To still not understand the Diana "thing"?

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As William and harry said they were bewildered by people who didn't even know her acting in the way they did. Yes it was sad that she was killed but to hand around kensington palace for days crying? Ridiculous.

The OP and her supporters seem to me to be terribly superior and a bit shitty. How true limited The amount of insider knowledge and detailed memories is also astonishing. I watched the funeral on the telly like a lot of people but other than that I can't remember much about the day.

Oh dear. I had a less confrontational day watching the funeral on telly with a bit of a walk afterwards. Then we had dinner. Fish and chips. It's what she would have wanted

For the first and only time of my life, I went to play golf with two friends at the council pitch and put. I hate golf, but it was the only place i could think of where we'd be safe from the funeral and all the maudlin behaviour of the viewers.

I was dead lucky in that I now live in Scotland, so there was pretty much no hoo ha about William and Katherine's wedding, plus we were at another wedding that day, which was a pretty good place to avoid the shenanigans. If we'd not, I was planning to get a train through to the East End of Glasgow, just to be on the safe side.

I'm laughing because although none of us are royalists a family member had a Kate and Wills wedding party. There was prosecoo and royal wedding themed party games.

I fell asleep for the actual service (whoops too much prosecco too early in the day) but it was a great party

And we're all Scottish

Actually looking back the party was an excuse to get a very ill neighbour (who has since died) out of the house and having a bit of fun.

I thought Diana had 4 o'levels,

I also suspect she would have been a nightmare mother in law, I think she would have made it all about her, if her manipulation of the media prior to her death was anything to go by. There is no reason to believe she would have changed her behaviour and not been all over the media "doing fun things with the grandkids" and giving them public "hugs and kisses"

And publicly she would have been bff with both Carole and Kate, with pap shots every time they were together..

but it appears i am wrong

You don't really need o levels for a career in princessing though do you?

...or princing for that matter equal opportunities post

Prince Edward. Why is he even here?

Discuss.

on googling in transpires Diana was home educated untl the age of 12 or something. the school she then went to is an independent school for those with emotional and social communication issues.
It probably wasnt when she attended of course.

She wasnt the best prospect in fairness.

discuss what Vanilla??

Boysofmelody, it depends what part of the East end you were going to..

Discuss

What? Eh no.

Prince Edward. Why is he even here?

Presumably Prince Philip had sex with Her Maj. HTH

As an outsider, it certainly looked like the entirety of the UK was crying for Diana.

Prince Edward. Why is he even here?

What a horrible thing to say.

I think if he hadn't been a Royal, he would have worked permanently in the arts or media. He made a programme about Edward VIII amongst other things. Difficult for him to find a role as a Royal. He wasn't cut out to be in the forces - left the Marines after a few months.

I believe the Queen spends quite a lot of time with his family. Only one not to divorce!

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From wiki

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_School_at_West_Heath

"The school, founded in its current form as a charitable trust on 14 September 1998 as the Beth Marie Centre, is based in 31 acres (13 ha) of parkland on lease from Mohamed Al-Fayed, who contributed almost £3 million towards the school. The building formerly housed the school where Diana Spencer, later Princess of Wales and her two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, received their childhood education. It was then called West Heath Girls' School and was a very exclusive girls' school with around 100 boarding pupils."

Interesting about Fayed.

oh thanks Louise.
yes it is interesting isnt it

So Diana didn't go to school until she was 9? I hadn't realised that. Perhaps her later lack of academic success was partly down to a lack of early formal education?

I think she and her brother were taught at home by a governess until they went away to school. I think that counts as formal education.

Prince Edward. Why is he even here?

Discuss.

When a Monarch and a Prince Consort love each other very much...

Prince Edward is my favourite, because I almost never hear anything about him.

Wiki says she was home schooled then went to Silfield private school in Norfolk (doesn't give an age for that, or a source) before going to Riddlesworth aged 9. She then joined her sisters at West Heath when she was 12.

Entries for her sisters suggest a similar education with Jane being considered especially academic.

According to Sarah Bradford's biography of Diana, she received her early schooling privately at the nearby home of her mother's former governess, along with a few other children of similar background. Again according to Bradford, all of the children did well academically, except Diana. Supposedly her brother Charles Spencer was the most academically talented.