The veteran newspaper diarist and gossip Kenneth Rose seemed to know everyone who mattered: royals, aristocrats, prime ministers and more. Yet many of his most sensational stories he kept for his private journals — now published in their second volume following his death in 2014. Here, he writes with unparalleled access and devastating insight as he watches the ingenue Diana Spencer join the Royal Family… In a series of private journals only released now, Kenneth Rose writes with unparalleled access and devastating insight as he watches the ingenue Diana Spencer join the Royal Family February 24, 1981 Watch the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer being interviewed on TV. There is something sad about a girl of 19 being led into royal captivity. July 16, 1981 Johnnie [Earl] Spencer [Diana’s father] tells me that he wanted to wear his Greys [cavalry regiment] uniform when Diana marries the Prince of Wales, but that Diana herself objected. She thought it would detract from her own appearance. This is most extraordinary, like something from King Lear. August 8, 1981 On the Royal Wedding, I hear that it was originally arranged that in the carriage procession from St Paul’s back to the Palace,…