Having said that I don’t know what the true nature of his marriage to Kate is. Especially if I was 13. The interview led to so many dominoes falling – shortly after the interview aired, Diana and Charles began divorce proceedings and… yeah, everything that came with that and after that. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. The things these people write in these dumb tabloid pieces are often just unfathomably stupid and short-sighted. We heard, at the time, that Prince William was not happy with his mother for giving the interview. Prince William's mother, Princess Diana, called him "Wombat" Georges De Keerle/Getty Images Most know Queen Elizabeth 's grandchild as Prince William, or the Duke of Cambridge, or the future king of England. Prince William and Prince Harry were photographed inside their nursery at Apartments 8 and 9 at Kensington Palace in October 1985. } Yet one has become synonymous with the phrase “incandescent with rage,” while the other is known for his depression and PTSD. The boys looked very happy and enjoying themselves. Giving that interview was protection. Maybe that’s true. . As I keep saying, most of the Princess Diana headlines these days are merely old stories repackaged for a new generation. This whole family is mortifying. Ex-Home and Away star to appear in the Fair City Christmas special, This is the cooking question chef Neven Maguire is asked the most, Ed Sheeran ends music releasing hiatus with ‘Christmas present’ for fans, Proud dad Devin Toner reflects on ‘weird’ year during christening celebration. Diana tried to get out. William is an aristo through and through. Prince William had such a special relationship with his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, that he has committed to being the same kind of warm, hands-on parent she was. But no, I have to read about how Diana ruined everything while poor Charles just didn’t know what to do, poor lamb. Always being angry is a cause for alarm. Princesses aren’t supposed to be people after all. Last night, it was announced that Prince William has welcomed a probe into the now infamous Panorama interview with his mother, Princess Diana. Men are expected to cheat in the upper classes and women are supposed to accept it ( the queen, even Kate get tacit media approval for tolerating cheating). To be 13 in the midst of roiling puberty is difficult enough, but to have your mother air embarrassing family laundry to the world must have been humiliating beyond reckoning. Since when do 13 year olds get a pass to be misogynist? But in this version of events, Kate (Diana) stays, she doesn’t divorce, she doesn’t speak out, and she doesn’t die. Buzz60’s Keri Lumm has more. We can blame William with a lot of thing and I have a lot of names reserved for him, but this sucks. I HATE the bit about Diana playing a “manipulative role” in Windsor politics like that’s some character flaw. Harry was groomed to be fall guy. He would send faxes to his sons to KP. Guilt is a terrible thing to live with. I raised 5 children, two of them boys but my kids would never ever raise their voices to me, leave alone “shoving” me, regardless of how bad I fcuked up, and I did fcuk up quite a few times. William married a superficial person who is praised for her hair and clothes. Still an asshole. Asshole or even narcissist, which explains the rage, the easily wounded temperament, the victim mentality, and self importance. Yeah same. Was Charles expected to chase him and apologize? #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { It’s understandable, she was isolated, her own family was effed-up and she had no good parental models on which to model appropriate boundaries and I’m not saying that Charles was the better parent in any way. ‘He hated the idea of everything being on television,’ related Simmons, ‘and he knew his friends would poke fun at him, which they did. But I think in this case he probably didn’t air his problems in front of the children if only because he probably didn’t have as close a relationship with them. It’s also worth pointing out that they are a lot younger than Charles and Camilla – its not really fair to compare someone’s failings at 72 to someone who is 38. And his mom died only 2 years later. To be fair no 13 year old wants their parents personal confessions of infidelity front page news. For years, Kate has taken her own stunning … The irony is he was never hot by any means. In the immediate wake of the interview, Diana went to Eton to speak to William face-to-face about it. Bashir allegedly lied to the vulnerable princess to clinch the interview for Panorama, in which she famously said: ‘There were three of us in this marriage.’. Prince William talks about losing his mother in new interview about mental health 'You feel pain like no other pain' Olivia Petter @oliviapetter1. William and Harry said they spoke to her about a day or two before she died. As a result, they are all crazy. And so he takes it out on Kate. Or was the rage just reserved gor the female, his mother? Now we wonder why he’s turned against his brother. Prince William and his younger brother, Prince Harry, candidly spoke out about their mother, Princess Diana, in a new documentary about the … Diana also admitted to her affair with Captain James Hewitt during the interview and it was watched by 23 million people and sent shockwaves through the Royal Family. Also, everyone keeps bringing up that Charles did an interview around the time of this one. It’s her responsibility to deal with the trauma she alone just put her child through. They are roiling with hormones, and women are easy targets for their misplaced and misunderstood rage. And Elizabeth hurried away from talking to Diana because she had to feed her dogs! And I do think he made sure that he married someone who would not leave and wouldn’t speak up so that in this War of the (Future) Wales, William can finally win and he can prove to himself that a woman and a mother CAN take this kind of abuse and stay, you can treat your wife this way and she will stay for the children, so his mother DIDN’T have to leave and speak out, abandon him, and die. Diana only thought about the effect the interview would have after she did it: According to Simone Simmons, the Princess’s confidante and faith-healer, it took a phone call from William’s Eton housemaster, Dr Andrew Gailey, to prompt Diana. Her protection officer died suddenly a year or two before and she truly believed the royal family had him killed! I very much separate current William from child William in my mind. He needs therapy that much is obvious. Especially all of this stuff about The Crown, and about Diana’s 1995 BBC interview. He apologised to his mother the next day and presented her with a small bunch of flowers, but Diana sensed that some profound and irretrievable damage had been done. Williams a shit but I’ll bet all of us had times as 4 year olds when we could have been forecast to be the next Atila the Hun. He has become bossy and self entitled as an adult. She produced an heir and a spare and after that she was just emotionally dumped. ‘When I saw her later,’ recalled Simmons, ‘there was a look of hopelessness on her face . William hopes the investigation into Martin Bashir’s interview will help ‘establish the truth’ over the BBC’s decisions at the time. I think that’s the difference between Harry and William. I mean, it goes without saying that a parent should probably ask themselves, “is this publicly televised interview going to irreparably damage my relationship with my child or children?” and/or “is what I’m about to say/do going to hurt my child/children in someway”? The constant rejection and implications that she just didn’t measure up was cruel. However, the human body is the human body, no matter how wealthy the person living in it is. Prince William has NOT accused his father, Prince Charles, of murder nor is he seizing the throne, despite an absolutely bonkers report. William has always been an obstinate, pompous sh*t. I think that is a bit much to say about a 4 year old, regardless of who we know he would grow up to be. That’s why it’s called “politics.” BRF still can’t stand that a woman who was supposed to be powerless and dance to their tune found a way to gain some leverage for herself. Some people might also be upset with William for his reaction….not taking into consideration that he was just 13 years old. The expectations and treatment these boys received not only from within palace walls but also outside of them, was completely different. Because that’s what he was, just a kid. margin: auto; Instead, he’s reading stuff by Laurens Van Der Post, indeed inviting a passel of his highminded intellectual friends. But he’s still raging at father, KP and brother. I’m sure Diana needed to do what she did for her own peace of mind and mental health (and the public did have a right to know how shitty the Windsors were to her), but how incredibly damaging and hurtful for those boys. William, Fergie, her mother, her brother…. float: left; Many men grow out of this to some degree as they gain in maturity, but many do not. Yes, but Wills was boarding there. Even on her D@mn honeymoon, photos of Camilla were falling out of his day planner, he was wearing jewelry WITH HIS AND CAMILLA’S INITIALS INTERTWINED. This to me, this explains part of the reason why he has rage issues. I feel for him too, but i cant help but feel like the interview ended up being sort of good. She probably felt she didn’t have to worry about them trying to shut her up if she just told everybody everything…. Although the central focus of this film was, of course, Diana, it didn't go unnoticed that the boys failed to mention their other parent during the nearly hour-long documentary. He’s withholding and sneaky and manipulative and cares most about getting what he wants and being treated as the future King he thinks he is. No it was a blatant slap in the face! Diana would not have been proud to say the least of William engineering the Flybe stunt to put down his brother. Exactly! Obviously it will be glazed over because of the context of the story, but it’s a subtle observation that his temper was already a major problem by that point (and is clearly still a big issue). And didn’t he pull a towel off of his mother to expose her nakedness because he felt she was flirting? They either use others to express their anger through, or became martyrs. Also Why does he have to smear his brother and SIL in the press? I think it makes him sound surprisingly human. I really think the main thing that protected Harry WAS that he was the spare, so he was less important, and got less attention from BOTH of his parents. So at least we have that. William only care about William. But to see it was unbelievable. Charles (William) gets everything he wants and gets to do everything he wants and gets to be top dog as befitting his status in the RF. Except I don’t see any articles about Harry being a screaming abusive misogynist? What is encouraging, is that he sought out a more “normal” family in the Middletons, who all seem close and warm. Does it excuse William completely? Will is already throwing the “spares” under a bus even as children. It’s normal/common and therapy is always a good thing with the right therapist. I would say pushing your daughter to essentially stalk a man and allegedly purposely taking your daughter’s boyfriend side during fights with your daughter just cause he’s a prince is toxic but to each their own. He is said to have been keeping an eye on the proceedings and ‘believes things are moving in the right direction.’, ‘The BBC has kept him informed appropriately,’ they said. I can imagine Diana feeling shunned, ignored, unwelcomed and gossiped about by the entire clan. Dad? Keeping him at a distance, even from Charles’ grandchildren, and making him “pay” for what he had done to Diana? A moms betrayal feels worse because we lived inside her body and have a literal life connection to her. Gailey told Diana that he found her son slumped on the sofa, his eyes red with tears. Cambridges might be petty but Charles is another level. Does he not think about his own children and how they would react to his actions? Charles interview and book of 1994 were embarrassments. At least it was always described as William was punishing Charles for what happened to his mother. Absolutely. I think many people just want to understand how a person who behaves like William comes into existence and his childhood, coupled with the fact that he has never tried to get better as an adult (as far as we know/can speculate) is a huge part of that. Charles was so horrible. They let the hierarchy of rank determine everything – even private relationships, and the heir/spare dynamic is just so toxic, and it has been really abusive in Harry’s situation with him getting thrown to the wolves of the press for every single misstep while his brother was protected. but did Harry go through the same things as William? All this trauma is most likely unresolved in Will and I can’t imagine what he is really like to be around. I could see him (or anyone similar) shutting down & not knowing where to direct that anger. He was the one that aired the dirty laundry first. William cried watching the interview: Before the 58 minutes ended, William was weeping. Clearly, he was brought up by two narcissists, and then straightjacketed into the Windsor stiff upper lip environment. She had to have known how it would affect William because – as you point out – he just went through that same embarrassment of his father’s interview. Harry and Diana are Mavericks, whilst Willie and Charles remain committed to their aristocratic upbringing. Not an excuse for his behavior, but an explanation. I don’t care how much effort Chuckie made to rehabilitate Camilla’s image, she’ll always be the home wrecker to me. I was so shy and didn’t want anyone to look at me. I got the feeling that Harry was the driving force behind the 20th anniversary of her Diana not William. I have even said on this very post in other comments that William’s childhood does not excuse his actions now. Honestly, I have ZERO memory of that one. Every small child throws tantrums, and teenagers are predictably self-conscious and moody. he started shouting and crying and when she tried to put her arms around him, he shoved her away.’ Diana was getting an unpleasant personal experience of William’s notorious temper. I think kids hold moms to higher standards anyway. It makes me think that William mustn’t of empathised with what Diana actually went though at the hands of Charles and Camilla. Or was raging confined to the female parent? I don’t remember the interview (I’m the same age as William but I’m American so I do remember coverage of the Royals, but probably not to the extent that I would have if I were British), but I could see myself reacting the same way. Or maybe William screamed at his mom from a very young age. Yup! She was expected to accept her husband’s infidelity like water off a duck’s back. "The prince was uncomfortable with the whole thing. I can understand “why” he’s turned out the way he has and yet not excuse his current behavior. Wasn’t Charles’ interview the night of the “revenge dress?” So Diana “upstaged” him yet again and his interview was probably not as well remembered as that dress. He still does it! One gets the impression he thought of Diana as posh Eliza Doolittle that he was going to change into the perfect consort. I wouldn’t the throne life either and since aristo didn’t want that we might be right and in the majority. His childhood absolutely explains his current behavior – not just his parents marriage dissolving the way it did, but being raised as the “future king” and getting special treatment from the family from day one. Prince William said he was “delighted” to follow in his mother’s footsteps as he laid a foundation stone at the country’s largest cancer hospital. Charles apparently was able to stop the program from being run. That age is so hard to begin with, the hormones, etc. Now imagine your mom, the most famous woman in the world, goes on television to discuss how unhappy she was being married to your father for the whole world to see and to reveal intimate details like infidelity. Harry, got therapy, worked on his issues and has grown as a person encompassing the best aspects of each parent. DIana and Charles mistake was coddling William too much. . Carole had no say in George being the only child to get a gift when Attenborough came to call, and the other two not getting anything Awkward. Kate Middleton & Prince William Share Previously Unseen Family Photo with Kids for Mother's Day this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Diana treated William more of a friend and confidante but she actually mothered Harry. William… has not. border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; I think very few 13 yr old boys aren’t misogynist to a degree. 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