From the other thread.
Well now, I can totally understand her trying to find love, no problem, we all want someone special in our lives. What I can't stomach is seeking it with someone already married, like Carling and Hoare. The Carlings divorced when it came out and Hoare's wife had to threaten legal action to stop Di calling her from pay phones like a mad bunny boiler. So she caused other women heartache in her quest for love. Yes, of course the husbands were worse but yanno, bragging rights for shagging a genuine princess adds a new level to cheating I suppose. Lineker (spit!) had more sense.
Didn't she also push her stepmum Raine down the stairs? Yes she did, and then some time later set up pap walks of her meeting Raine for coffee etc several times to make herself look forgiving and wonderful ... when in fact she never stopped hating Raine and referred to her as Acid Raine. She could be quite the witch and was a master of press manipulation once she found her feet and realised she could use them to her advantage.
Yep, she hated Raine and basically tried to harm her by tripping her headfirst down a staircase. Her upbringing was fairly dysfunctional with her mother being chucked out and exiled from the children for cheating and her dad being an inveterate cheater himself. Diana actually had more affairs within marriage than Charles, it seems. His mistresses were Camilla and Kanga, basically. Diana went through an absolute laundry list of men during her marriage and then a few afterwards, and 100% fair enough when she was actually single.
Diana shagged her personal bodyguard James Mannakee during the earlier years of her marriage, and is on tape gushing about how she was 'like a little girl' (ugh) around him. The affair was found out, and he was naturally dismissed. When he died in a motorbike accident in 1987, she decided he'd been bumped off because obviously, motorbike riding isn't a risky business at all. Motorbike accidents never happen, nor do the riders often die in them. Seems to me Diana's own sense of guilt was often expressed in paranoia, this being the paranoia and willingness to believe everyone was against her that Bashir so easily exploited to get his big interview. You know people who are cheating and are not found out often get weird and aggressively accuse their other halves of cheating too? I see that trait in Diana, her wanting to get others (primarily Charles) back being expressed as deep paranoia about being got at herself. I also think she projected her own constant cheating, pursuit of other men and guilt at it onto other women. The time she accused her sons very jolly hockey sticks plain jane nanny, Tiggy Legg-Bourke of shagging Charles and having his abortion - in public, at a party, in earshot of other guests - she was shamefully nasty to other women at times, an absolute basket case.
She also had Hewitt smuggled into Kensington Palace for the night, via the boot of a car, ffs, during their years-long affair in the late 80s. Again, this insane cloak and dagger
tit that she's accuse everyone else of. James Hoare who was Charles's age, and in fact Charles's old friend, was the one whose wife she hassled in ways that would probably be classed legally as stalking these days. Unforgiveable. Then there was the James Gilby stuff. She also shagged Will Carling behind his wife Julia's back and helped break up their marriage. She was no woman's woman, she lived her life for male sexual validations as women who have a parent-shaped hole in their childhood often do.
I don't get why people give Diana this endless victim pass though when she often behaved like a spiteful
witch with nothing better to do than run around looking for a man to cling to, and if she had to run an existing wife out of the way, she would try. You can only play the 'married at 20 to an older man, innocent little me' card as an excuse for so long. Certainly it's not a pass to interfere in others' marriages like a mad bunny boiler, especially when you're so epically, tragically butthurt your own husband is not faithful to you.
