Friday September 5 5:51 PM EDT 

Magazine: Diana Did Not Expect to Remarry

NEW YORK (Reuter) - Princess Diana did not expect to remarry,
doubting anyone "would take me on" and felt safer alone, she said in
an interview given two months before her death and published Friday.

The princess was killed with her millionaire companion Dodi Al
Fayed early last Sunday when their Mercedes limousine crashed at
high speed in a Paris tunnel after being pursued by paparazzi. Her
funeral will be held Saturday. 

Diana also said she would have made a good queen of England and
would have been the "best team in the world" with Prince Charles,
according to the interview with New Yorker magazine editor Tina
Brown in New York June 23. 

Asked by Brown if she would ever marry again, she said, "Who would
take me on? ... I have so much baggage. Anyone who takes me out to
dinner has to accept the fact that their business will be raked over in
the papers. Photographers will go through their dustbins. I think I am
safer alone." 

Dodi was quoted by a relative early this week as saying he and Diana
were planning to marry. 

In the interview in a special Sept. 15 issue of the New Yorker, which
broke a 72-year tradition by publishing early, Diana said Charles was
not a leader and that she was investing all her hopes for the future of
the British monarchy in her son Prince William. 

"All my hopes are on William now," she said. "I think it is too late for
the rest of the family. But William -- I think he has it. I think he
understands. I'm hoping he'll grow up to be as smart about it as John
Kennedy, Jr. I want William to handle things as well as John does." 

She said Charles is "a follower. He was born to the wrong job. He'd
have been so happy with a house in Tuscany, being a host to artists." 

Diana also expressed regret that she would not become queen if and
when her former husband Prince Charles assumes the throne. 

"We would have been the best team in the world," she said. "I could
shake hands till the cows come home. And Charles could make
serious speeches." 

Diana, whose death has provoked a global outpouring of grief, also
expressed optimism about the Labour government under new British
Prime Minister Tony Blair. 

"I think at last I will have someone who will know how to use me,"
Diana said. "He's told me he wants me to go on some missions." 

When asked what sort of missions, the princess replied that she would
like to go to China. 

But the princess did extol the virtues of Prince Charles' younger
brother Andrew and his sister Princess Anne. 

In response to a remark by Brown that the Duchess of York, Prince
Andrew's estranged wife, hadn't helped the royal family's image,
Diana said: 

"No. And it's a shame for Andrew, because he really is the best of the
bunch. I mean, people don't really know this, but he works really,
really hard for the country. He does so much and no one pays any
attention at all. It's the same with Princess Anne."