The more we progress with this book, the more I believe Harry when he said MEghan was exactly like his mother. I was once a Diana fan, but the older I got, the more I questioned the media play around her. Sounds like she tried her damndest to alienate her children against their father.
@JoyJoy-sc1ov Well, lady C had her all sussed out from early on, but all the easily hoodwinked people wouldn't have a bar of it. Now they are seeing the real Diana, but still not giving King Charles or Camilla their deserved place and recognition of the suffering they have gone through just because of the dispicable behaviour of Diana with the aid of the press whom she had eating out of the palm of her hands ✋️ ✋️yet complained about their intrusion especially if she was caught out
Diana always rubbed me the wrong way, ever since she entered the world stage. She put off fake, weird bad vibes. I got the same vibes from Harry's wife. I never liked Andrew or Fergie and I dont care for Eugenie either. Beatrice and Eddo, Anne and Timothy,, Edward and Sophie, Zara and Mike, Louise, James, Charles and Camilla all seem like lovely hardworking people. I dont get bad or nasty vibes from any of them.
@@kyndalslifeowen6823 probably the parts she left out are the most interesting; this is mainly trivia. It's obvious she kept this diary as an insurance policy for when she lost her job and Grace & Favour residence.
As much as I find Charles to be idiosyncratic & demanding, I would find him much easier to work for given he seems to have boundaries between him & staff. Diana’s moods and then the “being friends” with the staff to then turn around and just lay into them or cut them out would be much more difficult to deal with. I also am of the same mind on their affairs - Charles seems to have tried to be discreet w Camilla, whereas Diana bringing a lover to their family home when the boys were there is a massive red line crossed to me. While the entire marriage seems to be a nightmare, I really find Diana’s behavior to be distasteful.
Agree, she seems like a stereotype of a catty woman using the kids to spite her husband. They were interested in gardening, hunting and polo and wanted to see him play but she wouldn't let them go/join him. None of this was a secret but people overlooked it because she's pretty.
I am appalled from the start and wonder… hating the smell of curry so much…. How come that Diana wanted to have an affair with a Pakistani doctor? Pakistanis love curry. A lot.
@@DawnSuttonfabfour curry (not necessarily garlic but other spices) have a very intense smell. I agree. And you can really tell, especially with habitual eaters (rarely those who eat it once a week). So, I am not sure that getting rid of garlic will help much frankly. But I know that in some Indian cuisines (Jain for instance, which I love), garlic is not used for religious reasons.
Yes when you hear about her behind the scenes, you can see why Harold says his wife is just like his mum. William has never said that about Catherine as far as I know
@@sabsmcdabs7139 During their engagement announcement interview, interviewer asked william something along the line catherine have huge challenge ahead of living up to standards set by her late mother in law as people’s princess. William replied: There is no need for comparison. Catherine is her own person, and she will do things her own way, and I think she will do very fine Job. On the other hand, Harry can't let go even one chance, where he can compare his wife to his late mother.
The difference is that Diana could also be very likeable. Just look at her reputation. She was a flawed character. Meghan Markle is just an IG loving B wife!
In Diana's tapes, Diana said that, she and her siblings used to bully their staff and used to put pin on their nanny's chair just for laugh and many nannies left the job.
@@sabsmcdabs7139 Prince Philip was known to be beastly to his staff. But I think he kept it on the QT most of the time because Elizabeth II strongly disapproved. Philip's staff were very loyal.
I think Harry felt so comfortable with Meghan. She was the same as his Mom. They both always have someone in their sights. This must have been heaven for Harry, Mommy was back! Harry is still 12, a perfect person for the evil Meghan to swoop in on. She feeds all his insecurities. Thankfully, Charles was a lot stronger than Harry.
You’ve hit the nail on the head. She would definitely have used social media the way that Meghan does if it had been available to her then. And we wouldn’t all have been so foolishly duped.
And because it was so much to the benefit of the press to build Diana up and sell millions of photos and articles. Furthermore, her treacherous self pity served the anti-monarchy political purposes of R Murdoch. Who cared not whether encouraging public obsession with Diana, and her foolish obsession with her own media coverage, would end up destroying her happiness and life.
@@dianasmith8617 it sounds weird. She supposedly didn't like blood sports but said she met C3 "on a shoot" (their paths must have crossed years before, however, as she was born on the Sandringham Estate; the sons were taught to hunt and went out shooting rabbits.
Diana had some nerve to accuse Charles of being careless and inconsiderate of other peoples feelings. The complete lack of self awareness is unbelievable. The more I find out what this woman was really like behind the carefully crafted facade, the more I dislike her.
Without comparing Charles and Diana, Charles was not known for his emotional intelligence or for having well-developed empathy. In this case, it might be insensitive for Charles to keep to his yearly habit of going to this ski site for the pleasure of skiing when a friend lost his life there just the year before. No one could have known Charles intended the trip “to face his fears”. To the world, he’s going on vacation and disrespecting the dead man’s memory.
@janetshemaryahu5529 Nah. Not so much. Unless Charles was supposed to be false and performative in his private life, too, just to please emotionalistic people such as his attractive but silly wife.
So is Charles, a baby boy forever. He is no better than her. Charles needs Camilla by his side to function. I am being nice here. Maybe, maybe the queen was the one with something inside of her. But her work was always first, not family but work. There is not such a thing as duty comes first, nowhere. It was created for her. It sounds good, but isn't. Let's not forget the ruthlessly Phillip. He carried around his traumas inside his pockets. Like his kids fault. People talk about his sense of humor. He was a rude dude. And if he was not a good looking cousin of the queen, she was not going to marry him. She didn't fell in love to his hard hearth. She molded him, but still, he wasn't an easy man. Quite bitter IMHO. Always had something nasty to say. What a horrible people. One day we will know who is right. One day we will.
@@HR-nl7fc they also used a lot of doubles with her; the reason being, I think she would not go along with the sham and was, maybe, ill through vomiting or just being awkward. Having dinner on a tray in bed with the child is weird.
The odd thing is, the world was well out of love with her before she died. I'm in Australia, but even here we were fed up with the endless media attention, what bikini she was wearing on which island with whose husband today.... And yet, I went to an AFL football final and - even a week later - the crowd was really quiet, as though people still felt a little shocked and saddened by what had happened. I was never a Diana fan, but she was very good at her job. She looked as a fairytale princess might look, she had impeccable manners and she brought informality to her role without ever losing the regality of it. I think people grieved for the princess she might have been - without the emotional drama.
@@lornarettig3215 I spoke out about the real Diana back in the 1980-1990’s & ppl got mad at me. I could see Diana used her kids as props. It broke my heart.
Since it's no longer printed, it is so nice that you're doing this. One of your fellow UA-camrs did it, as well, but it doesn't even seem like the same book! Maybe she was afraid to ruffle feathers or something; you're giving us far more details than she did. Thanks so much!
That channel only gives snippets of books because she’s been a bookseller in several guises her adult life so WANTS people to BUY the books whether they’re out of print or not. I unsubscribed from TVS some time ago when her subscriber numbers seemed to go to her head or something but I still recommend people go to her playlist for THIS book. Just as I lobbied Cheere to do this book , obviously along with many others- it dovetailed so well when Cheere was covering Lady C’s book. I’m disappointed that Cheere took down those videos but understand why. Lady C showed herself to be a threatening bully just like she accused Oprah of being. That’s why I usually I prefer Cheere. BUT she’s a fellow Aussie and has been following and reading about ALL of the BRF for decades so has a much deeper understanding of how it all works AND is older (I’m even older) so remembers well these times. She may have but, I definitely grew up singing “God Save the Queen “ facing a portrait of the Queen all through the 60s & 70s. We still have HMTLQ😢 on some of our money. Like most Aussies I took the BRF for granted, but then duchess dog biscuit came along & suddenly I felt very protective of them and my way of life 🇦🇺. That engagement interview set MY alarm bells off immediately although I didn’t know why at the time. NOW she & her husband are a REAL threat to our way of life- politically and legally. Remaining a Constitutional Monarchy is paramount to me despite our current Prime Minister, freshly elected at the time, promised HMTLQ at her last Jubilee, that we’d remain a CM during his first term. 🤞 it will be his last. I’ve done a lot of research into the pros & cons of CM v Republic (I’m old enough to remember what happens when countries decide to make the change & names like Robert Mugabe and Idi Amin come to mind immediately and last year seeing an 🇦🇺 foreign correspondent standing in “no man’s land “ in Cypress- still in civil war since the early 60s) a Constitutional Monarchy isn’t perfect but it’s the best of the rest & it’s backed up by academics on both sides of the fence. So while the dog biscuits are entertaining for Americans and many others, to people like me they’re a real threat. Sorry for the rant.
Ps I’m disappointed that Cheere hasn’t mentioned the number of times William “had dinner on a tray” in his mother’s bedroom with her to hurt Charles while Harry was in the nursery with the nanny. Maybe it’s still to come BUT the seeds of jealousy of his brother HAVE to have been sown back there in part imo. As someone famous once said, Diana was a loving mother but not a good one.
@michelegraham9044 I think that's a very astute comment. In a Brit who's never been down under, I grew up in Earls Court, which until the early 90s was almost the same thing. Well, it wasn't, but it was always interesting getting chatting to Aussies. My grandparents moved there in '47, long before my time, I never met my grandfather, but my Nan came over every five years or so, my aunt, their daughter moved over to London when she was 21, I was four and she lived with us for two years. Australia sounded amazing, I really wish I'd gone. My husband's dad was from Broken Hill and he's got family all over the place, he went for a year, he loved it. I agree, a constitutional monarchy is the best choice, now we've got a Labour government, they're trying to get rid of the last 96 hereditary peers from the House of Lords, like we don't have really serious problems that need immediate attention. Race riots (again) a disgusting display of armed police kicking a suspect in the head and stamping on it, yesterday. Boatloads of terrified illegal immigrants having crossed the channel at its busiest in little more than a rubber dinghy and the country straining under the cost of living, but hey, let's kick 96 hereditary peers out. Sir Kir Starmer would rid us of the monarchy in a heartbeat if he could.
You can blame Harry for draging her name up at every opportunity thinking hes getting brownie points because millions loved what she appeared to be and now all the truths about her is being read to the world and many are now turning on him for her true caricter being revelled.Someone they thought was an angel and they had shed many tears at her sudden passing.H&M have done so much damage 💔 to themselves in particular but helped Queen Camilla and King Charles to being accepted more fondly after the treatment that has been revealed in many of the more reliably history from people who worked closely with them.
She had lots of emotional baggage and would have benefited from intensive psychotherapy. Her father was a nasty alcoholic who cheated on their mother and when they divorced fought to retain custody of the children. I believe he wasn’t the best father. Women who haven’t addressed that kind of upbringing are destined to have a husband just like dad and continue the pain and acting out. Not making excuses for her but her childhood was not good.
Agreed! She is doing the EXACT same mannerisms. William must have been freaked out! I bet she even calls H darling and uses the kids if the exist the same way when he goes to polo etc
In the end we have to admit that Markle is Diana 2.0. Her mother in law was just as manipulative, mean and spiteful as she is. She just doesn't have Diana's grace and public manners.
Meghan is Diana 2.0 with all of Diana's bad qualities and none of the good Diana qualities. He not only married his mother, he is in a marriage exactly like his father's and Diana. The irony.
You know what’s funny? I remember when Catherine was pregnant with George and overdue, she kept ordering a curry for dinner they were reporting from her favorite place and saying she loved spicy food like an 8 or 9 on the spicy scale and William said “I don’t know how she can always handle that!” Catherine was cracking up and said “William isn’t an adventurous eater, he can handle about a one on the spicy scale!” 😂
And being involved with Dr Khan for a long time, with barely any fuss, shows the lies her younger son now tells about ‘racism’ affecting his white wife. No one cared that Dr Khan was dark-skinned and no-one interfered. Khan dumped her because she was a nightmare.
Diana's family was more royal than Charles's family. Diana was raised in the Royal World, much like Charles. They actually first thought that Diana would marry Andrew.
Charles tried to get this book stopped to protect his boys from the truth about Diana, there's nothing in the book that is damaging to Charles. It speaks volumes about the way he tried to look after the boys and protect them which is why its so egregious that Harry tries to make him out to be an un caring monster as a father it simply isn't true. Love this book Cheere, looking forward to the Kennedys too, have you thought about a book on the Bouvier sisters some time ? for reference have a look at grey Gardens.
I agree. I have to feel for Charles, being vilified twice. Then and now. I'm sure William understands how troubled and manipulative his mother was, which is a comfort.
I heard and interesting interview with Angela Levin when her Camilla book came out several months ago and was struck by her saying what a happy place Clarence House is -- both above and below stairs. Apparently there is always laughter and a strong sense of the upbeat prevailing throughout the house. Also, your Diana voice is UNCANNY!
Glad to see this on my YT feed. Thanks Cheere Denise ❤👍😊 *Diana learned it at home.* Her father, Johnny Spencer, was known for his nastiness towards, not only his first wife; but also servants and even "civilians" who might be in a doorway of a shop that he was entering. (No polite "excuse me" just a shouted command: "move!") Johnny Spencer's father, (Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer) Diana's grandfather, was also known for being a heavy drinker at home and being a wife-beater. (His wife, Cynthia, née Hamilton; was a favorite lady in waiting to the Queen Mum.) Johnny (8th Earl) was also a heavy drinker and a wife-beater. Diana's younger brother, Charles Edward Spencer (the 9th Earl) was terrible to his wives (He is now divorcing wife #3) Diana's mother's (Frances Roche) family (Roche) has problems with depression/suicide . *Dysfunctional -- with no "fun"* 😒
@@misscoutts6193 No contact? William was at his uncles funeral recently. William and Harry are much younger than Deiana's sisters' children. Some of Charles Edward Spencer's children might be Wiliam and Harry's age.
That's because regular people are two-legged cattle to the members of the real upper class, peasants at best. And since these do not count to them, these, especially the 1% act and treat them accordingly.
Oscar Wilde commented on the audiences at his plays and said he could tell when they were servants "by their beautiful manners". I have worked for very rich, upper class people. They tend to fall into 2 types; one is rude, arrogant, entitled and treats others as morons. The other type is down to earth, talks posh but gets on with every type of person and are lovely.
I think Diana was so use to vomit smells, they made her super sensitive so the ingredients in the curry made her crazy, I think you were onto something when you were speaking about how the disease messes with you in every way psychologically, nutritionally, just makes you miserable to be around without serious help, like I think the food in her bed was from binging not from the boys.
I'm so disappointed in Diana, I always put her on a pedestal. I was almost 11 yrs old when I watched her wedding, I wanted to be her. Now, I'm thankful I was not her. She could be an awful person 😢
My mom said something when I was a preteen & madly 'in love' with Paul McCartney: "Pretty faces can hide a whole lot of ugly." I've never forgotten that.
I absolutely ADORE this channel! I'm newer here! I love the different voices used and just the overall narration, along with the side comments! I look forward to every upload! You're just adorable! Much love from northern Indiana ❤️
Oh, if anyone wants to know if Diana had an affair long before Hewitt, in one of her tapes she said she fell in love with someone when she was 24 years old. If anyone is counting, that would be 4 years after she was married.
Just my opinion but I don't think Diana would've fared well in this age of social media. I don't think she would've gotten away with the stunts she pulled in the 80s and 90s. Frankly I think she'd be called out 🩷🇦🇺
I’m not sure I see Diana as evil. Severe mood swings, disordered mind, she did what a young Princess Elizabeth warned about. She was on her first Commonwealth tour and the minister gestured to the huge cheering crowds, and said ‘See how they love you?’ She drew back, surprised and shook her head no. ‘I’m merely a representative of the Monarchy, THAT’S what they are cheering. It’s not personal, it could not be healthy for anyone who took it personally.’ But Diana certainly did, because of feeling so insecure and unloved, always being checked up on, affected her mind. Rachel is a sly, plotter, thief, slanderer and an unrepentant liar.
I know someone who had a difficult wife who refused to be happy no matter what he did. So he told her that he was not going to let her moods and behaviour stop him from enjoying his life. He stayed with her and she changed over a period of time and they ended up having a happy marriage.
I think it’s only getting older that things that bothered me so intensely, don’t now. Maybe it was all hormonal. Not that it would have been wise to tell me that then.😆
It shows how far things have come re understanding trauma responses. You're right that Diana only understood overly expressed emotional responses but not that people also go into a freeze or avoidance state. It seems as if charles responded that way since he's conflict avoidant. Harry is the same - he thinks you have to wear your emotions on your sleeve else you don't have them. So ignorant
I have always felt that Di suffered from a profound personality disorder. Her childhood was lacking any kind of stable emotional system. She confused love with adoration & obsession. She demanded consistent loving reassurance to fill her void as an independent person. She deserved more from her parents like their undivided attention; instead she was left to develop her own survival skills. And when those left her flailing she resorted to some pretty vindictive behaviors. H. Is wrong. She was not a victim of the press. Borderline personalities r paranoid. When they r confronted their fangs can be deadly ;and Diana could be a vengeful adversary when she felt wronged or vulnerable. Like millions of others, Di died before she could stop blaming others & face the truth about herself. She also,out of ignorance, passed her dysfunctional coping methods on to her son, H., who was drawn to an even more damaged life partner than Di. I do not want to share what often happens to those with untreated borderline d.o.; I hope H. gets an intervention by anybody asap.🙏🏽 between her childhood abandonment by her parents, being sent off to boarding schools that prepared her for nothing but mediocre skiing skills. From a young age she witnessed terrifying domestic violence between her parents, & lived with the constant instability of her identity within her family. insecurity of her family’s
Do a deep dive into Diana’s upbringing. She was trained to be competitive, trauma reactions all around, and she was set up to understand manipulation of men to get your own way, as referenced through her father and how he really did not consider his children at all.
This is such an insightful book; Wendy has an eye and ear for detail. Also, you do THE best impression of Diana. I haven't even heard as good from English accented speakers. Did you study drama? Have a safe journey on your trip.
This is a super juicy book. I haven’t been able to find it for a decent price. As far as their behavior is concerned, they are all rich and spoiled from birth. They expect the flawless service because that’s all they have known. It takes an exceptional person to look past all of that and treat people with the kindness and dignity we all deserve. Even the nice royals or celebrities have moments of egotistical superiority. Money seems to change almost everyone.
19:34 you didn’t comment but the cruelty towards animals (of all of them) and the lack of empathy is quite frightening and telling… 29:58 diana’s hate towards the dogs nauseated me now… 🤬🥺
@@cmp-vegan5136 totally unsuited; she didn't like horses or dogs. I don't believe she ever had riding lessons either; just a cover. They could have got a proper riding teacher not someone from the Household Cavalry. None of it makes sense.
I worked at a top rate hotel for many years. There was a general manager who had worked for the royal family for a while, he said they were very particular and demanded perfection, he left because the pay was poor for the amount of hours he had to work.
I'm really enjoying this book although like others, I am learning what Diana was truly like and it wasn't flattering. I'd long been an admirer of Diana's. Her birthday was 24 days ahead of mine and I'd owned several books written about her. While I wasn't necessarily a royal fan, I learned all about them due to my interest in Diana. In fact, my youngest child's due date was the day after Diana's birthday (the year after Diana passed) and I came thisclose to including Diana in my daughter's name. Thank God I didn't! Lady C's book revealed an entirely different picture of Diana and that book as well as this one have given me a new appreciation of Charles who really is and has been misunderstood, imo.
I get the impression that Diana needed a job and maybe had she used her talents in maybe paediatric settings she would have been happier. Too much introspection is not always a good thing.
@@mauvegreenwisteria3645 Yes she was not academic for sure but nowadays you can get assistant roles practically whilst in work. You are likely right though as it would not be glamorous. She was a natural with children so it is a shame she went down a road that could never be satisfying.
I realize that Charles has plenty of faults, but he at least seems to have tried at times. It seems like Diana needed constant attention. When she didn't get it from Charles, she said he was unemotional. Think of how her lovers would have treated her given who she was and their station in life. I'm sure they did fawn over her. I can't imagine trying to pacify someone so demanding, and when they didn't get their way started weeping. Love your impersonations! Wonderful book. Thoroughly enjoying this one!
On The Crown, Princess Anne called Charles “Eeyore.” I’m not sure if she actually did in real life, but I did find an article that said Paul Burrell claimed he heard Anne call Charles “Eeyore” once on account of his protruding ears….but I had the sense while watching The Crown that it was because he was sulky and grumpy. I know The Crown is chocked full of inaccuracies though 🤷🏻♀️ Anyway-there’s another “Winnie the Poo” reference for ya, Cheere 🤣🤣
I agree about Charles going back to Kloisters, particularly as it was exactly a year since the accident. I didn’t know about this trip or had forgotten. Knowing to a degree what Charles is like and his “pilgrimages “ - Transylvania for example - it could have been a sort of memorial for him too. Charles, for all his faults, is VERY deep emotionally and intellectually. PS it’s SO refreshing not to have yet another Diana sycophant. PPS It’s not as if Diana didn’t grow up with “staff”. Just one look at where she grew up, Althorpe, to see how many staff would have been needed there. What a shame that Lady C turned out to be such a threatening bully, something she once accused Oprah of being when she was promoting one of her Diana books. I’m so disappointed that you took down what you’d done but understand why.
I was born in 74 in the US to an English mum and was a little girl when Lady Di got engaged to Prince Charles. My Nan would send my sister and I the engagement postage stamps, a little book about her and clippings from newspapers. My sister and I were also bridesmaids at my Aunt’s wedding in England in 81 and on our trip we got Lady Di paper dolls. So she was like a fairy tale princess to us. Then as the years progressed I saw the glamorous photos of her and saw the photos of her kindnesses. I also watched the Bashir interview. I thought Charles cheated on her and was not a warm, loving person due to the media spin. Let’s just say I drank the media Kool Aid hook, line and sinker. It is so disappointing to hear about the real stories of Diana. She was a deeply flawed person. She could be rude, thoughtless and manipulative. It just shows you the power of the media. I feel so duped!!
Just a side note about the ski accident. There was a report made after the tragedy citing Charles party at fault! It had snowed the night before and was a red zone for high active AVALANCHE activity. Which is what happened. Charles knew and wanted what he wanted and was willing to risk it! One of the most dangerous runs with an avalanche warning that morning! I believe that’s another reason while Charles was crying. The officials sat him down in Switzerland and cited him with fault!
The morning of the avalanche, Charles wanted to ski off piste. The ski party felt that they had to follow suit, even though they were not comfortable with it.
@@ToddKassal Thanks for your info! It was worst than I read in the Business Insider! It wasn’t even a run, it was no trail backcountry. In your skiing term off piste!
@@francescaderimini2931 thanks @francescaderimini! What's so tragic is that Charles was warned that morning about dangerous avalanche conditions and did it anyway 😥
I worked with a man who would not eat curry 2 days before coaching his son's baseball team. He always said it took 2 days to sweat it out. Our lunch place revolved around his coaching schedule!
This is a great book only enhanced by your reading, commentary, and the fantastic Diana accent. I've read the book before but knew I wanted to listen to your descriptions and reading. You do not disappoint. I'm enjoying it more with others than reading for the first time alone.
I never liked Diana and this book shows what I always thought to be true. Not that Charles was any saint he just kept his marriage troubles to himself while all she did was whine and embarrass the family. It got ridiculous with her. Just saying, so all of you Di lovers please don't attack me, it's just what I always thought back then and still now.
Cheere I was so excited to see you had uploaded this today! I think this book is an amazing non biased biography and you make it even better with your wonderful accents.❤
As a mother (now grandmother as well) who was there in the Diana years, I have always had some thoughts about her and not all of them very positive. She spent such a lot of time away from her kids on yachts and such, with new men. She had a life of gym sessions, bowel irrigation sessions and lunch with friends 🤢 All of it on the front pages. Where was the actual time with her kids? Especially those last years when she was photographed constantly on holidays and on yachts? If that was what my mom got up to and it was front page news, I'd be a bit upset, to say the least. The children were, on the one hand, so cossetted and spoilt, and on the other, so alone and probably confused as can be. Wow. She did not always have their best interests in mind, and I have always thought her a bit on the selfish and self-absorbed side. That's just my opinion. Cheere, you are just amazing! I can't say it enough ❤
Regarding the smelling curry on someone, I was told many years ago that bathing doesn't get rid of the smell completely. This is because the food and spices somehow emanate through the pores of the skin the next day and can be noticed by those who don't consume that food regularly. This is the reason, so I've heard, that the Chinese/Japanese say we western people smell of butter/rancid milk.
It sounds like Diana wanted everyone in her vicinity to give her reassurance, validation and/or boost her ego, including her children and she couldn't cope when they didn't deliver. It must have been a miserable life for Charles and highly embarrassing when she wouldn't even have the decency to engage with his guests. And I feel sorry for the boys, being used and manipulated in that way - you should never use children as pawns or "trauma-dump" on them.
Here is a crazy idea : Harry should read this book. Maybe he will get another perspective on his mother, but fat chance that he will read it and even if he gets to read the book he will not change his idealist ideas about his mother...
I just finished the Kennedy book. Girl, get ready. Each story is more heartbreaking and enraging than the last. I can’t wait to hear your recaps, but these are some sad, sad stories.
I watched a few of Maureen Callahan's interviews she did during the press tour and it was hard to stomach some of it! The poor girl whose first day it was, I believe she was a White House intern or secretary... where JFK made her come to him when he was swimming in the pool... my goodness! The men in that family were vile! 😢 That poor girl and so many others were used and tossed away like rubbish. It's heartbreaking! I'm going to wait for Cheere's review because if I read it by myself I'll probably spend most of the time cringing and crying. I honestly had NO IDEA JFK was that awful. I knew about the Marilyn Monroe stuff but I didn't know the brother also slept with her! I really believe they made the Marilyn 'problem go away' so to speak it just send shivers down my spine how horrible those men were!! And poor Jackie! I understand why she wanted the 'Camelot' idea of him to remain but wow... it's so crazy! And one last thing I couldn't believe, he refused to come back early when poor Jackie had delivered the baby stillborn (I can't recall exactly what happened with the baby) but him basically saying why does it matter for me to cut my trip short, the baby is dead anyways. I just have no words! 😢💔💔💔
I love your impersonation’s of Diana and all the players involved. This book is crazy good. A real soap opera!! I need to buy this book used somewhere. 🎉🎉❤
My brother's neighbors were from India and loved curry. When they put their house on the market, their realtor forbid any curry until after the closing on the house.
I can absolutely see that happening! I LOVE garlic so much I can take bites out the garlic clove with my food depending on what I'm eating lol. @@karinbinnie1862 I eat it once every several months though because of it's ability to stick around! 😂😂😂
Diana was a bully, and I agree with a comment made on another channel that she enjoyed "pretty privilege." Her behavior in someone less attractive would likely not have been overlooked, as unfair as that is.
The more we progress with this book, the more I believe Harry when he said MEghan was exactly like his mother.
I was once a Diana fan, but the older I got, the more I questioned the media play around her. Sounds like she tried her damndest to alienate her children against their father.
I adored Diana when I was younger and now I see how awful she was even before this book reading.
Yes. This version of Diana sounds a lot like Harry's wife; and it is no wonder that he married her.
@JoyJoy-sc1ov Well, lady C had her all sussed out from early on, but all the easily hoodwinked people wouldn't have a bar of it. Now they are seeing the real Diana, but still not giving King Charles or Camilla their deserved place and recognition of the suffering they have gone through just because of the dispicable behaviour of Diana with the aid of the press whom she had eating out of the palm of her hands ✋️ ✋️yet complained about their intrusion especially if she was caught out
Diana always rubbed me the wrong way, ever since she entered the world stage. She put off fake, weird bad vibes. I got the same vibes from Harry's wife. I never liked Andrew or Fergie and I dont care for Eugenie either. Beatrice and Eddo, Anne and Timothy,, Edward and Sophie, Zara and Mike, Louise, James, Charles and Camilla all seem like lovely hardworking people. I dont get bad or nasty vibes from any of them.
It's spelled this way MeGain
The reason this book is so good, is because Wendy doesn't write with bitterness, or anger or cattiness. She writes like she is simply telling a story
No but Cheere adds snips of hateful bitterness against Diana. It makes Lady C's take on Diana tame.
@@kyndalslifeowen6823 probably the parts she left out are the most interesting; this is mainly trivia. It's obvious she kept this diary as an insurance policy for when she lost her job and Grace & Favour residence.
As much as I find Charles to be idiosyncratic & demanding, I would find him much easier to work for given he seems to have boundaries between him & staff. Diana’s moods and then the “being friends” with the staff to then turn around and just lay into them or cut them out would be much more difficult to deal with.
I also am of the same mind on their affairs - Charles seems to have tried to be discreet w Camilla, whereas Diana bringing a lover to their family home when the boys were there is a massive red line crossed to me.
While the entire marriage seems to be a nightmare, I really find Diana’s behavior to be distasteful.
Agree
Agree, she seems like a stereotype of a catty woman using the kids to spite her husband. They were interested in gardening, hunting and polo and wanted to see him play but she wouldn't let them go/join him.
None of this was a secret but people overlooked it because she's pretty.
@@leapfrog9656 I would never trust someone who is looking down all the time. Something psychologically wrong,
In my opinion, Diana was abusive. Her behavior was so unacceptable with Evelyn. She knew Evelyn wouldn't stop her, and she took advantage of her.
Evelyn couldn’t stop her; short of quitting and telling her to bugger off- she was stuck, poor lady.
It does remind me Harry's trollop 😢
That's true unlike the nice Diana that movie Spencer tries to make you think She was!
You noticed that Evelyn suddenly disappeared, and then it was Faye?
@@theheartoftexas Diana had 2 dressers
I am appalled from the start and wonder… hating the smell of curry so much…. How come that Diana wanted to have an affair with a Pakistani doctor? Pakistanis love curry. A lot.
Her sense of smell obviously changed as she got older . 😂
@@sharonozvenom must have been the case 🤣
Also though, a lot of Asian food is cooked without garlic precisely because of the lingering after smell. An Indian lady told me this.
@@DawnSuttonfabfour curry (not necessarily garlic but other spices) have a very intense smell. I agree. And you can really tell, especially with habitual eaters (rarely those who eat it once a week). So, I am not sure that getting rid of garlic will help much frankly. But I know that in some Indian cuisines (Jain for instance, which I love), garlic is not used for religious reasons.
I’m not sure what curry is? For real; what is curry?
Imagine Diana in the internet era. She along with her Nigerian daughter in law could have been the most hated women of the world.
They wouldn't have gotten along. I think that Harry wouldn't have married Meghan if Diana was alive.
Yes when you hear about her behind the scenes, you can see why Harold says his wife is just like his mum. William has never said that about Catherine as far as I know
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During their engagement announcement interview, interviewer asked william something along the line catherine have huge challenge ahead of living up to standards set by her late mother in law as people’s princess.
William replied: There is no need for comparison. Catherine is her own person, and she will do things her own way, and I think she will do very fine Job.
On the other hand, Harry can't let go even one chance, where he can compare his wife to his late mother.
The difference is that Diana could also be very likeable. Just look at her reputation. She was a flawed character. Meghan Markle is just an IG loving B wife!
"her Nigerian daughter in law " 🤣🤣🤣🤣That's so funny !!!
In Diana's tapes, Diana said that, she and her siblings used to bully their staff and used to put pin on their nanny's chair just for laugh and many nannies left the job.
And she pushed her step mother Raine down a set of stairs ! An older woman. She was nasty !! IMO
So Harry is like the Spencers!
The Spencers seem absolutely foul; all of them. Raine is apparently very nice.
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Prince Philip was known
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I think Harry felt so comfortable with Meghan. She was the same as his Mom. They both always have someone in their sights. This must have been heaven for Harry, Mommy was back! Harry is still 12, a perfect person for the evil Meghan to swoop in on. She feeds all his insecurities. Thankfully, Charles was a lot stronger than Harry.
Hearing about Edward was interesting. Just shows the power of a good marriage… Sophie his wife seems so genuinely lovely.
It seems William got her looks and Harry got her unstable personality
I agree.
Diana became THE saint Diana thanks to the lack of internet / social media
You’ve hit the nail on the head. She would definitely have used social media the way that Meghan does if it had been available to her then. And we wouldn’t all have been so foolishly duped.
Exactly
And because it was so much to the benefit of the press to build Diana up and sell millions of photos and articles. Furthermore, her treacherous self pity served the anti-monarchy political purposes of R Murdoch. Who cared not whether encouraging public obsession with Diana, and her foolish obsession with her own media coverage, would end up destroying her happiness and life.
So many "great" people of the past wouldn't be held in such high regard if they had lived in the internet era.
This book has totally changed my view on Diana. I never thought I’d have sympathy for Charles. Life with her sounded exhausting.
Charles always looked sad & hangdog during those years. The difference now is so nice to see. He's finally happy & I wish his idiot son could see it.
@@dianasmith8617 it sounds weird. She supposedly didn't like blood sports but said she met C3 "on a shoot" (their paths must have crossed years before, however, as she was born on the Sandringham Estate; the sons were taught to hunt and went out shooting rabbits.
Diana grew up with staff. Please. She knew the score.
She was mean to them growing up
Diana had some nerve to accuse Charles of being careless and inconsiderate of other peoples feelings. The complete lack of self awareness is unbelievable. The more I find out what this woman was really like behind the carefully crafted facade, the more I dislike her.
Without comparing Charles and Diana, Charles was not known for his emotional intelligence or for having well-developed empathy. In this case, it might be insensitive for Charles to keep to his yearly habit of going to this ski site for the pleasure of skiing when a friend lost his life there just the year before. No one could have known Charles intended the trip “to face his fears”. To the world, he’s going on vacation and disrespecting the dead man’s memory.
@janetshemaryahu5529 Nah. Not so much. Unless Charles was supposed to be false and performative in his private life, too, just to please emotionalistic people such as his attractive but silly wife.
So is Charles, a baby boy forever. He is no better than her. Charles needs Camilla by his side to function. I am being nice here. Maybe, maybe the queen was the one with something inside of her. But her work was always first, not family but work. There is not such a thing as duty comes first, nowhere. It was created for her. It sounds good, but isn't. Let's not forget the ruthlessly Phillip. He carried around his traumas inside his pockets. Like his kids fault. People talk about his sense of humor. He was a rude dude. And if he was not a good looking cousin of the queen, she was not going to marry him. She didn't fell in love to his hard hearth. She molded him, but still, he wasn't an easy man. Quite bitter IMHO. Always had something nasty to say. What a horrible people. One day we will know who is right. One day we will.
The Way Diana targeted her Assistant is disgusting
God, Diana was hateful. I still don’t understand why the world was so in love with her. Her behaviour was not a secret.
Because the world saw only the veneer.
@@HR-nl7fc they also used a lot of doubles with her; the reason being, I think she would not go along with the sham and was, maybe, ill through vomiting or just being awkward. Having dinner on a tray in bed with the child is weird.
The odd thing is, the world was well out of love with her before she died. I'm in Australia, but even here we were fed up with the endless media attention, what bikini she was wearing on which island with whose husband today....
And yet, I went to an AFL football final and - even a week later - the crowd was really quiet, as though people still felt a little shocked and saddened by what had happened.
I was never a Diana fan, but she was very good at her job. She looked as a fairytale princess might look, she had impeccable manners and she brought informality to her role without ever losing the regality of it.
I think people grieved for the princess she might have been - without the emotional drama.
When will you do the Kennedy book?😂🤪Just kidding
@@lornarettig3215 I spoke out about the real Diana back in the 1980-1990’s & ppl got mad at me. I could see Diana used her kids as props. It broke my heart.
Since it's no longer printed, it is so nice that you're doing this. One of your fellow UA-camrs did it, as well, but it doesn't even seem like the same book! Maybe she was afraid to ruffle feathers or something; you're giving us far more details than she did. Thanks so much!
That channel only gives snippets of books because she’s been a bookseller in several guises her adult life so WANTS people to BUY the books whether they’re out of print or not. I unsubscribed from TVS some time ago when her subscriber numbers seemed to go to her head or something but I still recommend people go to her playlist for THIS book. Just as I lobbied Cheere to do this book , obviously along with many others- it dovetailed so well when Cheere was covering Lady C’s book. I’m disappointed that Cheere took down those videos but understand why.
Lady C showed herself to be a threatening bully just like she accused Oprah of being.
That’s why I usually I prefer Cheere. BUT she’s a fellow Aussie and has been following and reading about ALL of the BRF for decades so has a much deeper understanding of how it all works AND is older (I’m even older) so remembers well these times.
She may have but, I definitely grew up singing “God Save the Queen “ facing a portrait of the Queen all through the 60s & 70s. We still have HMTLQ😢 on some of our money.
Like most Aussies I took the BRF for granted, but then duchess dog biscuit came along & suddenly I felt very protective of them and my way of life 🇦🇺.
That engagement interview set MY alarm bells off immediately although I didn’t know why at the time.
NOW she & her husband are a REAL threat to our way of life- politically and legally.
Remaining a Constitutional Monarchy is paramount to me despite our current Prime Minister, freshly elected at the time, promised HMTLQ at her last Jubilee, that we’d remain a CM during his first term.
🤞 it will be his last.
I’ve done a lot of research into the pros & cons of CM v Republic (I’m old enough to remember what happens when countries decide to make the change & names like Robert Mugabe and Idi Amin come to mind immediately and last year seeing an 🇦🇺 foreign correspondent standing in “no man’s land “ in Cypress- still in civil war since the early 60s) a Constitutional Monarchy isn’t perfect but it’s the best of the rest & it’s backed up by academics on both sides of the fence.
So while the dog biscuits are entertaining for Americans and many others, to people like me they’re a real threat.
Sorry for the rant.
@@michelegraham9044 I understand the need to rant, no worries.
Oh thank you!
Ps I’m disappointed that Cheere hasn’t mentioned the number of times William “had dinner on a tray” in his mother’s bedroom with her to hurt Charles while Harry was in the nursery with the nanny.
Maybe it’s still to come BUT the seeds of jealousy of his brother HAVE to have been sown back there in part imo.
As someone famous once said, Diana was a loving mother but not a good one.
@michelegraham9044 I think that's a very astute comment. In a Brit who's never been down under, I grew up in Earls Court, which until the early 90s was almost the same thing. Well, it wasn't, but it was always interesting getting chatting to Aussies. My grandparents moved there in '47, long before my time, I never met my grandfather, but my Nan came over every five years or so, my aunt, their daughter moved over to London when she was 21, I was four and she lived with us for two years. Australia sounded amazing, I really wish I'd gone. My husband's dad was from Broken Hill and he's got family all over the place, he went for a year, he loved it.
I agree, a constitutional monarchy is the best choice, now we've got a Labour government, they're trying to get rid of the last 96 hereditary peers from the House of Lords, like we don't have really serious problems that need immediate attention. Race riots (again) a disgusting display of armed police kicking a suspect in the head and stamping on it, yesterday. Boatloads of terrified illegal immigrants having crossed the channel at its busiest in little more than a rubber dinghy and the country straining under the cost of living, but hey, let's kick 96 hereditary peers out. Sir Kir Starmer would rid us of the monarchy in a heartbeat if he could.
The more I hear about Diana the more toxic she appears.
That’s because she was toxic.
You can blame Harry for draging her name up at every opportunity thinking hes getting brownie points because millions loved what she appeared to be and now all the truths about her is being read to the world and many are now turning on him for her true caricter being revelled.Someone they thought was an angel and they had shed many tears at her sudden passing.H&M have done so much damage 💔 to themselves in particular but helped Queen Camilla and King Charles to being accepted more fondly after the treatment that has been revealed in many of the more reliably history from people who worked closely with them.
The move damaged she appears.
She had lots of emotional baggage and would have benefited from intensive psychotherapy. Her father was a nasty alcoholic who cheated on their mother and when they divorced fought to retain custody of the children. I believe he wasn’t the best father. Women who haven’t addressed that kind of upbringing are destined to have a husband just like dad and continue the pain and acting out. Not making excuses for her but her childhood was not good.
Your Diana impression is spot on & so funny!!
Your DIANA voice absolutely brings this book to life…Hilarious too 😂
I’d swear M had religiously read this book and studied all Diana’s tactics. As we in UK couldn’t get it but USA could.
Absolutely!....learnt the script!....on the floor crying...bullying staff etc.🇬🇸
Agreed! She is doing the EXACT same mannerisms. William must have been freaked out! I bet she even calls H darling and uses the kids if the exist the same way when he goes to polo etc
In the end we have to admit that Markle is Diana 2.0. Her mother in law was just as manipulative, mean and spiteful as she is. She just doesn't have Diana's grace and public manners.
Meghan is Diana 2.0 with all of Diana's bad qualities and none of the good Diana qualities. He not only married his mother, he is in a marriage exactly like his father's and Diana. The irony.
You know what’s funny? I remember when Catherine was pregnant with George and overdue, she kept ordering a curry for dinner they were reporting from her favorite place and saying she loved spicy food like an 8 or 9 on the spicy scale and William said “I don’t know how she can always handle that!” Catherine was cracking up and said “William isn’t an adventurous eater, he can handle about a one on the spicy scale!” 😂
It doesn't sound like she has to bathe and wash her hair afterward. 😂
@laffytaffy2916 I remembered that as Cheere read about Diana's cruel attack on her curry loving staff member.
I'm sure when Diana started seeing Dr. Khan, suddenly curry became her favorite dishe.😅
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My thoughts exactly !
Why would anyone want to get involved in a situation like that?
@@misscoutts6193 sorry I can't understand your comment😅
And being involved with Dr Khan for a long time, with barely any fuss, shows the lies her younger son now tells about ‘racism’ affecting his white wife. No one cared that Dr Khan was dark-skinned and no-one interfered. Khan dumped her because she was a nightmare.
I was always a fan of Diana but the more I hear, I really don't think I like her much anymore.
Charles was raised to be the King. I'm sure he was well trained in manners, etiquette, diplomacy. Diana was raised to marry well.
Diana's family was more royal than Charles's family. Diana was raised in the Royal World, much like Charles. They actually first thought that Diana would marry Andrew.
Charles tried to get this book stopped to protect his boys from the truth about Diana, there's nothing in the book that is damaging to Charles. It speaks volumes about the way he tried to look after the boys and protect them which is why its so egregious that Harry tries to make him out to be an un caring monster as a father it simply isn't true. Love this book Cheere, looking forward to the Kennedys too, have you thought about a book on the Bouvier sisters some time ? for reference have a look at grey Gardens.
I agree. I have to feel for Charles, being vilified twice. Then and now. I'm sure William understands how troubled and manipulative his mother was, which is a comfort.
Hmmm...his constant cheating doesn't make him look that great. 😂
diana was a saint due to ZERO social media. Her behavior back then wouldn't go over well today. sorry, harry!
Something you'll never read in this book, Diana and her kids reading books together. Always watching TV.
@@fwgre9654 soaps. No wonder her and C3 had zero in common.
I heard and interesting interview with Angela Levin when her Camilla book came out several months ago and was struck by her saying what a happy place Clarence House is -- both above and below stairs. Apparently there is always laughter and a strong sense of the upbeat prevailing throughout the house. Also, your Diana voice is UNCANNY!
Glad to see this on my YT feed. Thanks Cheere Denise ❤👍😊
*Diana learned it at home.* Her father, Johnny Spencer, was known for his nastiness towards, not only his first wife; but also servants
and even "civilians" who might be in a doorway of a shop that he was entering. (No polite "excuse me" just a shouted command: "move!")
Johnny Spencer's father, (Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer) Diana's grandfather, was also known for being a heavy drinker at home and
being a wife-beater. (His wife, Cynthia, née Hamilton; was a favorite lady in waiting to the Queen Mum.) Johnny (8th Earl) was also a
heavy drinker and a wife-beater. Diana's younger brother, Charles Edward Spencer (the 9th Earl) was terrible to his wives (He is now
divorcing wife #3) Diana's mother's (Frances Roche) family (Roche) has problems with depression/suicide . *Dysfunctional -- with no "fun"* 😒
Agree. The whole Spencer family seems foul.
@@here_we_go_again2571 weird, there appears to be no contact between the Spencers and 'Diana's boys'.
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No contact? William was at his uncles funeral recently. William and Harry are
much younger than Deiana's sisters' children. Some of Charles Edward
Spencer's children might be Wiliam and Harry's age.
For people who enjoy being labeled the upper class of society they do not have any sense of manners. Good gravy that lady is rude!
That's because regular people are two-legged cattle to the members of the real upper class, peasants at best. And since these do not count to them, these, especially the 1% act and treat them accordingly.
Oscar Wilde commented on the audiences at his plays and said he could tell when they were servants "by their beautiful manners". I have worked for very rich, upper class people. They tend to fall into 2 types; one is rude, arrogant, entitled and treats others as morons. The other type is down to earth, talks posh but gets on with every type of person and are lovely.
I think Diana was so use to vomit smells, they made her super sensitive so the ingredients in the curry made her crazy, I think you were onto something when you were speaking about how the disease messes with you in every way psychologically, nutritionally, just makes you miserable to be around without serious help, like I think the food in her bed was from binging not from the boys.
It’s like living with someone with a substance abuse addiction. Deflecting and blaming others is their Mode of Operation!
Well no excuse to scream at someone
@@blueblack3591 Not at all, she should have been in a hospital, getting real help, she kinda sounds like a narcissist!
I'm so disappointed in Diana, I always put her on a pedestal. I was almost 11 yrs old when I watched her wedding, I wanted to be her. Now, I'm thankful I was not her. She could be an awful person 😢
My mom said something when I was a preteen & madly 'in love' with Paul McCartney: "Pretty faces can hide a whole lot of ugly."
I've never forgotten that.
@@flyonthewall8122 😮 and now I will never forget that. Thank you 🙂 I will be saying this my kids.
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I absolutely ADORE this channel! I'm newer here! I love the different voices used and just the overall narration, along with the side comments! I look forward to every upload! You're just adorable!
Much love from northern Indiana ❤️
Welcome aboard! So glad you are enjoying the channel
Another Indiana lady feels exactly the same way!
She is hands down the BEST storyteller I have ever heard!!!! ❤
Yes her Diana voice is just brilliant 👌
I am astounded as I always thought that Diana was lovely with the staff. What a shame!
that's because Diana's public persona was carefully curated so what you saw on the TV screen and magazines was not the real person.
@@ptrpan61 Was there a real person at all?
@@misscoutts6193 makes one wonder.
Oh, if anyone wants to know if Diana had an affair long before Hewitt, in one of her tapes she said she fell in love with someone when she was 24 years old. If anyone is counting, that would be 4 years after she was married.
It was one of her police officers. He was married, they had an affair. He was “reassigned”.
Just my opinion but I don't think Diana would've fared well in this age of social media. I don't think she would've gotten away with the stunts she pulled in the 80s and 90s. Frankly I think she'd be called out 🩷🇦🇺
I agree, a lot of people saw through her and after a while more got fed up with all the drama here in the UK
I think in the age of digital cameras, she wouldn't be able to keep up the facade, and she would've had too many "mask slips."
I just made the same comment about Diana's behavior in this digital age. no pedestal for her. sorry, harry.
"Through watching Casualty seemed to have a working knowledge of most medical conditions" - your tone of voice is MAGIC 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!
This book is everything! I really, really hope that somehow Charles can hear your Diana impersonation… I mean, it’s uncanny!!
@@Emcatastrophe but by chance if Harry hear her Diana's impersonation then he might start stocking her 😅
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Omg ..Diana sounds just like MM that why Harry love her she act just like his mommy😂😂😂eye opening
I see alot of similarities between Diana and Megan
I’m not sure I see Diana as evil. Severe mood swings, disordered mind, she did what a young Princess Elizabeth warned about. She was on her first Commonwealth tour and the minister gestured to the huge cheering crowds, and said ‘See how they love you?’
She drew back, surprised and shook her head no. ‘I’m merely a representative of the Monarchy, THAT’S what they are cheering. It’s not personal, it could not be healthy for anyone who took it personally.’
But Diana certainly did, because of feeling so insecure and unloved, always being checked up on, affected her mind.
Rachel is a sly, plotter, thief, slanderer and an unrepentant liar.
I wonder who was telling the press about Charles parenting hmmm
We know Diana would call paps on herself.
The fairytale wedding turned into a nightmare of epic proportions
@@ToddKassal that's why it was dubbed a 'fairytale' by the media. The Prince, the 'wicked' stepmother and 'ugly' sisters.
@@misscoutts6193 ikr?
Your impersonation of Diana’s voice is amazing! I truly enjoy this book! Thank you!❤
You do a great job of imitating Diana & Charles voices ! Very entertaining as well as insightful ! 😂💜
I know someone who had a difficult wife who refused to be happy no matter what he did. So he told her that he was not going to let her moods and behaviour stop him from enjoying his life. He stayed with her and she changed over a period of time and they ended up having a happy marriage.
So, she matured.
I think it’s only getting older that things that bothered me so intensely, don’t now. Maybe it was all hormonal. Not that it would have been wise to tell me that then.😆
Yah🎉 a new episode! I'm LOVING this book and you storytelling is fantastic. You Diana voice is the best I've ever heard.
It shows how far things have come re understanding trauma responses. You're right that Diana only understood overly expressed emotional responses but not that people also go into a freeze or avoidance state. It seems as if charles responded that way since he's conflict avoidant. Harry is the same - he thinks you have to wear your emotions on your sleeve else you don't have them. So ignorant
I have always felt that Di suffered from a profound personality disorder. Her childhood was lacking any kind of stable emotional system. She confused love with adoration & obsession. She demanded consistent loving reassurance to fill her void as an independent person. She deserved more from her parents like their undivided attention; instead she was left to develop her own survival skills. And when those left her flailing she resorted to some pretty vindictive behaviors.
H. Is wrong. She was not a victim of the press. Borderline personalities r paranoid. When they r confronted their fangs can be deadly ;and Diana could be a vengeful adversary when she felt wronged or vulnerable.
Like millions of others, Di died before she could stop blaming others & face the truth about herself. She also,out of ignorance, passed her dysfunctional coping methods on to her son, H., who was drawn to an even more damaged life partner than Di.
I do not want to share what often happens to those with untreated borderline d.o.; I hope H. gets an intervention by anybody asap.🙏🏽
between her childhood abandonment by her parents, being sent off to boarding schools that prepared her for nothing but mediocre skiing skills.
From a young age she witnessed terrifying domestic violence between her parents, & lived with the constant instability of her identity within her family. insecurity of her family’s
I get so tickled 😂 with your Diana voice.
Do a deep dive into Diana’s upbringing. She was trained to be competitive, trauma reactions all around, and she was set up to understand manipulation of men to get your own way, as referenced through her father and how he really did not consider his children at all.
@@parkfor3906 remember the egg & spoon race when they had to let her win?
@@misscoutts6193how do you know they had to let her wî
England has always had the class system. They were more careful about not crossing the class lines as others were about race.
Weeeelll, considering the number of illigitimate children across the centuries 🎉🎉🎉😂😂
This is such an insightful book; Wendy has an eye and ear for detail. Also, you do THE best impression of Diana. I haven't even heard as good from English accented speakers. Did you study drama?
Have a safe journey on your trip.
Diana could have been polite & gotten McDonald's for everyone at the Polo match... Wow, she's a real tool...
I really enjoy your reading. No additional visuals or video clips necessary. Thank you!
This is a super juicy book. I haven’t been able to find it for a decent price. As far as their behavior is concerned, they are all rich and spoiled from birth. They expect the flawless service because that’s all they have known. It takes an exceptional person to look past all of that and treat people with the kindness and dignity we all deserve. Even the nice royals or celebrities have moments of egotistical superiority. Money seems to change almost everyone.
Diana reminds me of myself with getting bored quickly of things after being so excited to want to get out and about
Having taken my niece and nephew to MCDonalds AND a football match on the same day makes me feel I have super powers! 😊
Love your Diana voice!!!! Brilliant
Your Diana voice/accent is excellent !
There's a lot Diana couldn't stand 👀
Prince Charles had his friend Kanga, his dogs Tigger and Roo, and I can see Diana in the role of Eeyore.😊
Lol
🤣 that is funny! Thanks, I did need a laugh on a hard day.
Charles himself has been called Eeyore many times through the years.
@@sammc2601 😅
OMG it is the middle of the night and I am laughing uncontrollably at the thought of the little dog being made into the bed!!!!!
19:34 you didn’t comment but the cruelty towards animals (of all of them) and the lack of empathy is quite frightening and telling…
29:58 diana’s hate towards the dogs nauseated me now… 🤬🥺
totally agree with you!
Like curry, dogs smell pretty bad. Maybe that was part of it. That and also a dog drew attention away from Diana.
@@cmp-vegan5136 totally unsuited; she didn't like horses or dogs. I don't believe she ever had riding lessons either; just a cover. They could have got a proper riding teacher not someone from the Household Cavalry. None of it makes sense.
Love when my notification bell rings letting me know you have a new video!
You’re really terrific at this. Very enjoyable. And such smart banter.
I worked at a top rate hotel for many years. There was a general manager who had worked for the royal family for a while, he said they were very particular and demanded perfection, he left because the pay was poor for the amount of hours he had to work.
I'm really enjoying this book although like others, I am learning what Diana was truly like and it wasn't flattering. I'd long been an admirer of Diana's. Her birthday was 24 days ahead of mine and I'd owned several books written about her. While I wasn't necessarily a royal fan, I learned all about them due to my interest in Diana. In fact, my youngest child's due date was the day after Diana's birthday (the year after Diana passed) and I came thisclose to including Diana in my daughter's name. Thank God I didn't! Lady C's book revealed an entirely different picture of Diana and that book as well as this one have given me a new appreciation of Charles who really is and has been misunderstood, imo.
I get the impression that Diana needed a job and maybe had she used her talents in maybe paediatric settings she would have been happier. Too much introspection is not always a good thing.
Indeed, but she was so resistant to education that it’s hard to see how she could have obtained such a job.
@@mauvegreenwisteria3645 Yes she was not academic for sure but nowadays you can get assistant roles practically whilst in work. You are likely right though as it would not be glamorous. She was a natural with children so it is a shame she went down a road that could never be satisfying.
I realize that Charles has plenty of faults, but he at least seems to have tried at times. It seems like Diana needed constant attention. When she didn't get it from Charles, she said he was unemotional. Think of how her lovers would have treated her given who she was and their station in life. I'm sure they did fawn over her. I can't imagine trying to pacify someone so demanding, and when they didn't get their way started weeping. Love your impersonations! Wonderful book. Thoroughly enjoying this one!
I wonder if Diana would fall to the floor sobbing, just like someone else we know?....🤔
@@laurenecarter246 nope Diana used to fall in the arms of her protection officer while sobbing.
@@krishnavyas313 yes, all married men.
On The Crown, Princess Anne called Charles “Eeyore.” I’m not sure if she actually did in real life, but I did find an article that said Paul Burrell claimed he heard Anne call Charles “Eeyore” once on account of his protruding ears….but I had the sense while watching The Crown that it was because he was sulky and grumpy. I know The Crown is chocked full of inaccuracies though 🤷🏻♀️ Anyway-there’s another “Winnie the Poo” reference for ya, Cheere 🤣🤣
I absolutely love it when you do Diana’s voice. You sound just like Serena Scott Thomas that played Diana in an old movie about Charles and Diana
I agree about Charles going back to Kloisters, particularly as it was exactly a year since the accident. I didn’t know about this trip or had forgotten.
Knowing to a degree what Charles is like and his “pilgrimages “ - Transylvania for example - it could have been a sort of memorial for him too.
Charles, for all his faults, is VERY deep emotionally and intellectually.
PS it’s SO refreshing not to have yet another Diana sycophant.
PPS It’s not as if Diana didn’t grow up with “staff”. Just one look at where she grew up, Althorpe, to see how many staff would have been needed there.
What a shame that Lady C turned out to be such a threatening bully, something she once accused Oprah of being when she was promoting one of her Diana books.
I’m so disappointed that you took down what you’d done but understand why.
Lady C will leave one bleeding like a new razor blade or even like Diana...
I was born in 74 in the US to an English mum and was a little girl when Lady Di got engaged to Prince Charles. My Nan would send my sister and I the engagement postage stamps, a little book about her and clippings from newspapers. My sister and I were also bridesmaids at my Aunt’s wedding in England in 81 and on our trip we got Lady Di paper dolls. So she was like a fairy tale princess to us. Then as the years progressed I saw the glamorous photos of her and saw the photos of her kindnesses. I also watched the Bashir interview. I thought Charles cheated on her and was not a warm, loving person due to the media spin.
Let’s just say I drank the media Kool Aid hook, line and sinker.
It is so disappointing to hear about the real stories of Diana. She was a deeply flawed person. She could be rude, thoughtless and manipulative.
It just shows you the power of the media.
I feel so duped!!
We ALL drank the Kool-Aid!!! I believed the whole Diana story. Turns out that her staff and the tabloids created the whole thing!!!
Just a side note about the ski accident. There was a report made after the tragedy citing Charles party at fault! It had snowed the night before and was a red zone for high active AVALANCHE activity. Which is what happened. Charles knew and wanted what he wanted and was willing to risk it! One of the most dangerous runs with an avalanche warning that morning!
I believe that’s another reason while Charles was crying. The officials sat him down in Switzerland and cited him with fault!
Whooooa! That sheds a whole new light on why Diana was upset. I see her side more clearly now!
The morning of the avalanche, Charles wanted to ski off piste. The ski party felt that they had to follow suit, even though they were not comfortable with it.
@ToddKassal Patty Palmer-Tomkinson was badly hurt, and Charles dug deep to uncover her. His male friend was instantly dead, skull opened up.
@@ToddKassal Thanks for your info! It was worst than I read in the Business Insider! It wasn’t even a run, it was no trail backcountry. In your skiing term off piste!
@@francescaderimini2931 thanks @francescaderimini! What's so tragic is that Charles was warned that morning about dangerous avalanche conditions and did it anyway 😥
I worked with a man who would not eat curry 2 days before coaching his son's baseball team. He always said it took 2 days to sweat it out. Our lunch place revolved around his coaching schedule!
This is a great book only enhanced by your reading, commentary, and the fantastic Diana accent. I've read the book before but knew I wanted to listen to your descriptions and reading. You do not disappoint. I'm enjoying it more with others than reading for the first time alone.
Your Diana voice is delightful and hilarious at times. Love it!!
No wonder Charles loved his dogs so much
I wonder if they were jack russels.
I never liked Diana and this book shows what I always thought to be true. Not that Charles was any saint he just kept his marriage troubles to himself while all she did was whine and embarrass the family. It got ridiculous with her. Just saying, so all of you Di lovers please don't attack me, it's just what I always thought back then and still now.
Cheere I was so excited to see you had uploaded this today! I think this book is an amazing non biased biography and you make it even better with your wonderful accents.❤
As a mother (now grandmother as well) who was there in the Diana years, I have always had some thoughts about her and not all of them very positive. She spent such a lot of time away from her kids on yachts and such, with new men. She had a life of gym sessions, bowel irrigation sessions and lunch with friends 🤢 All of it on the front pages. Where was the actual time with her kids? Especially those last years when she was photographed constantly on holidays and on yachts? If that was what my mom got up to and it was front page news, I'd be a bit upset, to say the least. The children were, on the one hand, so cossetted and spoilt, and on the other, so alone and probably confused as can be. Wow. She did not always have their best interests in mind, and I have always thought her a bit on the selfish and self-absorbed side. That's just my opinion. Cheere, you are just amazing! I can't say it enough ❤
Glad to see not every was duped!
Regarding the smelling curry on someone, I was told many years ago that bathing doesn't get rid of the smell completely. This is because the food and spices somehow emanate through the pores of the skin the next day and can be noticed by those who don't consume that food regularly. This is the reason, so I've heard, that the Chinese/Japanese say we western people smell of butter/rancid milk.
The same as you can tell when someone has been drinking the night before.
Western people also smell offensive to Asians. I know because I was married to an Asian. It really comes down to diet...
Exactly like that
Cheere you are legit !! Love your story telling love love love your Diana voice! Have a great vacation !
It sounds like Diana wanted everyone in her vicinity to give her reassurance, validation and/or boost her ego, including her children and she couldn't cope when they didn't deliver. It must have been a miserable life for Charles and highly embarrassing when she wouldn't even have the decency to engage with his guests. And I feel sorry for the boys, being used and manipulated in that way - you should never use children as pawns or "trauma-dump" on them.
Didn’t realise this book existed. Enjoyed listening to your reading of it. You have the voice of Diana to a T.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣You're so funny!!!! I LOVE your snarky asides 👏👏👏👏!!!
My new favorite ignore the world listening obsession! Thank you!
Sounds like Diana had BPD!
The QUEEN banned GARLIC from the palace. Along with shellfish. The fish due to possible food poisoning and a Royal can't be down.
I was not in the best mood. Then I found this and it got a little better.
Here is a crazy idea : Harry should read this book. Maybe he will get another perspective on his mother, but fat chance that he will read it and even if he gets to read the book he will not change his idealist ideas about his mother...
I love how the part about Edward not having that much of a role in the Monarchy aged like milk. Truly one cannot predict how the future unfold..😊
Every episode is always a joy 😀
I just finished the Kennedy book. Girl, get ready. Each story is more heartbreaking and enraging than the last. I can’t wait to hear your recaps, but these are some sad, sad stories.
I started reading it but I’m waiting for Cheere to get started to finish it. I requested that she go live on this one so we can respond in real time.
I watched a few of Maureen Callahan's interviews she did during the press tour and it was hard to stomach some of it! The poor girl whose first day it was, I believe she was a White House intern or secretary... where JFK made her come to him when he was swimming in the pool... my goodness! The men in that family were vile! 😢 That poor girl and so many others were used and tossed away like rubbish. It's heartbreaking! I'm going to wait for Cheere's review because if I read it by myself I'll probably spend most of the time cringing and crying. I honestly had NO IDEA JFK was that awful. I knew about the Marilyn Monroe stuff but I didn't know the brother also slept with her! I really believe they made the Marilyn 'problem go away' so to speak it just send shivers down my spine how horrible those men were!! And poor Jackie! I understand why she wanted the 'Camelot' idea of him to remain but wow... it's so crazy! And one last thing I couldn't believe, he refused to come back early when poor Jackie had delivered the baby stillborn (I can't recall exactly what happened with the baby) but him basically saying why does it matter for me to cut my trip short, the baby is dead anyways. I just have no words! 😢💔💔💔
Just a note that Charles and William would as heirs maybe not travel together because of the risk of accidents
Queen Elizabeth was very strict about that, but William travels with George, so perhaps the rule has eased.
I think it is dangerous personally as did Queen Elizabeth.
I love your impersonation’s of Diana and all the players involved. This book is crazy good. A real soap opera!! I need to buy this book used somewhere. 🎉🎉❤
Glad to hear you're just going away for a while, and not _moving_ again. Thank you Cheere. :)
I know plenty of people who have had a curry and still stunk in the afternoon, despite a shower.
If you rub garlic on the soles of your feet, the smell will appear on your breath shortly after. Garlic is what causes curry to linger.
My brother's neighbors were from India and loved curry. When they put their house on the market, their realtor forbid any curry until after the closing on the house.
I can absolutely see that happening! I LOVE garlic so much I can take bites out the garlic clove with my food depending on what I'm eating lol. @@karinbinnie1862 I eat it once every several months though because of it's ability to stick around! 😂😂😂
Diana was a bully, and I agree with a comment made on another channel that she enjoyed "pretty privilege." Her behavior in someone less attractive would likely not have been overlooked, as unfair as that is.