Princess Diana is having a remarkable career revival for a dead woman. She’s on the cover of Vanity Fair AND Naomi Watts is playing her in a film. From the aforementioned Vanity Fair issue is an interview with Lady Pamela Hicks, first cousin to Prince Philip, who has less-than-kind things to say about the adored royal.
She had enormous charisma, she was beautiful, she was very good at empathy with the general crowd … and she had no feeling at all for her husband or his family. Quite the reverse!
She was really spiteful, really unkind to him—and, my God, he’s a man who needs support and encouragement. [The marriage] absolutely destroyed him. He looked grey and ghost-like. Now of course he’s blossomed again.
She made everybody believe she’d been thrown to the wolves. Such nonsense! She was given the Queen’s favorite lady-in-waiting, Sue Hussey, to help her, to teach her. But she didn’t want to be told anything. ‘That’s boring, Sue,’ she’d say. Instead, she wanted to listen to her music and go disco-ing or to some jive concert.
She didn’t try. She had no need to try because she saw the people admired her, then they admired her more. She reckoned she was the star.
I laughed at the “go disco-ing or to some jive concert” bit. The woman is 84. Anyway, oh, poor Charles. Wah wah wah. Wasn’t Diana a little justified in “having no feeling” for her husband and family? Didn’t he invite now wife, then mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles to his wedding to Diana?
I’m calling bullshit all over this one. Anybody and everybody having ANYTHING to do with the royals should have been commanded to KEEP THEIR UPPER LIP PERMANENTLY STIFF when this movie came out. It should be “Her Majesty the Queen and her entire family and staff have no comment on the film.”
The Royal Family, as blasted1 said, should keep it’s upper lip permanently stiff! Let’s not forget that Chucky boy, who was considerably older than Diana (and far too much of a p*ssy to tell Mummy that he didn’t want to marry her) waited until his HONEYMOON to let his new bride know that their marriage is a sham and that he’s in love with a woman who, basically, looks like Sarah Jessica Parker’s ugly cousin.
Diana got lambasted for once saying, “there are three people in this marriage.” It doesn’t seem fair to me that Chuck got off easy, given that he created this mess.
Too bad she’s not here to defend herself… They show very little class for “royalty.”
I think they were both very unhappy — she was tricked into marrying someone she didn’t really fancy and he was too afraid of losing everything if he stood up to the Queen.
Lady Pamela doesn’t get it. We loved and admired Diana BECAUSE she didn’t toe the royal line. She was a wonderful role model and peace activist. Her children are and should be proud of their mother.