It is really interesting to contrast the two books The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown and Diana In Private by Lady Colin Campbell!
In this video, I concentrate on the two occasions where it is alleged Diana betrayed Sarah Ferguson to the press in order to take heat off herself.
Both books have a different view of what really occurred!
I also discovered that Meghan and Harry might have got their Doco idea from Harry’s Mum!
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Ladt C book is from 1992/3 and is incedably presceint. I was amazed that it was all before the breakdown of Chas. & Dianna's marriage.
I don’t believe Campbell. Why would the Palace be writing a letter to Campbell who had written terrible things about the queen’s mother? Campbell is no insider w the RF. Diana had become manipulative & calculating but look what she had been dealing with since her bad choice of marrying a man a decade older, w nothing in common except the love of wealth & power?
Fantastic video Shauna! I'm not inclined to believe that this version of the RF (as a Machinery) is immune from engineering, tweaking, nudging opinion and media much like all Monarchies before them. Intrigue and Mystery are their MO throughout ages and Ages of scandal, "politicking" and self-preservation. The removal of oddities from The Royal Circle is reasonably well documented – though even then only half a story can ever be gleaned even centuries later. There is a ruthlessness in this Machinery that we are all relied upon to be naive about. Many will disagree with me but show me a Royal Family from any age that didn't remove/hide/murder/condemn/cover up for someone in their midst who was behaving badly for whatever reason?
I don’t care Diana will always be a real royal, she was young and hurt , I won’t listen to lady Colin Campbell, she talks like Charles and Camilla did nothing wrong
I don't know how on earth you keep all this stuff straight, but I appreciate it so much!. It saves so many of us from trying to understand it. Meghan never had an original thought in her head, so I doubt she came up with the Netflix idea on her own. But given her obsession with Diana, methinks therein lies the truth, such as it is…
You have uncovered the …rest of the story! Thank you!
I always loved Diana though I didn’t always approve of/agree with some of her choices. I always had the impression she felt outweighed by the whole Institution of the Monarchy in her divorce (she was, wasn’t she?) particularly when it came to her boys. I had read a quote where she asked ‘how can I compete with all the Royal castles?’ I also always felt she ‘played’ the media as her only ‘weapon of defence’ against being totally sidelined as a mother. She leveraged her popularity in other words. I can’t blame her. I also read the unimpeachable testimony of Nelson Mandela about Diana and her REAL humanitarian work, he wanted to invite her to S Africa to counter the false information believed about AIDS which actually fueled the epidemic (his foreword to “Diana” published with her family’s help to fund her Charities says it all). I credit Diana with the change we see with William and Catherine and all that generation of Royals in the long accepted MO of Royalty and the Aristocracy especially when it came to marriage mores. She showed the very real human cost of some of those heartless practices. Thank you for pointing out that her memory has been villified lately, she is not to blame for Meghan. Fortunately, she’s beyond reach and at peace.
Diana always said the greatest trauma of her life was her parents' divorce. I have always believed that she married Charles because he was the only man in England who could never divorce her, or so she thought. Eventually her public behavior became so noticeable that the Queen ordered them to divorce. She later said that she greatly regretted the Bashir interview.
I hope you'll read Kitty Kelly's book, The Royals
I remember that time quite well. I thought Diana and Fergie were thick as thieves prior to the toe sucking scandal. They were really unhappy and both wanted to leave their marriages. After the scandal Diana distanced herself from Fergie especially when she saw how Fergie no longer had ANY leverage because of the scandal.
After what you said about Russell Brand, which is more of a reflection on you than him, I see the judgemental web you weave on everyone. Why not give the real reason why Diana was against Lady C's book after initially collaborating with her on it? Ignorant people who believe they are special know nothing about the hard work of film production and always want to make movies with their non-ideas. Markle did not get the idea from Diana but from the shallow waters of a banally entitled, talentless and lazy nature.
I believe Lady C in any case, she proofed to tell the truth many, many times
I was not a fan nor a hater. But I find the martyr status undeserved and Harry’s grief is an overused card and I’m personally offended because I lost both my parents….no one has a monopoly on grief.
It's always fascinating to me. Definitely seems possible the men in suits are capable of some really shady things however on the other hand they bungle a lot of things too. That's why I think it's like anything else sometime they succeed in the scheme and sometimes they have no control over the narrative. I apply this to most organizations and conspiracy theories.
So very interesting. Those palace courtier – the men in grey suits – if they were the leakers over Fergie's situation – how terrible. The couriers seem to me to have too much power. I think that Prince William and Princess Catherine's plan to hire a CEO will be a good start in exercising true control in what happens at the palace. It should be run like a company. I am looking forward to to when MEGAIN and HAZBEEN get fixed up but good with the stripping of their titles. KING WILLIAM WILL DO IT. As you have said, this how MEGAIN and HAZBEEN business has harmed the reputation of Princess Diana and so I think that KING WILLIAM will not put up with that continuing. MEGAIN is just terrible. I cannot believe how her mind works. So messed up.
I am afraid it doesn’t look like her IMO. The nose is wrong.
I always felt sorry for Fergie…. There was no need for the photos of toe-sucking. The photographers could have implied she was having a relationship by many other photos of the two of them.
However, I love how Andrew and Fergie continue as “best friends” even to this day.
Sex is so overrated (IMHO) and I think A and F’s relationship should be admired.
I love this idea of comparing different accounts of the same events! Keep up the good work! Love your channel! 👏👏👏
I think Charles and William are going to definitely William take charge of the staff instead of the stuff taking charge of the family.
More and more intriguing ! The absence of security request for Sarah and her daughters is very unsettling. Would security have avoided such a scandal from happening ? Did someone really tip off paparazzi, considering the consequences they would have had to face if something bad had happened to Eugenie and Beatrice ? Hard to say for sure.
Also, I have to say I hate invasion of privacy, be it from a neighbour or a paparazzi but, at the time, didn't paparazzi situations already plague the royals and If so, doesn't Sarah and her "Beau" look extremely unwise to partly undress and have very intimate moments outside of the protection of the house ? All I know is that although my friends and I are not "royals" and have no paparazzi following, none of us would ever have intimate moments outdoors. Maybe I'm not reading this correctly ?
I think what is being missed in your explanation is that according to lady c the palace/s had plans and were giving media information against another royal /family member of which this is what h+m have been saying is taking place now. Not a fan of h+m but you clearly said it's what is written in lady c book. 🤔
Shauna, you made Lady C's broadcast today where she expands upon this subject. It's 11-24 minute mark if you want to have a listen.
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Love your sleuthing 🕵️♀️ Shauna.
Well Lady C’s book was out when Diana was alive so Lady C would have had to prove everything she said. So the closest she could come was to blame the Palace. I think she has subsequently said Diana threw Fergie under the bus to stop the chatter on Squidgygate.
Thank you for your reviews because I probably won't read the books but I arrived to this conclusion : what energy, creativity, fight, revenge, betrayal are necessary in the high power. Just listening to you it is exhausting so I can't imagine living them …
You are our own Ms Marple.. Love how you connect the dots .
Meghan read everything she could take over Diana's persona Yet Meghan could not do the research to be a princess
Enjoyed this thank you 😊
Diana isn't getting the blame for the worst side of Harry … Harry himself, in response to why he's done what he's done and why he's more or less told the world all kinds of private information about his family said, "I am my mother's son."
Congratulations Dear Shauna for the excellent review received on behalf of Lady C😉👏🎉❤
No one would be demonizing Diana if it was not for Harry and Megan.
I love your incisive reviews… because of your style but also because you continually confirm my inner sense of who Diana was. I don't know why it matters to me so… People (especially the one in Montecito), have highjacked her in the most awful ways but you set the record straight in your wonderful light-hearted yet researched ways. I have always believed that in spite of all her failings, Diana truly cared for others and that's why the public loved her so. Her failings actually made her more accessible: she never pretended to be what she's not.