I didn't understand what she said until she translated it, but I do love her voice.

My grandma was born and raised in wales. She was a welsh-woman to the bone. She came here to the states when she was 19 to further her education and get her teaching degree. After retirement, she raised me, her granddaughter, from my age of 2 - 17 years old. She was warm, loving, and dedicated to my education. Her accent was very heavy and she often, as she entered her elder years, spoke English with welsh words mixed in. As a toddler I understood her completely, although many other people meeting her for the first time couldn’t lol. I am in my 60’s now, and my grandmother has long since passed away. However, I often hear the welsh language spoken, and get a Deja VU type experience as some of the words must trigger a memory of words spoken to me as a young girl. One thing I know for sure……WELSH IS HARD!!

It's funny because she sounds like she still may have her regular accent for the most part, although I can't say for sure since I don't speak Welsh. It still sounds beautiful.

BS. she was utterly usless creature.

Please I want to know what she said in Welsh?

great post!

Me to. I dont buy into celebrity culture. But this woman is so enchanting and beautiful. Makes one think of a Helen of Troy or a Cleopatra, except infinitley more Real, Vulnerable, a vision to behold. A Gods devine aesthetic vision; an infinite light from Wthin her that illuminates outwardly and beyond; Every tiny gesture, every slight vocal inflection and casual glance like an enchantment. Her Beauty and Grace and Spirit is a Prophecy. Spanning years and decades, to reach out to us in the present and grabs us by the Heart.

+wendy schwimmer She was a good woman and feisty, but let's be honest, sheltered, she had never been. She had been a lady before she married. Her nee was Spencer, a close relation to Winston Churchill's family. Hardly sheltered at all. I read somewhere that during a hotted discussion between her and the Duke of Edinburgh, he threatened to ask the Queen to strip her of the royal title, she was unfazed at all and supposedly replied to him that "Philip, mine is older than yours", allegedly referring to her original title, and insinuating that the Duke is only a duke because he married to the Queen, and his background is from a much lesser European Royal family whose country is much smaller and weaker and poorer and the family had been uprooted during the civil revolution.

Hi Luka. You are right, and much better informed on the subject than I. I found your information most interesting. Admittedly, I have avoided reading/watching any so called "biography" offered up by alleged inner circle. Therefore, my comments were based on a purely emotional reaction to her plight. I am GLAD to hear she put Philip in his place! I just adored her because she seemed like such a kind and genuine young woman. Thank you so much for the bit of English history. Cheers!

+wendy schwimmer I don't buy celebrity and royalty but Diana had a humanity that is totally alien to the Royals: Of whom the rest I have no time for.

effooo2000 Have you ever met an angel?

rayginhulk74 No Diana died before my time

@Geraint Thomas You're thinking of Charles and Camilla there.

She HAD the voice of one

Not the morals of one

She was a not beautiful person

@@diyaaich8476 why?

​@@diyaaich8476she was the most beautiful royal in the royal family

@@diyaaich8476neither was your mother

The queen of people's hearts!!

Here here

Not of my world. We abolished royalty

@@ferrarired1422 we r not talking about royalty ,

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Sandra Kavanagh, For the daughter of an Earl, she was seriously UNDER-accomplished. She had, like many girls whose parent can afford it, dance lessons which included ballet and tap. She DID play the piano quite well, as her maternal grandmother, Lady Fermoy, was a concert pianist. She could also swim well However, her behaviour at school was so unco-operative, that she failed her exams. She was then sent to a Swiss Finishing School, but dropped out. Her mother tried to get her to do a catering course, but she dropped out of that. She worked as an unqualified nursery assistant. (Being the daughter of an Earl does have advantages; otherwise she would have worked as a checkout-chickie.) Her entire reading matter was Barbara Cartland novels in which the girl heroine marries a prince. She set her arget at Prince Charles, which was most unfortunate for HIM. Her ne real talent was turning on an apparently guileless charm, which sucked people in. In sucked in Prince Charles. People in nursing homes loved her. And male employees and officers from Wellington Barracks were only to delighted to drop their trousers for her.

@@MandyJMaddison you may not put any stock by it, but the talent she did have to radiate warmth and to reach out in an honest way to others, that is something that cannot be taught. No one was arguing she was the sharpest tack. She didn't need to be in her role. What she was was the only positive ambassador for the Royal Family at a time when they were all perceived as odd, distanced and completely out of touch.

Snuggles, I do put store by it. Diana had charm, and natural grace. She was typical of the charming Narcissist. They throw you breakfast at you, along with the plate, and then walk out the door with little birdies flying to eat out of their hands, and the driver of the limousine just ready and waiting to drop his trousers. Diana, beyond doubt, had the power to make people feel better, just by walking through a room. Diana had charisma, an element which the Royal Family is singularly lacking. At the time, Charles was being continually lampooned in the press about the ridiculous things he said about environmental sustainability, his advocacy of recycling, saving forests, eating ones greens, and taking a holistic approach to health..... .. What a funny, eccentric, out-of-touch man he was! (He even recycles his own poo-poo as fertiliser!)

Swimming as well

Snuggles McSquishbottom I disagree

Movie Nerd lol ain’t that the truth

Yeah, Cymro, Lots of us are related to them. Wales is a small country with a limited gene pool. You are probably related to every single person west of Chepstow.

@Jossel Weinstein In villages and small communities all across the world, people marry into relatively small gene pools. without thinking it at all unusual.

Prince William was gorgeous when he was younger, then Diana's genes said peace out and now he looks like his father

@@hannavercelli8099 Her looks like his Uncle, Prince Edward Earl of Wessex.

I think William actually identifies as Welsh, he can speak Welsh conversationally and is aiming to become fluent (he may have already reached fluency). He also supports Wales in football too. Harry is very English on the other hand. But William seems to take being Prince of Wales very seriously

@Geraint Thomas Feck knows mate, I'm not an authority on the Royals or even care that much, just some shit I read online *shrugs*

@Geraint Thomas Good comment. I almost typed a comment to the person who said that William supports the Wales football team. But then I read that you had put him straight. I think he was quite young. I was going to inform him about the Welsh republicans known as the Abergele Martyrs, who were killed when a bomb which was meant to derail Prince Charles' train, exploded prematurely. All the best.

@Geraint Thomas True mate. Social media and facts have never been good friends.

@@elwulfcoe1696 He can't speak a word of Welsh you muppet, just like his toff of a mother.

and so will Charles and his now-life.

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+Makeup by Honish: I love her silvery freckles.

You must be blind.. the only attractive thing about it was her mouth and her hairhowever they started dying it way too blonde she was not very attractive at all other than those qualities only famous because married into the royal family she was just a human being like the rest of us full of flaws and she had many

+Ana Parada: True, like the rest of us, she had her share of flaws...but not any more flaws than the rest of her family or the rest of us. Agreed that sometimes that thick hair of hers was sometimes dyed too blond.

She had a very large bumpy nose !

@@leedelrey7914 its a greek / roman nose.

+Divine Deschabel: Diana sure did pave the way for Kate and Meghan. Diana, you are loved also by many worldwide.

Yeah ur right.

I HATE lies like this. Diana NEVER "threw herself tirelessly into charity work". It is absolute bullshit! Dian took charity invitations, when it suited her... and always made sure that the Media were present. She never worked hard in her life. And she dropped most of her engagements as soon as she could. The TIRELESS worker is Anne, the Princess Royal,

So true

Diana made sure that her sons will get a happy marriage..

She was smart and yet duped by Charles and the ENTIRE royal family into thinking he found her enchanting and really loved her. So she married a prince to only become the brood mare for the "future" royals William and Harry. All the while Charles was bedding "a friend " of Diana's who was soon name the Rottweiler, Camilla Parker Bowles.

A Google User Yes these were her most beautiful years for sure

+A Google User: Those huge, huge eyes expressed so much.

She had makeup artists and people doing her hair that's why are you an idiot?!yet there's homeless people in England and all over that area there a disgrace to go family the only attractive thing about princess Diana was her hair and her mouth that was it she was not very appealing other weiser a very good person she was just human like the rest of us stop all this idolization

Scarlett O’Hara is more beautiful and it’s Princess Diana’s charm that makes you blind to that she was just average looking with a big nose.

@@anaparada7219 I understood that u r too jealous of her and u r an attention seeker

I wish she could have been Queen

Yes it's a beautiful language that needs to be kept alive and well... I'm learning it and I live in the Midland USA, missouri

Princess Diana can speak Welsh better than the majority of South Wales 😂De Cymry nothing but traitors. Gwynedd am byth!

@@Wildboy789789 Even the Welsh don't general call the language "beautiful" 😁 Edit: generally

i m proud of your family

it must have been so hard for her to make that speech! Number 1 top social phoebia is fear of public speaking. Add that to the fact that she was naturally shy, can you imagine the courage it took to make this speech, and so many others! Like another commenter stated...she contributed much to this pathetic gene pool. And she taught her boys to be loving parents, which she never had.

Now imagine your mother wearing a crown and thinking that could be what Diana looks like if she becomes a queen and still alive

Yeah, that's a REALLY common theme. Look how that turned out for Whitney Houston.

Amen.

I think you may have a point. One does not always appreciate what one has before its gone.

RIIIIIGHT! HE WAS THE "IKE" TO HER "TINA" STATUS!!!!!!!! SOME MEN REALLY BE LIKE THAT! "THATS WHEN THEY WANT TO BREAK HER"!

Charles was looking for a mother and not a wife. He found it with the old Camilla who gave him the love and attention Elisabeth never showed him.

so sweet, like the angel she was, and is.

Are you joking? I don't hear anything and people here in comment commenting like they hear her. Or I'm just crazy rn if I was then I'm gonna go ascending myself to heaven

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and that shows why the monarchy is shit, and should be done away with. After Elizabeth dies, Charles and Camilla should slink off into the sunset, and Kate and Will should go into the world doing good and having lots of fun with all the royal treasures. Really UK, do you want to continue this ridiculous travesty?? After what they did to Diana, I don't know how anyone in the UK would want to continue funding this dynasty.

@@w021353s The Queen is Sovereign of 15 Commonwealth realms in addition to the UK. She is also Head of the Commonwealth itself, a voluntary association of 54 independent countries. The British empire is large and the monarchy has been around for over a thousand years with a rich history. It will continue to stand. As if any one person can change that fact. William will make a wonderful King and bring stability just as his grandmother has done. As will his children and descendants after him....

She didn’t lose her title?

Perfectly putted

Was the car accident preplanned!

Of wood and ash, THAT was the general impression that this highly attention-seeking and Narcissistic person tried to achieve....... oh, sooo sweet and innocent..... she was a deceitful, conniving, game-playing, gaslighting bitch, whose main talent was helping officers of the regiment to unbutton their red coats and take their boots off.

@@ms.d5195 I think that what you have said here is absolutely correct. The Royal Family have always maintained a formality about their physical interaction with the public.. The Queen is physically remote to the extent that she has only very rarely taken the arm of a person to climb stairs with no rails..e.g. at the Houses of Parliament. and she is 94. Formal handshakes is what they do, unless they are Edward, and he avoids them if possible. Diana was completely spontaneous in that regard, grew up in a family where as a toddler she was used to being lugged around by older sisters (never her mother) and was accustomed to handling other people's children in a familiar way. When Diana touched a child or a needy person, it was always an affectionate touch, rather than a formal one. Kate is more reserved than Diana, but Sophie Wessex is not. She simply doesn't have the amazing charisma of Diana that made every interaction with her seem to be surrounded by rainbow lights and falling stars. There is a lovely clip of Sophie describing the dress that she is wearing to an elderly blind woman and putting the woman's hand on her chest so she can feel the folds in the material.

@@nagubaikadapa7761 Diana was a b*tch. Diana said spiteful, cruel nasty things to people every day of her life. Some people have a store of nice sayings that they bring out when people need comfort. Diana was the opposite. She had a store of spiteful, witty little things that she tagged onto the end of discussions, and muttered in a low voice. You don't believe me? Just Google Princess Diana and LOOK at her face. In formal photos she looks posed, but in informal pics, you can see the real person * pic published by britannica.com in white jacket with blue colar * pic published by Readers Digest with Charles, wearing beige coloured dress. *Pic published by business insider wearing balck ballgown and the tiara she refused to return to her father.(so his wife, the Countess Spencer, could not wear it) This is not a woman that you would choose as your sister, your bestie, or your wife.

@@MandyJMaddison don't even dare to call her b **, u son of b** I would love to b her daughter

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Princess Diana charmed the hearts of citizens all over the world. She was cherished here in the states. Her treatment from the monarchy was cold and heartless. Princess Diana’s commitment to the job of Princess was to be admired, and Queen E should have at least given Princess D her due in that. Princess Diana, whether the Monarchy took the title away or not, will ALWAYS be PRINCESS Diana to all of us. God rest her soul.

Now she’s the queen (or at least she should be)

The world has been fighting a long time for some women to never be queen 🙏☺️

+DeeMor501: Too nervous and shy to be "charismatic." But she did great and was powerful in her quiet way. She seemed quite a bit older than her years even then.

Me also! Her quiet strength, dignity and courage is just amazing.

It was...and despite her nervousness, she did beautifully.

Just like her traitor son Harry.

Her great-grandmother did that at a time when a lot of Britain’s aristocrats were hurting for money to maintain their estates, and American daughters and granddaughters of the nouveau riche wanted to be accepted into the old-money upper classes. So the men got money and the women got status. This was true of Winston Churchill’s mother, too. There were many such marriages back then. Just like the one depicted on Downtown Abbey, Lord and Lady Grantham.

@@Historian212 Thank you for sharing! I love history!

get rid of the royals UK!! The way that Diana was treated by them is a good example of why the monarchy should be abolished!! I am a conservative, but Charles, Andrew et al are some creepy horrible human beings. The only decent royals are Diana's sons.

I think the same. That's one of the reasons why I miss those days. Such a graceful woman she was, and so committed to her principles and moral values. Those are other things lost these days.

+yaguarete79 xxt

Why do women have to be gracious or proper.......What even is gracious and proper these days. Let women be whatever they wish.

Well, the wrong thing to do is judge people under a label "women". Every woman and man decide what they want to be, value and do in their life. The most important thing to do is not to exaggerate and talk nonsense. "Be whatever you wish" is a good advice to a mature person with a healthy mind.

+Jessica H " So lady like. Very gracious and proper. Wish women were more like this these days. " She's also an aristocrat. Are YOU an aristocrat? Answer: NO. Shut up and sit down.

but a princess of the people nevertheless!

She was a "commoner"; an aristocrat, of the nobility, but she wasn't born royal. It's ok to be a "commoner". Some of the best people are.

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Charles. Lol

lots of p[eople

Her husband and his family. Jealousy is a terrible thing.