Perhaps all of us have been conditioned to a world in which celebrity has assumed a real meaning, for good or evil, which is why we are prone to take sides with or against anyone so labelled, and are blind to the individual’s basic humanity. This tends to suggest we have lost touch with our own.
Diana was an an “ordinary” woman and her grace and her fallibility were part of the ordinariness we all participate in, and do well to remember.
Diana was far from an ordinary woman. She was part of the aristocracy and grew up with privileges and opportunities that most of us could only dream of.
She was also terribly flawed and not nearly so naive as her public persona suggested.
That’s not to say she wasn’t horribly used and abused by the royal family.
You may have opened up a can of worms with this one…
IMO Charles and co got their ‘pick’ totally wrong and Diana turned out to be a ‘loose cannon’ rather than the puppet she was meant to be, ultimately her obvious flaws caused her untimely death which ironically was the saving of the Windsors.
Well said Tim, I imagine they were horrified when they found out she was way more complicated than they thought. The “perfect young shy virgin” turned out to be anything but!!
Ordinary in the sense of being heir to all the emotions, hopes, fallibilities and strengths of humankind, regardless of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune we are born to. Would we have made a better fist of the cards life dealt her? I would not.
IMO it is all too easy to cast blame, to hurl or gently aim insults… to say we would have done things differently…
None of us really knows how we would behave in certain circumstances… not until we are face-to-face with them. OK we may like to think we would have done things differently, done things better even… and yet… who knows
This thread is about a boy and a girl, getting married…and I wish them well… and all the luck in the world.
My understanding is he lives a quiet reclusive life in Mexico. How can anyone imagine participating in this circus of a wedding that will be watched by millions of people all over the world would be easy for him and not send his stress levels off the scale, beloved daughter or not. He does not seem to have received any practical support from his daughter, Harry or the ‘establishment’ and in all probability really does not want to do it in these extreme circumstances and I can’t blame him. The photos were a big mistake but he made the decision to co-operate and only has himself to blame for that debacle.
What a ‘depressing’ thread (certainly not a discussion!) - pretty shameful really. Just read it from start to here, maybe some of you other contributors should. Not good I’m guessing none of you ever met the folks you’re hurling abuse / criticism at…what’s it like up there ?