Diana documentary for 30th anniversary of her death.

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There have been rumours about a 30th anniversary documentary for some time but it is now looking more likely according to this report.
Seriously , what else is there to say about the woman ?
It seems so distasteful that H is - again- using his late mother to make money .
Any reconciliation with the RF will be stopped in its tracks if this goes ahead .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15026663/Harry-Meghan-Princess-Diana-documentary-Netflix.html

True.

Yes but that's different from the point you alleged before.

The RF were still processing it all and probably thought sticking to a normal routine would help. I had 2 pupils in my school suffer the sudden death of their father two nights before school began. Their dm decided to send them in. I think it was the best decision as they were in a familiar place doing familiar things and they were still processing it all. The difficult times came later.

I went to school in the afternoon after finding out about the death of my parent. Even in retrospect, I don't think it was a totally bad decision. I was with my friends, with adults who had been told and were keeping an eye on me, I was in a familiar environment and routine. Taking the boys to church was part of their routine, and for a family with strong links to the church it would not be unreasonable for the family to think the boys may have taken some comfort from going. Plus, they were with their wider family.

It's interesting how at the time the public were bleating about how the Queen should be doing more for the mourning public and now people are bleating about how the boys should have been more of a focus for the family. The boys were the focus, with all reports being how the Queen and Prince Phillip were focused on helping them through it all by keeping them safely at Balmoral. Charles also acted in the way he thought was best at the time, as we all do in difficult circumstances.

It's interesting how at the time the public were bleating about how the Queen should be doing more for the mourning public and now people are bleating about how the boys should have been more of a focus for the family. The boys were the focus, with all reports being how the Queen and Prince Phillip were focused on helping them through it all by keeping them safely at Balmoral. Charles also acted in the way he thought was best at the time, as we all do in difficult circumstances

Exactly - there's a lot of revisionism happening.

The Queen was criticised because she thought it was best to keep the boys at Balmoral with the family and away from the hype. Meanwhile Tony Blair was adding to the hype with his 'People's Princess' stuff

I saw this for the first time today. I didn't know this. https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/848022/duchess-sophie-reason-missed-princess-diana-funeral/?viewas=amp

one would hope that he would do this without a cash incentive and it would be a celebration of his mothers life from his point of view…… doubt it though

@PigglyWigglyOhYeah I agree with you that taking the boys to church was a part of their usual routine. There are always people on these threads who want to pull down the late Queen or Prince Philip so it won't matter which part of that week is being discussed, they'll be called weird for doing whatever they did, most likely with a ffs thrown in.
I find it very hard to believe that the boys were MADE to go to church that morning. I expect it was much more in the vein of, "We're going as usual. You know there are always prayers said for all sorts of things in that long prayer, so when they get to the part about people who are sick or mourning or who have died, you know that prayer will include Mummy even if they don't say her name itself."
(There was an overnight bereavement in my family once. I was lied to next morning.)

I'm sure I have read that William asked to go to church that morning.
But, I agree, it was a perfectly normal thing for them to do.
I always felt sorry for QEII, as all her reign she was criticised for neglecting her family because of her duty as monarch. Yet the one time she unequivocally put her family first (ie Diana's death), she was hammered for that too.

Tbh the media has a lot to answer for. No one would have thought twice about the flag over BP if they hadn’t stirred it up. However those people who were fawning over the boys the night before the funeral were particularly odious and should hang their heads in shame.

I don't think that in and of itself is an issue.

Lots of people knew about my grandfather's death (I was brought up by my GPs) before I did. I was 12 and asleep. Waiting to tell me until morning was absolutely the right thing.

Waking two children at 3/4am when the news broke would have been cruel, and pointless.

Indeed, the newspapers desperately needed to turn the attention away from themselves

Before the whole flag and "where is our Queen" nonsense it was the photographers and the newspapers who bought the photos that were in the firing line for blame.

I’m not a royalist but I won’t criticise the queen and PP - they were absolutely right to stay at Balmoral with the children in privacy whilst Charles went off doing what he needed to do. It’s deplorable that they felt forced to return quickly to London. And that silly mawkish woman in the crowd who said, “look after those boys” as if they had no intention of doing that. No wonder their grandfather gave her short shrift.

It's on these threads in the last few years that pps have drawn my attention to the fact that the press deflected blame from themselves on to QE2 and the flag lark and the your-people-need-you stuff. I hadn't thought about that before. I read it here, folks.

It was a memorable Friday when I came home from work to the 6 o'clock news to find HM with her specs on, speaking to the nation.

Have I understood correctly? Did Charles get the news, tell the boys, and then go to France with Diana's sisters and bring the body back all in the one day? I hadn't remembered that cars stopped for her, on the other side of the road, to pay their respects. I find that touching, like the same thing when the late Q's body came back.

It's true. He literally wants protection from us, and has gone through the courts to try to get it.

Yes she died in the early hours of the morning and her body was flown back in the evening

The RF tried to keep the boys at Balmoral and protect them. The tabloids whipped up the easily led to demand their presence, which led to the weird situation of the boys providing comfort to random strangers, instead of being able to grieve privately.

He doesn't care about them at all. Its all dollar signs and petty revenge for silly slights

I can well imagine it probably can. That’s a sad consequence of being a loved one of someone very famous however who dies a somewhat public death. I always remember the widow of former Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe, who’d was assassinated while leaving campaign speech on Iive tv. By the time she was located and taken up the hospital millions had seen her husband shot.

Ronald Reagan’s daughter Patti also found out her father had been shot from news reports. Initially all she and her Secret Service protection agents knew was that her father’s press secretary had been shot.

Horrific, but impossible to avoid.

On the morning I was told my mother had died we went to mass...as that it what we did on Sundays. I've never thought this was odd.

I think Sophie does not resemble Diana and that is an absolutely ridiculous reason to not attend a funeral. Should siblings who may look like the deceased not attend either?!

No one ever told me about the death of my father. I was 6 and worked it out after a few weeks. We were on holiday visiting DMs parents and siblings and my DF went back home a week earlier to manage the farm. Then my DM disappeared with her parents and siblings to attend the funeral and we were left in holiday country with random neighbours - one of whom flew us back home a week later. Children are often overlooked in the chaos - or nobody wants to impart that dreadful news to a young child. I think everyone does their best at the time - it’s not something that you think you will have to do and so have no template. The DF of my teenage daughter’s close friend died suddenly 3 weeks ago - he has since been out with them celebrating A level results and still not even mentioned it - so much so that she thought I had made a mistake and it must have been someone else who had died.

Church is the first place a family would go. I was raised R C and you NEVER missed mass on any Sunday. After a death you would expect spiritual comfort at church surely?

They did a joint documentary on the 20th anniversary of her death. I can't see how you could follow this particularly without William's cooperation.

It's sad when you see the two brothers talking together in this film

We watched the channel 5 documentary on Saturday. I thought I remembered the day quite vividly, how surprised I was that the boys were taken to church past the waiting press for example.
I had completely forgotten Robin Cook’s plane being delayed being the first sign of serious news coming.
I had also forgotten that it thundered and rained so violently and unexpectedly after a warm day, that I had to park up half way home from work. My dad said that the heavens were angry!

I don't think that's remotely why she wasn't there. It's a ridiculous reason.

She wasn't a royal fiancée or wife at that point so she wouldn't have been attending with the royal family.

More likely there just wasn't space when they were throwing together the guest list and she wasn't the type to demand to be there as they weren't remotely close