Insiders share how Princess Diana’s 1989 New York trip really went

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tour of New York City, attending ­galas as well visiting with the underprivileged. As the new season of “The Crown” on Netflix tells it, the trip was an escape from her marriage to Prince Charles — and the infidelities being committed by both of them.But the only thing she was focused on that day was meeting the children.

Sadly, said Grate, now 82 and a minister in East Stroudsburg, Pa.: “Most of the kids that were there at that time, they’re no longer with us.

By the time they got on that floor, the prognosis was so bad for them.”As people who were at the hospital that day reveal for the first time, the visit was far more meaningful than “The Crown” can ever convey.“These children were so very, very ill, and, at the time, not much was.