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Originally Posted by rusticgal
I think you are just generalising too much. Diana was a very compassionate person...its why she was called the Peoples Princess. People related to her for her compassion and natural behaviour...how she interacted with her children in front of the camera..she was just a natural and caring woman and they adored her. You never saw or witnessed or heard of any pomp or aristocratic behaviour from her.
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All I mean is that as part of the aristocracy (and even in her latter, more sceptical days, not someone who rebelled against the concept of aristocracy) she didn't counter the "Royal Idea" (which is at it's core, that some people are born special/have a special bloodline).
That's a heavily loaded idea and one that can't possibly have "no effect" on young people growing up in that environment, it's a superiority complex by definition, if there's nothing superior about "Royal Blood" then there is no Monarchy. Charles, William, Harry, et al. are all fundamentally raised with that belief system... it will have an effect, and one of those effects is likely to be a feeling of "automatic authority". That attitude - when encountered by anyone who isn't deferent and doesn't buy into the whole thing - is going to come off as "bullying".