General Chat

I never said she was scheming, you've got the wrong one. I did say she was unpopular
among the senior royals. Of course I do not know them personally. All I do know is from the press and social media.

I was replying to JBA David she did use the word scheming. Sorry, thought that was obvious!!

Well said Magpie - I saw The Diana interview again the other day (well some of it. She knew how to play the press and the camera. To me she always looked under her eyes like a little child in the wrong would. Personally not someone i would trust or make a friend of, have had personal instances of that kind of person stabbing you in the back (with their words).

Now Charles and Camilla seem like a nice friendly couple who live next door & you could chat to over the fence. about the garden or animals. I agree they should have been allowed to marry first time ad we would not have had the kind of problems we did. Old Mountbatten had a lot to answer for.

Diana would have been happier marrying a jet setting playboy who was more her lifestyle.

And I'm afraid the late Queen Mother and Diana's grandmother Lady Fermoy!! But it's now water under the bridge! I absolutely agree that Diana would have been much more suited to a rich play boy who could have given her the lifestyle she seemed to crave!
I so agree with you about Charles and Camilla, in fact Highgrove is only a few miles from us and although I can't QUITE say that we're neighbours!!! we are in the same County and we live in hopes of seeing them!!

I think it's unfair to say that Diana should have married a rich playboy. If she had not been pushed into a relationship with Charles at her young age, she would have probably developed and matured differently, unused to fame and fortune, and married someone relatively normal for her lifestyle at the time.

Lizx

Magpie Diana was used abused and cast aside
And yes I do know somebody who knew her well

Ester said Diana was a kind caring person
who made mistakes while searching for the love
she didn't find in her Marriage :-P

Well, we'll just have to agree to differ! I didn't care for Diana, simple as that, for me she was 'sly Di', so will leave it at that.

I am with Magpie on this & one of my best friends grew up on the Sandringham estate from an early age until she moved away when she got married. She knew the Royal family quite well. So i heard a few stories of people away from the camera.

I rest my case as i heard about the Public and private side of Diana she wasn't all bad & she was used - but also she found a way to play the public and the press to her own advantage.

I think if she had never been a part of the Royal family life she would have been a very different person. looking at the TV version she was so different the first 2 or 3 years and then she really changed after Harry was born. She may of course been influenced by a spin doctor or the butler and egged on - who will ever know the real story.