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I enjoy reading about the Charles and Diana marriage and learning new bits of information. It puts Diana in perspective and really make clear what a incredible change she brought to the Royal Family and more importantly, how she managed to damage the monarchy to such a severe extent that, I...

But Oprah was basically an acquaintance, not family or a close personal friend. Diana had a huge mean streak in her that contributed to her downfall. She felt incredible hostility towards anyone who threatened her fragile self-image. I don't think it ever occurred to her that her mean girl...

Mods, please move this post as you see fit. I am not sure if this the right thread. thanks. Facets of Diana. The is a interesting observation by David Montgomery, a newspaper editor. It's an unusual take on P.D. "She was an unfortunate woman, ill equipped to have this weight thrust upon her...

I find her fascinating as well. The dichotomy between her image as the poor, mistreated, but brave princess and the reality of the person she is astounding. She treated most of the people in her life poorly. It's my opinion that she was abusive to her husband and to some of her servants (eg...

Thanks for the info! A woman's title appears to be dependent on her relationship to the male title-holder. Except for perhaps Baroness Thatcher.

It is very complicated! So, Diana after the divorce kept her title the Princess of Wales, but lost the styling HRH. Is this less than what she had before she divorced ? Did she lose prestige?

Someone once explained the difference between The Princess of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales. The first one is a title. Being an American, it is very different from what we are accustomed to. The title is used in passports, it is part of your designation. It appears on all official...

It came from the Sally Bedell Smith book Diana in Search of Herself. "The program was scheduled to air November 20 the forty-eighth wedding anniversary of the Queen and Prince Philip" p.348 of the paperback edition. Also, "On the morning of November 14, Charles 47th birthday, just after she...

I'm not sure what you are talking about. She did chose the original air date of the Panorama interview. This was a secret, explosive program and the upper echelons of the BBC were going to give her anything she wanted including the airdate. They did not want her to change her mind.

IMO, Diana clearly wasn't bright and nor was she street smart. She had a much more interesting quality -- an uncanny ability to go for the jugular with an instinctive ease. The Panorama interview demonstrated she knew exactly where to stick the needle to cause the most hurt. For instance, she...

At that time in his life, Charles seemed naive and sincere and a little silly. It sounds like a comedy of errors. Charles thinks having Diana read his books would bring them closer. Diana thinks it's a judgement on her intelligence and an expression of his lack of love. And they both don't...

She's a historic figure. It's silly to say you can't speak of the dead in this situation.

I don't think she was a brilliant mother. She wasn't even a good mother. She was an Okay mother. She couldn't control her symptoms and used her children to vent her emotional garbage. JMHO.

She is an interesting person. A tragic figure. And she is historic. Read Diana on the Edge. It is a psychological analysis of Diana done by professionals. It wipes away the cobwebs of her mythology. It's very sad story. It was published in the year or two before her death.

Of all the different kinds of men she had to choose, she invariably picked the loser. I read on "Diana on the Edge" that she picked men with wives or fiancées or serious girlfriends because psychologically she enjoyed humiliating the women in the relationships and this gave her the greatest...

Good point. She had perennial poor judgment. Every man was a little worse than the previous one.

I suppose her choices including nice aristocratic men but maybe it would have been too close to Charles. A billionaire like Ted Forstmann would have been awful. She would have been reduced to being a trophy wife.

She must of known that it wouldn't work out with Khan. He was a cardiothoracic surgeon. You don't become that type of doctor easily. And he was still in training when she met him. I am sure he was completely absorbed with his work, but couldn't resist having an affair with her. It is...

Diana relating to others I agree with Vkrish. I don't think Diana was able to have relationships with people with whom she was on a equal basis. She demanded 100% control of the relationship. Otherwise, she would end it with no discussion or give any reason to the other person what they had...