Was Princess Diana a clever pupil at school geography lessons if she confused a Greek family with a German one?
February 42010
Princess Diana said she "should never have married into a German family" during her divorce from Prince Charles, her lawyer said in book extracts published by a newspaper on Sunday.
I’ll wager she was often the one standing at the back of the class with a pointy hat (upon which the letter D is clearly visible) on her head. But let us be fair Mr Churchill, she got it partly right. German, Greek/Danish. I would award her 50%, which was a pass when I went to school. But never-the-less, indeed she was, a dill.
February 4th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
No surprise. Have read that she was pretty thick.
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February 4th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Notoriously, although she was sent to an expensive private school, Lady Diana Spencer failed all her O-Levels (state examinations sat at the age 15/16) twice. Academically, she was as thick as two short planks; at school the only things she excelled at were swimming and guinea-pig keeping.
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February 4th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Diana was only ever a "womb for hire". She was thicker than a submarine door. Any woman who would marry in to that lot must be a bit dim. She failed all her exams and worked in a nursery when she was engaged to Chas Windsor.
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February 4th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
All knocks aside, I’m sure Diana needed a warmer partner than Prince Charles, and certainly someone loyal. To be fair, neither suited the other. A poorly matched couple to be sure. How horrible it must be to live under a microscope. I think both were good parents in their own way. They have two sons of whom they can be proud.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone marrying into any family with a German strain. They are a cold-hearted people, lacking in any warmth of any kind, harsh, and often cruel and ugly.
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February 4th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Battenburg. Can’t get much more German than that unless it’s Hitler. While she wasn’t book smart, she was shrewdly people smart. Who cares. She was a fabulous mother and a great wife, tolerating Charles 5 minutes longer than any other woman would have, including that howling coyote hound he’s married to currently. Now that is dumb.
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February 4th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Unfortunately, Diana wasn’t a clever pupil at anything except dressing well and self-promotion.
If she confused Greek with German, it is because she probably couldn’t read very well and saw that both words begin with the word "G" and assumed that they were the same word.
The poor thing even was unable to complete the courses in Finishing School, much less master school geography lessons.
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February 4th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
the greek royal family is danish
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February 4th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
I’ll wager she was often the one standing at the back of the class with a pointy hat (upon which the letter D is clearly visible) on her head. But let us be fair Mr Churchill, she got it partly right. German, Greek/Danish. I would award her 50%, which was a pass when I went to school. But never-the-less, indeed she was, a dill.
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February 4th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Your entire question is confusing.
(1) Princess Diana has never existed. During her marriage she was ONLY EVER HRH The Princess of Wales and on her divorce became STYLED (not titled) Diana, Princess of Wales. Princess Diana was an incorrect reference throughout her marriage and subsequent divorce as she was not a Princess of the blood Royal e.g. Princess Camilla? Princess Sarah? Princess Sophie?
(2) Diana, Princess of Wales never married into a German family. All current members of the Royal family are English. Queen Elizabeth II was born in England, as were her parents, a pair of her Grandparents were English and her maternal grandparents were Scottish, her Great Grandparents were mixed e.g. Edward VII was English and Queen Alexandra was Danish, Queen Mary’s father was a Prince of Teck but was born in Croatia and it is only with her mother Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge that the German influence really takes place and she died 113 years ago in 1897. The only German in the family before that was Prince Albert and he died in 1861 and Queen Victoria was English.
(3) The only real mistake that Diana, Princess of Wales made in terms of historical inaccuracies was when she referred to herself as being ”King Mother” instead of the Queen Mother when her son succeeded to the throne (this was said before her divorce from the Prince of Wales). Queen implies (a former Queen Consort and wife of a previously reigning monarch) and Mother implies her relation to the current Monarch. Thus King Mother would imply that she was previously a King Consort who was now the Mother of the reigning monarch (which is a serious contradiction in itself). Such a title would be simply impossible.
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February 4th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
no, she is correct. The british royal family is really german. Saxe-coburg-gotha…hello?
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February 4th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Lady Diana Spencer was not a clever pupil. She was regarded as a poor student when she failed ALL of her 0-levels twice! And she attended Silfield School Lynn, and Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk (England.) And West Health Girls’ School in Seven oaks, Kent (which I think is still in England.)
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February 4th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Phillip Mountbatton is Queen Elizabeths’ husband. He is of German descent twice over ( of von Hessen-Darmstadt and von Battenberg). The family changed the name to "Mountbatten" during WW1, when the UK and England was markedly anti-German, to show that they were fully supporting the English. He was born a prince of Greece and Denmark, that is true, but the family is a German one (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg).
Queen Elisabeths’ Grandmother was a "von Teck", who descended from the German royal families of Habsburg, Wittelsbach, Würtemberg and von Hessen-Kassel.
the Queens other ancestors are either British, from Denmark, or from the German house of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha.
So, I think "princess" Diana was rather right, saying that she had married into a German family.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_II.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Mountbatten,_Herzog_von_Edinburgh