Princess Diana - then and now

Will stick this one here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4205234/Prince-Charless-fairytale-life-new-biography.html

EXCLUSIVE: How Prince Charles wept over Camilla on the eve of wedding to Diana, was beaten by the princess when he knelt to pray and was so skittish he took his own food when visiting friends: The prince's less-than-fairytale life chronicled in new book
New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith chronicles the life of the heir to the throne in her new book
Smith describes how the prince's parents was cold, but his Great Uncle Lord Louis ‘Dickie’ Mountbatten taught him about love and women
When Charles met Camilla he was head over heels, but he was forced to marry virginal Diana after receiving a letter from his father Prince Phillip
During their rows at Kensington Palace Diana used to taunt Charles that he would ‘never be king’, knowing it caused him deep consternation
Diana resented anything to do with his previous life including his beloved yellow Lab, Harvey, who was banished to live with an advisor
Charles has the same breakfast every day, specially mixed wheat germ and cereal grains, honey and preserves on a silver tray and tea
He would bring his own food and chef to cook his meals even if he was attending an event at a friend’s house

It sounds like an absolute load of old twaddle. I've never heard of this author before though I now know that she has written other books on the Royal Family.

Personally, I think it's time to call a halt on any more books like this. Can there be anything new to come out of this sad story?

By the way, does anyone else remember the equally disastrous marriage in the early 1970s of the then Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and his much younger wife, Margaret? She led him a merry dance, to put it mildly.

The current P M is their son Justin.

Feel sorry for the kids if they read it - it`s a real `let`s slag off Diana piece`.

To begin with I hardly think Charles knelt by the bed and said prayers at night !!!!

I should imagine that they're well used to it by now and will be expecting a load of stuff - good and bad - to be said about Diana in this 20th anniversary year.

I feel that it's time to leave all the bad things that happened in the past and concentrate on the happier times that there were as well; something that I try to do with events in my own life too.

Freedom wrote:It sounds like an absolute load of old twaddle. I've never heard of this author before though I now know that she has written other books on the Royal Family.

Personally, I think it's time to call a halt on any more books like this. Can there be anything new to come out of this sad story?

By the way, does anyone else remember the equally disastrous marriage in the early 1970s of the then Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and his much younger wife, Margaret? She led him a merry dance, to put it mildly.

The current P M is their son Justin.

Yes extremely well. Margaret was many years Pierre Trudeau's junior and came from a wealthy Vancouver family. She suffered from mental health issues and isn't shy about discussing them now. She spoke about them here: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/i-no-longer-had-the-ability-to-reason-margaret-trudeau-talks-about-life-before-mental-health-diagnosis

She's very well supported now and has her bipolar disorder treated and maintained. Her son Justin has also spoken publicly about his mother's disorder and is a strong advocate for mental health policies.

More about the new book.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/tormented-princess-diana-given-valium-on-honeymoon-but-feared-it-was-a-royal-plot-to-sedate-her/ar-BBz963E?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout

Just found myself reading this so might as well stick it up here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4377214/Inside-toxic-court-Charles-startling-portrait.html

Inside the toxic court of Charles: How the Prince dropped friends over disagreements, brutally dismissed loyal staff and even made digs at The Queen

Perish the thought that the BBC would ever knowingly broadcast false information!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/801297/BBC-Prince-Harry-Princess-Diana-Prince-Charles-son-slur-James-Hewitt-King-parentage

I'll put this link here as well as elsewhere - we're in for a load of regurgitated stories with the 20th anniversary approaching.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4556606/Diana-s-Paris-crash-car-death-trap.html

Freedom wrote:Perish the thought that the BBC would ever knowingly broadcast false information!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/801297/BBC-Prince-Harry-Princess-Diana-Prince-Charles-son-slur-James-Hewitt-King-parentage

I`m not a royalist but that charming little drama is in such bad taste, whether it`s true or not. I wonder which bright spark thought of that - just shows the types you`ve got working at the BBC. The media just seem in competition these days as to who can screen the most lurid, the most violent and the most shocking dramas - it`s a slippery slope.

It will be interesting to see whether Madeleine or Diana creates the most anniversary stories.

Diana's anniversary has started really early for supposed scoops that we've heard many times before.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4590146/What-Charles-told-Diana-engagement.html

Will put this here as it links to Diana and the unhappy marriage to Charles.  Camilla now having her say.........

Well, it makes a change to hear from Camilla but I still think that it's time to leave all this in the past.

.... Is anybody actually bothered about Camilla's side?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4634144/Camilla-s-story-revealed-explosive-new-book.html

I quite like Camilla. I think she's behaved with dignity throughout. I think it's a shame she didn't marry Charles instead of Diana. William and Harry have obviously accepted her. But I hope she doesn't go down the road of discrediting Diana, I don't think she will, because the British people won't stand for that as she's the People's Princess in many people's eyes. Although not mine as I thought she was well out of order throwing herself down the stairs for attention when she was pregnant with William. I'm not sure she should have published her side of the story though. But I think her PR team are coming out in force now, just as they did before she married Charles, as the Queen and Prince Philip won't be around for too much longer. I also don't think it looks good for Prince Harry to keep having a moan. The Royal Family should be above all that and have an air of mystery about them. I've never seen the Queen having a moan, at least not until Helen Mirren played her, but even that was tastefully done. I like the Queen and Prince Philip and I think the rest of the Royals have a lot to live up to once they have passed away and it will spell the end of the Monarchy as we now know it. Jeremy Corbyn is very disrespeful to the Monarchy.