Spring 1997 and the newly independent 's busy diary was filling with engagements. There was a planned meeting with new Prime Minister at Chequers, a forthcoming trip to Washington to discuss her landmines campaign at the with First Lady and in late June the highlight of her year, the glamorous sale in New York of 79 of her couture dresses.Beyond that were the school holidays — and her calendar was happily blank. This was her first post-divorce summer and she would have William and Harry for the early weeks of their break.Her divorce from had set down strict rules about their sons — second and third in line to the throne — from where she could take them abroad, to their security and even the kind of airlines and vehicles they would be travelling in. Crucially, she also had to have the Queen's permission if they went out of the country.
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