Royal Expert Penny Junor revealed how Queen Elizabeth II defended her popularity during the peak of the Princess Diana mania. The Queen shared how well she was loved in her youth.
The expert said in her book "The Firm" that Princess Diana's fame was phenomenal. She is always welcomed by a cheering crowd wherever she goes. She was adored because of her beauty and irresistible charisma. The British people adored her when she married Prince Charles.
According to the Queen, Diana's fame is behind her popularity and Princess Margaret when during their youth. Junor said a courtier told the Queen in a conversation that when the mania over Diana was at its height, they have never seen anything like the publicity Charles and Diana are having. The Queen replied that courtier was not around several years ago when she and Margaret were having their future husbands talent-spotted for them.
The Queen made a comparison of the width, breadth, and depth of the media during her time and that of Diana. The Queen bragged that hers was just as great, if not greater. She said that her suitors lined up to meet her almost every day.
The royal expert said that she would not argue the words of the Queen because turned out in their thousands not just in Britain but in the courtiers she visited all over the world to see Princess Elizabeth and cheer her. Junor added that monarchy at that time was revered in a way that the youth of today would find incomprehensible.
Insiders from the royal family said that Queen Elizabeth and the Princess of Wales had a very complicated relationship. Princess Diana asked for the Queen's help to save her marriage before the divorce with Prince Charles happened.
Andrew Morton, author of the book "Diana: In Her Own Words" revealed that the Queen was less sympathetic to Diana when she spoke to her about the marriage. The Princess told the author that when she went to talk to Queen, she said that she doesn't know what to do.
Despite minor misunderstandings, the Queen still believes that Diana is perfect for Charles. Sarah Bradford, a royal biographer, said that the Queen and Prince Philip believed that she would make a perfect wife for her son because she was virgin, educated, and aristocratic.
Junor, however, said that at 19, Diana was little more than a child when she first arrived, totally unprepared for the life that lay ahead and completely out of her depth.
