Prince Philip Threatens Diana | Fav Scenes

This is my favourite scene from The Crown.
It points to the essential rationale for why the royal family might not just want, but *need*, Diana to die.
My article The Conspiracy Theory of Hearts: This Valentine's Day, I STILL Reckon They Killed Diana! is here: open.substack.com/pub/drmatta...
You know the worst reported news story, ever? It’s when the Queen privately told Princess Diana’s butler in 2002 to “be careful” because there are “there are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge”.
All the papers were like, ooohh, what are these “dark forces”? Who could the Queen possibly mean??
The reason the Queen spoke to the butler in the first place was that she had just personally secured his acquittal just prior to trial for theft of Diana’s belongings.
I hate to ruin our image of the nice old lady who ran our country since 1952 but, come on - the only dark forces the Queen could have possibly been referring to are her own.
The butler knew the meeting was heavily coded, too: "She fixed me with her eye and made sure I knew she was being deadly serious. … I told Her Majesty I intended to protect the princess's world and keep safe her secrets. The Queen responded by nodding her approval and smiling," he told the press.
Had she lived, Diana would have set up a rival court with a strong claim to the throne. Even if the charges of her being about to marry a Muslim, her alleged pregnancy, and her opposition to the arms industry are all exaggerated, Diana was undeniably hated, isolated and vulnerable. Plus it’s a well-accepted fact that the fortunes of the Royal Family improved tremendously as soon as she died.
All those public inquiries answered a million questions about the Diana mythology but that is not the best way to prove or disprove a conspiracy. You have to home in on the best evidence and falsify wherever possible.
Key aspects of the apparent cover-up and alternative narrative have simple explanations and might reasonably be treated as red herrings. The ten cameras along the car’s route that one might have thought would shed light on what happened were all turned off but these were mostly private security cameras and it’s not clear that they would have helped prove criminal activity. Hospital staff embalmed Diana on just the verbal authority from the police due to time pressures to prepare the body for viewing by the French President, not necessarily to conceal any evidence. Nor was the very slow ambulance trip necessarily dodgy - the ambulance departed the crash scene at 1:41am, about an hour after the crash was reported to emergency services, and arrived at the hospital at 2:06am. This did involve suspicious stops but allegedly these were due to Diana’s heart attacks and drops in blood pressure, in line with French rules, and although they did pass a hospital (Hôtel-Dieu) this was because it was not equipped to deal with the injuries Diana had sustained. Maybe that “accidents can happen” phone call from Nicholas Soames was just a friendly warning about landmines. But even so…
But nonetheless Diana’s car could have been deliberately nudged off the road by a white Fiat Uno (paintwork was found) and/or by other intimidation and distraction (some have suggested a strobe light to blind the driver).
Numerous publications claimed that the Uno belonged to Le Van Thanh but he always refused to talk. Thanh's father said his son had re-sprayed his car hours after the crash, allegedly waking up his brother in the night to help him. He matched witness descriptions and was physically able to be at the scene. There is nothing to indicate illicit intent but even so…
The leading conspiracy researcher on Diana, John Morgan thought that the Uno driver was actually a shifty paparazzi photographer James Andanson, who bragged to friends he was in the tunnel when Diana crashed. Investigators used receipts, forensics and witnesses to demonstrate Andanson was miles away from Diana that night (which Morgan disputes) and the Uno he owned was not compatible with the scrape on the Merc or roadworthy at the time. However, Andanson’s role was intriguing, especially as he wound up in dead in a remote forest in Southern France). Suicide - he had talked about it - but even so…
Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson fed claims of MI6 using techniques like strobe lights in assassinations overseas, which spy chiefs later claimed were only formed at a low level and never implemented. Three eyewitnesses at the crash scene claimed to see a bright flash of light. François Levistre made a clear, specific claim that he saw a bright flash, but his statements were in conflict...
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[@bogdancristea9270]

He was right in a way, but it's difficult to live a life like that when you're in your late 20s / early 30s, as Diana was here: those are the best years of your life, and you deserve to be happy, to love and to be loved back with the same intensity. But, even if she had decided to stay, Charles would have found a way to get rid of her eventually: he detested her passionately because she was what he perceived as the only impediment in his way to happiness with his mistress (in his deranged mind, he imagined the family and the country would welcome the mistress with open arms). In fact, when Diana accepted to give it one more try, he was desperate as he was already hoping for a divorce, so when she told the Queen "OK, let's try again", he went nuts and started to really hate her and be nasty to her (with her being nasty to him in return). This marriage should never have happened in the first place.

[@TheMouse-gc9ft]

Man this scene really captures the biggest weakness of the monarchy on the family… how can the family grow and mature when they must stay behind aging, inflexible, and frankly less than educated leaders?

[@eddytriana8060]

Diana mouth was big and she mixing with people like a third world candidate to president

[@glen7318]

what are you on about?

[@DenaInWyo]

To me, this scene captures the complete dissonance and disconnect the VERY young Princess Diana had from the reality of what she was getting into from the fantasy and romance of what she THOUGHT she was getting into. So many fingers can be pointed, but at the end of the day, it was just a tragically unfortunate situation that all parties could have prevented and didn't. Princess Diana's generation was not the same as the generation Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth came from. Of course they didn't understand each other. Queen Elizabeth was the bridge from the last of the true monarchy to the modern day one, and it wasn't a perfect transition.

[@theprelate4219]

England does not want a real King. The alternative is the weak and corrupt house of Tudor. A real king would dismantle the BBC, crack down of Islamic extremism and ban wokeness.

[@ritahorvath8207]

. this is f i c t i o n . .

[@Kian2002]

Princess Diana's family was descended directly from the House of Stewart and by extension to the Tudor and Plantagenet lines; her son, when he ascends the throne, will be the first truly British Sovereign since Queen Anne died in 1714.

[@rogerfielding1117]

You forget the German /Danish bloodline from Prince Phillip

[@sandrostrmecki1919]

@@rogerfielding1117 He is hes grandpa

[@Kian2002]

Which probably doubles the likelihood of a connection to King Canute through the Royal House of Denmark?

[@glen7318]

@@rogerfielding1117 and Diana's american blood

[@robertisham5279]

​@@rogerfielding1117What about it?

[@caz3502]

God, this actor is so charismatic

[@AndNowLadiesandGents]

...they really did/do believe in that crap..worrying, isn't it???

[@brendaflower7790]

Diana was quite simply of the right pedigree.Her lineage went way back.Charles was prevailed upon to marry her .

[@tessdurberville711]

The Spencers were glorified sheep farmers. "Glorified" by female members of the family being Royal Mistresses of Charles II and giving birth to his bastards. Diana was descended from not one, but two illegitimate children of King Charles II of England: Henry Fitzroy and Charles Lennox, via two of her great-grandmothers, Adelaide Seymour and Rosalind Bingham. Queen Camilla shares this same lineage, for those who love to put Diana on a pedestal, while looking down their noses at Queen Camilla.

[@glen7318]

rubbish

[@brendaflower7790]

@@glen7318 Quite rude,why rubbish? Charles was in love with Camilla long before he met Diana but she was considered unsuitable .Charles was sent off to the navy but when he returned he resumed his affair with Camilla regardless of her being married to Parker-Bowles and carried on before,during and after marriage to Diana.Read the history.

[@mariaw.4780]

Diana truly did think it was all about her.

[@ebonylady]

Well, every 20 year old has that point of view.

[@thehair1474]

Philip didn't threaten her. He told her how it was, and how it did end.

[@DrMatthewAlford]

part of the reason it is excellent dialogue yeh.

[@thehair1474]

​@@DrMatthewAlford and the superb acting. And, Philip was right, it did not end well for Diana.

[@tessdurberville711]

​@@thehair1474 Because she was self-destructive and had the common sense of a gnat.

[@thehair1474]

@@tessdurberville711 Diana also said she had the brain of a pea, and was proud of it. Harry is just like his mother. And Wills is like his father...thank God.

[@ebonylady]

​@@thehair1474Thank God for what? Burning thru taxpayer money while doing nothing. There's no need for a monarchy.

[@catlee8064]

Ppl seem to think this TV series is actually what happened....

[@DrMatthewAlford]

It’s pretty well researched tbf

[@MHurtado09]

​@@DrMatthewAlfordResearched, not adapted.

[@antmagor]

No, that’s what the shows “critics” seem to think. Hence how every work of historical fiction (emphasis on the F word there) that has come out in recent years has constituted some sort of effort to rewrite history. What gets me to know end is how those same people then turn around and defend sound of freedom. Even though that movie was a complete fabrication.

[@DrMatthewAlford]

Do you have examples in mind?

[@catlee8064]

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[@irawilliams343]

The title is so erroneous. Prince Philip wasn't threatening Diana but offering her some advice.

[@DrMatthewAlford]

Well Diana literally says in the scene “I hope that isn’t a threat”.

[@ritahorvath8207]

She was totally advice resistant. .

[@user-rn7mm9jh3w]

❤❤ نحبك هذا الملك اعطيه عروش الكون

[@robertisham5279]

Did this conversation happen in real life?

[@DrMatthewAlford]

No it's a dramatisation. There are allegations/ rumours of letters between Philip and Diana - some say they were threatening, some say friendly. I wrote an article about it, if you're interested: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-worst-ever-news-report

[@vcab6875]

Outstanding husband