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What would the coronation be like if Diana had lived?

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Bouledeneige · 03/05/2023 23:48

I know this is a very strange question - but I woke up this morning wondering about it. I have absolutely no idea why. I am not in the least bit interested in the coronation.

So I went back to what might have happened if she lived. Maybe she would have married Dodi and had a baby but it then would have broken up as she realised the expectations of a Fayed wife. Behind closed doors - seen but not heard. Then maybe a series of relationships with property barons, celebs and euro riche. Summers spent lounging on mediterranean yachts, winters in Verbier and Turks and Caicos, maybe some Hollywood and Miami hols.

Increasingly the boys would've been channelled into university, the armed forces, marriage and children - increasingly fenced in by royal convention and duty. That awkward Ex thing at graduations and passings outs, marriages and christenings..... And then the Coronation....

I think she'd have exited the country for the weekend's ceremonies and spectacle - and instead been papped partying on a sail boat in the WhitSundays with a bunch of friends and a handsome younger man.

And maybe not. Maybe a life like Princess Margaret... or maybe a happy ever after. What do you think?

I can't believe I even started thinking this way. Not even sure I will take any notice at all of the Coronation.

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KrasiTime · 04/05/2023 06:32

Forgot to add - I have friends who have been divorced for over 20 years but get on so much better living apart. They even go on holiday together. I wonder if it may have been the same for C&D?

Whenharrymetsmelly · 04/05/2023 06:38

Rockybooboo · 04/05/2023 06:04

What do you mean by a lovely home counties girl?

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I think thats code for a white horsey type 😆

Rockybooboo · 04/05/2023 06:43

Whenharrymetsmelly · 04/05/2023 06:38

I think thats code for a white horsey type 😆

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Yep.

Theunamedcat · 04/05/2023 06:50

I'm not sure if her boys would have been emotionally more stable had she lived considering she would lock herself in the bathroom and cry William would be outside pushing notes under the door a few more years of that and who knows what he would have turned out like

I'm not sure we would be having a coronation had she lived Charles might not have outlived his mother

Snugglemonkey · 04/05/2023 06:51

She would have made it all about her. Not sure he would have been able to marry Camilla.

SisterMaryLoquacious · 04/05/2023 07:13

Rockybooboo · 04/05/2023 06:07

So women should just put up with being treated like shit?

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I don't think PP the as saying that - but in this unique situation where the marriage is also a job, a lot of women might have chosen differently, and chosen to keep the job in public.

RiverSwimmingBliss · 04/05/2023 07:22

What threads like this should do is remind people what an utter bastard Charles is - not fit to be king for sure 🤬.

BanditsOnTheHorizon · 04/05/2023 07:41

I doubt much would change around the coronation

But Camilla wouldn't be liked anywhere near as much as she is now, quite possibly in the level MM is liked in this country.

Not sure Will or Harry would be much better off, having their Mum around would potentially improved things and Harry might not have a chip on his shoulder, but that could be offset by the hounding of his mother and her private life. I strongly suspect their mental health would be worse, as following Diana's death their privacy was much better protected than when she was alive

InaMuddle2 · 04/05/2023 07:41

RiverSwimmingBliss · 04/05/2023 07:22

What threads like this should do is remind people what an utter bastard Charles is - not fit to be king for sure 🤬.

He was 32 when he got engaged to 19 year old Diana - creepy. He made his vows in the knowledge that he would continue to commit adultery.

He doesn't come across well - a spoilt, ill tempered billionaire- and I think his reign will erode all the goodwill his mother generated. He should step aside for William in 5 years time but he won't.

Rockybooboo · 04/05/2023 08:00

Theunamedcat · 04/05/2023 06:50

I'm not sure if her boys would have been emotionally more stable had she lived considering she would lock herself in the bathroom and cry William would be outside pushing notes under the door a few more years of that and who knows what he would have turned out like

I'm not sure we would be having a coronation had she lived Charles might not have outlived his mother

What a horrible to say!! No mum is perfect but she loved her boys and theiy loved.

Skybluepinky · 04/05/2023 08:00

Same as now over talked about and difficult to get away from.

Rockybooboo · 04/05/2023 08:06

SisterMaryLoquacious · 04/05/2023 07:13

I don't think PP the as saying that - but in this unique situation where the marriage is also a job, a lot of women might have chosen differently, and chosen to keep the job in public.

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I don't think that's any better. No woman should stay in an emotionally abusive marriage. It's funny how people are quick to say Harry should leave Meghan because she's controlling but Diana should have stayed with Charles!

Gymtastic · 04/05/2023 08:12

Coronation would be exactly the same as what it is going to be like. They’d have been divorced decades, both remarried, she’d have been no different to Sarah Ferguson.

RiverSwimmingBliss · 04/05/2023 08:14

@InaMuddle2 absolutely - deeply unpleasant and very hypocritical (oh look at me planting organic food - oh but don’t clock up the amount of miles I travel in helicopters and private jets 🙄).

I can guarantee you he won’t abdicate!

Outgrabe · 04/05/2023 08:18

Skybluepinky · 04/05/2023 08:00

Same as now over talked about and difficult to get away from.

But being alive would have meant Much Discussion of whether she would attend the coronation, and if so, where does she sit, what does she wear, and every little side glance and micro expression.

IsGoodIsDon · 04/05/2023 08:19

Who knows but I do think it would have been a kick in the teeth for her to see Camilla’s grandsons taking part in the ceremony

Sudeko · 04/05/2023 08:25

KrasiTime · 04/05/2023 06:30

Weren’t Charles & Diana getting on better just before her death? Diana wouldn’t have married Dodi, she was in love with Hasnet Khan. I think he was her ‘one’.

I’d like to think she’d have found happiness she was only 37. I was 33 when she died. I remember it all so well.

I think that relationship sounded really one-sided. He was just not into her as much. Then again, Hasnat may have found relationships challenging in general given how his eventual marriage ended.

MidsummerNightsDream · 04/05/2023 10:47

MysteryBelle · 04/05/2023 00:33

I’ve wondered what it would be like if Diana had ignored Camilla and stayed married to Charles, kept her absolute cool and carried on being Princess Diana, future queen. Civil, polite, smiling, no rows in private, and remain in her position, possibly have discreet and trustworthy ‘friend’ for support. Camilla would have perhaps remained the out of sight mistress. And it would be Diana getting crowned as queen on Saturday.

Diana was so young and didn’t know what to do or how to handle the awful reality of her husband not loving her. The much older Camilla shadowed her from the very beginning, photos prove this and also in Diana’s recordings Charles called the also married Camilla as one would a lover, gave her presents, from beginning of marriage. Diana tried to plead with Charles for years, I think, but it was fruitless and she was very unhappy most of the time she was married to him, and wasn’t that happy after the divorce I don’t think, either.

If Diana had been more mature and more wise to the ways of the world, I wonder if she’d done things differently.

Diana had too much personality and charisma for that. She was too young and lovely to settle for a lifelong marriage of convenience. Who’d want that? Only someone that values the wrong things in life.

She absolutely wouldn’t have chosen it. She chose her boys, friends, fun and love. She would have had a happy and balanced life. She valued the right things.

Rockybooboo · 04/05/2023 12:45

MidsummerNightsDream · 04/05/2023 10:47

Diana had too much personality and charisma for that. She was too young and lovely to settle for a lifelong marriage of convenience. Who’d want that? Only someone that values the wrong things in life.

She absolutely wouldn’t have chosen it. She chose her boys, friends, fun and love. She would have had a happy and balanced life. She valued the right things.

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Thank goodness as she had such short time.

FraiseRoyale · 04/05/2023 12:55

Gymtastic · 04/05/2023 08:12

Coronation would be exactly the same as what it is going to be like. They’d have been divorced decades, both remarried, she’d have been no different to Sarah Ferguson.

This is what I think. And people would not be referring to two grown men fast approaching middle age as "her boys."

MysteryBelle · 04/05/2023 19:19

Rockybooboo · 04/05/2023 06:07

So women should just put up with being treated like shit?

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Charming.

No, that’s not what I meant.

Serenster · 04/05/2023 20:36

I find all the “Diana is the real Queen” sentiment (not here specifically, it’s all over twitter currently) really odd.

Firstly, Diana and Charles were divorced before she died. Even if she’d not died tragically young, she was not Charles’ wife and so would never have been the Queen. And underlying these kind of sentiments is some kind of belief that she and Charles should have stayed stuck in a miserable marriage of two clearly ill-suited people for another 30 years or so in order that the fans’ fantasy of Diana’s apparently destined role can come true. That’s kind of…strange. Call it fan fiction and be done with it, no? 😀

Anyway, against the mood of the thread, I think Charles and Camilla would have been married much sooner if Diana had not died in 1997. Her death and subsequent near beatification really caused Charles problems for several years afterwards. I also think she would have had a muted role, if any, for Charles’ coronation but a much more visible role for William’s in due course.

Rockybooboo · 04/05/2023 21:06

MysteryBelle · 04/05/2023 19:19

Charming.

No, that’s not what I meant.

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Well Diana was treated like shit. He married her knowing he didn't love her.

Willmafrockfit · 04/05/2023 21:10

she was a member of the aristocracy
of course she had a rich idle life

wordler · 04/05/2023 21:12

I don’t think William and Harry would have married the women they did.

William wouldn’t have been seeking the warmth and stability of the Middletons in the same way. Diana wouldn’t have accepted his closeness to Carole M.

Harry wouldn’t have needed to escape in the same way because he wouldn’t be carrying the trauma burden.

They’d probably have both married more traditional choices. Sloaney/aristocrats from the ‘right’ families.