Thinking of Diana since Crown 6

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Anyone else? I absolutely LOVE the crown. Mainly because of the powerful, haunting music. But since watching it this evening I feel really sad and nostalgic. I was only 13 when my mum woke me up crying. I remember it was thundering where I was the day after Diana died and it just felt so eerie. I didn't really like her when I was a kid because my Dad and Nan thought she was too rebellious and so I assumed the same but I was gutted when she died and so were they, as if they were sorry. I remember thinking well she was 37 she was quite old anyway! I'm now 2 years older than she was. She was far from perfect but she was such fun, such a lovely young woman. Thinking about her a lot tonight and her poor boys. I do wonder where she would be today had she lived. I don't think for a second she'd have been with Dodi for very long.

I think it’s a little unfair to reduce her to those - all negative - characteristics.

She was also very savvy, latterly anyway, good at her job; able to talk to anyone and make them feel comfortable within ten minutes, and she was extremely energetic, and very organised.

It was in the interest of the establishment at the time, and still is to an extent, to portray her as a flake, but Patrick Jephson who worked closely with her for over seven years, said she was far from that. He said she was extremely professional when it came to her charity work.

It’s funny how most people on here have succumbed to the prescribed narrative.

Also, she did her job under constant and intense negative scrutiny, the likes of which most of us would find incredibly hard.

She was by no means a saint - that was a tabloid construction - she was very human with lots of failings, but she was honest about them and that took a lot of courage at the time.

I also agree with this. The other series I watched like I did Victoria for the history of everything not just the Royals. But this series is not the same. It's such a shame it has been made as it's mostly fiction. I wonder if they waited until the deaths of the major people like Dodis father and the Queen?

I've watched this season of The Crown up to the crash twice - once with friends and once on my own, and both times sobbed through the last 30 minutes of episode three, from the last call with her sons.

It was so moving the way her and Dodi were both portrayed as victims of the same forces, and that they squeezed each others hands tight as they sped off, like Thelma and Louise, as if they had a sixth sense that this was it. It made me really miss her too.

Very disappointed at the mostly meh reviews though - I thought it was a bloody masterpiece!

I'm watching the episode where penny knatchbull is supposedly Philip's intellectual companion and the Queen is kind of over a barrel bringing her in to the fold to avoid headlines. Bit cringe.

Wow, that was weird. I only said that storyline of episode 6 season 5 the crown is a bit cringe. If netflix can film it then it's weird I can't post a reaction to it.

I also had a very surreal and sad recollection of her death. I came home at about 3am from a night out with girlfriends to find my now DH sitting cross legged with a friend in front of the TV, saying Diana had been in a car crash.

I went to bed thinking she'd probably be fine and woke up the next morning and turned Radio 1 on and it was playing weird choral music, so I tried Radio 2, 3 and 4 and it was all playing the same music. I thought I was going mad and then the clock tuned 10.30 and the news came on and announced her death. I really didn't expect to feel the huge emotion I did.

Eh, nobody's censoring you, your post is right there! 😄

It is slightly off topic though.

My brother adored her and insisted on driving up to London for the funeral. We were in the first row in Hyde Park when the cortege walked past and I will never forget those.poor kids, Harry was so tiny. Totally fucked up that they had to do that.

Thoroughly enjoyed the new season and I think they nailed it when they surmised that she turned down Dodi's proposal. I think he was nothing more than a rebound fling and also to make Hasnat Khan jealous.

I'm Irish and it's definitely not true that nobody gave a shit. It was a massive story here, as it was all over the world.

It was 1997, not the 1940s. Almost every household had a TV and most (certainly on the eastern half of the country) could get BBC and ITV. Even if they didn't, RTE reported on it extensively that whole week with several hours of coverage every day.

I was a teenager at the time went back to school the next day, and it's all anyone was talking about.

Binge watching season 5 here. Thankfully nobody is going to ask me what's for dinner! Bashir was a weasel.