Yes & no. Remembering that Diana was only 18 when she joined the Royal family and had little in the way of protection or guidance from her husband and was not particularly close with her own family. Growing up within that pressure cooker of an environment I’m not surprised that she learned how to manipulate people and circumstances to manage her way through that marriage and beyond. Add to that there were forces that manipulated Diana into thinking she was being pursued & persecuted (look at the BBC & the Panorama interview) that would have added to her paranoia. I think it’s difficult to judge how we would act under similar circumstances.

Diana was 20 when she was engaged and married to Prince Charles. @@juliusmaloney

I think Diana's actions were somewhat justified considering her treatment as a very young naive bride who obviously was in love with her husband at the beginning.

I never liked Diana. I didn't feel she was genuine. I always thought she had a big ego and self-dramatising.

I was so disappointed when I realized how manipulative and downright nutty she could be... and I was sorry for young William who was forced into being his mother's confidant, even about her numerous lovers. When I read that William didn't want her coming to his soccer games because she would loudly make fun of his legs I was shocked she could be so cruel. She sounds A LOT like Harry!

It confirms that Harry and the wife are both absolutely 💯 INSANE

If you read the later book by Lady C, she says that Di had asked her to write a book (the one you read) about her life in royal circle. However, Lady C did go to get opinions from people in the know. Diana did not like it; that is when Di went to Morton. If just half of Lady Cs 2nd book (post Diana) is true Diana was the cross for the rf to bear.

Have you reviewed Angela Levin's book? Allegedly, AL claims that Di, Ferg & Andrew hatched a plan to block Charles. A was to be Regent. Shocking. As to your comment about Di would not do anything to hurt Bea & Eug - discount that. She did not think of the consequences. She lashed out. Think on the people who believe her nastiness from MB or anu of the other crap she did or said. The mess we've endured because of the reckless thoughtless barbs she torpedoed at people - mainly Charles but the Queen, too. Think about two boys always hearing her side. Wm who was Daddy's boy becoming adult - looking after her. No decent mother should do that to her kid. Or announce Harry is thick. Well, get him psych help & tutors so at least he can be the smartest thicko not the dumbest & laziest thicko. No. She did not stop to think about how this or that action could damage or have very long term effects. I hope if she were allowed to do it over again that it would be very different.

Yes I have! Fascinating

She also has been using Kim Kardashian’s playbook from the beginning.

I have always thought Dianna never thought how it would be for her boys. A selfish, vindictive woman.

After reading the Andrew Morton book and seeing her interview with the BBC I lost all respect for her. She was a nasty self centred person. Hitting her father in the face, pushing her stepmother down the stairs and throwing herself down the stairs while pregnant was enough for me to see what a drama queen she was. She pandered to the media to gain sympathy. She made Charles look cold and unloving which he was not. He loved and nurtured his sons more than she ever could.

Yes so immature of Diana. Poor William

Regrettably true

She hated Sophie because she looked a bit like her and copied her style...lol!😅

You should read the.. real Diana by lady Colin The Duchess by penny junor .. The housekeepers dairy. Highgrowe.

That is very profound and moving. Thank you 💗

I quite agree. Well said.

Maybe that's way William took so long to marry her! He wanted to make sure she wasn't going to be like that! I'm sure he loved his mother very much but could also see how she created drama. I laugh when I see stories of Catherine like, shocking!! She forgot to say hello to a ball boy or she didn't curtsey to Queen Camilla! That's the best they can do?! Haha I've even seen people, probably sugars, saying she's boring. She's just not giving them enough to criticize that's all!!

Naja, Prinzessin Diana wurde von der Presse lange als Heilige dargestellt. Von Catherine haben wir auch nur das öffentliche Bild. Wie sie wirklich ist, wissen wir nicht.

@@praxisfurnaturheilkunde5394 that is true! I think the palace protected Harry all his life by giving him a very positive image & it wasn't until he left that we saw that he wasn't very nice. Even his own book shows he always was mean spirted by the way he treated people. I think it says a lot about someone by the way they treat people that serve them & animals. The Corgis did not like him. The palace has portrayed the future king & queen as flawless. No one is without flaws!

Catherine has turned out to be an absolute TREASURE to the royal family!

​@@praxisfurnaturheilkunde5394Sugar trolls in different languages 😂😂😂

I feel Lady C is very Biased about Diana and Charles.

@@mariemartins8606I think Lady C saw through machinations on both sides. In particular, with Diana the narcissist tendencies probably set off alarm bells reminding Lady C of her mother.

Lady C wrote that when Diana "threw" herself down the stairs to commit unliving, was a lie Diana let out. Diana herself said that she would never hurt her baby. It was a slip down the stairs.

@@mariemartins8606 ..Lady C’s hubby was a friend of Diana’s father and on one of her podcasts, she said both men were the two most violently misogynistic in British Aristocracy…..there’s enough in that to understand that there’s NO WAY that Diana would not have grown up without developing strategies to cope with all of that .!!! It’s sad that it was such an awful upbringing, but she had access to psychiatric care during the marriage but clearly , she didn’t have the will to address it and change !! Poor Charles walked right into it after being separated from his one true love . Her bulimia resulted from a news article very early on where the press said she was slightly chubby and dressed a bit grannyish. !!! That was why I doubted her claim of Charles seeing Camilla as the reason for it , during that BBC interview.!!!! The now King and Queen have endured SO much vitriolic abuse (some of it physical toward Camilla ) and yet they never once retaliated…….surely , as Harry has opened up this Pandora’s box ,it’s time to set the record straight……..it appears that one narc is exposing another narcs true self and he has too many of those Spencer genes in him to stop and THINK !!! 😏

I always think of the Queen as a grandmother having to deal with family as we all do.

I would say it’s a tad more complicated since each person isn’t surrounded by private secretaries communicating instead of the family members😆 While Diana had great regrets for the Bashir interview and the Morton book, Charles using the Dimbley & Penny Junor books to say how ‘crazy, nutter and pathetically needy’ Diana was.

Charles gave an interview too.

​@@vivienleigh2121 but he didn't trashed Diana and never discuss about Diana's multiple affairs with many married men.

W&C were so smart to allow themselves to mature before they married. Even in the rugby podcast, Catherine left people wanting more, rather than outshine or put aside her blood Royal Princess and Prince. Compare that to Markle at invictus. Absurd.

Diana, Fergie and Meghan never fit in the Royal Family and not one of them was Royal material. On the other hand Catherine and Sophie were born to be Royals!

Let's hope Kate is not another phony playing a good masking game. Sorry I'm.quire cynical.

And for all her bad press, look how fantastic Camilla has been as a wife and now Charles’ queen. She was the woman he needed all along.

She wanted a few years to marry so that p makes far more better than the wannabe!​@@UrbanArtCentral

Interesting 😊

No, I doubt that very much. It’s said Diana recognized that Lady C was hostile to her when she recognized that tact might get her inroads with Charles’ set. It never has but Lady C was said to be jealous of Diana from the beginning.

@@mmoretti I don’t hate lady C but that wouldn’t really shock me.

​@@mmorettiLady C already ran in the circles.Charles did and was an early confident of Diana. Diana contradicted herself among interviews and her 1990s narrative disagreed with her own documented words from earlier years so there is no doubt she wanted to change the narrative.midstream.

@@mmoretti I'm no fan of ''Lady'' Campbell but I really don't think she was jealous of Diana, not least because of the age gap.

I agree that Diana genuinely cared about the causes she championed, and give her props for that, but as a person, I think she was very flawed. She could absolutely be petty and vengeful and for all her finger wagging at Charles and Camilla, she seemed to have no issue breaking up a few marriages herself. I’m afraid William got most of her good qualities and Harold all of her worst ones.

@@graphiquejack and to add to that…. William got ALL THE GOOD MESSAGING from his parents (both)….and Harry got the less good, THE FLAWED messaging AS A SPARE that he didn’t matter. I guarantee you….THE WORD SPARE is NOT ALLOWED in the Wales home!

Yes I actually think Diana would have been fabulous at that!

It's a pity H&M didn't read the whole idea Diana had about doing documentaries.....focusing on a discreet 'humanitarian' campaign NOT on themselves and their poor hurt feelings!!

I can’t help but feel if Diana had been loved the way Harry was, she would not have been so wracked by insecurity and fears of abandonment.

@@judywright4241Agree. Charles was being pushed to marry and have children. He was in love with Camilla but married Diana because he needed 2 kids and a toy wife. I've heard that PP told Charles to marry Diana or move on and if Charles did marry and didn't love Diana after 5 years, he could go back to Camilla. That's not good fatherly advise. It was an open secret that Camilla's marriage to APB was in name only, as he was a notorious cheat, before and after marriage. Charles absolutely used Diana as a breeder, there is no way around that. Charles also used Camilla to "break Diana in," as we have seen the pictures of Camilla and Diana at the polo matches. Even William and Harry's births were scheduled around Charles polo matches. Like most young girls, I think that Diana hoped Charles would change after marriage and leave Camilla. Well, that never works. What a sad and deathly mess. I have no respect for either Charles or Camilla. Poor Fergie! I believe Andrew and Fergie had an open marriage and would have been happy to stay together but for PP.

Diana tarnished her own image with her countless affairs and her lies about Charles and Camilla!

Interesting

I’ve read both. Lady Cs is much better.

Young yes but hardly a naive child, she was sent away to boarding school at a very young age this in itself makes a child grow up sooner, she was the same age I was when I married and in no way did I consider myself young and innocent and I saw through her straight away you can read some women like a book.

Yes definitely a possibility!

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Fergie and Randy Andy… if only we’d get the real T on that relationship. It still baffles me after all this time.

So true 🤣

True, because females defend their kids no matter what … 😁

Men will kill their enemies, women will wound them, which is worse because you have to live with the pain. Of course these are sexist generalizations, but stereotypes exist because there’s a certain truth to them.

Rudyard Kipling, poem 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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Our Miss Marple! (Silly auto-correct tried to change the “p” to a “k”)!

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I think that being in the navy and away from home for a long time he would be well aware that wives sometimes stray when the husband's away, not only Sarah but lots of other wives do as well - always have done, not just military either but golf is definitely another group of solitary ''grass widows'' - and he was able to accept that Sarah needed company and if he wasn't there then she would look elsewhere. Not sure she had affairs but like many solitary ''grass widows'' she would look for a man to keep her company and provide amusement, I suspect he trusted her not to totally betray him and he knew her character - they'd known each other for a very long time - which is possibly also why they've stayed so close, basically married without the priest.

@@ABC1701A well said, I agree

They have a very ‘modern’ relationship. Perhaps if they were private citizens it could have worked. An open marriage, friends more than lovers, ride or die despite whatever terrible things they got up to. If they both weren’t so sketchy, and if he wasn’t such a sleazy, pompous oaf, I could almost admire it.

I agree that both accepted each others dalliances privately, As long as thry werent splashed on Front Page, then it was Palace intervention, Exactly the same with Diana, all was ignored until phone taps and her Interview. I believe both Ladies bloomed after being shunned from RF, but both had better relationships with exs. I read that Charles had, Tea ot Dinner with Diana when dropping the boys home. Neither could be tamed 😄.

@@Ronnie-lu7uo I envy those able to sustain some sort of civility and relationship after divorce as it is indeed far better for the children, if possible. I often think that the stories of Dianas 'craziness' are/were overexaggerated, as once divorced no new stories appeared (unless the Palace hid them) and she genuinely seemed far more 'level' after the divorce.

In her attitude to life Fergie was much more upper class than Diana, the icon of the lower middle classes.

Yes poor old Fergie was very unpopular with the Coutiers!

The RF is corrupt. No doubt about it.

@@edronc2007 Look at the photos of the times of Sarah with Diana, somehow however Sarah was dressed her face lights up the photos - I can see why Diana was allegedly so jealous of her because Diana looks ''ok looking but nothing spectacular'' while Sarah somehow simply always lights up the photos. She still does it now when you see her on video, it isn't looks or dress sense but it IS something within her. She is full of life, she is genuinely caring - and not just for the cameras - and she doesn't really worry about what others think (luckily remembering some of the vile things said about her), she simply lights up the room, the image, the video and she does it - I think - without even realising it.

@@ABC1701A You hit the nail on the head - Diana was "caring" when the cameras were rolling but uncaring and nasty in private!

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Yes! I can see why you say that!

Diana wasn’t shady, Fergie was double dealing. She put out a lie attacking Diana accusing her of giving her verucas by loaning her a pair of shoes. Fergie actually sold lies to the tabloids, just as Fergie sold access to Andrew to Epstein & others. Fergie is the one who started bringing Oprah over to try and profit from the royals.

Yes I have made videos on all that and I agree :) These are different incidents though.

Agree therr is wisdom in what you say,howrver Diana w} as mofern but not normal fulltime Mum. The nanny in the nursery floor ruled the roost. Diana accused Charles of an affair with Tiggy leg burke?? The boys were exposed to a lot behind closed doors.,were introduced, spent time with J Hewitt, H Khan etc , would also contribute to personality quirks in adulthood. Agre about the spoiling, Harry always had dreadful tantrums.

Yes I understand however I was referring to the headlines of the day and the perception back then. Horrendous for Sarah Ferguson. Sarah was also topless which made matters much worse!

@@thevintageread Nothing unusual in that in Europe though, even in those days.

That would explain why Andrew never once abandoned Sarah, the divorce was forced on them by Philip - personally I think they could, and would, have got through it if things were allowed to be forgotten and Sarah kept out of the limelight for a suitable time - but his father (and I am normally a fan of the late Duke) interfered and it all went pear shaped.

There were a couple of the toe sulking photos. Fergie topless and Beatrice who was very young naked in front of the Texan guy. Very poor judgement on Fergies part, no matter how innocent it was. I would be filthy ( furious) if that was my child.😮

I have a lot more sympathy for Fergie now too.

I agree with you, I have always liked Fergie. She has more class than ppl think. Sounds like the courtiers have a lot to answer for or whoever set Fergie up does. As far as I remember Fergie has never pushed back on the story or spoken negatively about the RF. I wish her well. 🌻💕

Harry war der nettere und unkompliziertere Sohn!

Well Diana had bad taste in boyfriends. Her choices were always unsuitable.

Thank you so much! 😊💗

At least he’s doing his father a solid. All of Harry and Meghan’s shenanigans elicit sympathy to Charles and Camilla, William and Catherine, and tarnish Diana beyond the grave. King Charles is probably more popular than he’s been since the Panarama interview, at least in the UK. America is still up Diana’s butt.

They sure are!

Thanks so much!!

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Thanks I appreciate that! (Coffee is vital 😅)

It is fascinating!

So glad!

Yes I agree!

Diana had to grow up and mature. She was never royal material as a young woman. After the divorce, she found her big girl nickers, she was able to be the wonderful person she was.

I bet it was! What a scoop 🤗

Yes in the time this was referring to, the method would have been to tap landline phones (not by the media) Later in the mobile phone era the media phone hacking began. The “official story” was eavesdropping by amateur radio hacks…My personal opinion was it was more deliberate than that!

I still can’t believe she turned down the royal personal protection officers. That and the seatbelts. 😞

Diana died before mobiles were a big thing, car phones but that was about all. That was the flaw with Harry's claim against the media, he claimed they were hacking a phone he didn't have, and Diana didn't either. They did hack into some of the landlines but that was Charles and not Diana who was the victim.

@@rachmunshine9474 She did have an experience protection officer though, the one hired by Mr Fayed. He asked them both to put on their seatbelts according to the investigation but Diana giggled and refused. Guessing Dodi did as well.

@@thevintageread I remember, though, that by the mid-90's Diana was using mobile phones. Tina Brown wrote in the Diana Chronicles, that Diana would have multiple mobiles in use. I don't know how secure those connections were back in the day. Just saying.

Yes always more to a story!

Yes she changed to that in the Royal Marriages book and she explained why on her channel.

Thank you so much! 💗

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Maybe! Different culture now I think!

I think the palace hasn’t necessarily gone soft but have changed their strategy. Now it’s a more slow painful downfall

​@@dv7361I believe it's wise to stay silent, then give them enough rope to hang themselves. It seems to be happening as they sully everything they touch & are immensely unpopular currently. It's just like parenting, when you don't need to punish your child, just let them deal with the naturally occurring consequences of their actions.

Yes I said that in the vid I said the book she was working on with Andrew Morton.

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AMEN!

Perfect!

It was a bit of a hoot! 😂🤣

Always hidden depths to most things! 😉

Ripper of a suggestion.😉

Thanks :)