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For those of you old enough...

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sheworemellowyellow · 03/05/2023 16:17

...was the Diana/Fergie thing as mental in the media and with the public as MN is mental about Meghan/Kate/everyone else these days?

I was a young teen and paid zero attention to the RF in the 80s. Accounting for a certain amount of frenzy due to the ease of posting on social media versus drumming up chat by way of in-person chatting, and also accounting for the near-total accessibility of online media especially tabloids, did people take these insanely fervently held anti/pro Diana/Fergie sides like they do with Meghan and Kate?

Just done one of my regular name-changes, I've had my arse handed to me on the RF forum plenty of times by the usual suspects. Have been busy with life for a while, just come back to this board and am open-mouthed by how sycophantic/defensive/accusatory/cynical some posts are. Trying to work out WHY people care so much! Is this new? Is this just the royal family wielding its influence? Was it always thus?

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midsomermurderess · 07/05/2023 16:41

derxa · 03/05/2023 19:06

OK I'll bite. (Are you writing an article?) The papers tried to create rivalry but really the pair had a lot in common. Both sloaney girls with aristocracy in their backgrounds. I think Fergie took the heat off Diana with all of her gaffes. Let's face it , some of her fashion choices were 'interesting'. She's actually pretty stylish now. I like Fergie for her inability to hold a grudge. She has reinvented herself as a modern day Barbara Cartland 😂 and has a deal with Mills and Boon.
On Diana. I loved her and wept buckets when she died. Both flawed human beings like all of us OP

Scores of posts in and 'you'll bite'.l? What a relief!

Housewife2010 · 08/05/2023 08:28

sashh · 07/05/2023 06:22

So true.

I remember there being a couple of times they swapped clothes. Now obviously they had access to someone to alter them but you can't alter a 10 to a 16.

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Re Fergie's weight, it did vary a lot. During the infamous Duchess of Pork headline phase she had put a lot of weight on. Before anyone starts ranting at me, I know that the headline was horrific and it was her body. She had had her children, had her husband away at sea for months and she had the pressure of the paparazzi. Nobody deserves that treatment. I am just pointing out for people who weren't around at the time and have googled 80s Fergie, that she was noticeably overweight during that period.

Roussette · 08/05/2023 08:34

Housewife2010 · 08/05/2023 08:28

Re Fergie's weight, it did vary a lot. During the infamous Duchess of Pork headline phase she had put a lot of weight on. Before anyone starts ranting at me, I know that the headline was horrific and it was her body. She had had her children, had her husband away at sea for months and she had the pressure of the paparazzi. Nobody deserves that treatment. I am just pointing out for people who weren't around at the time and have googled 80s Fergie, that she was noticeably overweight during that period.

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I'm really not a fan of Sarah but I do sympathise with her battle with her weight. I have a similar figure to her... I have been a size 8 and a size 20 in my life, she battles with her weight continually I reckon. So do I. Watching my weight never goes away.
The press on her and her weight was atrocious.

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