No, not really. Princess Margaret and Diana were actually very good friends almost up to the very end. When the Prince of Whales and Diana were separated, she made it clear to Charles that she was going to continue socializing with Diana. Due to the fact that she went through her own troubles and affairs, she had a somewhat vicarious thrill seeing Diana sneaking in her lovers into Kensington Palace. They occasionally would go to certain engagements and parties together.What ruined that relationship was Diana's cringe-worthy Panorama interview in which Diana questioned Charles fitness for the throne and declared she wanted to be the Queen of peoples Hearts, a slight to Margaret's sister, The Queen.The Queen, while not intervening into Charles affair with Camilla, she did indeed sympathize. She was not one to interfere in the personal lives of her children. Diana was extended a lot of special privileges to try and make her life easier. But, then again the Panorama interview ended Diana's place in the Royal family and her marriage to Charles. You take on the situation is tainted with your false view of Diana and the particularly juvenile ideas you have about how Diana should have been and how the Royal Family treated her. The Queen mother tried to help her in the very beginning but Diana immaturity and silliness ruined that. I am not absolving Charles any blame but Diana brought a lot of misery on herself. As I said, she was with several different married men, and ruined those marriages.
Do you know anything about Margaret at all? Have you read a book on any member of the royal family? Because I think she had a particularly, unhappy life. I read two books on her that contained numerous things that upset the Queen Mother, the Queen and Princess Margaret. Margaret had had a bitter feud with the Princess of Wales that went on for years, until Diana's death and I don't think that they ever resolve those hurtful things they both said about each other. Margaret was close to her father King George VI and when he died suddenly her whole world was destroyed. She found comfort in a man named Peter Townsend. They fell in love and he eventually proposed. She wanted to marry him, but needed to get permission from the Queen and Queen Mother but unfortunately Parliament has a say as does the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill who told her it was impossible, because Townsend was divorced and had children. So, as a dutiful daughter of the former King she obeyed her orders and broke up the engagement and Townsend, who was still active in the military and was sent some place far away (I don’t remember where) Churchill demanded it. The feud between Diana and Margaret started when Diana came across love letters that Townsend wrote to Margaret, and made fun of them, which sent Margaret into an angry state. I don’t know why Diana felt the need to do that, but it most likely came from Charles ignoring her, the Queen disregarding her and wanted them to hurt as much as they hurt her, they couldn’t put up with her hurt her. On both women it was childish behavior. She had hurt feeling about the royal family and I just think she wanted to hurt someone else. The more Diana said bad things in the press regarding Charles, the more PM hatred grew.
Eventually, Diana towards the end of her marriage to Charles, she had for months gone through her personal correspondences from the Queen, the Queen Mother, Charles (and she did find love letters from Charles to Camilla and Camilla to him) and Margaret and burnt them all. That upset the whole family and why their relationship deteriorated fairly fast. I am just assuming that those correspondences would be or might be historical documents. The two books never said why they were so mad and/or if they would eventually become important to the Queen and the Queen Mother. Princess Margaret in retaliation burnt letters Diana had written to the Queen and other members of the royal family. I think they all were being very childish.
There was no thaw between the two women even in death with the full extent of the schism demonstrated on the day of Diana’s funeral. As her flower coffin passed the Royal Family, the Queen, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles and other senior members bowed their heads in respect. However, Margaret, in contrast, had “just looked up straight ahead” and remained upright, upstanding and refused to give any respect towards Diana in death. I believe she wished she didn’t have to go. I’m sure she disliked Diana brother, Charles Spencer comments he made in his eulogy to his sister, specifically the line “who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.” Diana was forced to give up the title "Her Royal Highness" after she divorced Prince Charles last year. He continued… "There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time. She talked endlessly of getting away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers. I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling."
"My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this - a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.
Princess Margaret was a chain smoker and eventually had an operation to remove a portion of her left lung. At the time when Diana became a member of the royal family, Margaret was a full out alcoholic, coming close to having a nervous breakdown and ill. She went to her private retreat in the Caribbean returning occasionally for her duty to her family obligations. Margaret was a mess, her private life was out of control so there was no way that Margaret would have ever helped Diana adjust to this new world for her. Which is why I continue to believe they threw her into the deep end of the Ocean where she threaded water and didn’t provided her with a life preserver or raft. This wasn’t her world, it seemed she hadn’t a clue on what her responsibilities and obligation were to the royal family [And, it appears that they continue this trend with Williams’s wife Kate. She also seemed out of sorts with her obligation. But SHE has a husband who was very supportive, willing and cared enough to show her, whereas Charles couldn’t be bothered.] I’m glad that Prince William learned from the mistakes that both parents made.
There is no need to respond to this post since we both have different opinions on the royal family, particularly Diana. I know yours and now you know mine.
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8 years ago
Do you know anything about Margaret at all? Have you read a book on any member of the royal family? Because I think she had a particularly, unhappy life. I read two books on her that contained numerous things that upset the Queen Mother, the Queen and Princess Margaret. Margaret had had a bitter feud with the Princess of Wales that went on for years, until Diana's death and I don't think that they ever resolve those hurtful things they both said about each other. Margaret was close to her father King George VI and when he died suddenly her whole world was destroyed. She found comfort in a man named Peter Townsend. They fell in love and he eventually proposed. She wanted to marry him, but needed to get permission from the Queen and Queen Mother but unfortunately Parliament has a say as does the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill who told her it was impossible, because Townsend was divorced and had children. So, as a dutiful daughter of the former King she obeyed her orders and broke up the engagement and Townsend, who was still active in the military and was sent some place far away (I don’t remember where) Churchill demanded it. The feud between Diana and Margaret started when Diana came across love letters that Townsend wrote to Margaret, and made fun of them, which sent Margaret into an angry state. I don’t know why Diana felt the need to do that, but it most likely came from Charles ignoring her, the Queen disregarding her and wanted them to hurt as much as they hurt her, they couldn’t put up with her hurt her. On both women it was childish behavior. She had hurt feeling about the royal family and I just think she wanted to hurt someone else. The more Diana said bad things in the press regarding Charles, the more PM hatred grew.
I know more than you do because it is known that Margaret and Diana were friends. If you really knew about her then you would know that 1.She could have indeed married Townsend, she would have to give up her place in the line of succession. Margaret didn't want loose her lifestyle, that is the real reason she didn't marry him.
Eventually, Diana towards the end of her marriage to Charles, she had for months gone through her personal correspondences from the Queen, the Queen Mother, Charles (and she did find love letters from Charles to Camilla and Camilla to him) and Margaret and burnt them all. That upset the whole family and why their relationship deteriorated fairly fast. I am just assuming that those correspondences would be or might be historical documents. The two books never said why they were so mad and/or if they would eventually become important to the Queen and the Queen Mother. Princess Margaret in retaliation burnt letters Diana had written to the Queen and other members of the royal family. I think they all were being very childish.
You are so full of shlt, Princess Margaret was the only one doing the burning of letters. She burned a lot of her mothers letters and not just the one's between Diana and the Queen Mother.
here is no need to respond to this post since we both have different opinions on the royal family, particularly Diana. I know yours and now you know mine.
The problem with your opinions, is that they are not based off correct facts. There is so much wrong with your information and that is probably why you do not want me to respond back. Take the cowards way out.
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