Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "Diana, Princess of Wales | Mental Health u0026 Personality" video.

During the time the Princess of Wales was still living I had two pen pals in England. One of them, male, said the royal family used Diana as "a brood mare". When the Princess died and there was a huge reaction of grief from the public (a phenomenon worthy of discussion) my other pen pal, female, said something like, "I don't know why I'm crying so much for someone I didn't even know". It's was mentioned by someone else a long time ago that when the engagement of Charles and Diana there were two photographs of them in the media but taken separately and it happened that Diana and Charles were each holding a book when photographed. Diana was holding a paperback romance by Barbara Cartland who I think was her step-grandmother while Charles was holding a scholarly book on eastern religion. Some people might take their disparate choice of reading material as an indicator that Diana and Charles were not suited to one another.
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In all the sorrow of the story of the Princess of Wales I've always remembered one somewhat comical situation. The Princess had been seen going to a man's apartment and people were thinking they were having an affair. To use the words of someone, maybe a journalist, who talked about this on TV, Diana was "a demon bridge player" and was just going to a friend's place to play cards!
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@wendyleeconnelly2939 I can believe that. If someone were to see the mix of books I have they might think three people were living in my space or that I was a multiple personality!
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@mrsdrhux The Princess and I were born only two months apart so, in a way, we were contemporaries. I'm in the U.S., had that day moved into a new place and a family member called in the evening and told me that Diana had been in that awful crash. The next morning before we were to meet, my family member called and asked immediately, "Have your heard?" I replied, "She didn't make it, did she?" Even here in the U.S. the Princess of Wales was held in high esteem. Around the time Diana left Charles, a co-worker of mine said of the Princess, "I admire her more each day".
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@sarahpiaggio2693 That's an excellent point! My own reading became more serious over the years and Diana probably had the same experience of moving beyond what interested her at 19.
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