Reply to The Queen Consort

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

Reply to "The Queen Consort"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Diana was immature but not naive. She knew what she was getting into. Meghan was older and mature but she underestimated Royal duties and overestimated easy access to wealth. My 2 cents from gossip tabloids, your mileage may vary.[/quote]

She was both. She was 20. How can you not be naive at 20. [/quote]

I don't know any intelligent and mature 20 year old college student who would agree to marry an average looking wealthy aging snob who has little in common with her , bows to his mommy and is in love with another woman, just for becoming a princess.[/quote]

Not to mention she was from an aristocratic and wealthy family and could have married another wealthy aristocrat and been spared all of the Royal nonsense. Let's not pretend she didn't have choices. [/quote]

I think Diana in her youth and naivete was infatuated by Charles and the life she imagined she would have.  He was the most eligible bachelor in the world and next in line to the throne.

Kind of like Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise.

Then reality set in.
[/quote]

That doesn't absolve her from responsibility for her choices. Nor does it absolve Charles from responsibility for his. But its completely inaccurate to pretend one was fully responsible and the other a totally innocent victim. Or that there weren't other people contributing to the problem (his family, her family, Camilla, etc.) It took many many people to make this hot mess. [/quote]

This is basically the smartest thing I've ever read on DCUM about the Charles and Diana thing.

Diana reminds me of that friend who you like a lot but makes some serious bad life choices, and you can only sort of shake your head.  I think the two of them were just living out different scripts in their head.  And I think QE2, while a really great queen, was a pretty lousy mom and MIL who made the whole thing worse by being indulgent at the wrong times and strict at the wrong times.  [/quote]

Why thank you! I think that's the nicest thing someone has ever said to me on this board![/quote]

Maybe DCUM is picking up grace and kindness from the Queen [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics