She was a better actress than Grace Kelly, and Kelly had a Oscar.
Countless hours of drama, speech training paid of at a certain point, even in Bashir's interview .
A person that thrived on emotional manipulation of others.
It's still successful based on the ''established victimhood '' narrative which is still strong.
The children were tools more often than not in her battle against the Royals and Charles .
It isn't initially visible on the surface but a person that constantly uses a child as a ''ally'' (emotional or otherwise ) against the other parent, isn't really a good parent .The ''friend'' relationship between child/parent can go horribly wrong.
I agree with
@Evangelina @Ubu1uk & other posters, I wouldn’t go as far as describing Diana as a good or great parent, she was good enough within the restrictions of royal/aristocratic parenting with a hefty side dish of neurotic over involvement & leaning upon William as her ‘ally’.
It seems that William functions OK enough given his upbringing & early experiences, & I would not be at all surprised that the imprint of his mother’s neediness & variabilities is broadly accommodated by his immediate family & those who work closely with him. I assume that he has some difficult contradictory feelings & this may spill out behind closed doors. At the point in his emotional, social development & adolescence when Diana died, he was further along due to age, temperament & circumstances than Hazza & had begun the natural journey of separating from his mother. No doubt William misses his mother as any of us do once our mother has died, & we each come to terms with the both the joys & shortcomings of that relationship. For sure it’s complicated, but William is progressing well enough through his life living with that early loss.
Whereas Hazza is stuck stuck stuck because his mother’s death came before or as puberty started (he was still a boy as he followed Diana’s cortège), he didn’t have the developmental imperative or opportunity to naturally emotionally separate from his mummy as all boys must do to become men. This is one of the sticky sore points in Hazza’s psyche & where Smegz artfully sunk her claws in & picks at the wound. Hazza still needs his mummy but seemingly cannot get past that wound, no matter the help he has received, to call up his own ‘mothering‘ IYSWIM, instead he looks outside & beyond himself for the cloying overwhelming yet distant mothering figure that is
Diana Smegs. Hazza is not going to change or grow up, his story is a rolling program of Ancient Greek myths just waiting to happen.
I imagine that William is impatient with Hazza because of his child-like appropriation of their mother’s memory - William’s got everything that Mummy gave him, so now she’s looking after me - hawking her ghostly presence & sentimental images as ancient relics expecting awe & wonder from the gathered crowds. That‘s before the shade thrown at HMTQ, Prince Philip, Catherine & the totally fabulous Charlotte, & don’t forget the wee donkey who came by three days ago. Come the time when William is #2 or approaching #1, his suppressed fury with Hazza may give way.
BTW, Hazza move over, there’s a new cheeky chappy Prince in town…here’s Louis.
He behaves like a big kid, a boisterous little brother because that’s entirely who he is.
The thing is that Hazza is just wasting so much time & now public money.
He’s not the spare any more, he’s not cute any more, he’s not getting any younger & nor are we.
The Sussex master plan is kaput, no money coming in, no one cares.
Loads of charming sweet cheeky photogenic Royal kids galore packing the balcony, & Aldi & Lidl have missed the casting call.
The #6 have overshot the runway of their ambitions, they need to land & taxi back to base to live a quiet life…happy ever after.
