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While not wishing to be too controversial, grief and pain at loss in one's private life is often obvious and understandable.
What I imagine that commentators who compliment Diana's 'human face' of royalty mean is that she was able to show compassion and pain and pleasure towards others, and with such seeming ease.
To my mind, it's churlish to deny that Diana had excellent and quite natural communication skills; it's equally unfair to blame The Queen for her more formal and reserved nature. It's what she was born with and trained to be, after all.
Very well written ysbel, I had a 'friend' like that. She seemed to find it easier to show 5 minutes affection to strangers in short bursts, than to commit to anyone for any period of time. The sort of 'friend' that pushes you away and within a few days or weeks regrets it and expects you to drop everything to take up where you left off.Both of these traits of Diana seemed like two sides of the same coin. The same trait that influences her ability to reach out to someone she doesn't know also could have an influence in an inability to evolve a one on one relationship past a certain point. So it may have been easier for her to drop that friendship or relationship and go on to another one.
I totally agree with you ysbel. Although I remember reading that Diana stayed in contact with a few of the persons she has met through the years. There's Simon Barnes, a paraplegic that she had met in 1986. They were friends and saw each other until her death. Of course it's maybe a unique situation but I think Diana kept a place in her heart for the ones she could trust and those who had touched her in a special way.
Very well written ysbel, I had a 'friend' like that. She seemed to find it easier to show 5 minutes affection to strangers in short bursts, than to commit to anyone for any period of time. The sort of 'friend' that pushes you away and within a few days or weeks regrets it and expects you to drop everything to take up where you left off.
Now that I do find unbelievable, what 'missions' could Diana have undertaken on behalf of the UK government, that other well trained men and women couldn't do?from “Diana in search of herself” by Sally Bedell Smith written that
“in a luncheon conversation with Tina Brown, then editor of the New Yorker, Diana said she was thinking about traveling to China becasue Blair "wants me to go on some missions... I'm really like to go to China.I'm very good at sorting people's heads out" Tina Brown noted in The New Yorker that Diana's manner was "devoid of irony".
This is a wonderful tribute. Thank you for posting the link PrincessDi. It was just wonderful to recapture the warmth and genuineness of the Princess. To see the special bond between Princess Diana and her sons; and that bond which she had carefully nurtured is very much evident when we watch them interact with one another. This came thru very well during their interview.
This is the dress.
£61 200 for Diana's evening gown
£61 200 for Diana's evening gown: Entertainment: International: News24
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So much for all those accusations a while back that the National Portrait Gallery was removing all the Diana portraits under orders from Clarence House as part of an attempt to airbrush Diana from history, or whatever the specific accusation was.
How awful, even in death they are making money out of her and her 'fans'!
since after their death they are part of history of a country they become automatically part of the touristindustry
Camilla deserves to feel guilty at Diana's memorial
Camilla deserves to feel guilty at Diana's memorial | the Daily Mail