12 facts about Princess Diana, who was obliged to bow to her own children for the rest of her life
'11.10.2019'
Source: Adme.ru
Princess Diana is a stronghold of purity and an example to follow. She has changed a number of familiar patterns for the royal family, and her style is still copied. However, we want to talk not only about Diana, the Princess of Wales, but about Diana Francis Spencer - a woman who is not so familiar to us outside the royal image.
There was another, more humane and dramatic side of Lady Dee's life. Two motives invariably intertwined in her fate: the desire to give happiness and the inability to become happy herself. It is about this that the discovered facts speak, writes Adme.ru.
One of the first to draw attention to the problem of AIDS and debunking myths about this disease
At the opening of the first AIDS unit in the UK, Princess Diana pointedly took off her gloves and shook hands with each patient. This gesture was intentional: Lady Dee tried to dispel myths about AIDS-infected people who were stigmatized at the time. Subsequently, she visited sick children many more times, transferred funds to aid funds, and also did not shy away from communicating personally with HIV-infected people.
Since childhood, was not the mother’s favorite
According to Princess Diana herself, her parents divorced in her childhood. The girl remained with her father, who received the right to custody of the children, and it was for this that she was condemned by her mother throughout her life. However, Lady Dee admitted that she did not love her mother and considered her an alcoholic.
Took any job: from a cleaning lady to a nanny
Diana Spencer was not rich enough to neglect work. The entire legacy of Count Spencer was transmitted through the male line, which is why Lady Dee, who had not yet married, unlike the sisters, earned as much as she could. She cleaned friends' houses, taught teenagers dancing lessons, worked as an assistant to the nanny and teacher in the kindergarten.
I was worried about weight and got bulimia before the wedding
“Charles laid a hand on my waist and said:“ Oh, a little puffy here, huh? ”And something jumped inside me.”
After 13 meetings with her future husband and an engagement decision, Lady Diana was seriously worried about her weight and began to fall into unhealthy conditions. It all started with a thoughtless phrase of the groom, and ended with an eating disorder - bulimia. By the time of the wedding, the girl’s waist decreased in girth by 20 centimeters, she "melted from February to June." Endless jealousy also influenced Diana's condition: she saw Charles secretly exchange gifts with his first love, Camilla.
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The honeymoon was not a fairy tale, but a horror
“By this point, my bulimia was already completely uncontrollable. Attacks repeated 4 once a day. "Everything that I could find, I ate right away, and after a couple of minutes I was nauseous - it exhausted me."
Diana herself called her honeymoon a great opportunity to sleep, and this can be understood, because during the day she and her husband had to discuss the books he had collected during the trip, and in the evenings - listen to the naval orchestra, sitting in elegant strict suits. But the main problem of the girl was the lack of moral strength: at night she had nightmares about Camille, her husband’s mistress, whom he did not forget during his honeymoon. During this period, bulimia reached its peak - the princess began to bulge bones.
Problems in marriage were plagued everywhere: from bed to social events
After the wedding and the honeymoon together, it became obvious: Charles and Diana, who was 13 years younger than him, have nothing to talk about. The girl had specific, if not selective tastes in literature, was not interested in her husband's hobbies and ridiculed his piety. In affairs of love, as Lady Dee admitted, the prince “had no need”: for 7 years they retired three times a week, which seemed to her insufficient, and then this was gone.
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I cheated on my husband in revenge
Unhappy marriage and husband, with trepidation for another woman, prompted Princess Diana to try to find out what real feelings are. Many men are attributed to her lovers: from a riding instructor to a cardiac surgeon. The most famous is the bodyguard of Barry Mannaki - it was about his removal and, as the princess herself believed, she recalled a rigged death, calling it the biggest blow of her life.
Passed through a mine cleared field in Angola
“I in a protective vest tried to walk along a deliberately cleared strip and I can say that it is very scary. And what is it for those who have neither vests nor miners, who each time, going for water, risk their lives, those who simply have to live among minefields ?! ”
In one of the cities of Angola, a few days before the arrival of the princess on the field, not fully cleared of mine, teenagers playing football were blown up. It was in this field that Lady Diana walked in, wearing a bulletproof vest and a protective mask from bullets - so she spoke out in support of the anti-personnel mine movement.
She embraced the leprosy patients she visited in India
Along with myths about HIV-infected princess Diana tried to dispel the rumors about patients with leprosy. For the first time, she visited them at Mother Theresa's leper colony in India and hugged everyone, and then became the patroness of The Leprosy Mission.
She regularly visited children with cancer
“Some of them will live, someone will die, but they should all receive love here and now. I try to give them this love. ”
Despite the hardships of her own life, Princess Diana always had enough love for the rest. Among other things, she visited 3 cancer patients once a week, devoting about 4 hours to them at each visit.
Suffered from depression
“I guess I was the first in the royal family to ever experience depression or openly express it.”
The development of the postpartum depression in the princess became an occasion for royal mockery: now everyone could say that Lady Dee "is not all right with her head." She herself said that she began to inflict physical pain on herself so as not to feel mental. It was depression that gradually distanced Diana from her husband even more.
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Selling second-hand princess dresses
Princess Butler, Burrell, in her memoirs, says: immediately after the divorce, Lady Diana sold 20 her own second-hand royal costumes and earned her first cash after marriage. It is not surprising that she had to do such things, because part of the jewelry from the princess was taken away by the royal family.
By the way, after the divorce, Lady Dee, at the insistence of Charles, was also stripped of the title. Since then, she has been called Diana, Princess of Wales. It is this woman who will subsequently be able to seriously fall in love again, will be obliged to bow to her own sons, stop communicating with her mother and die tragically in the 31 car accident of August 1997 of the year.
What do you know about Princess Diana? Do you consider her fate especially tragic or is this the proportion of many women who are not at all familiar with royal luxury? How many people, like her, are able to give warmth to others without receiving anything in return?
