Diana

Sehr gut geschriebene Biografie. Alle wichtigen Stationen ihres Lebens bis zum Unfall in Paris werden behandelt.

One can read this book for a number of different reasons. First, it provides a glimpse inside the lives of Britain's landed aristocracy that most readers will never experience. Downtown Abbey may be a better choice if that is the main appeal because one would have to read through hundreds of pages of facts about Diana to capture this slice of the life of Britain's most fortunate.One could also read this book to get the definitive account of who, to put it bluntly, Diana slept with. The author does cut through a lot of the rumors to give a fact based account but somehow reading the book for that is to miss the whole point of Diana's all too brief life.What comes through powerfully in these pages is that Diana lived a life, from the age of six on, of incredible personal suffering. She then used that personal experience to connect to people who were also deeply wounded. By doing so she literally changed world history. Before Diana AIDS was a scary disease, possibly God's punishment for the sin of homosexuality. By shaking the hand of a man dying from AIDS she began the transformation of public perception of the disease from something scary to a health care crisis that needed to be dealt with.She also transformed the perspective of what is to be expected of the royal family. People now demand their princes and princesses not to be remote demigods but people actually interested in the problems of everyday citizens.Modern people do not necessarily want doctrines or policies to solve their life but they do want to feel like the most privileged care and empathize with them. This is what all the scandalmongers about Diana fail to see.Diana was not a role model in the full sense of the term. She believed in silly things like astrological forecasts and psychics and could be dishonest and arrogant in her private life. But none of these "revelations" matter because people adored Diana because they believed, rightly, that she cared about people who were suffering. The only kind of revelation that could ruin her reputation is if it was discovered that she privately made fun of the many victims she visited. Such a revelation would be so completely contradictory to everything said about her, even by her enemies, that it would almost certainly be false.Diana made bad decisions, could make people recognize how her royalty elevated her above them and believed in ridiculous things like astrology but somehow managed to live one of the most important lives of the 20th century because, instead of wallowing in pain, she used intense personal suffering as a means of empathizing with the unfortunate and forgotten.Surely, this should be the primary focus of those of us who will never experience her privileged life rather than obsessing over a detailed history of her failings, both personal and public. I personally believe that as time passes, and those Diana personally hurt fade from the public scene, her importance as a world figure will only increase and her peccadillos will be more and more simply forgotten.

The more I read about Diana the more I realise how incredibly tragic her life was. Of all the men on the planet who would have willingly fallen at her feet in order to love and cherish her eternally the poor young innocent girl had to fall in love with the most emotionally crippled individual who only loved himself above anyone else - apart from Camilla Parker Bowles!!How unbelievably selfish of him to take on the one young girl who had remained a virgin, and only marrying her for that one fact. His uncle Dickie Mountbatten had instilled in him the thought that a Prince of Wales HAD to marry a virgin, and when Diana appeared he married her, not knowing anything about HER hopes and dreams for her future, whilst still as intending to go back to Camilla at the earliest opportunity. They married after only meeting 13 times - truly the virginal lamb to the slaughter!You can't read this book without experiencing for Diana the type of anguish she herself was going through, realising her new husband was in constant touch with his mistress, Camila, whilst they cruised on their honeymoon - if you actually imagine yourself in that position, with any man, you can really feel the despair she was going through. And, unfortunately, that set the pattern for the whole of that poor girl's marriage.Diana herself had a built-in certainty, from a young age, that she was destined for something special in life - I realise that many people will scoff at that, but premonitions DO happen to even the most ordinary of people - and you only have to read about the Spencer family down the past five hundred years to realise that there have been some astonishingly spirited women amongst them who also were known for their charitable good works - so in that way it runs in her family.It took marriage to Charles to bring this wonderful young woman into the public eye - but she married him first and foremost to be a loving fulfilled wife to her husband and, hopefully, become a mother and live a contended family life, hoping for the first time to be truly loved and looked after by her older husband as hers had been a childhood singularly devoid of love after her mother ran off, and in Diana's mind was the thought she would be marrying the one man who could NEVER divorce, thereby assuring her of happy years to come. But how could any of these dreams come true when it turned out that Camilla had vetted her as a possible bride, and meeting the shy Lady Diana she decided that Diana would prove no threat to her and Charles still being able to meet up e.g. at fox hunting as well as polo matches. The whole marriage was a set up by Charles and Camilla - Diana, they thought , would not prove any threat to their continued affair - what a disgraceful thing for Charles to do, to marry because his father was pushing him to do so, and to marry her simply for her to provide the heir and the spare which royalty and aristocratic families need to ensure the right to succession of the male heir.There was great jubilation by the royals when William was born, but after just going through a second gruelling labour when Harry was born, Charles peered at Harry and expressed disappointment he wasn't a girl and moaned about his rusty coloured hair - and Diana herself said that was when something inside her died, and their marriage just fell apart on the spot. Has there ever been a more selfish man on the planet?It wasn't overly long till Charles moved out of Kensington Palace, leaving not only Diana behind, but his sons! The parting shot he shouted at Diana was "I'm not going to be the only Prince of Wales in history NOT to have a mistress"!!! It really beggars belief that this man is to be the next king, but I hope it's not for many years to come.Diana blossomed into the wonderful young woman she became by throwing herself into charity work, but , like with her arrival into the royal family, she had to teach herself, no one showed her the ropes, and she really showed the Windsors what she was made of - only for Charles to sulk with jealousy because he didn't get attention anymore and his family and their men in grey suits to view her with suspicion of trying to undermine the Queen! WHY must everyone critisize her every move instead of being proud of her and congratulating her on her achievements?! Had they only done this it would have made her life livable instead of the true torture she was put through.Diana gave the nation two wonderful sons and to see them carrying on her humanitarian work is so special. The days of the non-changeing royal family are over, the change was down to Diana, God bless her, and her sons are truly more Spencer than old fashioned Windsors thank goodness.Life loving a man who will never love you the same is the most soul destroying time of anyone's life., but for this to happen to a young woman like Diana is especially cruel. She exuded love and compassion to every person she ever met. Charles and his family treated her abominably!

L'auteur explique l'enfance de Diana et de Charles, leurs habitudes de jeunesse. Dans tout le livre, on voit que l'auteur essaie d'être neutre à 'égard de tout le monde. Magnifique ouvrage à cause de sa justice envers tout le monde dans la famille royale, le public et Diana et sa famille. J'ai lu ceci en deux jours tellement c'était fascinant. Façon d'écrire très fluide.Super.

Ottimo libro, lo consiglierei sicuramente ad un amico, magari fare anche un regalo.sono veramente felice di questo buon articolo