Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

Her life was only miserable because she made it so. She was the master of her own destiny, and the path she trod was of her own choosing.

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

And Charles had no hand in it? Give me a break.. if you abhor infidelity why aren't you just as down on Charles as you seem to be on Diana? Yet the girl is dead.. and lucky old Charles is living happily ever after with his one time mistress... She is reaping benefits for sleeping with a married man.. You see nothing dispicable in that?

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

So many nondescripts behave in this way, on a daily basis, and attract no attention, why is it more important if there is a name to protect.

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

Hubs said the same to me ..... Anyone else, we would not be discussing ....

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

No time for the media - they promote negativity .....

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

Audrey they were divorced. That means, regardless of the past, that you are free to move on. She was no longer a naive eighteen year old, which Diana apologists seem to blame her whole misfortune on, and had every advantage and opportunity to choose how she lived her life. Everything she did was her choice, no longer could anyone else be held to blame for her choices whether good or bad. The choices she made were hers alone. Why does someone else always have to be to blame?

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

Because what happens to you shapes you as a person, she was damaged by her childhood and then again by her marriage, by the time her divorce ripped through her family she was always going to be damaged almost too late for her to make the changes to be whole.

But in her last couple of years she did seem happier and was looking as if she was settling down, who knows perhaps she (if she had lived) could have put the past behind her. For me that was the cruellest thing, she didn't get the chance to become the woman she should have been.

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

Strange how those things around the time of the marriage get forgotten so easily

Also often forgotten is that on their wedding night, he thought it appropriate to read to her in bed then went off and rang Camilla <shakes head in dismay>

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

The problem with your logic here plantman is that it is all money-based. Women tend to want emotional value more than financial gain. If she didn't love Charles (as has been suggested), she would have happily gone along with the situation you have described. When a woman loves a man, she does not want to share him with another woman and most women, if they decide to fight for their man, will try anything to win him back or 'pay him back' for rejecting her.

Re: Diana, Princess of Wales

Precisely - from the moment she started dating him they dogged her every step and isn't that why William detests the press so much. Remember him, as a little boy, stomping over to the cameras and telling them to leave his mummy alone?