This is from the May 1, 1988 Edition of PEOPLE EXTRA


Parenthood is her first priority, she has told friends; being a princess
comes | second. In an aristocratic society in which nannies and governesses
have historically played critical roles, Diana is a doting, hands-on,
occasionally overindulgent mother who devotes an exceptional amount of time
to her children. ''As a child, Diana was stuck in the nursery with a nanny,''
says Ingrid Seward, editor of
Majesty magazine. ''I think she very much didn't want that for her
children.''
Make no mistake, Diana has plenty of help with which to carry out her
maternal mission. There are two 24-hour nannies, two detectives assigned
to the boys and at least three footmen (think of them as male maids).
Despite all that, Diana has tried to ensure that her boys be raised as
''normal children'' -- a somewhat naive undertaking, perhaps, given their
birthright.
Give her credit for trying, though. From the start, she defied past royal
practice -- and reportedly her royal mother-in-law's wishes -- by choosing
to give birth to both William and Harry at St. Mary's Hospital in
Paddington, with Charles present, instead of at Buckingham Palace. She
breast-fed both boys for two months and installed them in nurseries within
earshot of her bedrooms at Kensington Palace and Highgrove. (Royal
gossip has it that after William's birth, she irritated his nanny at the
time,
Barbara Barnes, by clambering out of bed in the middle of the night to
answer his cries, when the requirements of stiff upper lippedness
demanded that he should have been trained to sleep through.) And unlike
Queen Elizabeth, who spent months away from her children in the line of
duty, Diana left protocol in tatters by toting 9-month-old William along on
a six-week tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1983.

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On NPR (National Public Radio) last week they interviewed a writer who has
written extensively about the Princess of Wales since her engagement from a
feminist perspective.    They focused on how she was determined to mother her
children and how she fought royal protocol to give birth in a setting she
felt comfortable in, breastfeed her sons and have access to her children.