There’s still no love lost between members of the British Royal Family and the late, publicly beloved Princess Diana.
In Vanity Fair, Lady Pamela Hicks — first cousin to Prince Philip and a member of Queen Elizabeth II’s 1947 bridal party — sniffs of Diana: “She had enormous charisma, she was beautiful, she was very good at empathy with the general crowd . . . and she had no feeling at all for her husband or his family.”
The mother of design maven India Hicks (a bridesmaid at Diana and Prince Charles’ wedding) then sinks the knife deeper, adding, “She was really spiteful, really unkind to him — and, my God, he’s a man who needs support and encouragement. [The marriage] absolutely destroyed him. He looked grey and ghost-like. Now of course he’s blossomed again.”
Hicks adds Diana “made everybody believe she’d been thrown to the wolves. Such nonsense! She was given the Queen’s favorite lady-in-waiting . . . to help her. But she didn’t want to be told anything. Instead, she wanted to listen to her music and go disco-ing or to some jive concert.”