If Diana had lived and re-married

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As it is coming up to what would have been Diana's 60th birthday, I sometimes wonder if she lived what her life would have turned out like. Obviously its only speculation and we will never know.

If Diana re-married and possibly had more children what effect do you think this would have had on her public image?

Would she still have been a member of the royal family if she re-married and would she still be seen as royal?

She would’ve had half Arab kids and the Future British King would’ve been raised with half Arab siblings and therefore would’ve been a lovely twist on things, for a better future away from prejudice.

Sigh, if only

It’s lovely to think she’d have found a man strong enough to make her feel secure and loved.

Would she still have been a member of the royal family if she re-married and would she still be seen as royal?

No.

I wonder what she would have made of Harry deciding to step back?
Do you think she would have been a good MIL? I think she would have doted on her grandchildren.
Such a shame.

She would have married John Travolta.

She’d have been seen as a normal flawed human rather than some kind of demi goddess.

She was only 36 when she died, so remarriage and further DC could have happened

Not so sure about who her new husband would be - Dodi was new in her life and she was on the rebound from Hasnat Khan , so it's far from clear he would have become a serious partner.

She would have ceased being PoWess on remarriage, but she'd still feature in the life of the Royals at family oriented (rather than ceremonial) events

To be honest, given how she ran hot and cold with people and complicated her personal relationships were (with family and friends), I think she’d have made a very difficult MIL and both Kate and Meghan would have had to tread a very careful line to keep her onside.

Came to post almost exactly what @ApplyWithin has.

I think she would have been a very challenging mother in law.

@Tlollj

I wonder what she would have made of Harry deciding to step back? Do you think she would have been a good MIL? I think she would have doted on her grandchildren. Such a shame.

I doubt he would have stepped back, his life would have been so different. Who knows who william would have married. Its an odd one, have wondered about this stuff myself, as my mum died when i was relatively young. My life would hve been so different if she hadn't been ill and then died.

Samcro

I think her friends said she had no intention of marrying Dodi. I hope she would have found some peace. Suspect her sons' lives and future partners might have been different. Also suspect Charles would not have married Camilla with Diana still alive.

I doubt she would have married Dodi. It was said at the time that he was courting her at his father's insistence, and that his American girl-friend was staying on a yacht near where he & Diana were holidaying.
She would probably have re-married. Not necessarily successfully. Not done to say so now she's a goddess, but tho' she was a devoted mother, she was a flawed & damaged woman

Her sons would both have entirely different wives. And Camilla would have had it rougher for longer with the press.

I think Diana herself would have found another dashing doctor to marry.

I think she'd have dumped Dodi soon after the summer of fun was over and he and Mohammed Al Fayed would have cut up rough and embarrassing. Al Fayed was desperate for Dodi and her to marry to thumb his nose at the establishment because he had repeatedly been denied British citizenship.
In the unlikely event they had married she would have been frozen out of royal life.

William is on record as having said the holiday in Spain with the Al Fayed was the worst of his life. Imagine. A teenage boy and your mother is flirting with a playboy on the make, the press in hot pursuit. It must have been utterly grim for him.

I’d like to think she’d have been able to disappear and live a reclusive but luxurious life somewhere like South Africa - big old house in the middle of nowhere where she could Be Alone if she Vanted.

Charitable works, her kids and grandkids to stay, brother down the road etc. Rare public sightings. Done a Jackie O effectively.

Paul Burrell has said Diana was planning a move to the USA - she'd picked out a house etc. Her friends have said that she was dead set against marrying again - 'I need another marriage like I need a rash' was the quote. I think if she had married again, it would have been quite a long time after 1997.

I think Diana herself would have found another dashing doctor to marry.

She needed someone super wealthy. Jackie Kennedy married Onassis for the privacy his wealth could buy. Diana needed likewise. She had given up her security. She needed someone with private jets and security. Trouble is she was high maintenance emotionally too. So the sort of billionaire looking for a trophy wife would be unlikely to meet her emotional needs.
I doubt she'd ever have found lasting happiness in a secure relationship.

The boys would have been increasingly embarrassed by her romantic shenanigans.
She'd have been jealous of William becoming close with the Middletons and it would have been much more difficult for Catherine to find her form and establish herself in her role.

@YellowandGreenToBeSeen

I’d like to think she’d have been able to disappear and live a reclusive but luxurious life somewhere like South Africa - big old house in the middle of nowhere where she could Be Alone if she Vanted.

Charitable works, her kids and grandkids to stay, brother down the road etc. Rare public sightings. Done a Jackie O effectively.

She didn't want that kind of life!

Donald Trump had his eye on her apparently!

I think she would have married, not him, but someone very like him in terms of money and fame, but someone with a social conscience who was also, well, nice.

But not for quite a while. I think she would have waited to be sure there was really nothing doing with Charles (they were on good terms at the time of her death I read, friendly and flirting).

Honestly, I think her importance, such as it is, is largely because of her sudden death at a young age, its circumstances and the public response. Had she lived, I think it’s likely that, given her past, her emotional volatility and problematic taste in men, she’d possibly have continued dating a string of dubious playboys and generally unsuitable/married men and that the media and public attitude to her would have become increasingly critical, especially as she aged.

The press would have carried on hating her as much as they did when she was alive. They showed themselves be the biggest hypocrites. Slagging her one day, then sending her to martyrdom the next.

the media and public attitude to her would have become increasingly critical, especially as she aged

The media was incredibly critical of her, right until the moment of her death - many papers that were published on the day of her death carried stories about her 'embarrassing' behaviour with Dodi, leading to many red faced journalists because as soon as she died, she was recast as a saint.

Diana had gone through phases of great popularity with the press, but the summer of 1997 wasn't one of them. Much of the criticism was underpinned by racism; also the typical misogynistic attitude that, in her late 30s, Diana was too old to be frolicking in a bikini.

I've never been a fan of hers, and I don't think she was worthy of the 'canonisation' she got after death but equally, she certainly didn't deserve the media-bashing she was getting in the run-up to it.

I think William may well have married Kate but Harry wouldn’t have married Meghan. I think she would have remarried more than once to a succession of dishy astonishingly rich men.
Camilla would have been given a much harder time. The season of the Royals would have been epic.

@Arbadacarba

the media and public attitude to her would have become increasingly critical, especially as she aged

The media was incredibly critical of her, right until the moment of her death - many papers that were published on the day of her death carried stories about her 'embarrassing' behaviour with Dodi, leading to many red faced journalists because as soon as she died, she was recast as a saint.

Diana had gone through phases of great popularity with the press, but the summer of 1997 wasn't one of them. Much of the criticism was underpinned by racism; also the typical misogynistic attitude that, in her late 30s, Diana was too old to be frolicking in a bikini.

I've never been a fan of hers, and I don't think she was worthy of the 'canonisation' she got after death but equally, she certainly didn't deserve the media-bashing she was getting in the run-up to it.

Well, exactly. I gather the early editions of the papers the day she died had critical stories. I think it’s convenient for people now to attack the paparazzi and tabloids for her death as though I heir appetite for stories had nothing to do with it, but realistically, that ongoing negative coverage would have been influential in her being generally viewed as a frivolous, increasingly irrelevant international playgirl type. It’s not that unlikely she’d have been viewed as a toe-sucking embarrassment as her sons grew into adulthood.