You absolutely did claim that in your second paragraph here:
He blames the tabloids for his mother’s death but she played a game with them (briefing them as to where she would be at various times, shagging high profile married men, doing the ‘doe eyed innocent’ look etc ) and it cost her life
It’s a really shitty thing to write imho when she lost her life because of a chauffeur who combined alcohol with medication.
And absolutely no one anywhere is saying she was “a perfect angel” except yourself in order to refute it.
Absolutely no one believes she was an angel or a saint. When her marriage broke up she was an insecure woman from a dysfunctional background, in her very early twenties, who’d had two babies in quick succession, and who had been thrust in to global fame. What do you expect?
By all accounts what Diana wanted more than anything was a husband and the security of a happy family life.
Yet she barely had a chance to have a boyfriend because she was plucked out of obscurity at nineteen to become engaged to a man in his thirties precisely because of her “purity”.
I’m not defending her bc I think she was a saint either. Or because I liked her, although
I did like her. And I certainly don’t defend extra marital affairs either,
What I strongly object to about this “Diana as home wrecker and worse” narrative is the deep misogyny and double standard running through it.
First of all it never acknowledges the age imbalance, the difference in life experience, and the power disparity between Charles and Diana. She was initially a pawn in the lives of very powerful people.
And it also neglects to acknowledge the married women Charles was purportedly having simultaneous trysts with before he married Camilla. Is he ever accused of promiscuity? Oh no I forgot! If you are a high status white man it’s known as “sowing your wild oats”.
Also, Charles got to become older and wiser and “respectably” married because he didn’t lose his life at thirty-six years old, a bit of an unfair advantage wouldn’t you say?
Why not mention Prince Philip who had numerous affairs with celebrities and dancers and society women while pretending to he happily married? And the late Queen, head of the C of E, tolerating that humiliation all of her life, which is why she saw Diana as a “bad sport” for “making a fuss” when Charles did it?
The only crime Diana committed in the eyes of the RF is that she wouldn’t keep quiet, and she wouldn’t tolerate the double standard.
What the RF wanted was for Diana to go on pretending to the world that everything was fine in her marriage to Charlies. And presumably for William and Harry to have eventually become complicit in that same lie as they grew up?
But apparently Diana is the only one with poor morals?
If anything,what killed Diana, aside from an intoxicated chauffeur, was being brave enough to escape and speak out, and thanks to Martin Bashir’s lies, not trusting the PPOs she could have been assigned in the UK.