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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Diana was duped from the beginning. If I remember correctly, she was still a teenager when she was picked by the Queen Mother to be Charles’ wife. Camilla was also in on the choice.

Diana was gullible and in love but Camilla was very much still in the picture. Everyone thought Diana would be quiet and turn a blind eye to Charles’ mistress, but they were wrong. [/quote]

If “The Crown” is to be believed (I know, I know…), Diana’s grandmother who was Queen Mother’s lady in waiting, really pushed the match and even tutored Diana in the court etiquette. Did she really hate her granddaughter that much? That episode made me sad. You would think someone like that would know what that would entail and at minimum warn her. Or were they all just blinded by the fact that it was such an honor etc.? [/quote]

I think you're overlooking the fact that Diana has been aiming to marry well her entire young life.  She may have been in love with Charles, yes, but she was very much in love with the idea of being a princess and then a queen.  Why do you think they nicknamed her Duch?[/quote]

This, above. People want to forget, or never to know in the first place, that Diana was not the perfect innocent she presented herself as being (and which the media not only bought into but then elevated into myth). She may not have been a Machiavellian schemer but she certainly had some natural savvy about how to get and hold attention, and she was known to enjoy much of the attention she seemed to reject. But that doesn't fit with the saintly sweetheart image. She would be more of a real, relatable figure were people to see how she, too, played a game with the royals and wasn't a helpless victim. [/quote]

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