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here! #TeamQueen all the
bleeping way! I'm FAAAAAAR more invested in this than I should be! Meghan should be shot into the heart of the sun with a ball of her own shite.
Longtime lurker.... hi everyone! Loved catching up on your posts the last couple of days!
This is an absolute tit show.
I’ve seen so many people on twitter saying ‘Diana would be so proud of Harry’.
It makes me so bleeping angry.
Diana would be disgusted at how Harry is treating his brother and she would be heartbroken if she knew her boys weren‘t speaking any more.
I honestly can’t believe Harry is dragging his family through the mud like this. It’s disgraceful.
It shows how little they know about anything to do with the British monarchy, the class system, its 1000 year history, the aristocracy or really even much to do with the few characters they actually know within it, such as Diana.
Diana was a highly class conscious, old-blood English aristocrat, and a staunch monarchist who wanted her first son on the throne, and was almightily pissed off about losing her HRH title post-divorce which was apparently done at Charles's demand and not the Queen's. She wasn't some politically minded Republican avenger trying to destroy the institution from within, nor some proud socialist uber-feminist or whatever people who rocked up and watched The Crown last month seem to imagine of her. There is so much revisionist crap surrounding Diana from people not born when she died who have no idea about anything and just seem to use her as a screen to project their own prejudices, current fashionable ideals and socio-political ideologies onto.
She aspired to be the Princess of Wales as a career choice ffs, played every card she had for the role, pretending to share Charles's interests (which she didn't, at all) and was simply the last in a long line of suitable girls who had either quite comically turned Charles' marriage proposals down flat (Anna Wallace chucked him for inviting her to a ball then dancing with Camilla all night, Sabrina Guinness for similar offences) or were chucked by Charkes first, such as Diana's own older sister Sarah, who hobbled off to the press and was promptly dumped for being indiscreet, and then rewarded him with a mouthful of abuse.
Funny article about his exes here:
As King Charles turns 75 today with a low-key celebration at Highgrove, Tatler revisits the monarch's former flames
www.tatler.com
Diana didn't actually mind Charles having a mistress - such things are common in the aristocracy- and she actually made friends with Kanga Tyron, the Australian heiress and Charles's other blonde married mistress throughout the 80s. Kanga used to go riding out in Great Windsor Park with Charles and the Queen. Diana chummed up with Kanga and even wore clothes from Kanga's fashion line at events to help her fashion business out. It was a bit of a tradition that the Prince of Wales had a married mistress even - better married so there would be pressure to break up the marriage of either. Edward VII and Mrs Keppel were so close and accepted in the royal household that Queen Alexandra allowed her to visit him on his deathbed. What Diana seemed to object to with Camilla was that unlike with Kanga, he was humiliatingly in love with her and NOT AT ALL with Dianax while he and Diana proved to have zero to say to each other. When Diana did her ill advised and at the time actually rather unpopular interview, it was Charles she was lashing out at, not the entire institution. She played her hand badly there, with Martin Bashir's 'help', and it led to her losing the HRH she valued so much. If Diana had known Bashir has lied, faked evidence to feed her paranoia to horrific levels and simply worked to pull the wool over her brother's eyes to get the interview, she would most likely never had had her moment to place her famous zinger about three people in the marriage in the public eye.
She was also reportedly snotty as hell to Sophie on first introduction because of her non aristocratic, middle class status. You cannot tell me she would have approved of a twice-divorced experienced older
tit stirrer of a bad American actress as a suitable match for any of her princely progeny. The idea she'd be happy watching Harry get played for a fool and played hard by a pushy, tacky upstart ... nope. She was a lot of things, not all of them positive, but she wasn't that stupid, and she supported the monarch and the monarchy.
Her unwise actions and lashing out were down to her issues with her husband and the inability of BP to deal with her mental health issues (which wasn't personal, but symptomatic of society back then, and their circles especially-mental health issues were quite a taboo subject compared to now) , not the existence of a hierarchical system she herself was born into. So the Sugars can piss off with their Diana cheering this mess in heaven fantasy they seem to have.