Originally posted by Elspeth@Jun 24th, 2004 - 10:58 pm
They did cause damage, but so did Diana. There's plenty of blame to go around, and it isn't down to just the three of them either, if reports about the sorry history of that marriage are anywhere near the truth. Many people contributed to that debacle over the years, starting long before the marriage ever happened.
However, if you look at some of those quotes of Wymanda's that you've posted, they're not bashing, they're plain fact. Look at that one from the "Title for Camilla" thread. Diana is dead, her feelings can't be hurt, and she isn't the only Princess of Wales who ever lived or ever will live. There's no bashing there; it's just a statement of the way things are. It also seems to be a consensus, that even her friends agree about, that she was insecure and manipulative and that she worked to keep her high profile via her charities as much as via any other way.
If you were to look at the context of Wymanda's posts, you'd probably see that the most negative ones were in response to posts idolising Diana and overflowing with adulation about all her manifest perfections and the sheer total utter awfulness of Charles and Camilla. I have very little respect for Prince Charles (for many reasons, not just his love life) and not a great deal for Mrs Parker Bowles either although I'm not all that familiar with her life story, but I have to say that the demonisation of those two and the canonisation of Diana that's still going on is a bit hard to swallow.