By Lucy Caulkett
Tony Blair presented a compassionate Queen to the nation in an interesting and moving documentary about princess Diana’s death.
In the documentary, Diana 7 days, the former prime minister expressed his sadness and like for princess Diana. Blair was the Uk’s prime minister in 1997 when princess Diana died, and told the BBC documentary that about his meeting with the Queen shortly after her death.
The 64 year old former leader Blair said that the Queen was “obviously very sad” about Diana’s death, and concerned about the impact it would have on Prince William and Harry.
He said: “I mean she [the Queen] was obviously most worried I think about the impact on the boys.
“She was obviously very sad about Diana,” he said. Blair’s comments that the Queen was concerned about how public opinion about her may be affected by Diana’s death, and the impact her death may have on the children, shows the Queen to have been very worried about the late princess’s passing and how it could affect the children and the monarchy. The documentary which was filmed before the recent Channel 4 documentary about Diana’s secret tape by her speech coach does not address Diana’s recorded account of the Royal family not being ”a loving or compassionate one” or Diana’s leaked tape that the Queen once told her in response to her search for help about her failing marriage to Prince Charles, that Prince Charles was useless.
If Diana felt unloved by the Royal family, it was because she did not feel enough support or guidance in relation to solving her failed marriage. Some members of the Royal family may have felt powerless to do anything about it, depending on their understanding of Prince Charles’s love for Camilla and the irreversible state of the damaged marriage. in their views. However, Blair’s account of his meeting with the Queen reveals a sadness at the death. The Queen would definitely not have wanted her dead because of the obvious and unavoidable impact it could have on the Monarchy by many segments of society. The queen also loved her grandchildren and would not have wished them to be without a mother.
Describing Diana as an extraordinary iconic figure , Blair recalled when he heard the news of Diana’s death.
“I was woken by the policeman… he was standing at the foot of the bed.
“It was an extraordinary shock because i knew her, I liked her a lot.
“She was an extraordinarily iconic figure – it’s hard to comprehend the degree to which she was the most famous person in the world.”
“Today, we see Prince William and Prince Harry as people that people feel a close connection with – they speak like normal people, they act like normal people – people don’t find them hard to relate to.
“It’s important to wind back 20 years and realise she was the first member of the Royal family who people really felt behaved and acted like a normal d that the Queen was “obviously very sad” about Diana’s death, and concerned about the impact it would have on Prince William and Harry.
He said: “I mean she [the Queen] was obviously most worried I think about the impact on the boys.
“She was obviously very sad about Diana,” he said.
Ever since leaked tapes about Diana’s communication with her speech coach and the late singer, George Michaels, public opinion about the Royal family has taking a bit of backward turn. Diana was well loved by the British public, and her revealed words of isolation has made it almost impossible for the British public to ever accept Camilla as their Queen.
A queen doesn’t wreck marriages, most people will rightly say, but there is nothing in recent leaks to suggest that the Queen who heads the Monarchy was happy about Diana’s marriage break up with Prince Charles. It is logical to assume that the marriage break up was Charles’s decision all along, obviously influenced by his love for Camilla. We know little about what the felt knew about the history and power of Charles love for Camilla , but it is unthinkable that the Queen would have been happy to that the mothe rof her grandchildren was dead. The Queen’s concern about public opinion about the Monarchy and the imapact of Diana’s death on the two young boys presents a compassionate and sad Queen about Diana’s death.
It leaves many questions unanswered in terms of why prince Charles marriage with Diana really broke up, but gives the strong impression that the Queen was visibly depressed about Diana’s sudden passing and the aftermath it could have.A queen who expressed such intimate concerns would definitely not have wanted Diana dead.
Ever since Diana’s death, Harrod’s boss, Mohammed Al Fayed, has always insisted that his son Dodi-Al Fayed was killed by the M15 in a bid to prevent a planned marriage between Diana and Dodi Fayed. No concrete evidence of a marriage plan has ever been revealed, and some of Diana’s surviving friends have even categorically said that Diana had no intentions to marry Dodi. Diana’s death was like a unique fairy tale of of a princess who married a prince but lost him to another woman, only to then tragically die in paris after an intense car chase by the papparazzi.