CyrilVladisla
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What would you say that the newspapers did for Princess Diana?
Would you say that the unrelenting pressure of having to appear in public and be gracious to a press corps wore Princess Diana down?
They gave her an opportunity to bring a focus on interests that were important to her ie: land mines, AIDs etc...What would you say that the newspapers did for Princess Diana?
They gave her an opportunity to bring a focus on interests that were important to her ie: land mines, AIDs etc...
Would that period of loving the Press and public attention from the first day have included the bursting into tears at a polo match under the strain of it all, when Diana was engaged? Or that first tour of Wales she undertook at twenty, where she was so terrified of the huge crowds she sobbed in fright in the car before different engagements, while Charles and others tried to reassure her?
Would you say that the unrelenting pressure of having to appear in public and be gracious to a press corps wore Princess Diana down?
Charles and Diana were married in 1981. She began charity work and causes that were important to her, like children's hospices, quite early in her marriage. Of course we know now what went on privately but the British Press wanted in large part to preserve the fairy tale for many years.
Of course not. Charles was the "star" of the BRF when Diana married him so she expected to get attention as his wife, and she got considerable attention as his girlfriend and fiance. But when things really kicked in Diana and her image became an industry in and of itself and far surpassed the considerable attention that Charles got as a bachelor prince.
Did Diana have any idea that her position as The Princess of Wales would be followed as thoroughly by the media?
AFAIR Tina Brown's article 'The mouse that Roared' in Vanity Fair, inferring that Diana was a woman of steel who was running Charles's life, sacking his staff etc, was the first sign that any journalist wanted to break the mould, and that was in 1986, I believe.
if she killed a stag why would she be "yelling at Charles that she didn't want to be out shooting?" doesn't seem to make sense..
and was she being criticised for shootng a stag or for yelling at Charles>?
and was she being criticised for shootng a stag or for yelling at Charles>?
The Queen met with newspaper editors late in 1981. I can't remember whether it was her Press Secretary or Private Secretary who spoke to them first. Then HM arrived and chatted with them informally. Well, as informal as the Queen gets in those situations.
I've heard very various reports about the stag... so who knows what the truth is.The story was that she wasn't keen to kill the stag, that she felt Charles pressured her into doing it, thus the outburst.
Mermaid1962, your post reminded me of those days so much, perfect synopsis. There was a time in the beginning where Diana got lots of criticism, from firing staff to getting rid of Charles' lab Harvey. Charles and HM had to intervene with the press at one point iirc.