I'm feeling a tad more sympathy or Diana... She was not perfect - who is? - but she was the one who had to endure the hardships, she was young and naive when she married... She had her doubts, was persuaded to go on with it and in the end she could not deal with the royal enviroment... And the Royal Family did not understand that, let alone her husbad, as they were living by rules set up ages ago... Having a mistress was seen as 'correct', as it used to be in the upper classes up to probably halfway through the last century. Diana was the first to openly stand up to it and that is one of the reasons why she is admired. Ofcourse she was manipulative when it comes to the press, using them for her own goals and she could simply drop out a friend who had made the mistake of spreading a story about her, among others, but does all that matter when she in fact was one of the few Royals who emphasize on the need for help and who do not only see it as duty... I can only name a few, who openly made a plea to change things and not did charity out of duty, to me that is the difference.... Usually charity was done in private, for the poor and suffering, all Royals did and do that... But look at Alexandra and her sister... They both did charity, but Ella sort of wen 'openly' by starting her convent and doing good works there, Alix trained as a nurse, organized Charity at Yalta and such, but she did not do it publicly - besides Yalta, which sort of was Public Charity. Had she done that she would probably been much more popular, but she never overcame her shyness. That is what Diana did. Also, one must remember that dying young often gives someone more 'following' because of the tragedy and sadness.
