To be fair Diana’s father worked for the Queen and they lived on the Sandringham estate. At one time it was thought he might marry Princess Margaret, he was also a potential suiter for the Queen ( he was two years older than her) his father used to be very rude about Prince Philip as a consequence. When Frances married him she was only just 18 and Johnny was 32 it was the society wedding of the year with the whole Royal family there at Westminster Abbey. Her mother (Diana’s grandmother) was a close friend and lady in waiting to the Queen mother . It was absolutely arranged. He needed an heir, by the time she was 30 she had had 5 children including a child who died within 24 hours and both of them had had affairs. Diana was on record as saying that she saw her father hit her mother, even so it was her mother who was labeled ‘a bolter’ So hardly a model marriage, Diana’s father and grandfather were well known locally for their tempers, probably where H gets his temper from. But nevertheless absolutely steeped in the monarchy , Diana’s oldest sister was married to the Queens private secretary FGS.
Diana absolutely understood the demands of traditional royal life what no one was prepared for was the public adulation and press attention, which was on an unprecedented scale and was probably the fourth person in their marriage .