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Even before Princess Diana met King Charles III (then Prince Charles) and became a card-carrying royal herself, she had a rather privileged upbringing in their orbit. However, while Diana's former nanny Mary Clarke claimed in her 1996 tell-all book "Little Girl Lost" that the future Princess of Wales had a happy childhood overall, the reality was slightly more complicated. Diana's formative years were actually rather dramatic , her upbringing marred by her parents' divorce and the subsequent fallout from it. As Diana wrote in her diaries, "It was a very unhappy childhood. [...] Always seeing my mother crying. Daddy never spoke to us about it. We never asked questions. Too many changes over nannies, very unstable, the whole th

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