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kerryann 's review for:
Diana: Closely Guarded Secret
by Ken Wharfe
This was a Kindle unlimited selection. I admired Diana for her compassion, vulnerability and willingness to connect with people that were suffering. This account by her protection officer was not amazing, saying that is kind. The book opens with his disclaimer that he is only writing because he wants to set the record straight and write about the Diana he knew. I am sure he knew all aspects of her life, as someone with such intimate aspect. Too bad he is a person with poor insight and a tendency to gossip.
If Ken Wharfe was a friend of mine, I expect over time I would not want to have conversation with him because he was a clunky, insensitive, schoolboy set in a glamorous role in proximity to a woman of rare make-up.
He objectified Diana, he had gross gossip about her extra marital relationships. He judged that she held a double standard for calling her husband a cheat when she was a cheat. Provoking.
I don't think it's wrong to say "Charles started it" At some point, if someone says "you have to stay married" and you are a loving person that longs for closeness then the fact that she chose to find a loving relationship is not the same as what he did, wanting his cake of a 19 year old bride and his yukky married girlfriend who was too gutless to shake him off.
It is medieval to presume an "open marriage" because you are a prince, absolutely head scratching after wooing someone in public and inviting the planet to your wedding knowing all the while you are not committed.
Too bad the person Charles married had unbelievable charisma and she ate him alive when a camera was around. I am sure he would rather she was quiet Joan Kennedy who just stayed home and played the piano and drank and looked beautiful in family photos. I'm showing my age talking about Joan Kennedy.
Okay, back to the book. Ken Wharfe related valuable insight so that I'm given access to the real Diana that one time her towel fell off around him, sometimes he could hear her having relations in bed and when she woke up in the morning she looked like she had a busy night.
Eww. Gross.
I didn't ACTUALLY finish this book, after just one too many remarks about her sex life, I was finished with the book and I wrote this to warn you off. I read every Diana book that comes out, they are mostly the same, this one stinks. It is the bottom of the barrel. Reread one you read before Ken Wharfe is a gross old man and his point of view is cringeworthy.
If Ken Wharfe was a friend of mine, I expect over time I would not want to have conversation with him because he was a clunky, insensitive, schoolboy set in a glamorous role in proximity to a woman of rare make-up.
He objectified Diana, he had gross gossip about her extra marital relationships. He judged that she held a double standard for calling her husband a cheat when she was a cheat. Provoking.
I don't think it's wrong to say "Charles started it" At some point, if someone says "you have to stay married" and you are a loving person that longs for closeness then the fact that she chose to find a loving relationship is not the same as what he did, wanting his cake of a 19 year old bride and his yukky married girlfriend who was too gutless to shake him off.
It is medieval to presume an "open marriage" because you are a prince, absolutely head scratching after wooing someone in public and inviting the planet to your wedding knowing all the while you are not committed.
Too bad the person Charles married had unbelievable charisma and she ate him alive when a camera was around. I am sure he would rather she was quiet Joan Kennedy who just stayed home and played the piano and drank and looked beautiful in family photos. I'm showing my age talking about Joan Kennedy.
Okay, back to the book. Ken Wharfe related valuable insight so that I'm given access to the real Diana that one time her towel fell off around him, sometimes he could hear her having relations in bed and when she woke up in the morning she looked like she had a busy night.
Eww. Gross.
I didn't ACTUALLY finish this book, after just one too many remarks about her sex life, I was finished with the book and I wrote this to warn you off. I read every Diana book that comes out, they are mostly the same, this one stinks. It is the bottom of the barrel. Reread one you read before Ken Wharfe is a gross old man and his point of view is cringeworthy.