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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2023 18:37:51 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2023 18:39:32 GMT
www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1083763/Diana-brother-Earl-Spencer-worthless-husbandPrincess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer ‘was a worthless husband’
DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES'S brother Earl Spencer was accused of being a "worthless" husband and father yesterday. The three-times married aristocrat, 54, had a "bad reputation" according to documents published in the High Court. The papers contain allegations that his extra-marital affairs were "not contestable" and that he refused to put Diana up after her divorce.
By CYRIL DIXON
09:08, Thu, Feb 7, 2019 | UPDATED: 16:16, Fri, Feb 8, 2019
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2023 18:40:19 GMT
www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/06/a-brief-history-of-princess-dianas-fiery-familyIn 1975, John’s fortunes turned when his curmudgeonly father died, making him the Eighth Earl Spencer. According to Andrew Morton, he also inherited a 2.25-million-pound bill for death duties as well as 80,000-pounds-a-year running costs for Althorp, the family estate in Northamptonshire. He also found a helpmate to run Althorp in the fascinating Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, whom he married in 1976 without even telling his children. “We weren’t invited. ‘Not grand enough,’” his daughter Sarah quipped to a reporter at the time.
Despite the flippant tone, John’s betrayal would cause a deep rift in the family. A severe stroke in 1978 caused him to become frail and even more distant from his children. “He was one person before and he was certainly a different person after,” Princess Diana said, according to Morton. “He’s remained estranged but adoring since. If he comes and sees me he comes and sees me, if he doesn’t he doesn’t. It’s not my problem anymore. It’s his.”
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2023 18:42:58 GMT
www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/06/a-brief-history-of-princess-dianas-fiery-familyThe couple cultivated a farm at her family home of Park House in Norfolk, but Frances was quickly disillusioned with life in the country as a young aristocratic mother. “I’m so bloody bored with opening village fetes,” she told a friend. It was no wonder that the fiery Frances wanted more. “She was very attractive and blonde and sexy with such joie de vivre and fun about her,” a friend told Brown, author of The Diana Chronicles.
By the 1960s, Frances escaped to London more and more. She also started having an affair with a married bon vivant named Peter Shand Kydd. In 1967, she separated from John and left her two youngest children with him. “The biggest disruption was when Mummy decided to leg it. That’s the vivid memory we have—the four of us,” Princess Diana later told Andrew Morton.
Frances fought for custody of the children but lost to John, partially due to her own mother, Baroness Fermoy, who testified against her. Social outcasts, the Shand Kydds eventually moved to the coast of Scotland, and their warm household was a refuge for her children when they were allowed to visit. “Diana and I adored it for its wild beauty and the fun we had on the sea, lobster potting and mackerel-fishing,” Charles Spencer recalls.
Frances counseled against her youngest daughter’s marriage to Prince Charles, seeing too many parallels to her own first marriage—including her mother’s encouragement of the match. According to Brown, after voicing her concerns, Diana said, “Mummy, you don’t understand. I love him.” Frances replied, “Love him, or love what he is?” To which Diana asked rhetorically, “What’s the difference?”
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2023 18:45:19 GMT
www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/princess-diana-answers-very-beige-asked-1-royal-bbc-panorama-interview.html/Princess Diana Kept Her Answers ‘Very Beige’ When Asked About 1 Royal in BBC ‘Panorama’ Interview
by Mandi Kerr | More Articles: Royal family
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November 10, 2022
| Comments (0)“‘His grandmother is always looking at me with a strange look in her eyes,’” Diana told Gilbey, Russell wrote in his book, Do Let’s Have Another Drink! The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, per Newsweek.
“‘It’s not hatred; it’s sort of interest and pity mixed in one,’” Diana continued. “‘I am not quite sure. I don’t understand it. Every time I look, she’s looking at me, then looks away and smiles …'”
By the time the recording of the 1989 phone call sold in 1992, Russell explained, Diana wasn’t on good terms with the Queen Mother.
“Diana did not enjoy herself at the Queen Mother’s ninetieth birthday party in August 1990, calling it ‘grim and stilted. They are all anti-me. My grandmother [Ruth, Lady Fermoy] has done another good hatchet job on me,’” he wrote.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2023 18:47:41 GMT
www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/11/10143410/the-crown-princess-diana-real-family-sister-grandmotherHer mother, Frances Ruth Shand, was born at Park House, where Diana also lived as a young girl, on the same day King George V died. Shand's great-grandfather was the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) in County Cork, Ireland for 18 years. Her dad was a Conservative MP, and a close friend of the Duke of York, who would later become King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II's father. Shand was described as a "daredevil," not unlike her daughter.
Like Diana, she also might have married too young. In 1954, at 17, she married Spencer, who was 12 years her senior. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret all attended the wedding at Westminster Abbey.
The two divorced in 1969 after her mother left to be with another man. Her father was given custody of then 7-year-old Diana and her siblings. In 1976, he remarried socialite and politician Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, who Diana was not a fan of. In video tapes recorded, in 1992, by Diana's voice coach, she called Raine a "bully" and admitted that her relationship with Raine turned violent when she pushed her stepmom down the stairs on her royal wedding day.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2023 18:50:57 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2023 18:54:24 GMT
Aside: Going back a few hundred years... historum.com/t/duke-of-marlborough-brilliant-general-but-a-traitor.75008/-John Churchill betrayed King James II. In 1688 when William III arrived from Holland to supplant James, Churchill quickly abandoned his longtime patron and friend, giving his support to William. Churchill had pledged his support to James only a few days before the invasion.
-During the reign of William and Mary, Churchill continued his relationship thru letters with the exiled James II in France. He did this possibly as an insurance policy for a possible return of the deposed James. In fact, it was these letters, as well as fabricated ones, that earned Churchill a stint as a prisoner in the Tower of London in 1692. |
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Post by kueifei on Jan 16, 2023 20:48:16 GMT
I've said a lot in Diana's defense, but I will say that until Diana came along, royals never questioned their place in the world. They might have been wistful about certain stuff, but they didn't try to live like trust fund kids and I sincerely blame Diana and her Spencer mindset. Diana clearly didn't just get wistful, she blew up her marriage in order to be able to relive her childhood years, at an age where it is clearly pathetic. She really did not just question things, but opened a gate for other royals to live the life of undemanding hyper-privilege and have diplomatic status and still demand freedom and autonomy that belongs to people who do not have that status. She and her mindset is the reason that royals are making such a huge mess these days. Her sons epitomize this; William and Harry really do not see that they should have been doing things full time since before age eighteen, not whining and partying idly throughout their twenties with a few token engagements that EVERYONE knows they only do under duress. Diana's version of freedom was a life of privilege without having to answer to the payers and a life of rebellion despite the fact that she was in fact part of the establishment from the moment she was conceived, just like William and Harry.
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tale BS.
#JamesMiddleton