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He will always suffer, Charles, because he’s like me. There’s something in us that attracts that department.
‘You won’t be Queen but you’ll have a tough role.’
I’m not sure what this means exactly and why he would say it. He should’ve said I love you too. I not sure why that wasn’t a red flag for her. Why didn’t she ask him to qualify it?
What she says in the next sentence that she thought he was in love with her seems to point to the fact that even he didn’t know what he was saying. It was more of a Freudian slip.
‘I’ll never let you down but I cannot say the same for your son.’
I had so many dreams as a young girl that I wanted, and hoped this that and the other, that my husband would look after me. He would be a father figure and he’d support me, encourage me, say: ‘Well done’, or ‘No, it wasn’t good enough’, but I didn’t get any of that. I couldn’t believe it, I got none of that, it was role reversal.
Everything she says is how a husband should treat his wife at the beginning.
Also, I never heard once him being protective of her, standing up for her.
But it was a foot on the outside, [to have] someone who said they actually liked being with me. And that to me meant everything.
as I see it, my 12 to 15 years as Princess of Wales … I don’t see it any longer, funnily enough.
It’s weird how she has so many premonitions of marrying someone special in the future, of her father dying, of never being queen, and now this; almost an exact prediction of the amount of time she would be princess.
From day one, I always knew I would never be the next Queen. No one said that to me – I just knew it.
I would much rather be doing something with sick people – I’m more comfortable there.
If I was able to write my own script I’d say that I would hope that my husband would go off, go away with his lady and sort that out and leave me and the children to carry the Wales name through to the time William ascends the throne. And I’d be behind them all the way and I can do this job so much better on my own; I don’t feel trapped.
The Countess was known locally for her frequent visits to the sick and the infirm and was never at a loss for a generous word or gesture.
West Heath encouraged ‘good citizenship’ in the girls, these ideas expressed in visits to the old, the sick and those with special needs.
It worked wonders for her sense of self-esteem.
While he had a fearsome reputation, Diana instinctively felt that he was just lonely.
It was while she was staying with Caroline one weekend in September 1978 at her parents’ Norfolk home that she had a disturbing premonition.
As Carolyn observed: ‘I’m not a terribly spiritual person but I do believe that she was meant to do what she is doing and she certainly believes that. She was surrounded by this golden aura which stopped men going any further; whether they would have liked to or not, it never happened. She was protected somehow by a perfect light.’
While a small voice inside her head told her that she would never become Queen but would have a tough life, she found herself accepting his offer and telling him repeatedly how much she loved him.
As she and his detective observed the Prince put the horse through its paces on the gallops Diana was seized by another premonition of disaster. She said that Alibar was going to have a heart attack and die. Within seconds of her uttering those words, 11-year-old Alibar reared its head back and collapsed to the ground with a massive coronary.
The book doesn’t really provide the details of this romance except for the mention of a few of their meetings? Perhaps Diana didn’t share those aspects with the author or there were none? I understand that this is a biography/autobiography and not a novel. So the author didn’t embellish.
In addition to the lacking romance at this juncture Charles definitely looks like a complete idiot behaving this way by ignoring her.
A woman completes a man. She is one with him. All the praise and accolades are his and vice versa because they chose each other. When one is praised it’s not like the other isn’t being praised. The other is also on the pedestal through their partner. He didn’t understand that. So he was jealous.
But, it had the opposite effect of what he wanted.
Instead he became a small petty person and put a wedge between himself and his wife.
Today he is defined by being the man that crushed a beautiful flower when he could’ve been the most popular monarch.
In the 1994 interview he said that he wasn’t a complete idiot. I beg to differ.
A small dwarf married to a giant of woman and having no idea. This was compounded by his perception of fictitious self-importance.
He is truly a sad human. The problem is that his imbecilic behavior had fatal consequences.
But, again he has no idea, which is worse then a bull in a china shop whose sentience at least gives it some awareness that it’s breaking things.
Diana’s impact on the royal family is measured by how much more accommodating the House of Windsor is now to newcomers.
While her instinct and intuition were finely honed, ‘she understands the essence of people, what a person is about rather than who they are’, said her friend Angela Serota.
‘When I go home and turn my light off at night, I know I did my best.’
It would seem that the royal family was unwilling to learn that lesson, wholly unable to see that an orchestrated campaign to discredit the Princess of Wales was intrinsically self-defeating, and ultimately deeply damaging to the monarchy.
I can feel this with raw emotion. There are no words except to call him names. If he’s taking them then he can spend time with them.
It’s patently obvious that taking them was just a power play so that he can say he has them too. In reality he was too involved in himself to pay them any attention.
But, more then that the pain inflicted on Diana with this ploy is heartless.
No matter what he does or position he takes his character will always be tarnished by his petty, evil, heartless, and vicious machinations to destroy and belittle Diana.
Her psychic abilities and uncanny empathy with those making their last spiritual journey strengthened her conviction that in another existence she had been a nun.
the late Mother Teresa who once said to Diana: ‘To heal other people you have to suffer yourself’,
By contrast, her private work was fulfilling, but ultimately ineffectual without the wider audience of the world stage. It was a dilemma for which she had yet to find a solution.
‘They have a knowledge,’ she once said. ‘They may never use it, but the seed is there, and I hope it will grow because knowledge is power. I want them to have an understanding of people’s emotions, people’s insecurities, people’s distress and people’s hopes and dreams.’
The fact that the Princess of Wales, a major international figure, and the BBC, a leading public broadcasting company, had to go to such extraordinary lengths to record an interview makes a mockery of the notion that we live in an open society.
And why does her own today contribute to such censorship is beyond me. It’s a betrayal of his mother.
https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/2603241/princess-diana-bbc-interview-archived-prince-william-request/
Like mother like son. And for a moment there I thought the Queen was different. What a worthless Monarchy this is. What do they do anyway except prance around showing everyone how important they are?
But when they actually were lucky enough to have somebody actually important in their ranks they threw them away. How appalling.
I wonder if Diana will let her into heaven.
I truly don’t understand how the boys got along with that whole bunch after they literally destroyed their mother. Wow.
‘I had so many dreams as a young girl. I
hoped for a husband to look after me, he would be a father figure to me, he would support me, encourage me, say “Well done” or “That wasn’t good enough.” I didn’t get any of that. I couldn’t believe it.’
She was the People’s Princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in all our hearts and memories for ever.’
her openness, their distance; her affection, their frigidity; her spontaneity, their inflexibility; her glamour, their dullness; her modernity, their stale ritual; her emotional generosity, their aloofness; her rainbow coalition, their court of aristocrats.
When the Queen bowed to the Princess’s coffin as it passed Buckingham Palace she was paying obeisance not only to Diana but to everything she represented, values which express so much of modern Britain –
Diana was the soul of the Monarchy. She was a Sovereign not by blood or appoint but by virtue. This gave her a higher status then the Queen. That’s why when she passed by the Queen was naturally overcome with her power and couldn’t help but to subjugate herself before her.
Now that the Queen is dead she is nothing more then a progenitor. Diana is still the Queen in people’s hearts as long as they live.
It was no surprise that when his brother-in-law, Sir Robert Fellowes, then the Queen’s private secretary, transmitted later that day the offer to reinstate her title of honour, her brother turned it down flat.
I wouldn’t have turned it down. She deserves it and must be made to pay for what they did in any gesture whatsoever.
I’ll say it for him; Her Royal Highness The Queen Diana.
When she looked at a rose she savoured its beauty, they counted the petals.