EP5: THREE Minute EGGS! The Housekeeper’s DIARY By Wendy Berry
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Shauna x Part 5 in my review of The Housekeeper’s Diary by Wendy Berry.
A book that was banned in Britain!
It gives us a very interesting insight into the relationship between the then Prince Charles and Princess Diana and also 7 years of Prince William and Prince Harry’s childhood. It is a rare first-hand account.
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I don't know why folks are getting upset. We are hearing 1 persons experiences. I'm really enjoying hearing her stories, thank you for your time Shauna ❤️.
Exactly right! No need to get emotional, folks!
True - we will never know the whole story.
Plus, what she experienced me not be the whole story. It's like when people are walking by you in a crowd and you hear just a piece of a sentence and that doesn't give what they were actually talking about. What this woman experiences is just part of the whole whatever it was that happened. And to give a made-up example, say you walking on a room and see a woman crying standing next to a man and she runs out of the room. First thing you think of is he made her cry. Then you find out later that she had, right before you walked in, red an email about someone she knew dying.
@@LKMNOP You made very good points.🌲❄️☃️🎄
@@teachersusan3730I think the truth of the matter is both Charles and Diana were emotionally damaged people who were forced into a situation neither of them really and truly wanted to be in. Charles loved Camilla forever and she him. He tried with Diana and she tried with him but even if they had fallen in love their upbringing and all the emotional trauma was going to put a major strain on their marriage.
Diana was an immature emotional childlike woman in many ways who needed a lot of time to grow up before she got married- married to anyone never mind that particular marriage with all of the expectations placed on it.
I feel really sorry for both of the people they were then.
Diana is an historical figure so yes, published accounts of her life should be discussed. What offends me is Harry’s marketing and PR machine using her death to excuse his poor decisions and bad behaviour.
Yup !
🎯!! Totally agree!
He acts like he is the only child who lost their Mom while still a child,.My Granddaughter Grace lost her Daddy to Al’s when she was only 8 years old. Not a quick death, she had to watch him fade away and become locked inside his mind and body. That a traumatic childhood experience
Im so sorry for your granddaughter. I've nursed a few people with ALS and it is a tragic disease. I hope your granddaughter is doing well now.
@@sheliahutcherson168 I am so sorry for your Granddaughter and Family. I know first hand as we lost my Mum to ALS in 1999.
Life isn't clean and straightforward, it's messy and flawed. The more amazing I find the path William and Catherine decided to take. The strong bond they forged and the dedication they have towards their children.
Well said !
W&C took their time getting to know each other really well. That doesn't surprise me after his parents' fiasco. I imagine when W tried to warn H to slow down with Meghan, he was worried about another situation like his parents had experienced. The clock was ticking for Charles as he hit 30 and Diana was literally 'served up' as the best option. No surprise it didn't work out when they barely knew each other.
A real family. Not a hustle. Soulmates. This only describes one family.
my daughter & her husband dated 2 years before living together. If they couldn’t live together as equals then a marriage would not survive. They lived together for 7 years before marriage. This is why their marriage has worked great for the last 24 years. They tell each other they love them everyday. Grounded couple , grounded marriage , grounded children. This is what William & Cathrine & their children have.
@@891Henry ~ C. & D.'s marriage was very much as arranged one. They had no interests in common & were 12 years apart in age. Moreover, the public saw they were both equally flawed.
Isn’t it interesting that Diana terminated Barbara Barnes and William called Barbara out of retirement to be George’s nanny. I think that’s a remarkable testament to William’s emotional intelligence!
People always go on about how young Diana was but she was actually quite typical of her generation. I had two babies by the time I was 22, nobody thought it unusual.
Ahhh I see your point. I had babies late so she seemed young to me! 😂
Diana's mother and grandmother both married much older men when they were quite young.
Most of us had babies in very early 20’s.I remember a lady in my maternity ward who was considered an old mum at 29.
Thank you, Thank you for making this point..
Diana was actually 20 years old, when she married..
Same. Two babies by 22. And I did all the housework and cooked ... I seemed so mature..lol
She saw what she saw and her book is a valuable historical asset.
The boiled eggs would not be thrown out in my house. They would be served up as egg salad the next day.
Maybe they did for the staff....
I am absolutely sure, that Prince Charles didn't ask for the eggs to be ready, when he walked in the door!!!
and he definitely didn't want any food to be thrown out!!
I think he would have been upset had he found out..
😂😂😂🎉
@@3_times_mum520. Exactly ! The chef must have been mad, or inventing stories for Wendy.
I wouldn't worry, the people that are upset are the same people that think home and away is real. Top notch video again.
The more you hear about Diana the more you find that she was a very immature and troubled woman! I do not blame Charles for ALL of her actions, Diana was troubled before she ever married Charles! As far as a 3 minute egg, that is the stage I like mine and do not find it strange that Charles would want his this way!
I was very against Camilla back in the day when Princess Diana was still alive and after she died. But the last 5-6 years she’s earned my respect. It’s obvious she loves KC very much and she’s a very hard worker for the monarchy.
Enjoy your reviews and your snarky snippets tremendously.
Very Merry Christmas to you Shauna and your family from America. 👏🥰🇺🇸
Soulmates. Sadly, Lady Di never found hers. ❤❤
Agreed!! I felt the same at the time but now it is obvious how much Queen Camilla cares for King Charles and how much she time she puts into being an asset to the Royal Family.
Same here except about 20 years ago I couldn't take my own hypocrisy anymore. How I heard dear Diana admit to affairs with married men and was okay with the exact same thing I vilified C and C for , I have no idea. Thank God I figured out that two wrongs doesn't make it right. They were human like us all. I truly think some people literally worship her. Which is a disservice to her.
@@garylefevers--The shame of worshipping Diana, or anyone, can never appreciate who they are as flawed people. Something I read about Diana in Tina Brown’s book ‘Diana Chronicles’ was how boxed in Diana felt by her own persona. She loved & hated it. To me it adds to William’s perspective and appreciation for Catherine’s more normal strong family being an oasis.
Im with you Rhonda. If Charles didn't have Camilla, it would have been someone else. He was also rumoured to be interested in his old Australian girlfriend, Kanga. I admired Diana, it was a shame she couldn't find someone to love her, I too came from a dysfunctional family, with a narc father and a mother who spent her time putting out fires. I kept picking guys who were selfish and disloyal. Diana and Charles irritated each other, end of story. Happy Christmas xx 🇦🇺
Seems a bit unfair on the children getting rid of their nanny that they’ve known since babyhood
Over the years I have watched King Charles ( as he is now known) and I sympathize with he must have had to go through. Diana also. Both of them were forced into doing the “right thing” for the crown. I truly believe they had a fondness for each other. We should all walk in there shoes. Yes they have wealth and can do whatever they want ( within reason I’m sure) Harry needs to stop blaming his father and Camilla for his mother’s death. It’s an excuse he uses all the time. Time to grow up Harry because nothing can change what happened.
There was a lot of blame, if there was any point, since we can’t change a thing. Diana did what so many of us young women were taught, ‘Laugh at his jokes, be interested in what he’s into! Don’t talk too much, smile, no matter how you feel.’
Except if you’re successful, like Diana was, she said she LOVED Balmoral, hunting, fishing, all things country! Loved watching polo and Charles is soooo amusing!
Then she got married and hit him with hating all of it, ESPECIALLY Balmoral and Charles ‘old tweedy boring friends’❤ The lesson, be careful trying to act like something you’re not.
By all accounts Charles wept over Diana's body, at the hospital. They had reconciled and were on friendly terms, well before her death. They stood united for their sons. He was the one that took her body back to the UK. I too believe that he wept. She will always be the mother of his children.
Bonnie. I quite agree but I felt sorry for Charles because I think that Diana was a nightmare. Harry gets his silly immature personality from his mother. I think Camilla is a very nice, dignified person and she makes Charles happy.
I would never have guessed Ken Wharfe was so interesting going by his TV appearances where he comes across as boring. I wouldn't describe Charles as repressed, he is quite an emotional man, just different to Diana and they had little in common apart from the children. Loving this book. Merry Christmas Shauna! 🌲🎀🥰
I'd say it was more because she was still emotionally immature but he was well on his way to maturing; D's outbursts and C finding it hard to deal with sound typical of anyone dealing with an unreasonable adolescent to me.
I’ve always loved his interviews and don’t find him boring. Guess that’s my taste in men. Wish I could find one like that 😅 lol
yes he is very stolid. the book he wrote about his time as Diana's security officer is a very good read.
Must read Ken Wharfe's book myself.
@@BMack-p9sCharles was much more like his mother's generation than his own. This means they were not just 12 years apart but more like 20 years apart.
Sounds like Charles still does not know what to do and how to handle tantrums. I think Diana probably broke the cup because Charles was very nonchalant and non-reactive. He probably lowered his paper and said "pick that up". Meanwhile, she's trying to grab his attention. Harry's throwing cups too, in a metaphoric way
I wonder, if Diana had survived, and become happily remarried whether Diana and Charles could have become good friends ( I think they did love each other in their own very flawed ways) but I also don’t think Diana would ever have been in a healthy relationship as she was so needy.
It was for the best that Diana died. If she'd lived, William would have been so scarred he wouldn't be able to ascend to the throne in any healthy way... and there's no way Diana would have tolerated Catherine. She was too much of a narcissist to be able to handle a younger, much prettier, much more confident young woman!
@@cherylmockotrI appreciate the courage and insight of your post.
I doubt happy remarriage was in Diana’s cards due to her emotional issues. That said, Diana herself admitted that she and Charles were getting on the best they ever had after the divorce. Without the pressure of pretending to be happy living together, they could focus on coparenting and the facet of themselves that worked the best and the one thing they both could agree on: their love for their boys. It’s a real tragedy that Diana died just as they had arrived at this place of relative harmony. In her mid-30s, she had finally matured enough to get along with her ex-husband, and we can’t help but wonder what might have been. I do not exonerate Charles and Camilla for the pain and betrayal they inflicted on a very emotionally fragile young woman. But I really think if Diana had been able to bear the affair with Camilla With forbearance and dignity, the way the queen tolerated all of Phillip’s extracurricular friends, She could’ve stayed married to Charles and would’ve become Queen. No one wanted the couple to divorce. The queen and Philip certainly didn’t want it, Charles didn’t want it because he feared a divorce tainting his reign, Camila frankly was happy to keep their arrangement as it was; contrary to popular belief I do not think she schemed to displace Diana on the throne. She loved the man attached to the crown but had her own life, house hobbies and friends and valued her privacy. In actuality I think Camilla‘s regard for Charles was much more authentic than Diana‘s who freely admitted that from girlhood she had wanted to be the princess of Wales. She wouldn’t have looked twice at Charles without his title with him being so much older than her. Diana stirred the hornets nest first with the Andrew Morton book and then the straw that finally broke the back of the queens tolerance, the panorama interview. Essentially Diana played the chicken with the crown doing that interview, daring the queen to react and I think in a desperate bid To somehow make Charles renounce Camilla. She lost and I believe she was frankly stunned when her stunt had terrible consequences.
@@cherylmockotrI dont think Diana was a narcissist, my personal believe is, she had Borderline Personality Disorder, where your self erstem is very low but you are still able to feel very deeply and therefore your mood swings constantly between very high and very low, leading to temper tantrums of the worst Kind but also for showing great love and compassion. I remember being a child and seeing her with children … they loved her and she loved them. Seeing Meghan with children and compairing her with Diana - for me - is the difference between a narcissist and a Person with BPD.
@@kathrinkweseleit7074 I fully agree that Diana was a severe borderline, but that includes narcissistic traits. It's descriptive not the diagnostic label. Hearing what's described in the Housekeeper book makes me feel very sorry for both William and Harry!
I'm really enjoying hearing about this book. I've always liked Camilla❤
She seems to be made of a very strong stock.
One thing I really appreciated about the Crown was that out of all four of the people involved in those two marriages, Camilla actually comes out looking the best. She’s just practical, sees the situation for what it is, and suffers in silence. I have to admire that quality if that’s really what she’s like. The crap she went through and never said a thing. ‘No one asked her how she was doing’ but she didn’t cry in interviews about it, either
Thankfully, Camilla is not a
drama-Queen.
@@evitasdad. Well said !
Hi Shauna,
Thank you very much for these lovely reviews. There will always be naysayers in our lives and we just need to shake them off. No one is perfect.
I don't understand why people are upset, firstly like you say Diana and Charles were both placed in an impossible situation and they had their strengths and weaknesses like all humans.
Second, hearing narratives from different prospectives helps to get a better understanding of the bigger picture.
Keep giving us the bigger picture please.
Love the synopsis. Don't worry about the "passionate" comments. That's a given on the internet. However, there is a silent majority that's enjoying some lighthearted goss and not taking any of this too seriously. ❤
Shauna I, and I’m sure others would love to see/hear your singing!!! I bet you’re amazing!!!!🎤🎼🎹
She is a surprisingly good poet as she proved with a few recent videos.
I am enjoying your reading though Shauna, Thank YOU!
You are so welcome
Very well done! You have the wonderful ability to comprehend what you’re reading and entertaining your YT audience…much appreciated btw. Can’t keep everyone happy all the time 🤣 Let them have their whinge…says something about them don’t you reckon? Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you! You too!
Yes my copy of the housekeeper's book cost me about £20 from World of Books. When I get to reading it it will be lovely having the insight already. Diana's story is inevitably one of pain and not easy for a Diana supporter. Obviously the mistress wasn't free on Sunday evenings!
I’m old enough to have been around to read about Charles and Diana’s relationship in real time. I remember reading that Diana was so traumatized by her parents divorce that it was something she never wanted for herself . Charles was seen as someone who could never divorce her because , at the time , divorce would be unthinkable for a future monarch . As a naive 19 year old , he seemed like a safe choice, though both had serious doubts right before the wedding .
I am loving this view of a time in Highgrove. All the tidbits you share give us little bits of the full story. Thank you (I really don't care who was in what bed, when or why
So enjoyable having you review this book. I am in the US, in Pennsylvania, but have always been a royal fan and its refreshing hearing of everyday issues that make them more real and human.
The snippett with Zara is charming! The boys must have had alot of fun with her!
Thank you for sharing and look forward to the next chapter!
Have a very Happy Christmas!
I'm also in PA & have been a fan of all things British for many years. Happy Christmas!
You as well!
It would drive me crazy to know my man was was involved in a romance..jealousy would eat my brain
Jennifer it was because Diana was crazy that she imagined her man was involved with another woman. Don't get mad but do provide a haven of calm and domestic comfort if you can.
Also, it must have driven Charles crazy to know she had affairs also.
@@trinamcgarvey-vw7ke I think Charles was probably shocked and upset .
What a good & good-hearted story teller you are. I love listening to you. Merry Christmas from Mississippi in the USA!
Thank you so much!
Really enjoying the dive into this book - I hadn't heard of it, and its a really interesting perspective on things. I thihk it all goes back to your comments in the first video -- this is about the dynamics within this marriage. Two decent people, extremely poorly matched, bouncing off each other and doing the best they knew how. There are no good guys and bad guys in all this.
I love listening to Shauna and her way of making the story come to life. She gets my attention each time. I enjoy every episode. Thank you Shauna for making my day better.
Those coming to the subject with preconceived notions and closed minds will never happily accept that there is rarely a completely innocent or completely guilty party when a relationship doesn't work out. In this instance, we were fed different ideas by the press who could not give a toss about the truth, only about keeping their journalistic career alive by selling juicy or schmaltzy stories. Truth is probably somewhere between, but we can never know. None the less, this book is interesting, another, more honest opinion than he ones given in the press or by biographers paid to say nice or sympathetic things about the subject that then, inevitably requires constantly casting the other party in a bad light.
Give the eggs to the staff❣️
I feel exactly as you describe. I can understand both sides and empathize with both Charles and Diana. I’m here for it! SIP!
I adored Diana but I think you make a really balanced review of this book. It's all very fascinating, especially about the eggs 😂
I am so enjoying this series 👍❤️ Thank you!!
I love your very balanced view on all this. I've always had a rather bad view of Diana but your insights are giving a much more rounded picture and I find myself much more sympathetic towards her. What a shame D and C couldn't work it out it seems as if they had so much to learn from each other...but they were just far too different.
Agree. The age gap didnt help either. He was 32 going on 45 & she was 19 going on 15. She'd have been better off with a kind, mid level aristocrat who'd give her lots of babies & have time for her.
I love these kinds of books that provide an insight from the perspective of the staff, real life upstairs downstairs.
Historian Lucy Worsley has made some great tv programmes about lives of the servants from royalty to people who lived in the big country houses.
I really look forward to The Housekeepers Diary.
Thank you
Shauna, have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!🎊 🎉🍾. Love the story retells! Can’t wait to hear each of the next Chapters😊.
This is such fun and very enjoyable! Ignore the whingers, they will whinge no matter what. Your very balanced, fair and insightful analysis is spot on imo and much appreciated. We’re all human after all. Many thanks for this and wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas 🎁🎄and happy new year 🍾🥳🥂❤
Thank you! Will do! Merry Christmas to you too. 💕
I love this series!!😊
I'm really loving this house keepers book. I get all cosy in my pj's cup of hot chocolate, climb into bed and pop my iPad on 😊
Me too
I really think you are very fair when giving reviews. I enjoy them immensely. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thank you! You too!
This has been so much fun going through this book. Thank you!
Guurrrlll I am SO HERE for the ride!!!!! WowW. Look, HARRY has brought all this mess back up about his mother the beloved Diana and by his and Megs lies, it has forced people to "set the record stright" thus, we NOW know more about Diana than we ever wanted.
These episodes are classics! Thankyou Shauna 🌲🌲🌺🌺
I enjoy these readings. People need to understand diana was human, not a saint.
Ken Wharfe singing arias, and tap dancing!!! OMG, I L O V E this book!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This book is of great interest Shauna. I’m enjoying your reading of it immensely.
I'm so glad!
Thank you for the review of this book. Wasnt aware of it. Very interesting to me. Really a shame that Diana and Charles couldnt make their marriage work.
Thank you Shauna, I loved this Episode!👏🏻💝
I love your reading. You have a wonderful voice. And you are always so FUN!
Someone holding “an egg flag”. 👏🤣. So funny, and so telling about your practical and unbiased approach!! Thank you Shauna! Merry Christmas and all the best to you and your family.
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After what is happening with the press right now with W&C, I hope they are taken Phillip advice
As you say, the book was published before Diana's untimely death. Unfortunately since her death far, far too many books have ignored the less attractive aspects of Diana's character and actions - she has almost become a secular saint. This is not only untruthful but damaging - dare I say we have only to look at the very public struggles of Diana's younger son to see how damaging and dangerous this approach is.
Barbara Barnes: Diana WAS cross about her going to the party in Mustique; although Barbara was owed holiday and Diana agreed when she could take her time off, she was incensed that she was at the party, partly (I suspect) because Princess Margaret was also there. She saw Barbara mixing with the Glenconners as a threat because Barbara had been their nanny for a long time and Diana swiped her from them: she was always convinced that Barbara gossiped to Anne Glenconner about life with the Waleses and that information was passed to Princess Margaret who was no fan of Diana. As for the manner of Barbara's departure, it was disgraceful: Diana sacked her and ordered her to pack her bags and leave immediately, stipulating that neither of the boys were to be told that she was going or when - probably to "pay her back" for the boys' obvious affection for her. It was cruel and showed how stupid Diana was because it set up in the boys, especially Harry, the same kind of fear of people just vanishing that Diana claimed she suffered from.
The boiled eggs: why throw them our, far better to make egg mayonnaise!
I’m an American and when I read your comment, I was like “Surely all mayonnaise is made with eggs!” Then I realized you probably meant what we call an “Egg Salad Sandwich” in the USA. So I googled and sure enough, that is the case! Now I know how to ask for an “Egg Salad Sandwich” when I visit the UK, I will ask for “Egg Mayonnaise!” Sending love from across the pond 💕
Thanks, Shauna, for another enjoyable read. Very good point about the eggs! The perspective that Diana and Charles loved each other is supported by other sources who point out that they were genuinely very much into each other until Harry was born, Diana began having affairs and it went downhill from there. Yes, Harry went through a difficult childhood. Arguably, William even moreso with what he witnessed and the dependency his mother had on him. It’s a shame Harry hasn’t kept his thoughts to himself instead of seemingly making it his life’s mission to destroy his own family; if he is really working with therapists, then there’s hope that he”ll eventually grow through to a mature, integrated, compassionate place the way William has done.
I’m really enjoying this one, pls ignore the haters! ❤
This has been fascinating so I'm glad your reviewing this book for us!
It's healthy to hear different perspectives its what makes life interesting
You are marvelous! I wish you lived next door. Merry Christmas to you and your family from Canada.
Same to you!
King Charles would never have been demanding, that the eeg should be ready, when he walked into the house..
And I don't believe he would be impressed.. learning that his cook was wasting food!!
Charles was writing his Christmas cards with a fountain pen when he shouts out “bloody thing is leaking everywhere and ruining everything!” Camilla hears him and asks “do you want a spare?” Charles mumbles “No! that’s who I’m talking about!”
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Is that you…Dezz….?
Omg… good one!
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Keep going Shauna
Love your insights
😂 Perhaps the STAFF wanted hard boiled eggs, for lunch! 😂
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@@thevintagereadHello! Boston, here ❤️ I'm so happy to have found you ! Love the show!
I read this book many years ago. Thank you for refreshing my memory 😁
You're so welcome!
Isn't it lovely that now Zara's children are close with William's children? Mia Tindall holding Louis' hand at Sandringham made me smile.
Yes! Fantastic 🤗
In a house full of people I am sure someone else would have enjoyed some hard boiled eggs, even if they were not up to Charles' specifications.
Getting rid of the faithful and loving nanny was cruel to her boys
That’s a very fair point about Diana’s reactions. I would have probably reacted the same way back then, too, about snark from my husband. I admit it! 😊
The wasting of the eggs drove me nuts!
Waste drives me nuts too but I don’t believe they would really have been wasted.
As 😊an astrologer I can unequivocably say that the synastry chart between Camilla & Charles is a much better relationship chart than that is between Diana & Charles.
Love yr readings..keep them coming..lov from Australia 🇦🇺
Keep doing what you’re doing. I live in the US so maybe I am viewing this differently. But, I never felt at all you are favoring either side over the other. You are reading what is in the book. Love your videos!!!!! Merry Christmas.
We are here with you for the ride. Please keep going on. Loving it ❤
All this drama, can you imagine the dreadful effect this had on the boy's?
I would want eggs the way I liked then too.
This is great entertainment, Shauna. Thank you! I intended to refer you to Parody Whitney on YT. Then I noticed that Taz has given her a shout out. Anyway, her latest "White Christmas" is hilarious! Merry Christmas!
You carry right on!! You have a good handle on the situation. Perhaps you will write a book on the subject!
Diana suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) & Harry inherited it.
Harry has crossed the border and is deeply ensconced in nuttiness😂😂😂😂
Both Harry and Diana were dim-witted and Drama Queens.@@susanread2637
You did a brilliant job of explaining the pressure both Charles and Diana were under. I get so fed up of people judging past events through today’s ‘lens’. Forgetting that social norms in the past weren’t necessary those of today. They forget that future generations will have different ideas and will judge todays ‘norms’.
Such a tragedy. They truly weren't well suited for one another
I went along for the ride! i"m loving this book review...like reading the book but not having to use my old and weary eyes. LOL Even wearing my glasses, I have to have BRIGHT light, hold my head just so...I bet others know what I'm talking about. And those audiobooks? Well, I'm too easily distracted for that. I forget what I'm doing or fall asleep. The trials of old age. 🤣👵
👍👍II really appreciate this talk. So well done. So compassionate in your outlook of these people’s lives. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️
From across the pond.
Thank you so much!
❤ that you’re covering this book!
Thank you Shauna for this book review I’m really enjoying it, and very well said about Charles & Diana. Looking forward to a Chrissy drink with you 🎄🥂😍
I was an avid reader of crime stories. You made me read all those different books, 😂😂😂 loving your interpretation, always so much fun, have a lovely Christmas
I wonder if the late Queen ever admitted to herself or anyone else that she, and the institution, were hugely to blame for that huge mistake of a marriage?
Diana fooled everybody with her lies and pretending - not just the Queen.
I really don’t think the queen realized that Charles was not actually in love with Diana. He had dragged his feet at marriage for years. (He lost his initial chance with Camilla because of this reluctance.) Both the queen and Prince Philip told him that it was unfair to Diana to string her along if he didn’t want to marry her. Charles somehow took that as an order. Even if his mother was the queen, if he couldn’t be mature enough at 32 to break up with Diana if he felt uneasy …Plus, Diana, young and wanting to please Charles, pretended to share Charles’ interests much more than she actually did. Even Camilla, when Charles asked what she thought of Diana, was fooled. And they’d only had a total of twelve dates before they became engaged. They hardly knew each other!
@@elizabethcloutman8913 The Queen knew. They all knew he was in love with Camilla but thought doing his duty would be enough.
Diana’s father is on record saying he was sorry he did not warn the Royal family that Diana was very difficult.
@@LeeDon76 Sadly, he was a sad and difficult man and neglectful father after divorcing Diana’s mother Frances. Indeed, his parents were difficult people, as well. Much unhappiness in the Spencer family.
I was able to borrow this book from our local library! Your summaries are spot on. Easy and fun read but sad at the same time. Thanks for these videos.🇨🇦
This was brilliantly done - loved your wisdom along the way too. Merry Christmas, I normally write my comments from England but am here in Sydney Aus in the same timezone as the group! Yay! Feels good to be home, love to all 💕🙌
Your channel is the best book club ever!! Merry Christmas!
Diana's attraction to those looking for a religious feeling of devotion continues to be uncanny. It also casts Charles in a sort of Ted Hughes role in the "romanza" as he called it over Sylvia Plath. Anyway Seasons Greetings.
Harry went Christmas shopping for his wife and bought perfume, the checkout lady asks, "Do you need a paper bag sir?" Harry replied, "No thanks, she's not that ugly."
Edit: like your snippets
Oooooh good one,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Better comment than Desperate Derek 😂😂
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@@jeanettesantarelli1795 comic relief. You weren't ready for it.
I wanted to see if this book is on Amazon and (2/26/24) … none nada нету! 😮😮😮 Is it so popular or not enough was published??! So, I’m really happy you’re reading some of it to us. ❤ TY!
I've been enjoying your snippets of this book very much! I'm able to close my eyes and let my imagination conjure images and scenes of true family life and dynamics. I also don't feel swayed or manipulated by the author or you in any particular direction. Just learning what one person saw and heard AND LIVED.
Perfect that was my aim x
@@thevintageread Terrific! 🤗
It’s nice to hear someone speak with such a common sense attitude towards Charles and Diana.🇬🇧
Thank you so much for this entertaining book review!!
You are justing analyzing a book written by someone else. I find you quite objective and enjoy listening to your broadcasts. Keep them coming❤❤
I would love to get a copy of this book. It's great to hear the other side of the story.
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I don't think a lot of people know/remember that at that time who Charles married had to be considered suitable. This meant a virgin from the aristocracy. It was only after Charles and Andrew had their marriages break down that the rules were changed regarding who was considered suitable. Princess Margaret wasn't allowed to marry the person that she wanted to for the same reason.
Princess Margaret carried on an affair with a married man with children. He divorced his wife. Marrying a divorcee wasn't an option for her Uncle, the King, why would Margaret have thought it would be okay for her?
Love Zara too!! Anne did right by her kids not to give them titles.
Firstly, love your work, keep it up! Secondly onto the subject of Diana. I am a retired psychotherapist trained in Transactional Analysis, so think l can come at the subject of Diana from a 'compare and contrast' perspective (which is what most therapists are trained to do).
The most important piece of information we are given as trainee counsellors is that "we marry our mothers or our fathers". A difficult pill for some to digest. In the case of Diana I think she married her father, and in the case of Harry, he married his mother, something that is becoming clearer by the day!
For a long time before Diana died I was questioning what on earth she was playing at with her antics and the book you are reviewing here cemented that view. She, like Meghan was a narcissist and played the media to her advantage and (sadly) disadvantage later on. To me at the time it was so obvious and I would become frustrated when I saw her on the front pages, "why could no-one else see what I was seeing?" Well apparently people behind the scenes did...
A collection of stories about the royal children from the staff’s POV and told by Shauna would be my Christmas wish.
But only from when they were young and cute and innocent. Just hearing about Harry’s version of his adolescence and teenage years was more than enough for a lifetime. And even better, stories about all the most important royal children, from Elizabeth and Margaret on down. I can’t even imagine what little Margaret would’ve been like. The saying “He’ll on wheels” was probably coined for her.
Coming in 2024!
How about Lady Susan Hussey writing a book? Since she guided Sophie & Catherine, we could all use those posture lessons✅
i have never been in a book club even though i love reading. i am so enjoying this book club. keep it up. i'm coming along for the ride.