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Text 5
Translate the following newspaper text into English.
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is in a quotation. What to do? The first step will be to consult your own language
knowledge or your bilingual dictionary, followed by the usual checking procedures: i.e.
referring to your monolingual learner’s and collocations dictionaries and the internet.
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Diana '
I thought of running off with lover'(Filed: 07/12/2004) Telegraph
Diana, Princess of Wales, considered fleeing the Royal
policeman Barry Mannakee, new tapes
reveal.
Household to be with her love,
The princess admitted that she had fallen "deeply in love" with a man in the palace
"environment". "I was quite happy to give all this up," she said in the tapes broadcast
today on American television network NBC.
The station had shown tapes last week in which the princess said she suspected that the Royal
protection officer was "bumped off" because of their affair. Meanwhile, Diana
recalled an extraordinary row with her stepmother Raine Spencer, which turned
violent. A confrontation ended with Diana pushing her stepmother down a flight of stairs.
The tapes were recorded in September 1992 by her voice coach Peter Settelen.
She says in the tapes: "I was always wandering around trying to see him". The station names him
as Mr Mannakee. "I just, you know, wore my heart on my sleeve. I was only happy when he was
around," she said.
Diana said in the candid talks that she even considered running away with her lover because he
gave her the intimacy she was missing at home. In the first round of tapes Diana said
she and the Prince of Wales had sex just once every three weeks during their marriage. "I was
quite happy to give all this up," she said. But she went on: "Well not all this, at this moment, at
the time, it was quite something to have all this."
The video shows her saying: "Just to go off and live with him. Can you believe it? And he kept
saying he thought it was a good idea."
Rumours of an affair between Diana and Mr Mannakee spread throughout the Royal Household,
and he
was assigned to other duties - or "chucked out", as Diana
put it. Diana described the officer as "the greatest friend I've ever had". "I was like a little girl
in front of him the whole time, desperate for praise, desperate."
Mr Mannakee was killed in a 1987 motorbike crash, and Diana was plagued
by distressing dreams. "I used to have really disturbing dreams about him. And he was very
unhappy wherever he'
s gone to," she said. "I went to put some flowers on his grave," she said.
But she learned that his body had been cremated and his ashes scattered. "He was just chucked
over the ground. That absolutely appalled me, but there we are," she said. "I wasn'
t in a position
to do anything about it." She still laid the flowers in the cemetery and the bad dreams stopped,
she explained. "It'
s strange wasn'
t it? It'
s like a sort of recognition."
Reflecting on the relationship, the princess added: "I should never have played with fire and I
did. And I got very burned." She said Prince Charles broke the news of Mr Mannakee'
s death to
her as she was in a limousine, about to arrive at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987. She said:
"Charles said to me that he was killed in a motorbike accident. "And that was
the biggest blow of my life, I must say. That was a real killer. "Charles thought he knew but he
never, never had any proof. And he just jumped it on me like that and I wasn'
t able to do
anything."
Diana also told of the extraordinary row she had with the woman who she believed had stolen
her father from her mother. Diana said that she and her brother Charles called
Raine
Spencer "Acid Raine" and declared her to be a "bully". The bad feeling simmered for
years before it erupted into a row on Charles'wedding day. "I pushed her down the stairs, which
gave me enormous satisfaction," Diana said. "I wanted to throttle that stepmother of mine. She
brought me such grief."
The princess went on to recall her unhappy childhood. She said her parents "never said they
loved me. I was always told by my family that I was the thick one, that I was stupid and my
brother was the clever one."
Mr Settelen defended his decision to sell the tapes to NBC, saying some of the money would go
to his legal costs, some would benefit a child adopted from Russia and the rest would "help me
live".
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