Why didnt she like Princess Di?

Its not that she didnt like her....in her day, the Monarchy would not do such a thing. The Queen would never have went public about anything like that.

mhansen2 - What about all the affairs Diana had? Did she want those to be made public as well? At least Charles only had the one...

that's how it tends to goes with the famous. Michael Jackson was the butt of jokes for years, and then he dies... all those jokes are a thing of the past now.

In this country, all Americans deserve equal rights… appletini.

Just shows what vulture AS*HOLES the Press is. Those cyclists all deserved to be imprisoned for murder.

Well-sad, Hayley. The Queen didn't hold a grudge, but she disliked drama, gossip and tried to avoid the personal tangles of Diana and Charles. She was wise.

Only some feel that way, others do not.

Whatever one feels about Diana, and however the Queen felt privately, you have to remember the impressions that formed Elizabeth's personality. She grew up watching her uncle David letting everything about his personal life hang out. The papers in the UK at the time weren't publishing the pictures until late the game, but he had not tried very hard to keep from being photographed in public with Wallace - there had been many pictures in foreign papers. His idea of being incognito was signing into a hotel as the Duke of Lancaster (this is not a joke). Elizabeth's growing years were honed on the monarchy's efforts to recover from the disaster of Edward VIII's abdication and the devasation of WWII.

When Diana died, it had been barely a year into trying to recover from the disaster of Charles and Diana's divorce (not to mention Andrew and Sarah's), and Diana had let her a lot of her personal hang out there too. The Queen had no way to win in this situation anyway; if she had on Day One jumped on the Spencer family's wishes to have a private funeral, she would have been criticsed for taking advantage of Diana's popularity (or notoriety, depending on who you talk to) to stage a pulbic performance to enhance "The Firm"'s reputation. Notice that the Spencer family quickly reversed gears when publicity built and suddenly it became the Royal Family's fault that Diana's funeral was going to be private.

But she did leave it too long, considering the public's reaction to Diana's death. Though as she says in the movie, that's the way she was brought up. To endure grief silently, to subsume your emotions in duty, besides her instinct to insulate her grandsons from exposure that could only have been traumatic to them.

I remember being on Yahoo Chat when this all happened, and people's overwhelming anger and indignation that Diana would not have a state funeral. I thought, Good lord, and tried to explain a few times the she would not have be entitled to a state funeral even if she were still married to Charles! But no one wanted to hear that. I was shocked and upset while waiting for news all that night after the wreck was announced - I was at work at first and people came into the store because they knew we had TV on, came in simply to stand together and wait for news. It was unlike anything we've ever seen or will again. Nobody knew how to react - how could the Queen?

Talk about bias. Charles has grown to be a great man who does a great job in his charities and making things public he feels need to be discussed. He is smart, educated and is now happily married to the love of his life. The two things he did wrong was marry a girl he didn't know and then sleep with a married woman, all things he has remedied. Charles is definitely a son to be proud of; you also seem to forget that Charles had a hand in raising William and Harry and did so alone for half their lives.

I'm not reading your manifesto,keep your damn posts short!

The Queen might not be the warmest woman in the world, but she didn't deserve that type of treatment. I can distinctively remember the summer of 1997. The media was having a field day with Diana. If you want an honest interpretation of how Diana was viewed by the media think about Michael Jackson and Mel Gibson combined - that's pretty much how it was. They were obsessed with her. I can remember a front page story of the National Enquirer (for what its worth) and the title read "Di makes love!" She was in the ocean swimming in a bathing suit and there was a blurry picture of her and Dodi hugging by the looks of it. Strange, the media can never get a clear picture huh?

That was honestly a week before her death. Then I was watching Saturday Night Live when I heard the news broke. Honestly, I swear on my life I thought the news clip of Diana being "hurt" in a car crash was just a bit on SNL. I thought "man they really are going too far with her." Then I realized it was real news. I thought "ah, she probably just stubbed her toe, you know how the media overreacts." Then minutes later............Di is reported dead.

It was a shocking event. A moment that a generation never forgets. I woke up my parents and my sister from bed because this was news that just was THAT big.

But the phony media were at it the second she died. The same clowns who bombarded her and made up lies about her all of the sudden had an epiphany. Everyone wrote nice things about her, making you wonder why they didn't do this in the first place, you know, maybe she wouldn't be dead right now

Exactly, and I can SO clearly see and appreciate both Diana and Elizabeth's points of view and situation. The queen did care about Diana's situation, but hated the poisonous media and what she knew they'd do with it.