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I never liked Laura Ashley's stuff.

Most of the photos are from 1997 taken after her death.

The furniture is nothing like I remember in the 80's.

@@Vivaldilover because you weren’t a princess

No good excuses exist other than old and frumpy.

The Tudors were over 500 years ago now. The royal house that followed were the Stuarts.

C. Hay Yes, prior to 1917, the members of the British Royal Family did not have a surname; but, they were members of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Queen Elizabeth's father, King George VI, was born in 1895 as a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. According to some accounts the name change was due to the fact that it sounded too German. The Windsor family shouldn't be the royal family. It belongs to Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, Britain's Real Monarch. I particularly find English history fascinating because my 18th Great Grandmother, Margaret DeMowbray, Dutchess of Norfolk (1399-1459) is also Anne Boleyns great great grandmother. Anne Boleyn is my 3rd cousin 16 generations removed. I also have in my family line John (Beaufort of Gaunt) Plantagent, 1st Duke of Lancaster, he was my 19th great grandfather.

dV8 Entertainment It is very nice to read this comment. I am Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro and I am really fascinated by the British Royal Family. I' ve been reading a lot about this family for the last 20 years! Thanks for sharing this very good explanation.

dV8 Entertainment I just watched a video -" An Unlawful Killing". Which puts Prince Phillip right in the middle of the Natzis He was born and raised in Germany!!!

Vanda Moura Princess Diana was murderd!!! You should know that about them also!!

I've been to Kensington Palace too and it is absolutely WONDERFUL. There are huge windows for a lot of natural light, beautiful furniture - I found it to be a very open, airy and cheerful place. The public is only allowed in the state rooms and they are very nice!

You have only been in the parts where the public are permitted no doubt. The private quarters are not exactly on display and no doubt are decorated as the resident wishes.

Marlene and Paula since both of you been to Kensington Palace is it how it's shown in this video !?

She was very lucky to live there. She never saw the good things in her life.

@@janeepooley haha...its a sad awful place

I found myself thinking, A decorator did that?? The colors are off. The feng shue is off. She was so much better at clothing style than home decor.

@@fulanichild3138 exactly, quite strange isn’t it?

People who make them call them soft sculptures. No different than a sculpture of marble, crystal, porcelain, glass, or ceramic. People probably gave them to her and they have sentimental value. Which means she truely cared about people.

People collect Steifs, what's the difference?

She was mentally still 6 years old.

Julie Keenan that’s her (Diana) decorating choices .

Leesa Leesa Wrong !! She wasn’t allowed to touch that ugly assed wall paper or make certain changes -research !

@@Heartfelt-zv7wh it belongs to the firm-

Heart 2020 you are wrong Diana chose all the decor

Heart 2020 :

Actually Prince Charles raised the boys as much and more than Diana .

@lynda petty - duh, what’s that got to with it?

@curiosity 2019 - Diana was just the royal family’s baby machine. 🥰

No charles with be king she shit o hi.

@@lyndapet1 What does that have to do with anything? Diana died when the boys were kids. Of course Charles has done more of the raising by default. Also, William is still her son, her blood. So yes, HER son will be king.

She shouldnt have called the press that night and she should have worn a seatbelt also.

And I thought that’s another sign of her mental and emotional immaturity. I would be ashamed to have toys as a grown woman.

She should have been home with her very young children instead of running around Paris with her boyfriend. Just stop acting like she was some innocent little angel... jfc, grow up

@cee tee Please STFU and find something better to do with your life, dumbazz!

@@choosing.tangent 1) Her children were not very young, they were teenagers. 2) They were with their father because it was his turn to have them. It's called SHARED CUSTODY.

If you remember unlike a young kate diana had no fashion sence before marriage her first picture a blouse that didnt coordinate with her tank top and a see through skirt that didnt match

. . . from her ? 🤔

@@ritahorvath8207 From whomever decorated a royal apartment which most likely spent millions on the decor..

80s

@@jeanettereynolds3151 Kate still has no fashion sense. She dresses like an 80 year old.

​@Logan Jones. You are repeating the same old thing, over and again....... SHE loved Charles but all he wanted was an heir and a spare..... No. Diana married a man 13 years her senior, who was serious, hardworking, rather boring, not very handsome, and going bald........ WHY would she do that? Because Diana, the unhappy third daughter of a father who NEEDED A BOY to inherit his title and estate....... (Downton Abbey ring any bells?) Diana was unloved and neglected. So, like a lot of other very beautiful and charming women, she found herself a man who was older, important, rich, and with prospects. BUT, because of the circles in which Diana moved, the man that SHE wanted to marry........ the rich famous balding, 13-years-older Man....... was the man who would one day be King of England, and make HER Queen of England. All she had to do was be NICE and Patient..... Diana wasn't either of those things. And Charles was serious, boring, balding, and not even a good dancer. Emily Lange says "Her only loves we're her two boys"..... And Barry Manakee, and Oliver Hoare and James Hewitt and Theodore Forstmann and JFK jnr and James Gilbey, and Wiil Carling, and Bryan Adams and another young man who will remain nameless, and Mr Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed. But of course this promiscuity was all the fault of Charles, who had returned to his previous mistress in 1986, (2 years after Diana's relationship with Manakee) and has been with the same woman ever since. One has to ask the question....Why was Diana so MISERABLE in that family? 1. Was it because the Queen objected to the way that Diana would pass her in the corridors of Buckingham Palace, and not even say "Hello!" let alone "Good Morning, Ma'am!"? 2. Was it because Charles' adoring old Granny, who was so happy to have Diana marry her best friend's gran-daughter....... got cross, when she spent the whole of Christmas sulking and refusing to join in the games and dances and charades? 3. Was it because Margaret, who welcomed her warmly, then cut her dead, when Diana played up to Margaret's charming husband? 4. Was it because Fergie overheard what Diana said about her overweight and her lack of style? 5. Was it because the exceptionally hard-working Princess Royal thought she was a fraud? 6. Was it because she dismissed forty members of the palace staff (yes 40!!) 7. Do you think that maybe she didn't fit in because she kept blabbing to the media about matters that were private? *. Do you think anyone was offended with her, when they discovered she was sleeping with her detective, her equestrian trainer, her best friend's husband and that she was the Toast of the Officers Mess at Wellington Barracks?

@@MandyJMaddison very well said for once. She knew who she was marrying and, she had plenty of affairs, more than Charles, so, stop making her a saint.

Oh, PLEASE!

She got a LOT of "love" from other women's husbands and various single men as well. Diana seldom told the truth, you know.

@@stevechristie2569 You are supposed to be faithful, even if your spouse isn't "perfect for you". I'm an ISTP so....play the hand you're dealt and stop emoting about having someone perfect for you, especially when you decide the perfect person is someone else's husband and then....no, maybe this other woman's husband....no, sorry this women over here's husband....no wait this man whose religion says he is damed if he marries me....Yeah that's the one. lol. I mean no harm. :-)

@Cat T. So this is more of his cashing in, eh?

@Cat T. Why was Paul a scumbag? I’m genuinely curious. What did he do?

I personally don't like it, I visited many times the mansions in RI USA, and there look way better as picturing the late 19 and 20 centuries wealth, all of course representing the Victorian era. I thought Diana was more modern taste like, but I guess not, she was old soul as well. I like to see it, but I would not like to live in a place with old fornitures. Maybe a mixture of them with contemporary.

It was Diana's home with her father was old fashioned as was diana style

@@kataisa3 he done nothing.but be her shoulder her trusted friend

THe fact she was physically beautiful and had great style did not make her a good person. She sufferred mental illness and she had affairs with several married men.

KATHERINE IS BETTER !MUCH BETTER. SHE WOULD HAVE LOVED KATHERINE SO MUCH! SHE IS THE BEST THING TO HAVE HAPPENED SINCE DIANA DEATH💞

THEIR DECORATOR SHOULD BE FIRED: LOL LOL LOL

Yes I agree

Sent to The Tower.

I agree, you can hear the moths giggling!!

Agree with all comments. Could have done without.

Awful taste or lack of taste in decor. Yellow walls and pink tablecloth, yuk 1980s or not still ghastly.

Amen.She will never grow old.

Rest in peace.. forever a princess Diana..

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1980s decor, not Victorian

@@chriswatkin6213 Victorian-era decorating was the opposite of today's modern styles. It was a time of heavy, ornate and large furnishings and a penchant for trinkets. The resulting style is romantic with opulence and quite excessive. Her home was pictured in the 80s but the decor period is from 1800s.

@@JohnSm926 you are talking rubbish the decor is 1980s Laura Ashley style

@@chriswatkin6213 Laura Ashley is an interior decorator that takes inspiration from Art Deco and Edwardian Era. 1980s is not an “official”term of an interior decorating style. It’s simply a time where people liked a certain look. Pls educate yourself! Done with morons!

Most of the furnishings were very shabby looking.

Wouldn't the peasant's quarters look warmer in appearance?

This was not a time of “instagram ready.”

Glad to see someone else thinks as I do about this dismal dwelling, yikes!

+s kandy ....oh dear - you still spouting the same old same old ?? You, dear, DON'T speak for anyone else in the UK. Suppose you think Harry & William are the devil's own spawn as well then?

Sad 😞

What kind of crazy decorating is this ? State apartments joke.

The UK decorates in what we saw in the 50’s

You all are hateful old grumps. "Jealous much"? "Queen of our Hearts" Princess Diana was & is forever Well Loved.

I know so ugly and frumpy.

You either weren't around to know what the style was at the time, or whatever.

. wonderful . . . . . . . hm-hm . . . . 🤔

You have an amazing name.

Rest in peace Diana Spencer and Dodi al Fayed. ⚘ 🕊

Lily Arnaout they are a reflection of the times. Very fussy looking for me.

To be fair, the photos are pretty terrible as well - taken with a flash which blows out all the highlights and casts horrible shadows everywhere. But the decor is fairly questionable too.

I don’t think she had much choice regarding decorating it! The furniture wasn’t hers, nor was most of the fittings. It was not really a ‘home’ more like a rented, fully furnished apartment. Interesting that some of the pictures and furniture went back into the royal collection after her death. Shame she couldn’t have done that while she was alive!

@@angiek5233 Yes I don't think most of it would have been much to her liking. It doesn't look very 'homely' at all.

Frankly, it's class. One needs to be of appropriate status to like the stuff.

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Rest in peace Diana Spencer and Dodi al Fayed. ⚘🕊

And Queen Diana of Hearts.

Yet The Princess Made the Best of what She could. Imagine if we were in her place a Husband like Charles cheating right before my face! 🤮

There's that element, but I think no-one would ever know, and they wouldn't come across as human. The whole place was emptied I think and re modelled that's why he took them.

Red Star72 bunch are of bstrds!

He’s a money making leech!!

The royal family pays peanuts. Good on him making sure he looked after his future.

I agree, cannot stand Paul Burrell, a two faced liar. As for Andrew Morton he remained friends with Diana until her death. After all she did work with him on her book although he wasn't allowed to admit it when it first hit the tabloids.

+Meg Shafer: several people wrote it on here: With this decor, no wonder she was depressed.........

It was the 90s?

@@yasminbarry7941 it was her choice

@@cplcabs Yes. You have a point...

She chose it

May be Diana was not allowed to alter the furniture 😩

@@joopresents7740 It was her choice of decor.....

szqsk8 not in my house.

For Fashion as well-clothing, Hair and makeup, but look Princess Diana Looked BEST EVEN in that Era, she was The REAL Beauty with GREAT sense of Fashion !!

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Amen!

Catherine Murphy upper-class furnish their homes with leftovers. Museum quality Chippendale Queen Anne mahogany Walnut. It's a sign of taste, class, resourcefulness. that's why the upper-class kept their monies from generation to Generation. English upper class look down on people who have to buy their furniture.

They were removed by the butler who had all her personal possessions.

How do you know she had a cold life .she had plenty of warm relationships with other women’s husbands. Her own grandmother and mother said she was the one at fault in the relationship.Its very difficult to live with a personality disorder that is so needy

@@lyndapet1 And how do you know these things? So her grandmother had an opinion...and? From all the program bashing I continue to see even after her death, she's unable to rest in peace. I think that rates as pretty icy cold!!

Yes, that place doesn‘t suit her at all.

Or even Princess of Wales a country!!

Princess of "Whales"??? 🐳🐳🐳 Are you serious? 🤦‍♂️

Are you she she was simple? She had an eating disorder for one.

We All do. She was about my Age. God takes away the Good early.

I was surprised also. Not in a good way

It was the 80's, everything was tacky.

@Mrssewhardtoplease exactly frogmore used to be housing for servants and hasn't been used in a long time. Also it has planes flying over constantly so a few million never sounded crazy to me. Renovation and soundproofing on a house hundreds of years old would be very expensive to just make it livable.

@@jessicalawrence6967 Besides, there were articles that said Frogmore Cottage was one of several properties scheduled for renovation, but because Meghan lives there the trash tabloids did everything could to rile up the haters. No one is pointing out that William and Catherine's place at KP cost more to be renovated before they moved in.

No, the narrator said the photos were taken after her death which was in the mid-nineties, and the place had just been re-done

Meadowlark music, Absolutely, disgusting decor,disgusting butler, my comments express my thoughts in the comment section !

WWWWEEELLLL, it WAS the 1980's and 1990's. I still see million, two million dollar houses in a ritzy part of my city, that are decorated in mauve, mauve and green plaids, and florals and ugly dated color schemes from decades ago, but, these rich people pay a lot of money back then to get their houses decorated and then they're too busy paying the taxes on the mansions and for the county we live in, and they don't think the decor is bad, but, when time comes to sell the houses, this is what is shown on real estate websites, and they are way worse than what we saw in Princess Diana's apartments.

The bamboo chairs and the black tree pic wow

@@ProudKansan08 It's Johnson county isn't it?

@@Fourleafclover9 ugly chairs and that ugly awful painting in dining room

Wentra w it was “modern” for 1996. Were you expecting it to be modern for 2016?

@@kathrynwitte3398 That was not modern for 1996. That was modern for 1896.

M Poppins I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Design. The au courant touches at the time are certainly represented in those rooms; chintz, bows, cabbage roses with stripes and tiny rep prints... mixed with the de rigeur antiques.

I like 🥰 There are too many boring and grey homes in this world.....

The pic of her and the boys at the piano was a very good of them.

everythting from the 80s were ugly wbk

Yes. .

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Very troubled inside

I loved her is so sad she died like that

She was we all loved her and she loved her boys.lm so sorry she couldn't be Grandma to the children very sad.lm sure shed have liked Megan.xx

She rests in peace now together with Dodi. ⚘🕊

Yes that is correct.

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God you have a great sense of humor

True...in England it was the interior one would expect in my opinion

Lovely rooms,

+Lorraine Taggart m tMeasor: You say "mausoleum". I say this looks like a crypt. So I guess we agree.

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I know

Lorraine Taggart Measor Whats would say those who are homeless ?????

Oh you really have no idea

A glimpse inside of the very disturbed mind that lived in these rooms.

Jean Koller ... who's to say? All I can say is this man put himself out there in a way no employee ever has whilst being in the employ of the royal family,except for Crawfie,the nanny to the queen and her sister when they were both princesses. She wrote a book of their lives as children and she was shunned by the family,not even sending a wreath to her funeral.She was never mentioned again. Burrell may have been a great support to Diana but he made a damn good living off her death and his association to her.

I know, right!? We're used to only seeing the grand palaces from the outside. I guess once you move in all the family, their spouses, their children, and their dogs, the available space gets divided up pretty quickly. That staircase looked pretty grand though, I feel like these images might not really offer it justice. EDIT: The pictures do not do it justice... here's what wikipedia had to say about apartments 8 & 9: "Apartments 8 & 9 are two conjoined chambers situated on the northern-most section of the main palatial building. The apartment covers three storeys. During its use as a residence, the two-room nursery covered the entirety of the top floor; other spaces included two reception rooms: a drawing room doubling as Diana's office, a sitting room with a television, and a formal dining room... The residence had a helicopter pad, and many outdoor gardens, including one on the roof and a greenhouse..."

It was the 80's and 90's!!!!!!!!!!!!! What do you expect??? Yellow is still a popular color to decorate with, so what's the problem?

@@ProudKansan08 it looks more 60s/70s

I thought she was a modernizer type of person . . . . 🤔

Wrong, it's horrible.

She chose all of it when she remodeled. Hideous.

@Shariff khan nobody cares about your god mate

@Shariff khan oh fuck off, nobody gives a shit!

@Joyce Thurman It's horrendous isn't it, you'd never believe someone with such good fashion sense lived in a dump like that.

@Joyce Thurman Exactly - don't blame the 80's. I had a gorgeous Bauhaus sofa, a cream and blue striped hemp carpet, a swedish pine armoire - all on a waitress's paltry pay. Money can't buy you taste.

She died in 1997. This wasn’t the 80s to blame.

I don't think they bought furniture, just drapes, carpeting, and upholstered couches. And that cost it a fortune.

Agreed. Very cheap-looking, very thin cushions on furniture, the kind of furniture I remember seeing lower income families having in the early 80s.

@@SR-iy4gg LOL 🤣🤣🤣. I WAS a lower income family in the 80's and 90's and would have LOVED to have had that antique furniture and those sofas ! Hindsight is 20/20. No "lower income " family has anything LIKE her sitting room. It was meant to be personal and private, not some film set out of Architectural Dig3st.

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Strangely the rich people I visited have high quality, minimalize style.

@@ritahorvath8207 We are talking about decor 25 years ago!

Yes, I'm sure that pink tablecloth on the table of a yellow-walled hallway looks great in a well taken photograph. LoL (yes, I'm being sarcastic)

cubomania3. Oh dear, when one's argument cannot stand on its own one must resort to name-calling. How deliciously revealing. I'm afraid I won't be insulting you in return as that's simply not my style. On the contrary, I merely wish you well and goodbye.

Photos were not the only thing that Paul Burrell took after Diana's death. And, actually, very little re-decoration was done after the divorce. Most of what you see here was Diana's choice and was her style, The large Appartment was totally refurnished and redecorated at a huge cost back then...when they first married. The KP Apartment was their London home and it was always Diana's preferred choice. Highgrove was the home-Charles always favoured.

True in reality the colours worked much better...it was "of its time"

I didn't care for the bamboo dining furniture. I had expected to see more beautiful real wood pieces in her home and altogether more modern furnishings but if they were comfortable here I guess that's all that matters. Just didn't seem grand enough for a real life Prince and Princess to me.