  August 1997\u003cbr/\u003e13. 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