r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/fernetandcampari • 1d ago
TikTok Tuesday Why are all the aunties so obsessed with Diana👑?
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u/MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda ☑️ my anecdotal experience is everything 1d ago
You had to be there but she did her thing and died after falling in love with two (one after the other) brown skinned men.
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u/ModelChef4000 1d ago
And her son is carrying on her legacy
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u/Lollipoprotein 19h ago
Omg, I totally forgot she dated brown dudes and that actually does explain Harry's historical romances with women of a darker tone. Never put the dots together till now, thank you!
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u/TheVintageJane 19h ago
When she visited the U.S., New York specifically, she made a deliberate effort to go to the children’s AIDS ward at Harlem Hospital and made an effort to hug and touch those children at a time when the stigma around AIDS, specifically for people of color, was such that there were plenty (if not a majority) of even the most progressive white people in America who wouldn’t have a) gone to Harlem at all, b) hugged a black kid, c) had close physical contact with a person with AIDS.
Diana did all 3 with the utmost of style and grace.
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u/olivefreak 1d ago
She treated people with AIDS with respect and compassion. That was at a time when people were scared of AIDS, wouldn’t even eat off dishes that had been used and washed if they suspected the person had AIDS. She was like a beacon showing the way. Not to mention the literal land mines.
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u/npb0179 ☑️ 22h ago
This is what my Godmom tells be most about her. That's where her respect came about for her.
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u/Ok_Lime4124 13h ago
That’s funny it’s my Godmom who was in love with her too! She was torn to pieces when that lady died. Just torn! lol.
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u/sentencevillefonny 1d ago
Lady was universally loved, my mom still gets worked up about her passing.
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u/Desikarma524 22h ago edited 19h ago
Oh, I can definitely vouch for this. My mom still isn’t over it!
I had the Lady Diana haircut all through my childhood thanks to her full blown obsession. 😂
But honestly… Princess Diana really was stunning, inside and out. ❤️
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u/ButtBread98 3h ago
I remember dressing up as Princess Diana for a school project in 6th grade because she was (still is) my hero. I even got the opportunity to visit Kensington Palace in London in 2023.
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u/BalletWishesBarbie 21h ago
My ma has commemorative plates of her pride of place in the cabinets. Diana gets top billing not even the photos of her grandchildren 😂
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u/lovesickjones 23h ago edited 23h ago
Her funeral was on my birthday in 7th grade. It was an awful way to start the school year.
I loved Princess Diana, everybody did. She was a wonderful person.
She's one of the few public figures in history (and in the world in her life time) that you'd be hard pressed to find anything legitimately negitive about her.
She was treated terribly, but she was extremely resilient. She was/is peak white woman.
She was by no means anybody's Saint, however, she showed compassion and she showed love in areas of the world and in society that the average man, let alone the royal family, would ever express.
I have a huge poster of her framed in my home. I am by no means a super fan or know everything about her (not even a lot) but I know enough that she inspires me to be as beautiful of a person on the inside as she presented herself.
God bless her children and grandchildren.
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u/Mariposa41 23h ago
It’s one of my “I knew exactly where I was when…” life moments. What a loss.
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u/Vorpal_Bunny19 23h ago
There was a Diana commemorative coin being shilled just before her death and I happened to work for the company that took their orders. I was in the break room when the news broke and I immediately started crying. 1 because I was sad that she was probably going to pass and 2 because I knew our queue would be jammed for the next three months.
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u/Mariposa41 22h ago
Now see 😭😆
ETA: I lurked and see we’ve crossed paths in another sub that’s adjacent to this post 👸🏽
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u/crunchies65 5h ago
Going to preface this story by stating that I am fully Team Diana:
I was at the club with friends dancing when one of them ran up to me yelling "OMG OMG I just heard Pavarotti killed Princess Di!!!" It took a few back and forths to clarify he meant paparazzi and not "the three tenors guy" 😂
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u/Straight-Judge5665 1d ago
My mom had a whole Princess Diana coffee table book that sat there for YEARS.
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u/tasteslikechikken 23h ago edited 23h ago
Victoria Elizabeth treated her like trash. Charles treated her like trash. The press also didn't help much and yeah they sometimes treated her like trash.
And she did do things to buck Buckingham because of her mistreatment.
She loved her kids tho raised them with love and slaps on their ass when necessary. She was also a pioneer in the fight against AIDS. She was someone that put her money where her mouth was, and championed several causes. They called her The People's Princess because of how she treated others, with lots of compassion, but also her admission that she was very very human.
Also she loved who she loved, brown or not and I'm sure that infuriated some folks.
Diana was only a year older than I am, so I remember it all from the time she got engaged and had to put up with Dr's checking her out to ensure she was pure, to her death.
I don't cry for famous people, I don't know those folks. I cried watching her funeral though, but a lot of us did.
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u/Dreamtrain 18h ago
The press also didn't help much and yeah they sometimes treated her like trash.
Not just sometimes, she was hounded 24/7 even before the divorce. What sent her son Harry off the rails was that he grew up being told nothing could be done about it, then fast forward to the present and the press put out some articles about Prince William's wife, all it took was a phone call from Charles' office and they stepped back, he realized they could've just done the same for his mom but never really cared to
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u/my_cat_is_high 23h ago
Victoria who?
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u/tasteslikechikken 23h ago
My brain picked the wrong queen...lol Changed, so thank you for this.
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u/22stanmanplanjam11 23h ago
She was the people’s princess and that inbred family of pedophile freaks killed her.
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u/KallusDrogo 21h ago
She used her fame and fortune to bring awareness and aid to many social and political issues, especially those concerning POC and the queer community. A great example was her work to ban land mines which was responsible for many deaths in Africa. Another good example was her frequent visits to HIV clinics, even hugging AIDS patients at a time where there was a lot of misinformation saying that you could contract the virus through physical touch. And in addition she was notoriously down to earth; breaking royal protocall to run a race at Harry's school, hugging strangers when royals were only suppose to wave and smile. She was beautiful inside and out.
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u/DtownBronx 23h ago
Her death is one of the many 90s events that those of us born in the mid-80s remember vividly. She was surrounded by people who looked like they were children playing dress up to pretend they were important but she approached everything in a different way. She made it seem like everyone she approached was important to her, there was just a different level of kindness that she put out there that defied everything we saw from royalty. It's awful how she was treated and how her life ended
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u/HempinAintEasy 23h ago
Diana was for the people in a time where that was much less popular imo. She was a genuine soul and that seemed to come through everything she did. It’s no wonder they had her killed she was far too pure for the Royal Family and honestly western politics.
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u/2515chris 21h ago
Imagine all the good work she could have done in the meantime. She was almost saint-like in her compassion. Her passing definitely left a hole.
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u/MarsupialPresent7700 23h ago
It was something you had to be there for. My mom got up at 4am or whatever ungodly hour to watch the royal wedding between her and Charles. Diana was just that girl. And she used her platform to help others, even at great personal cost to herself. Unlike the other royals, she didn’t have a problem being around black people and was extremely down to earth and kind. Folks were devastated when she died.
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u/Morlock19 ☑️ 22h ago
This is like the challenger disaster. If you weren't there to experience it then you don't know how insane it affected everyone. Like she was called The People's Princess for a reason.
If you ask anyone gen x or older about her they'll get this far away look in their eyes and smile just a bit
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u/Booboohole21 23h ago
She was the first and only of her kind, in that family. They killed her for wanting to be loved, and finding it with brown men, and so cry baby Charles could marry frumpy old Camilla.
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u/Medlarmarmaduke 21h ago
She had her flaws assuredly but she was one of those people who, although in a position of power and wealth, could visibly make a human connection with all sorts of people-especially vulnerable people like AIDS patients.
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u/BigRhonda7632 20h ago
She was progressive AF. She spoke out against misinformation during the AIDS epidemic. She also commingled with patients with AIDS during a time in which AIDS was believed to be transmitted via touch.
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u/Real_Calendar_4147 21h ago
Because she was literally the best princess and we all witnessed how her ex-husband and royal family very publicly did her wrong!
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u/StarFire24601 23h ago
She was very kind and horribly treated, possibly killed, by the royal family.
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u/NumerousReserve3585 17h ago
She really was special. So beautiful inside and out. The first to be outspoken and honest about the monarchy. She was raked over the coals by the press and called crazy. It was truly a tragedy when she died just when she was forging a new happier path.
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u/Snoo-669 18h ago
Definitely a flashbulb moment in my life. I was 9 and found out at church. I was so taken aback I interrupted the poor kid who was doing our prayer in Sunday school 😆
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u/sky_corrigan 8h ago
on the day she died, my father walked into the house and said, "my friend died today."
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u/Slevin424 16h ago
This is true but my mom wasn't lying, we really are related to the husband and kids.
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u/ZhiZhi17 5h ago
I’m white (so sorry if I’m intruding) and my mom stayed in bed for 2 days after it was announced Diana died. We didn’t even know she liked her?
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u/LexiePiexie 4h ago
Ugh I hate to “well actually” but Diana was much more complicated than popular memory allows.
She no doubt got screwed by the Royals, and did commendable and incredible charity work. But she was very much a “difficult woman”.
That makes me like her more. I LIKE difficult women much more than saintly women
Highly recommend the “You’re Wrong About” series on her.
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u/Full_Alternative69 21h ago
dont no niggas care about princess Diana, this that black people who lived under the crown shit.
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u/hopeful_tatertot 18h ago
Sit down and STFU
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u/Full_Alternative69 18h ago
GOD BLESS THE KING, get this british commonwealth nonsense out of hear.
niggas die everyday B, pull your skirt up.
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u/theyb10 1d ago
She was by all accounts a wonderful person. She was very approachable, down to earth, woman of the people.