'Pathological liar and pretender': what her grandmother said about Princess Diana
'26.01.2021'
Ruth Fermoy in this Shakespearean drama often appears as a kind of gray eminence: allegedly it was she who set out to marry her granddaughters to the sons of Elizabeth II and even succeeded in something, says the author of the channel "Women's Almanac" on Yandex.Zen.
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First, the eldest of the Spencer sisters, Sarah, was prophesied as a wife to the heir to the English throne. But she was too frank with journalists, and she was immediately rejected.
Then Charles was allegedly introduced to Diana, although before that they planned to marry her to the second son of Elizabeth II, who was much more suitable for her age.
It is believed that the grandmother of the Spencer sisters on the mother's side, Baroness Fermoy, was behind all these matrimonial movements.
By the time the events took place, Ruth Fermoy had long been a widow and was close to the also long-widowed Queen Mother.
The Baroness was widowed, by today's standards, a young woman - she was not even 50 years old. The Queen Mother, who buried her husband at 52, made Ruth one of her court ladies. The Baroness, being a strong and in many ways outstanding person, gained a certain influence at the court of the Queen Mother.
But whether this influence was strong enough to give off their granddaughters to the sons of Elizabeth II is a moot point. According to one version, it was the Windsors themselves who persuaded the Baroness to facilitate these marriages in order to intermarry with the ancient and noble family of Spencer.
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It is now, to please the rebellious subjects, kings marry commoners. At the same time, noble origin meant a lot and blood issues were still not only one of the most difficult, but also the main ones.
The Spencers, according to one version, are related to the mythical Merovingian dynasty, and the Windsors were not at all averse to diluting their cold Anglo-German blood with a drop of the magic blood of the French mystical kings. So who persuaded whom and who influenced whom is a matter of bygone days.
There is even an opinion that her grandmother tried to persuade Diana not to marry Charles, as she perfectly understood that these two are too different to be happy together. Baroness Fermoy emphasized that the Windsors have a completely different way of life and a sense of humor "not the same as ours."
At the same time, Baroness Fermoy herself adhered to very original views on marriage, and she preferred to close her eyes to treason and illegitimate children of her husband. For this lady, the main thing was the high position in society, which was given to her by Baron Fermoy.
The latter, by the way, often hunted with King George VI, the father and predecessor of Elizabeth II.
When the daughter of the Baroness, Diana's mother, decided to leave her husband for her lover, the Baroness took the side of her son-in-law and testified in court to leave the children with him.
So Diana received a childhood trauma, from which she never recovered: her mother left her, exchanging for a new husband.
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Then, when Diana realized that she had fallen into the trap of an unsuccessful marriage, from which you simply cannot get out, and began to defend her right to happiness, Ruth Fermoy apologized to the Windsors that, they say, she did not warn about the complex nature of her granddaughter. She directly called Diana a pathological liar and pretender.
However, the same Prince Charles never hid the fact that he always saw the dark sides of the personality of his chosen one, which did not prevent him from marrying her.
It is believed that Diana's character went not to her stern and calculating grandmother, but to the same freedom-loving and open father. The 8th Earl Spencer was also a stranger to the stiffness and closeness of high society English society, he always expressed his opinion directly and stubbornly stuck to his line.
At the same time, John Spencer was considered a domestic tyrant, and Diana herself once saw her father hitting her mother in the face. So here, too, everything was very ambiguous.
The downside was that for a man such freedom-loving and independent behavior was considered the norm, while a woman was always required to obey, maintain decency and uncomplaining service to the family or, in the case of Diana, the English crown.
Diana, however, was never meek and submissive - and what happened happened.
Baroness Fermoy died on July 6, 1993, never knowing what a tragedy her granddaughter's marriage to the heir to the English crown turned into.
Original column published on the blog. "Women's Almanac" on Yandex.Zen
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