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?

Agree she would have been the MIL from hell. But on the plus side, her cursed engagement ring might have stayed in a vault somewhere and not ended up on poor Kate's finger!

@ApplyWithin

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.

I always thought this. Diana was treated terribly but i cant see her having clicked with kate but kate would have handled that well so no drama. She would have clashed with Meghan FOR SURE

Wouldn't she have been pretty much like Fergie?

I think she would have spent years pursuing rich playboys and other women’s husbands until she reached a point where she just no longer could because the interest just wasn’t there.

I think that William would have had to choose between her and Kate, and would likely have chosen Kate and Diana would have ended up being cut out by both the RF and her own children.

We would now only be reading about her occasionally, like with Sarah Ferguson.

@SnowWouldHelp

Wouldn't she have been pretty much like Fergie?

But doesn’t Fergie still share a house with Andrew, and hasn’t (or has she?) had any high-profile relationships since her marriage ended?

I think she would have broken up with Dodi after the summer and would have continued to date other men for a few years until she’s settle down again with a high flying professional but ordinary citizen, someone like the doctor she used to date, somewhere in the country and making a public appearance now and then. I think she would have been with the RF as Fergie is now with them: no official outings with them but in private they would get along well.

She would be the one doing opera, who would be asking about the plastic surgery she would have inevitably have.

Harry would not have been able to step back without his inheritance from Diana.

I think she would have ended up being a bit of a mess, to be honest--I' imagining a string of dicey and embarrassing relationships, increasingly desperate attention-seeking behaviors and games with the press, gradual fading from the limelight as she aged (and which she wouldn't have liked at all).

She was a kind-hearted person but she was also emotionally unstable, impulsive and not very bright. I mean, we're seeing it all in Harry right now, frankly.

She's bathed in a kind of lovely rosy light because she died so tragically at quite an early age and because she was treated badly by the RF (which does not in any way negate the fact that she was a fairly dim and difficult person herself).

I don’t think either W or H would have married their wives. I don’t think she’d have wanted an actress or middle class DIL.

I think she would have gone from messy relationship to messy relationship always looking for a knight in shining armour to save her.

@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.

There is absolutely no chance she would have done that! She loved the media attention and craved people loving her. I would hope she'd have embraced the move towards lots and lots therapy in the last 20 years. She would continued to date rich men and would probably by now have a face full of plastic surgery and a couple of failed marriages behind her.

Honestly, people think she was some kind of saint. She wasn't. She was a good mother and her sons clearly loved her very much, but her personal life was a mess.

I kind of think she was one of those people who were meant to die at their most beautiful.

If alive, she may have bounced from one disastrous relationship to another - had affairs with married men, and generally caused havoc/scandal until her beauty started to fade and the men no longer came calling.

She was sadly too emotionally damaged to have a happy ever after, IMO.

What kind of Dil do you think she'd have liked?
I'm curious.
I always thought that she'd have liked Megan.
I do think she'd have seen Kate as a threat and been very jealous of the Middletons.

She would’ve had half Arab kids and the Future British King would’ve been raised with half Arab siblings
Imo this is why she was got rid of, to prevent exactly this scenario.

I think she would have had a fairly disastrous life in the second part. She seemed to ricochet from one disastrous relationship to another. No regard for how things impacted on her sons.
I think she would have encouraged Harry to behave badly as an adult, and undermined William by embarrassing him. I think she would have been a controlling, jealous and possessive mother in law. Charles would not have married Camilla so the shape of everything that followed would have been different. I also think she would have been very jealous of the Middletons and tried to outdo them all the time.

Kanitawa

I think that’s a bit of an overstatement. But I agree I think her soon to be king son being raised with half Arab or half Asian siblings would’ve been a bit dramatic for the royal family. But I do think it might’ve been a breath of fresh air to tackle racial prejudice and improve international relations and I’m sure William would’ve been a lot more interesting with his influence.

But meh

Someone mentioned the engagement ring that William gave to Kate. I'd have been furious - "Buy me my own ring, you tight git! ". And I'd have thought the ring cursed anyway. As to Diana, somehow I don't think she would ever have found true happiness. Her mental health was not all that, and she was desperate for love. Any love she could get. Her behaviour in that regard was embarrassing, the rumours of the "revolving door" at KP must have been excruciating for her sons, and has been forgotten somewhat now she is dead and labelled as Saint Diana. Charles seems happy with Camilla, would have been more difficult for a future king to marry her with a living ex spouse. Harry's mental health might have been better.....or not.

I think that’s a bit of an overstatement. But I agree I think her soon to be king son being raised with half Arab or half Asian siblings would’ve been a bit dramatic for the royal family
The head of the Church of England having Muslim siblings? That’s more than “a bit dramatic”.

Kanitawa

Didn’t think of that , ouch!

Samcro 💐
Diana was a cosmopolitan. I think she would have married a tech billionaire younger than her. They both would do visionary philanthropy using her very human ability to connect with people.

The media RF would never really let her be free and she would probably be quite unhappy in some ways trying to balance it all

the weird thing is that William would most likely not have married Kate. he might not have wound up in the place he met her.
I like to think she would have been happy. she might have changed as she got older.

I don't think she'd have married Dodi. He was a summer fling, whatever his father likes to make out.

More likely she'd have got hitched again to some aristo we've never heard of, and split her time between London and a country pile. And I don't think she'd have had more children either.

I think she might have married Dodi, had another child. At the point she probably needed someone protective who would “take care of her”.

Probably divorced again and had a happy marriage later in life

Yes I don’t think William would’ve married Kate or Harry Meghan.

Would’ve probably been an arranged marriage by the palace.

If you mean Diana might have married and had children with Dodi, I think that’s fairly unlikely given she had very recently broken up with Haznat Khan, whom she had been in love with for ages, and she had known Dodi for all of 6 weeks, on and off. He also had a history of short relationships (married for just 8 months, ditched his fiancé when he met Diana’s etc). So yes, it’s possible, but not very likely, I would have thought.

I often think of what the Bolter (married very young, then jumps from relationship to relationship) says in The Pursuit of Love - “the lives of women like Fanny and me aren’t so much fun when one begins to get older” - and wonder if that might have applied to Diana also. She had a fairly turbulent romantic life and fell out with people (family and friends) quite a bit.