Some royal reporters have absolutely used Princess Diana’s words and Prince Harry’s words to undercut the Windsors. Those reporters or commentators will feign outrage at whatever Harry or Diana said, all while quoting those two royal renegades thoroughly. That’s what I thought Jennie Bond was doing in her new column in the Telegraph: “Diana told me Charles wasn’t cut out to be King – but she was wrong; Having been a royal correspondent for 35 years, I know King Charles better than most.” I thought it would be just a shady piece where Diana prophetically understood that Charles would move heaven and earth for his rottweiler and that would always be his fatal flaw as a monarch. But by the time I got to the end of this piece, I thought Bond must really believe the horsesh-t she’s saying. Some highlights:
Diana’s take on Charles: “The truth is that Charles would be much happier living in Tuscany, painting the landscape or studying architecture.” So said Diana, the late Princess of Wales, shortly after her divorce from her husband of 15 years. We were sitting in her drawing room at Kensington Palace talking about the future now that their “fairy-tale” marriage, which had become a living nightmare for both of them, had been officially extinguished. “I still believe that he’s just not cut out to be King,” she continued. “He has enough problems being Prince of Wales!”
Diana believed Charles was in a rut: “He’s stuck in a rut,” she told me. “Just take a look at his programme… he’s doing exactly the sort of things he was doing 10 years ago.”
Charles’s contradictions: Our King is a man shot through with paradox and contradiction. A progressive mind with an old man’s soul; a Royal surrounded by servants who says his role is to serve; someone who believes profoundly in promoting harmony and yet whose family life has been punctured by conflict; a man whose values are rooted in tradition but who accepts the need for change.
Bond was invited to Highgrove twice: Twice he invited me to Highgrove for tea and a chat. His private secretary at the time, Richard Aylard, said the Prince was mystified by the way he was portrayed by the media. He felt he was badly misrepresented. These meetings, I presumed, were part of a campaign to improve that image.
Charles’s labels: Largely because of his fatally flawed marriage to Diana, Charles has been labelled as cold, unfeeling and – by his own confession – unfaithful. But, in truth, he is an extremely sensitive man who has proved himself to be unconditionally and faithfully in love with the woman he should have married in the first place: Camilla. It was his love for her that gave him the courage to stand up to the Palace and his parents and declare that she was “non-negotiable”. It was Charles’s alpha-male moment… and he won the battle. Camilla is now his Queen and they are blissfully happy.
Diana saw the love between Camilla & Charles: In one of our private conversations, she told me that Camilla always had been and would be the love of Charles’s life, and that their relationship was stronger than any marriage he might have made. She told me that she accepted that Camilla had been discreet and loyal… and that perhaps she deserved “some form of recognition”. Whatever Diana would make of the fact that Camilla is now our Queen, it is undeniable that Charles is a much happier man and will be a better King with the woman he always calls his “darling wife” at his side.
Ghastly privilege: In the end, Diana was probably right. Charles might well have been happier sitting in the Italian countryside, painting and communing with nature. But that was not his lot or luck. He was born to what he once described as his “ghastly” destiny: privileged, certainly, but deprived of freedom of choice.
[From The Telegraph]
First of all, Bond sounds like she’s a bit in love with Charles. Second of all, “Whatever Diana would make of the fact that Camilla is now our Queen” – lol, we absolutely know what Diana would make of it and she would be raising holy hell, especially because of how Charles has treated Diana’s sons. Third of all… like, Charles has actually gotten so much worse than he was in Diana’s day. Even then, Diana absolutely knew that Charles would make a completely sh-tty king, she knew how selfish he was and is. But she would be shocked by the machinations going on with Camilla and Charles, at least that’s what I believe. Too bad we can’t ask her, because she died under massively mysterious circumstances, freeing the path for Charles to marry Camilla and for Camilla to become queen.
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DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES
Visiting the Royal Brompton Hospital, London to meet young sufferers of the inherited disease Cystic Fibrosis.
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HRH PRINCESS OF WALES
Pictured in Birmingham, where she opened the National Institute of Conductive Education.
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HRH PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
Attending the funeral of the Duchess of Windsor at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
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Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, visit Canada
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Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, visit Canada
Diana is wearing a Catherine Walker suit and a hat by Graham Smith at Kangol
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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, visit Canada.
Edmonton
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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, visit Canada.
Ottawa
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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, visit Australia
Princess Diana in Tasmania
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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, visit Molfetta during their tour of Italy.
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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, visit the Children’s Hospital in Rome, Italy.
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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, visit Beach Head Cemetery in Anzio, Italy, to honour those killed in the Allied landings of January 1944.
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And every day since the queen died he has proven Diana right.
I so agree!
Lucky for us the queen passed away at an advanced age!
Right and queen E knew it too.
Yep they all knew it and he is proving them right. Now we know why his mother refused to retire early.
Kaiser, your feelings are right.
There has been rumours of a fling and more between Charles and Bond.
She always has the most negative things to say about Diana; in royal books as a source, in interviews, tabloids, magazines, tvshows’ commentary and also in almost every royal documentary. She is everywhere bashing Diana, since decades. It is Jenny Bond’s life mission. Just Google her name together with Princes Diana and you’re see.
I’m pretty sure there is universal agreement on this point. Hereditary monarchies should not exist anywhere in our world.
Only Charles did not want to marry Camilla in the first place. Charles himself told his biographer he was not interested in marrying her when he first met her. The spin of thwarted love us getting tiresome. If he wanted her.he would have married her then.
This person should keep Diana’s name out of her lying mouth. Am I expected to believe that Diana said that Camilla had been discreet? I noticed the word is not a dire quote. “Some sort of recognition” is in quotes, but there is no context to it. She could have been speaking sarcastically. So, no. This is more gaslighting. And gaslighting the dead is a particularly heinous form.
I hope the royal family knows that if any harm comes to Harry,Meghan, Archie or Lili that they are doomed. They will be tossed out of their palaces, they will hounded, harassed and vilified to the ends of the earth. And if they dare say it’s somehow their own fault – when Charles has taken away their security, blocked them from getting jt back and evicted them from their only safe haven on that god forsaken island – not a one of them will ever have a moments peace.
The tabloids will be destroyed. The people will turn on them and they will all go bankrupt with each of the reporters being pure poison and never working in the field again. Diana’s spirit will be out for blood.
So has it been written. So shall it be be done.
Rottweilers are lovely dogs and dont deserve to be besmirched with this comparison
So this woman had tea with him twice and thinks she knows him better than someone who lived intimately with him? I wonder if Di really ever said anything this woman claims either. Who could prove or disprove whatever she claims? Funny how many people make claims about what she said after she was dead and couldn’t refute them.
Diana is dead and cannot deny bonds claims about what she said. . I doubt Diana praised Camilla. It Seems to me Charles is not doing well as king with camilla at his side. She helped alienate Charles from harry imo.and pushing her own family’s interests.
So now Diana is giving her “blessing “ from the grave? These people have no shame and when it all implodes like it will (see Tucker Carlson) it will be quite the sight to see.
I hope that on some parallel timeline, Diana’s alive and thriving (probably in CA with Harry and Meghan) and YEAH — raising holy hell, as Kaiser said, about this ridiculous coronation and the fact that freakin’ Camilla is now queen. Unfortunately, we’re stuck on this god awful timeline.
Well, she is not wrong. It is a horrible lot, isn’t it? No one properly educated, no one with the right temperament, a zombie institution. Never liked any of them, so I don’t get the interest, they are even less interesting than our royal family, and we have some architects in it :)) Charles, William, Harry – all whiny and pathetic, the wives cringe and try hard. It is time for a nice republic coz they are (a part) of what is rotten on their island.
Charles was mystified by how how he was portrayed in the media? Yes, I’m sure he was just baffled, per usual.
@Jais, I laughed so hard at this comment. Charles is one of the most ridiculous people on the planet.
I can’t help rolling my eyes when anyone suggests that Charles, or any other member of the BRF for that matter, would be happier without their royal responsibilities, just retiring to a country estate, etc. If they wanted to do that, they have all the money and privilege in the world to do so without it turning the world upside down. But they don’t. The truth is that, at their core, they are greedy and selfish and grasping. They enjoy playing this dirty game.
Sadly, I’m not sure that William would be much better. Is that because Diana is gone or because the heir is treated so “specially” that the personality is the natural evolution. Would Diana be okay with who William is today?
I think Diana would be horrified at how will turned out and would not liked kates behavior.
Of all we’ve seen of King Charles starting from the day the Queen died, Diana was right.
And she was correct!
I can only think that Diane would have worked to get William any therapy or training she could have to help William be happier.
She wanted both her boys to be close and happy in their private lives. As most Moms would.
If Di had lived I think both W & H would be different people as adults.
The “star crossed lovers” fable really grinds my gears 🤬. All the Rota, commentators, experts et al know it’s pure PR and gaslighting Chuck’s other mistresses. He’s never been faithful to any bedmate. Dale “Kanga” Tryon was the only woman who understood him – a claim made by Chuck himself.
I like to picture her showing up with a Range Rover full of diapers and clothes to the local baby bank, showing her daughter-in-law how it’s really done.
I’ve always wondered if Cams keeps that feathered atrocity of a hairstyle because it’s reminiscent of Diana’s 80s ‘do…
I will never stop believing that this ratchet trash family had a hand in Diana’s death.
Never.