To think if mumsnet had been around thirty years ago then Princess Diana might have found the impartial and wise advise she so badly needed and rarely received?

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Just that?

I doubt it.

I wonder if she would have used Twitter.

I doubt it.

I don't think so. MN isn't able to fix everything.

Would it have stopped her getting into a car that sped into a tunnel, of course not

Sorry but this is a ridiculous post.

The OP states '30 years ago' so 1987, did something significant happen that year?

We really don't know what advice she either needed or actually got. We also don't know what she would have been told had she posted on here. "LTB" maybe? "Get a Grip" perhaps?

Speculation about her and her life was and still is rather pointless.

I don't know.
But if I were famous, this place would be like catnip to me. It must be so wearing to be always 'on', I'd love the anonymity of it.

Nope.

We don't know if Diana was given good advice that she didn't follow - and a million other reasons.

would any of it make a bit of difference?

I am 19. Should I marry a 31 year old man. I am financially stable and am in love

Yes do. I married at 17 and we're together 30 years now

Age is just a number. My husband is 20 years older than me and we
are happy as clams

No you have a lot of growing up to do

That is ridiculous - 19 is a grown woman. I had a mortgage, a baby and a husband at 18 and don't regret a bit of it.

Yes, a bunch of randoms on the internet shouting leave the bastard, without knowing why it really wasn't that simple, would really have helped the woman

Mind you, her MIL threads would have been hilarious

It would have been interesting to see what she'd have posted in S&B.

'My husband has a very high profile and demanding job. I understand he has to go on tours of the Commonwealth and that that's what puts banquets on our table, but AIBU to think he should spend less time on his hobby of building model communities in Cornwall and more time with me and DSheir and DSspare?'

More like 'IOBU?'

I can just see her peering out from under her fringe and telling Martin Bashir that 'No is a complete sentence'

well, I remember being incredulous at the time of her engagement that nobody was trying to talk her out of it
(actually, readers of Spare Rib were wearing badges that said Don't do it Di, many a true word...)

Don't do it Di

"My husband refuses to have sex with me. I came home early today and caught him chatting up one of our plants".

Should I LTB?

These responses 😆😆

Mumsnet isn't the fourth emergency service, the 'support' on here is hugely overrated, it mostly consists of people universalising their own experience or offering simplistic solutions to complex problems, the classic being screaming 'LTB' and then popping back every 5 minutes demanding to know 'Have you left yet? Why not?' before concluding 'Some people don't want to be helped'. As if the posters' reluctance to follow the recommended course of action immediately constitutes (often for understandable reasons) is a personal affront.

No, it's not the fourth emergency service, or she'd have been posting about her husband talking to plants.
FFS, there's a nasty tone to MN this past week or so.
Why not just answer without the cattiness or mocking?
It's a valid point. Back in 1997 there was the internet, but it was in its infancy as to what we all know it to be now and not everyone had it. Smart phones weren't about, or if they were they were rare and definitely not something everyone had.
No such things as Mumsnet type chatrooms that we know now.
We can all post anonymously on here. Easy to get opinions on here from people you don't know - if she did have a miserable marriage and could post about her husband's affair anonymously, would be interesting to see what responses she got on the Relationships board.
I think LTB would most definitely have been meted out.

@4691IrradiatedHaggis

FFS, there's a nasty tone to MN this past week or so.

I noticed too!!!! Maybe everyone is frazzled being at the end of a looooooonnnnggggg school holidays 😬😬😬😬

I noticed too!!!! Maybe everyone is frazzled being at the end of a looooooonnnnggggg school holidays

Oh good, not just me then.
Maybe as you say everyone's just fed up of the summer holidays now and the kids are doing their heads in so taking it out on randomers on the internet instead.
I'm trying not to and just counting down to next week

Can you just imagine. That would the the ultimate MIL thread of all time. 'Op your MIL is clearly a controlling bitch, time to go NC'.

I can't imagine she'd have used Mumsnet, or that it would have made any difference.