Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Flip

1 2

Original poster

diana - that interview - good thing or not

47 replies

ll31 · 02/05/2011 02:21

just interested to hear your opinions, like many people I used feel sorry for Diana - married prob too young, Charles having relationship perhaps with Camilla etc... but she lost any sympathy I had for her when she did that interview on bbc I think - the "there were 3 people in marriage" interview - - - I still understand how awful that realisation must have been for her - but - why did she do that interview when her children were so young, in school and likely to hear about it from their school friends ? I thought it was v bad decision to do that interview as a mother ,, So - aibu - you decide!

OP posts:

TheOriginalFAB · 02/05/2011 14:18

I don't blame her for using the media and anything else to cultivate a celebrity lifestyle. She was totally used by the royal family and she did right t make something out of it.

Notsohotanymore · 02/05/2011 14:23

I agree with jimmychoo= How can someone be wrong for just being honest? Was very sad.

Vev · 02/05/2011 14:24

She was handpicked to produce heirs, when she had done so was no longer needed by the royals who let her down big style.

It is well know that the royal males have mistresses and affairs, she proved she wouldn't put up with it and pissed on their bonfire royally!

Didn't the Duke of Edinburgh tell her to "put up and shut up".

I don't blame Diana for what she did.

Notsohotanymore · 02/05/2011 14:29

She was my fav royal,along with her two boys.

ConnorTraceptive · 02/05/2011 14:29

can you imagine what it would have been like for the wedding if she was still alive. That would have been a bit frosty on the balcony

working9while5 · 02/05/2011 14:34

Of course you can be wrong for being honest. It was committing her grievances about her kids' father to public record. I wouldn't want to see my mother speak like that about my father in the local shop, let alone on television. I did feel sorry for her but I don't think it was a sensible, right or even very fair thing for her to do as a parent.

Nancy66 · 02/05/2011 14:37

I think she was very mentally unstable at that time.

It was a mistake and a terrible thing to do to her kids.

TheOriginalFAB · 02/05/2011 14:37

Charles also admitted on TV he had been unfaithful.

anonacfr · 02/05/2011 14:46

I don't understand the comment about the Queen Mother being worried Diana had been manipulated into the marriage- the QM arranged the marriage didn't she?

GKlimt · 02/05/2011 14:57

........................is there really any doubt that diana spencer was used as a brood mare to provide a couple of male heirs for the royal bloodline. In all these deeply misgynistic [sp?] royal and aristocratic families it's always been the way for centuries. She didn't have to be a student of history to know this, it was happening all around her, part of her family history and what happened to her own mother. And after all she took the traditional route of taking lovers but not discreetly, enough. I imagine she would have been confined to a private asylum in the past a la George III until she shaped up or worse still if she was a tudor queen

Massive, massive denial to think it would be different for her. Or she knew what the future held but couldn't actually cope with the perceived rejection when it happened to her.

Very sad. But inevitable.

GKlimt · 02/05/2011 15:05

wasn't it the 2 grandmothers, diana spencer's and the queen mother doing the matchmaking to further dianas family's social position and wealth. Unbelievably anachronistic in this day and age in a modern, western democracy Or maybe not if you are immensely rich with lots of stately home to maintain. And have a real sense of en-title-ment.

Buddhastic · 02/05/2011 15:16

Charles collaborated with Dimbleby before Diana and he had a tv interview out as well. I watched the interview and I thought she was VERY sensitive to Charles considering. I don't think anyone can blame a 19 year old for getting caught up in the romance of the situation and then subsequently falling apart at times when things go wrong. Her own homelife was so troubled she fought hard for her boys not to have the same. Her boys come across as being good human beings who were not raised by a mentally disturbed woman but a loving mother who couldn't have trashed their father to them or he would not have the relationship he appears to have with them. By the by her flicking of the doe eyes does bug me to but nobody is perfect.

Animation · 02/05/2011 15:19

I thought the interview was a good thing - it was her truth - and so probably healthy for her to do it.

I don't know if she had a Borderline Personality traits or not - but anyone in that kind of stressful situation might exhibit similar traits - doesn't mean they're Borderline.

However, I thought all those affairs she had - and some were pretty long and intense - was very OTT behaviour. And she was a role model still, but what she was advocating had a dangerous and destructive feel about it.

When died - I wasn't that surprised - and it did cross my mind that it could have been foul play.

Buddhastic · 02/05/2011 15:23

OTT, perhaps - desperate for love, probably. I suspect she would have been a very difficult mother in law to have.

happyhillock · 01/02/2019 21:15

Diana had a lot of problems before she married Charles, they should never had married, i don't think charles ever loved her, Diana wanted the big fairytale, the interview was for her gain only but it back fired on her, i laughed when she said there was 3 people in her marriage, she was the 3rd person in a few marriages..

Bezalelle · 01/02/2019 21:31

What a bizarre thread to resurrect!

Deadbudgie · 01/02/2019 21:46

Never really warmed to what I saw of the woman, the whole doe eyed looking up, like some lithe girl look she perfected wound me up

And to go into so much detail which could get back to her kids was awful, can you imagine your parents getting divorced and all your mates hear your mum slagging off your dad for shagging another woman

GabsAlot · 01/02/2019 21:49

paranoid? it was bloody true charles never wanted to marry her and was having it of with camilla

so what if she told the truth-she was no saint but her husband was wprse

longwayoff · 01/02/2019 21:52

She had issues, to say the least. However it's probably time to let her be.

ElektraLOL · 01/02/2019 21:56

The Royal Family are not good people and Diana already cams from a dysfunctional home. I feel more sad for her than anyone.

KC225 · 01/02/2019 22:09

OP watch the Diana tapes on Netfliks. The tapes that were published after 20 years after her death. Channel 4 for a lot of flack for broadcasting it but shows how unhappy she was and how little control how she had over her life.

One of the things I was surprised at - she says her and Prince Charles only met 16 times before getting married - not 16 months. 16 times. Other sources say 12.

She talks about when Prince William was christened and she was told when and where andwhar he would be wearing and she for no say in it. Nobody considered is naps or feeds and it was hours of photographs and he was really grisly and she only 21 and felt so overwhelmed.

Its clear she was seeking a fairy tale ending but didn't get one.

GabsAlot · 01/02/2019 22:11

sorry didnt realise it was a zombie

Flip

1 2

Swipe left for the next trending thread