Lady Di's interview in 1995 led to several members of the British royal family never speaking to her again. But none went as far as Princess Margaret, whose resentment toward Diana extended beyond her death.
The conversations between Prince Harry and the two direct heirs to the British throne, his brother William and his father Charles, seem to indicate that they are not going in the right direction. Harry and Meghan's television interview with Oprah Winfrey has managed to shock a royal family that is not particularly good at human relations.
Harry's revelation that his father asked him to "better write to her" so as not to have to speak to him in the months prior to the interview says a lot about the distant character and the peculiar way that the Windsors have of solving their family problems.
The extremes they are capable of going to when they feel offended. It is something that has already happened before, in the same way, on television and in history: when Diana offered the interview to the BBC Panorama program denouncing that her marriage was a farce. No one took it worse than Princess Margaret, whose contempt for her neighbor (they both lived in Kensington Palace) extended beyond Diana's death.
The interview was something unforgivable for Margarita. Not because what Diana said was not true, but because she told it. Diana's confession to Martin Bashir in 1995 was seen by 23 million Britons, 40% of the total population of the United Kingdom.
A bomb so powerful that the queen immediately demanded a divorce from the heir to the throne so that Diana would no longer be a family. The divorce would come a year later, a time in which Diana continued to live a few steps from Princess Margaret.
According to Craig Brown, in his book Ma'am Darling, which talks about Princess Margaret, Lady Di signed her sentence the day she revealed some of the royals', especially the romance of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker, in an interview with television for the BBC.
Brown assures that Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, had a good relationship with Diana, but once the affair of several years between her nephew and Camilla was uncovered, everything changed between the princesses. In fact, at Lady Di's funeral, Margarita did not bow her head as a sign of respect when the carriage passed in front of her and the author even claims that she was upset because the British flag was half-raised in the palace.
But Diana was not the only one “hated” by Margaret, Sarah Ferguson, Prince Andrew's ex-wife, was also on her list of persona non grata, due to the circulation of compromising photos of the former Duchess of York with another man.
It seems that the queen's younger sister was very conservative and it bothered her that family affairs were aired, as Diana and Sarah did, who were very good friends of hers.
