As they waved to the crowds on their wedding day, Prince Charles and Princess Diana looked the picture of happiness. With hindsight, we know the reality was anything but.
Various sources have offered insight into Diana’s thoughts on the matter, including author Andrew Morton’s biography Diana: Her True Story (revealed later to have been written with her cooperation) which shocked when it was first published in 1992, and again when it was republished after her death in 1997 with further information from the pair’s exchanges.
Now in an extract from the updated version marking the book’s 25th anniversary, full transcripts of Princess Diana’s tapes reveal even more detail – and paint an even bleaker picture.
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Borderline personality disorder. It's screamingly obvious. This is not meant as a criticism - more an acknowledgement of how much more complex the situation was.
Ridiculous. Absolutely nothing like it at all.
Agreed
There was no signs of any personality disorder UNTIL she married Charles! So it is clearly not that. It was simply stress.
Armchair diagnosis? How about a girl, without a mother, caught up in the toxic royal British establishment, no one on her side or in her corner, and a husband focused on his secret mistress? While in the spotlight and expected to follow behavioural protocol? Bulimia is a classic behaviour when a person is in emotional turmoil and external chaos, and self-harm to deal with unexpressed emotion. I think it was the pressure of an external situation on a fragile, lonely frightened girl who didn't even a mother or sister she could turn to and trust.