Even decades after the tragic death of Princess Diana († 36) there are new interesting facts about her life in the royal family. This time, another revelation was brought by her biographer Andrew Morton, who revealed that she hated spending Christmas at Sandringham with the royal family. According to him, these festive moments were full of tension, formality and a feeling of isolation, which hurt herreports the magazine.
The royal family traditionally gathers during the Christmas holidays at the Sandrigham mansion, which is located in Norfolk, England. Diana spent her first Christmas in this place in 1981five months after she married the heir to the British throne, now King Charles III. Despite the morning sickness brought on by her pregnancy with Prince William, she took the trouble to choose thoughtful and luxurious gifts for each member.
On Christmas Day, she got a nasty surprise as she found out that they usually only give each other gifts for fun. This led to a situation where she gave her sister-in-law, Princess Anne, a cashmere sweater and received a toilet paper holder in return. The Princess of Wales was later to admit to Morton that it was very tense.
She also described her feelings, which were not exactly positive. “I know what I donated, but I don’t remember receiving anything. Isn’t that terrible? I buy all the presents and Charles just signs the cards. It was scary and very disappointing. No rowdy behavior, lots of tension, silly jokes that “regular people” would find weird, but insiders would understand.” she should have confided in him on the phone. “I was definitely an outsider,” added.
She admitted to her hairdresser, Richard Dalton, that the cold atmosphere of the mansion bothered her. The official program started at 3:00 p.m., when they had to watch Queen Elizabeth II’s Christmas speech together. († 96) on television, which, according to her, was a mandatory performance on order. Even though she was surrounded by people, she experienced feelings of loneliness and abandonment.
Over the years, it was during the Christmas holidays that she had to communicate with her friend Tina Brown about divorcing her husband. 1991 marked the last Christmas that Diana spent with the royal family. On December 9, 1992, the famous couple officially separated, and the mother of two had to spend the holidays without her sons for the first time.
The princess, also known as Lady Di, died on August 31, 1997 in a tragic car accident in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris. The accident happened shortly after midnight when he and his partner Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul were trying to escape the pursuit of the paparazzi. Their vehicle crashed into a tunnel pillar at high speed. Both men died at the scene, while the famous monarch suffered serious injuries and died shortly after being taken to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.
