"It was so difficult... because I wanted to be there with my girls and to - and to be getting them dressed and to go as a family, " the Queen's former daughter-in-law said in the interview taped on 6 May and due to air on Wednesday.

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As of the time of this interview (Nov. 6) some 200, 000 Long Islandresidents are still without power.

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This is an edited transcript of the interview which took place on Monday, August 6, 2001.

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