she played with the young Royals in her youth. Her family insistance that she was a Royal in her own right and a Princess by birth is not strictly correct in so far as this could apply to millions of others who can trace their descent from distant crowns. It may however have meant much to her through family upbringing, bearing in mind that she was a Spencer, but her worldly unrestraint drew on her need to demonstrate it in a form that was to lead to the colourful and dangerous game that would eventually pawn her life. Diana was no stranger to the thoughts and behaviour of her immediate Royal family. The only one who made her nervous and understandably, was the Queen mother who no doubt wanted to work out for herself just what sort of person had got into the household. The widowed Queen, basking in the sort of upbringing and sense of political correctness that had endeared her to the nation, could have little regard for anyone putting her own daughter and her very close grandson in the shade. Anyone who tendered this poisoned cup could not but be an object of close study. There is no record of her comments with respect to this issue, but the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret had little time for the show girl princess. If we bear in mind that the Queen Mother had given up everything she knew and understood in a happy and successful family life away from the rigours of the Royal frontline. She had tolerated the whims and fancies of “Wallis” and it is easy to see how the horrors of the past had come back to haunt her. If we also bear in mind that she told the Queen herself to sit down and act like one, during the shooting of one of the Royal films, it falls into place even better. I once had a curious experience with respect to how the dramatic