Until this thread, I honestly never realized there was anything but love for Princess Di (with the exception, of course, of the royal family). I was quite young when she died but I distinctly remember my dad telling my mom and she burst into tears.
I admit it… I’m a Diana fan. And I remember feeling so sorry for those two little boys who lost their mom way too early. I’m glad they honored her by including her name.
Charles got a second at Oxford. Diana was a HS dropout babysitter. He is dedicated to preserving the English countryside, organic farming, etc.
The concept of duty is lost on many people.
Diana wasn’t some total innocent plucked from the countryside. Her family moved in those circles for generations, and her sisters moved in the same circles as Charles. She knew the score. She knew that to be eligible to marry the prince she had to be a virgin. She knew about all of the prior GFs who had been declared unsuitable. She set out to bag him. She just had, despite every opportunity to the contrary, an unrealistic idea of what would happen. She undoubtedly thought that he would be so overcome by her 19-yr-old charms that he would forget all about Camilla, who probably seemed old and unattractive to her. (As she does to the American public, who vilify her for it.) Unfortunately for her, he remained faithful to his old love.
She courted the press, calling them to tell her tale of woe. She had her extramarital affairs, also. It seems to me she was warm-hearted, but rather dim, and definitely neurotic.
Post #42, I was never a fan of princess Diana. But you sound exactly like my sister. I mean she said exactly the same stuff. Jealousy is what I’ve always thinking.
Jealousy? Are you serious? Pathetic.
If I were going to be jealous of someone in that debacle, it would be Camilla.
There seems to be an awful lot of projecting going on…
Either way, I wish the happy new family the best.
(By the way, let’s not pretend that if Charles had chosen love over duty he would’ve been the first… or the last. Everyone makes their choices, for better or worse.)
Camilla struck me as a stodgy old clodhopper.
I can’t believe I’m actually commenting on this, as I am not a usual royal-watcher, and I don’t much care that much about Diana except to be sad for the way she died and for her kids, but…Charles and Camilla have always had zero sympathy for me. He married Diana. This is not the Dark Ages when men blithely had mistresses whom they tragically couldn’t marry–he could have abdicated if he wanted to marry Camilla; instead he took the cowards’s way out and snuck around. Zero sympathy!
So I did some googling and my memory was faulty, Charles passed his A levels with a B in history and C in French. So I wouldn’t say he is in the intelligent category.
Yes, she has committed the great sin of being the same age as her husband.
Honestly, romani, you are too young to remember what it was like when Charles was a young man. I lived in England and went to school there back then. I think I have a better grasp of the situation. One thing you should consider is that the Royal Family was still reeling from the Edward VIII disaster. Americans tended to find it romantic, not a big deal. They experienced it as a severe and highly painful dereliction of duty.
Wow, good thing baby Charlotte is too young to read CC yet!!! How the topic turned!
I don’t have anything against Camilla or really anyone else involved, and I don’t have any views at all regarding the motives of Diana or Charles in marrying each other.
My only point is that she had extraordinarily sophisticated skills in very important and highly valued areas – really, off the chart skills. Her media skills, her ability to command and work a room, her ability to communicate and connect with ordinary people – her skills in those areas rivaled anyone’s in the world, certainly any politician’s. Those are very rare and very valuable skills that very few are able to develop, no matter how great their privilege. They are certainly more rare and by many measures more valuable than run-of-the-mill intellectual skills. And, as previously noted, she really did use those skills for good.
I don’t necessarily consider myself a particular fan of hers, but I have enormous respect for her high-wattage people and media skills.
And, frankly, even if she did orchestrate her marriage to Prince Charles at age 19, that by itself evidences enormous savvy as to the ways of the world.
“The People’s Princess”, that says it all. Let’s not forget her work against land mines too. And if she dressed up and went out to show off on Camilla’s birthday, it was because they hurt her. She loved Charles. He only pretended.
Anyway, that baby is cute!
Here’s more on the birth:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3065678/Call-midwives-calm-duo-delivered-Princess.html
The senior midwife also delivered baby George.
It doesn’t matter if others think Diana was a PITA or Charles was a dud. This child was named in part after Diana by her son, who knew her as a loving mother. I don’t get how anyone could have a problem with that.
D1’s cat is named Charlotte. She is a very pretty cat, with amazing blue eyes. 
I really want this baby to have bright red hair and bright blue eyes For some reason, that’s what I picture when I think of “Charlotte”
Doesn’t her Uncle Harry have reddish hair?
Also, for all us Diana lovers - genetics is the best revenge. Guess who looks just like his mother?
?? Not William or Harry. Harry looks just like James Hewitt, the guy Di had an affair with. For 5 years.
Not that I blame her. Sauce for the goose/gander and all that.
Post #56, so much vitriol from your post. Even prince Charles had to tell his son that he is not James Hewitt’s son. Just google it.
I think Harry looks like Charles. The eyes anyway.
Although I think it is odd that he looks so much like Hewitt, he also looks like her family.
I know someone whose son looks exactly like her ex’s BF. (Her ex having fathered the child before he realized he was gay and they divorced.) It’s uncanny.