Princess Diana’s ‘Unhappy Childhood’ Due To This Traumatic Event Revisited By Biographer

Princess Diana reportedly had an unhappy childhood due to a series of traumatic events while she was growing up.

Royal biographer Andrew Morton spoke with the Princess of Wales years ago and the latter revealed that her mom, Frances Shand Kydd was always crying because of her vicious rows with John, the former Earl of Spencer. When Princess Diana was 7 years old, her parents split, according to The Sun.

“I remember seeing my father slap my mother across the face. I was hiding behind the door and mommy was crying. I remember mommy crying an awful lot. It was a very unhappy childhood. Parents were busy sorting themselves out. Always seeing our mom crying. Daddy never spoke to us about it. We could never ask questions,” she said in “Diana: Her True Story – In Her Own Words.”

Princess Diana added that she grew up detached with everyone else because was very generally unhappy. She also said that she changed nannies frequently.

Following her parents’ divorce, Princess Diana and her brother, Charles, would go to stay with their mom on weekends. And every Sunday, when it’s time to leave Kydd, Princess Diana would see her mom crying because the separation was devastating to her.

Kydd was forced to give up her kids following her divorce from John, and it was discussed in Netflix’s documentary “The Royal House of Windsor.”

“A witness to her parents’ acrimonious divorce, she and her siblings were the subjects of a bitter custody battle. As a result, Diana’s mother had to give up her children. Diana later admitted that she had been haunted by the crunch of the gravel as her mother departed,” Gwilym Lee, the narrator of the documentary, said (via Express).

Penny Junor, a royal biographer. and author also called Princess Diana damaged because of all the issues she faced while growing up.

“She was damaged, mentally, by her experiences. And then moving into the royal family was the worst possible scenario that she could have found for herself,” she said.