Charles and Queen predicted to stay silent on 25th Diana anniversary

[antelopevalley]

I know Diana was Charles ex, but she was the mother of his two sons. Surely they could just issue a joint bland statement acknowledging her untimely death and the impact on William and Harry?
To pretend it is not even happening would be pretty crass.

"Incredibly, however, the royal family has no plans to formally commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana on Wednesday next week—illustrating, some would say, just how threatened they still are by her, even in death.
While her sons are widely expected to issue, at a minimum, online tributes, Prince Charles, who conducted an affair with his second wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, both before and throughout much of his marriage to Diana, which Diana publicly blamed for the collapse of their relationship, is likely to maintain radio silence."

www.thedailybeast.com/queen-elizabeth-and-prince-charles-have-no-plans-to-mark-25th-anniversary-of-princess-dianas-death

I don't know. They will be in the wrong with some people, no matter what they do, regarding this.

I don't think they need to. They will be vilified if they do and if they don't.
It was his ex wife. Harry and William are the ones who should acknowledge.

If my ex was involved in anything I wouldn't be interested whether he's the father of my ds or not. Nothing to do with me.

Yabu

How many other deaths do they commemorate? Is this really a thing?

Why is this noteworthy?

If William and Harry want to do something public they have the wherewithal to do so. They have already spoken about the impact on them, and how difficult they found and find the almost fetishistic public response.

OP you seem obsessed with charles? All the threads about him?

Maybe Charles intends to privately support his sons on the anniversary.

But if they did they would just be paying lip service and everyone would know it. They would be deemed insincere and hypocritical.

I have read that William and Harry said that the 20th anniversary of her death ( so five years ago) would be the last time that they publicly acknowledged the anniversary of their mother’s death. Maybe they would prefer to think of her as she was when she was alive and are sensibly moving on. I’m sure they will acknowledge it privately if they feel the need.

Any statement could focus on the sons. Surely any decent person would be sad that their children's mother died when they were still very young? We know psychologically for any child your mother dying is devastating.

But why would they need to share that publicly? Surely that would be best done in private with W & H. To do so publicly would only be paying lip service and everyone would see through it and think them disingenuous.

Who would benefit from this statement?

Who on earth expects them to publically celebrate the anniversary of a death? If they do mark the sad memory , it will be a private matter within the family.

IRL the idea of an ex-husband and his mum giving any airtime to the 25th anniversary of the death of a first spouse seems odd unless it was done quietly and privately for the children. Even more so when the split was acrimonious.

Life moves on for most sane people, it's a shame that isn't also true for profit-focused trash media and obsessive royal watchers fueled by said media.

Total strawman. I did not say celebrate, simply issue a statement.

No. They are better to say nothing.

A statement saying what, why would the Queen and PC do that, its a private family matter and it was 25 years ago.

Yabu.

For the reasons everyone else has already stated.

OP seems to have unhealthy obsession with the RF judging from the number of threads started

And who, pray, is the daily beast that's posting this nonsense in the link you provide?

This. I really don't understand the trend of everyone acknowledging publicly memorials of deaths. The worst being the old Facebook classic happy heavenly birthday/anniversary/funeral day etc WTAF

There will be those who see that as a significant milestone and those who just want to get on with their lives. If anybody is to make something of this then surely it is her sons and surely they would want to do this privately? There has been a load of programmes on different tv channels about her life, how she died and her legacy. Its the same story no matter how many times it is told, how many more times must this be gone over?

OP I lost a family member on exactly the same day, others will be in a similar position.

Grieving for someone I actually knew was made much harder as I was expected by many people to grieve more for someone I never knew and my grief for my relative was dismissed by some as inconsequential.

Some of the arguments about whether the RF were allowed to grieve where they felt best I.e. in the UK but out of sight of the press or in London in full view of the media were particularly inappropriate.

You do not have a right to expect anyone to do what you want when it is their relative/loved one they are grieving. If you want to commemorate the day, go ahead but don’t impose your expectations on the people who actually knew the person rather than a media construct.

Really? After 25 years? Apart from her estranged sons, who cares a jot?

William and Harry said this in the joint documentary that was released in 2017, the 20th anniversary of her death (“Diana our Mother: her life and legacy”), the same year they opened the memorial garden at Kensington Palace and announced they had commissioned a sculpture of her.

When the sculpture was unveiled it was Diana’s sons and siblings that formally attended, no-one else.

Certainly there is no reasonable basis for expecting the wider royal family would mark anniversaries of her death. They have very much left that in the hands of her adult sons, and her sons have also made their intentions known.

So I think an accusations of “pretty crass” behaviour can only be based on ignorance.