10 Times Princess Diana PISSED OFF The Royal Family

Welcome to WatchMojo UK, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 times Princess Diana pissed off the Royal Family. For this list, we're looking at all the times Diana, Princess of Wales, rebelled against the rules of The Firm. Let us know in the comments what your favorite Princess Diana moment is. 10. Obey Though Diana was only 20 years old when she married Prince Charles, she was already rebelling against the rules and regulations of Buckingham Palace. She made the decision to edit the royal wedding vows, taking issue with the promise to obey her new spouse, as the vows are written for the Church of England. She cut out the pledge to obey, something ordinary people had already been doing for years by this point because of how archaic it sounds. This wasn't a one-off, though. Decades later, and both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle would also remove the word obey, thanks to the precedent Diana set. 9. Normal Childhoods Though she was an aristocrat herself, Diana never wanted Prince William and Prince Harry to lose touch with the ordinary people of the world. So, she did her best to give them a normal childhood, in as much as anyone with that level of privilege can. Though William and Harry did still have nannies to take care of them, thanks to the busy schedules of their parents, Diana always kept up with their lives and was the most hands-on mother the royals had ever had at this time. Though this was against the parenting styles of the Queen and other senior royals, it's clearly made William and Harry far more down-to-earth than they might have been otherwise. 8. Crouching The royal family is supposed to divine in nature, placed onto the throne by God. As such, it's expected that everybody in the United Kingdom show deference to them at all times, including young children. That's why it was so landmark when the Princess of Wales crouched down to talk to the young, so that she was on their level and less intimidating. Future King Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, and other modern royals also crouched down to talk to young kids. Expecting children to grasp the complexities of having to defer to the Queen isn't really realistic, and Diana made them feel at ease thanks to her years of experience looking after kids. 7. Hospital Birth Until Diana, it was standard for the royals to have home births, attended in their bedrooms by doctors and midwives. It was also standard for royal mothers like Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria to be heavily sedated during the process to try and minimise stress to the sovereign. Diana, however, decided to have a natural birth in a hospital, St. Mary's Hospital to be specific, and that's where both William and Harry were born. Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle also both chose to have hospital births thanks to Diana's trailblazing decision. Today, it's far more common for women to have 6. Nursery Another way Diana was different when it came to raising her sons was her decision to send them to nursery. In the past, royal children would have been educated at home by a governess, something that was already very old-fashioned by the mid-20th century. Rather than have William taught at home, Diana sent him to Miner's Nursery School, a tradition continued with Prince Harry. This meant the royals interacted with children their own age from the beginning, unlike Prince Charles, dubbed the Lonely Heir from time to time. Prince William's children have also attended schools, though they're still all expensive, fee-paying private schools. Far from continuing the royal family's stiff-upper-lip approach to mental health, Diana was outspoken about her personal issues. She'd said that she'd had bulimia, an eating disorder, for many years, though by the time she opened up with the public about it, it had been treated. This made her a major spokesperson for mental health and eating disorders, though it likely wasn't what the royal family wanted. Regardless, Diana's legacy continues in her sons, with Prince Harry notably speaking about mental health and championing many charitable causes, including the effects being in the royal family has on a person. Another thing Diana allegedly hated that the royal family loved is hunting. Though she'd gone hunting herself in her aristocratic youth, by the time she was a mother, she didn't want William and Harry to be encouraged to hunt animals. She likely never intervened to actually stop them from doing the activity, but her disapproval wasn't a secret, even if she did deny how deep it was to the newspapers from time to time. Regardless, Diana was certainly in the right on this one. Today, hunting for sport is considered abhorrent by most people, with only Britain's privileged elite still taking part in this country. She was a fashion icon for most of her life, and numerous times her fashion choices flew in the face of royal protocol. Most notably, the Princess of Wales would sometimes wear black for events, when usually the royal family is only supposed to wear black if they are in mourning or attending a solemn event, like Remembrance Sunday. Diana famously wore a so-called Black Revenge dress in 1994, the very same day a documentary aired about Prince Charles' infidelity. But she wore black at other times too, and why shouldn't she? Ordinary people wear black all the time, and it doesn't mean they're in mourning after all. 2. HIV-AIDS Stigma Today, the hospital reckoned that the princess' visit was worth all the government propaganda put together. One of Diana's biggest legacies is her advocacy for HIV and AIDS sufferers in the 1980s, as the AIDS epidemic took over the world. Diana embarked on a trip to New York, in which she was photographed and filmed shaking hands with and hugging AIDS patients. Only this patient This alone massively helped shake the stigma of HIV, as at the time, many were afraid to even touch AIDS patients out of fear of contracting the disease, though of course it can't be spread this way. Diana remained a prominent activist for HIV and AIDS for the rest of her life, but we're not sure the palace was too pleased with her wading into public health issues. 1. The Martin Bashir Interview Mr. Bashir showed him fake bank statements, falsely suggesting people close to Princess Diana were being paid to spy on her, in order to secure an interview. The same landmark interview where she came clean about her mental health struggles, there were many other revelations in this notorious episode of Panorama. With no palace staff or press officers, Diana gave an extremely candid interview about her life and her marriage to the Prince of Wales in 1995, when they'd already been separated for a number of years. Following the interview, in which Diana famously talked about her overcrowded marriage to Prince Charles, Buckingham Palace decided the Welses had to divorce. Years on, and it was revealed that Bashir earned this interview through fraud. The BBC was forced to apologise to the late royal's family in 2020. He says the mocked up bank statements were a stupid thing to do and an action I deeply regret, but insists they have no bearing on Princess Diana choosing to give an interview. Do you agree with our picks? Check out this other recent clip from WatchMojo UK and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos. Thanks for watching.