Nelson, Hitler and Diana by Richard D. Ryder

Author:Richard D. Ryder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Celebrity, Horatio Nelson, Adolf Hitler, Diana Princess of Wales, psycho-biography, psychiatry, biography, psychology, psychodynamics, maternal loss, culture, history, narcissism, dictators, fantasy
ISBN: 9781845405014
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2013
Published: 2013-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

3: Diana Spencer 1961-1997

Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales

The magical food of love

Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles on 29 July 1981 when she was aged just twenty. Within months, due to her good works, curious behaviour and radiant beauty, she had become one of the most celebrated women in the world. In August 1996 Diana and Charles were divorced. A year later Diana died in a car crash in Paris.

I remember meeting Diana shortly after she was married. How could I ever forget? She was literally radiant. She glowed. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes shone. Her small talk, too, sparkled. She was, I reflected at the time, a beautiful young woman who was desperate to be the centre of attention and approval, and there must be some devastating reason for this. The Princess made an indelible impression on me.

Diana Spencer was born into an upper class home in Norfolk. She might have gone on to lead an ordinary life typical of hundreds of other women of her background, bringing up a family of her own and mingling with the ‘county’ set. She was not intellectually brilliant, nor ambitious for wealth or power. So how did she become an international star - an icon whose memory will remain with us for decades? One answer is that she married the heir to the British throne. So was this royal marriage purely a matter of chance or did she, or her relations, somehow cause it to happen? And was it the only reason for her celebrity?

Like all my subjects in this book, Diana’s life has been thoroughly scrutinized by historians and is the subject of a number of impressive biographies. Whereas there is general agreement among writers that Nelson was a heroic genius and that Hitler was an utter villain, there is no such consensus about Diana. Instead, there are two quite distinct camps that see her either as a manipulative trouble maker or as a near-saint who was mistreated by the royal family and by most of the media. This present study avoids either extreme, but concludes that Diana was a deeply disturbed and unhappy person.

DIANA’S CHILDHOOD FAMILY

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