Duc_et_Pair
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No matter how many times people try to play down Diana's royal life as the Princess of Wales, she did her duties and served the Queen in a very personal way. She flew the flag for Queen and Country for fifteen years and I just think she should have been bestowed an honor from The Queen. She should have at least one royal Order, other than the RFO, under her belt.
According various sources the marriage was under heavy strain in 1986 already, a few years later the marriage completely felt apart. On December 1992 the Prince and Princess of Wales separated "amicably".
Apart from all gosspis around Captain Hewitt already popping up in 1983, for the Queen, chef de la famille, it was clear by the mid/late eighties that there were serious problems between the Prince and Princess of Wales. The first dirty linen were hanged out of the palace windows, an absolute no-no for the Queen. Formidable royal ladies like the Queen Mother, the Princess Margaret or the Princess Anne were also around: their relationship with the Princess of Wales looked cold and distant to me, which can also be said about the Duke of Edinburgh.
So all by all we may assume that Her Majesty thought: "We Are Not Amused" and was not at all in the mood to issue formal public tokens of appreciation towards her daughter-in-law. The equally problematic adventures of the other daughter-in-law (Sarah) will not have encouraged Her Majesty either to change her opinions. All must be seen in the framework of that time, with the War of the Waleses raging and a toe-sucking accountant starting the media siege of the Yorks.
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