Word: diana
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Revenge is supposed to be a dish best eaten cold. Unfortunately for England's royal family, Princess Diana doesn't seem to mind having a scalded--or scalding--tongue...
...tell-all television interview that had the British as well as their Americans cousins waiting with bated breath this last week, Diana discussed private issues such as her bulimia, her infidelity, and her thoughts on what she once referred to as "this f--ing family." While this may have won her the support of the public, Diana's motives and methods reveal her to be hardly a victim of the system. Her public reception highlights a society where sympathy increasingly goes to squealers...
...someone who claimed she "never encouraged the media," we can only assume, then, that Diana was tricked into giving this blockbuster television interview, and must have been surprised to find herself in front of BBC reporter Martin Bashir, the guest star on what turned into "The Martin Bashir Show," with more than 21.5 million British citizens in the audience...
Even more of a turn-off than this utter irony in her method of dealing with the situation between herself and the royal family were her motives and the calculation behind them. Referring to friends of Prince Charles as "the enemy," Diana appeared to be in the midst of some sort of military campaign in which the key was, in her own words, to "always confuse the enemy." For someone trying to start a war within her family and already spouting her attack strategy, she hardly seems the victim that 72 percent of the British in a recent MORI poll...
Perhaps it seems like she is always the victim because she so often refuses to take action. According to this week's Newsweek, Diana was careful in 1992 to make sure that it was the Prince and not herself to move for a separation. She does the same again in her interview, refusing, despite all that she reveals, to ask for a divorce and strategically placing the burden of action in Charles' hands. Whatever he does, she can again appear acted upon, and again play the victim...