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These were days I will always treasure. It was as if we had been transported back to our childhood when we spent such an enormous amount of time together the two youngest in the family. Fundamentally she had not changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents' homes with me at weekends. It is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre-like life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself.
這些日子我會永遠珍惜，我現在好像又回到了從前，我倆一起生活很多年的日子，我和她是家里最小的兩個孩子。她基本上同小時候我心目中的姐姐一樣，待我像母親對待嬰孩般慈愛。在學校里和我一起打架，忍受周末與我一同度過往返雙親各自家中的漫長的火車旅行。在童年以后，即便身處復雜奇怪的環境，她總保持完整和自己的真實，這要歸功于她冷靜的頭腦和內心的力量。
There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time. She talked endlessly of getting away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers. I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling.
毫無疑問，她一直在找尋一個新生活方向。她不時說起要離開英國，主要是受不了報紙對她的圍攻。我想她始終不明白為什么她的真誠善意會被傳媒扭曲嘲弄，為什么周圍總有一股永遠要把她拉倒的代表傳媒的勢力，這些確實令人難以理解。
My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest is this: a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age. She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys Williams and Harry from a similar fate and I do this here, Diana, on your behalf. We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful depair.
我自己唯一的解釋，就是真正的善與美對那些位于道德光譜另一端的人來說，是一種威脅。但是，在一切有關戴安娜的嘲諷中，也許最大的諷刺是：一個女孩子，她的名字是古代狩獵女神（Diana），自己最后卻成為現代社會最受圍剿的一個人。她想要我們今天誓言保護她鐘愛的孩子威廉和哈里，免遭相同的命運。戴安娜，我在這里代表你起拆誓，我們決不會讓他們遭受那種常常把你逼到絕望落淚的苦難。
