Princess Diana loved Prince Charles until the day she died and all she ever wanted was to be a perfect wife for him, a close friend of the princess said in an interview to be published this week.
"I think she loved her husband to the very end . . . She herself didn't know how badly she loved him," Ms Lucia Flecha de Lima, the wife of the Brazilian ambassador to Washington, told the monthly magazine Brasilia em Dia.
Ms Flecha de Lima also said Diana bore no grudge against Queen Elizabeth. "Quite honestly, and I heard her say so herself, the queen never did anything to hurt her," she said. Ms Flecha de Lima said Diana's tragedy was that all she wanted from life was to be a good wife and mother.
"She wanted to be a perfect Princess of Wales, a perfect mother, and she dreamed of being an exceptional woman for the prince. But that was not possible.
"She had a very serious problem, because everything she touched turned to gold."
Ms Flecha de Lima said she doubted that the princess had been deeply in love with her millionaire companion, Dodi Fayed, who was killed with her in the Paris car crash on August 31st.
Ms Flecha de Lima became a close friend of Diana when her marriage to Charles began to turn sour. They met when the Flecha de Limas escorted Diana during an official visit to Brazil in 1991.
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