Looking forward to seeing Diana programmes on next week

paddyanne

I get really fed up with the nimber of times this woman is dragged out for entertainment value.I was never a fan,she's not someone I would like my children or GC to look up to ,adultery,.manipulation and selfishness are not traits I admire.So ,no I wont be watching,the Sainted Diana was a myth and I'm too old to blieve in fairy tales .

Rather sums up how I felt about her, whenever I bothered to think about her at all.
Definitely not any sort of role model - but then do not think that any of those so-privileged royals are.
Got a lot better things to do with my time than to watch any more rubbish about this woman.

Whether we like Diana The Princess of Wales or not she is part of UK history and was the mother of the future King.

Surely after more than 20 years this woman could be left to rest in peace.

We don't need to see a re-hash of all her actions, good and bad or to go over the details of her last day. No, I won't be watching.

How many more re-hashes of this can we have? Diana should be left in peace now, surely. And it must be upsetting for her sons.

This thread has garnered lots of negative comments about Diana.

I keep reading them because it is so much more interesting than that other absolutely stupid thread about cold tea.

I remember it well ! I was in Oz and a gathering of us had just sat down to enjoy a lovely spread----then "that" news came on and not one of us could tuck in as it was such a shock.
I'd videoed the funeral on channel 9 or 10, with the Aussie voice-over which didn't have the same reverence as ours.

As a Republican (in the anti-Royalist sense, not the US political sense) I am not at all interested in her now nor when she was alive.

She once visited the Hospice, where my sister ran the Day Care Service. It was a real palaver for the team to get everything ready in advance, including the special separate toilet and to meet the requirements for the lunch.

My sister said conversation with Diana was painfully banal. However, the patients loved her, she looked beautiful in a pink outfit and smelled lovely (that just about sums it up, for me).

I'm quite interested in her (probably not enough to watch the programme) because we were the same age, as were our children.

tanith

Nothing new to see here I’m afraid it’ll be old news rehashed for entertainment I’m sure her boys would rather her memory was left in peace.

Quite

Nope - was never a fan or of the Royal family in general - apart from the Queen.

I will not watch. She manipulated the popular press to try and be the winner in the marriage that should never have taken place. I too wonder if it is an attempt to stir things up as we get nearer to the ascension of Charles to the throne. Leave her be, the only people who should mourn her passing are her family and friends, not strangers who never met her.

No, I won’t be watching it.

Why do they constantly rehash repeats or reruns of this sad story? Could it be the fact that it’s the anniversary of her death at the end of this month.
I am not a particular fan nor am I much interested in the comings and goings of the RF, but always felt rather sorry for Diana, so young so hopeful.

These Channel 5 programmes On the royal family are usually a rehash of material we’ve seen before.

No

Landmarks, is the right word Riverwalk. I have a frisson when I pass Jill Dando's Hammersmith house. Maybe more so when the person has died (young).

Does being a Londoner make you more in tune with Royal events?

I'm not sure Ellianne but passing certain 'landmarks' one can't help but associate them with major events - I often pass the block of flats where Diana lived before she married and each and every time I remember that chuchy-faced teenager with her head down being pursued by the press, some 40 years' on.

Good heavens, can it be 40 YEARS? !

In the name of the wee man

Warwick Davis?

Interesting comment Riverwalk. Does being a Londoner make you more in tune with Royal events? I was watching a ballet at The Royal Opera House when the curtain fell to announce the death of the Queen Mother. (Some idiot's phone rang at the same moment!!)
I was a tourist guide in the city for a bit and all the visitors wanted to talk about was Diana and Charles. Stands to reason I have a bit of an everlasting interest, but not obsessive.

I wouldn't sweep her under the carpet, but I wouldn't make her such a focus.

I'm not a royalist or a particular fan of Diana but it's sad to think that she died so young and would be about 60 now.

Interesting that most posters want her memory swept under the carpet. In the overall scheme of things she was no better or worse than the rest of them!

I'm more aware of her comings and goings than other members of the RF because I was pregnant and off work ill on her wedding day and watched the whole thing; a friend was a midwife at the Lindo Wing for both births; and I worked around the corner from Buckingham Palace so the day after she died a few of us from the office went round to BP to 'be there'.

So I know her timeline, but have little idea of when the Queen Mother died, or Charles' second marriage, etc.

Also, when you see footage of her at the beginning it's startling how young she was.

"The cult of Saint Diana, leaves me cold"
Couldn't have put it better Elegran

No point avoiding the programme but filling up a thread about the woman, surely?

I'm not sure I watch these programmes to go over all the Diana stories again, but more because they remind me of my own youth and where I was at that time. I was at the famous firework party in Hyde Park the night before the wedding and I was on the streets the next day. I'm sad the fairytale went so badly wrong. Even my dad alluded to the royal wedding in his father of the bride speech a few months later, so Diana has a special place in my memory.

What is the motivation in scheduling these programmes now? Who made the decision and why? Could it be that Queen Elizabeth's age and the likelihood that Charles will soon become king has a bearing on it?