When Diana was born, on July 1, 1961, her parents’ marriage was already unstable. Her parents, John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and Frances Spencer were expecting a boy and were very disappointed when Diana was born. They split up when she was seven years old, and John Spencer was granted custody of all his children, so Diana was ripped from her mother.
When Princess of Wales was 11 years old, her father started a relationship with Raine, Countess of Dartmouth. Soon after, in 1967 they got married. Even though Raine was loved in society, Diana thought of her as a bully. She and her siblings even sang to her “rain rain go away”. However, a royal biographer Ingrid Seward said that all John’s children behaved badly to Raine, but she wasn’t that bad. Things really got bad one time that Diana even pushed her down the stairs.
Did Diana ever reconcile with Countess Spencer?
After she separated from Prince Charles, Diana reached out to Countess Raine, and they even became close confidants. Most of Diana’s previous hatred towards her stepmother was just her childish behavior and the fact that she thought she was a treat to her mother.
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What did Princess Diana’s relationship with her mother look like?
Even though she wasn’t fond of her stepmother, Diana also resented her mother. The divorce itself was a very painful experience for her. Meanwhile, her mother remarried and moved far away from her kids. Their relationship was never in the right place, and Frances even called her daughter a “whore” for dating a Muslim man. They didn’t speak months before the tragic accident in which she and Dodi Fayed died.
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Source: cheatsheet.com
