When Lady Diana Spencer married "Philip Charles Arthur George" in St Paul's Cathedral , it was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, who remarked from his pulpit that their union was the stuff that fairytales were made of, and he was quite right. It’s just he didn’t realise quite how rotten that stuff actually is.
When I was young – in the 1950s and 60s – it was almost the only road map for life that was offered to young girls. And Diana and I are near contemporaries. She was born in July 1961 and I was born in June 1957. The neglected product of a broken marriage, this outwardly privileged English rose clearly swallowed the stories whole.Though, perhaps I am being unfair.
There were clues in all of this for anyone who cared to look, but I was as guilty as everyone else of under-estimating the pretty young thing who seemed so utterly conventional in the early days of her worldwide fame. On the contrary, this uneducated, psychologically fragile, intellectually banal teenager went on to turn the tables on one of the longest lasting institutions in the world – the monarchy. Far from them changing her, she re-shaped them in her own image and her influence, her much-lauded empathy, compassion and undoubted PR genius continues to shape the modern Windsors more than two decades after her untimely and tragic death.
No she didn’t. And ... she was uneducated? If she was fragile then so is Rhonda Rousey
It was 20 years ago, give it a rest.
I am struck at how much Prince Harry looks like his father, Prince Charles and not at all like that ranga Captain who was rooting Princess Di
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