Ponderings On Patterns...

This came out on Sunday the 28th before the announcement on Monday today that James Holt was resigning from Archewell.

It’s a bit of a long read but quite informative as Harry Markle’s blog has a forensic accountant look into the recent changes at Archewell with the available public information and also comments on the Sussexes annual xmas photo, being at the One Big Kitchen and Meredith Maines’s recent resignation.

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Hi TeaWithBooks,

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Hi Celta, I realize 2ndhandcoke is not everyone’s cup of tea for royal gossip. But it is online gossip that’s out there on the internet and with everything going on with you lately, I figure you might enjoy reading a bit of online gossip despite regardless of who posted this tea online. In the meantime, please take care. :)

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April 23 Ask

Hi TeaWithBooks,

I never forget. Not ever.

In my opinion, there are 3 ways to view that interview

1. She was a victim by the royal family and she exposed the royal family (which is the popular view among young people maybe, The Crown fans, Sussex squad, Hollywood…)

2. She knew Bashir lied to her but did the interview anyway out of malice and hunger for power and vengeance, because she just wanted Charles out and William on the throne as soon as possible like some Cersei Lannister figure (I see this view from Charles & Camilla stans. To a lesser degree, maybe William stans too)

3. She was a complete victim by Bashir. She was taken advantage of by Bashir and she wouldn’t have done the interview if she knew the truth. (William himself is probably the only one who believes this)

Or maybe all 3 combined?

From my own research, I think there were two issues working against Diana that enabled her for Panorama.

First, she had great expectations for her marriage and her in-laws that ran opposite to the expectations of the BRF. I feel like Diana's expectations were based on the opposite of her childhood - she grew up lonely, unhappy, stuck, rejected and she wanted her relationships to be loving, present, and included, but Charles and the BRF wanted someone to fit in, go with the flow, do what she was told. Diana wanted the BRF to meet her expectations, the BRF wanted Diana to meet theirs, and there was no room for compromise. This is an environment ripe for resentment and paranoia - resentment that her reality doesn't match up to expectations or fantasy and paranoia that others resent her too in the same way.

Second, Diana was in a marriage with a man who didn't love her the way she wanted because he was in love with another woman and a lot of people (friends, family, staff, press) were helping him be with her behind Diana's back. That is also an environment ripe for paranoia.

And ultimately that's what happened to Diana. High (maybe unrealistic) expectations of her marriage and her in-laws collided with the collapse of her marriage and she didn't know who to trust. Who knew about Camilla? Who helped Charles get with Camilla? Is Camilla better? Did her in-laws like Camilla better? Did her in-laws hate her because she wasn't their idea of Charles's wife? Were people gossiping about her being the wrong kind of wife? Did they think she was raising William inappropriately? So on and so on.

From everything I've read, these feelings and attitudes of Diana and the BRF were not a secret. Given Charles's and Diana's close connections to the press, there were many in the press who were aware of Diana's resentment and Diana's paranoia of how she was being treated by the BRF. While I don't believe Martin Basheer was part of that press who knew, I think Basheer was aware of it and he made a huge gamble on how deep Diana's paranoia ran. He created fake evidence that preyed on her paranoia to get her committment to the interview, which she fully and completely believed to be true - I believe the BBC, William, and Charles Spencer are absolutely correct that if not presented with this fake evidence, Diana likely wouldn't have done that specific interview.

But that said, I believe Diana had so much resentment against Charles, Camilla, the grey suits, and parts of the BRF that she would've done interviews regardless. After all, she worked with Andrew Morton in 1991. She likely would have done it again because the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior*; if she did it once, she'd do it again. She just needed to be pushed far enough to react. Unfortunately, Martin Basheer's fake evidence that targeted her paranoia did it. Without him, I think Diana would've kept mum until Charles and Camilla made their relationship public; I feel like she would've clapped back to their 'happy couple' PR with her version of an Oprah tell-all but I don't believe it would have been the same kind of watershed moment that Panorama was. I think public reaction would have been similar to the Morton book, since I think one of the reasons that Panorama took on a life of its own was precisely because of Diana's tragic young death.