Princess Diana ‘regretted marrying into German family’

Diana, Princess of Wales regretted marrying into a “German family”, according to Anthony Julius, her divorce lawyer.

Mr Julius said the Princess made the comment to express her empathy with him as a Jew. The claim is made in the lawyer’s new book about anti-Semitism.

He writes: “She was interested in Jews but had no idea about them, save that Jewish men (she had heard) were more likely than the men of her own class and background to treat women decently. She was happy to take Jews to be hostile to everything to which she herself was hostile. She once said to me that she should never have married into a German family.”

via Princess Diana ‘regretted marrying into German family’ – Telegraph.

Splendid, splendid stuff from the Torygraph, published on Sunday and I really don’t know how I can have missed it, unless it was because of a hangover, or something interesting on TV, or because I took an afternoon nap. Anyway, it contains many of the vital ingredients for a keynote Torygraph article. Princess Diana, without whom, for many a ‘Sloane Ranger’, life has never quite been the same. (Sloane rangers, also known as Hooray Henrys {and Henriettas} are the posh kids who live within popping Champagne cork distance of Sloane Square, Knightsbridge). Better still, it features Diana, stirring up controversy from the grave, with a barbed comment about, you-guessed-it, the British Royal Family. Finally, the coup de grace, a little bit of anti-German prejudice, based on HMTQ (Her Majesty the Queen’s) German lineage. The Windsors you see, were originally the Saxe-Coburg Gothas, though the name was changed during World War One, as George V obviously felt the Germanic surname wasn’t quite ‘on message’ enough for a nation engaged in total war with the Bosch. The Telegraph at its best, or worst, depending on which school you did or didn’t attend.