Lady Di And Mother Teresa
We were all grateful that the morning of dianas visit mother had allowed sister dorothy to fuss with her sari until it was more presentable.
Lady di and mother teresa. Frances ruth shand kydd previously spencer nee roche. Fascinatingly mother teresa died only six days after princess diana had been killed in a. But by the medias standards both seemed destined for sainthood.
The tall young princess and the diminutive wrinkled nun both lovingly clutching the dispossessed of society. A grand duchess in luxembourg has been accused of doing a lady di after she summoned journalists to the royal palace and treated them to an extended tearful assault on her mother in law. Televisions juxtaposition of these two humanitarians was stunning.
When princess diana and mother teresa died television offered countless images of the good that the peoples princess and the saint of the gutters had accomplished in their lives. Her common life was turned upside down after she married prince charles in 1981 when she was just 19 and he was 32. Mother teresa was even among her own sisters a notoriously sloppy dresser.
The friendship shared by these women is evidence that authentic companionship and shared values transcend appearance upbringing and social statusthe princess shared the nuns passion for bringing love to the rejected of the world. The short of it is that mother teresa cherished a profound and touching relationship with princess diana. Before she was known as princess diana or lady di and before news of princess dianas funeral sent shockwaves across the world she was simply diana spencer.
Mother rarely pinned the sari high enough on her shoulder and it often hung lopsided around her face the pins at weird angles. 20 january 1936 3 june 2004 was the mother of diana princess of walesas such she was the maternal grandmother of prince william duke of cambridge and prince harry duke of sussex respectively second and sixth in the line of succession to the british thronefollowing her divorce from viscount althorp in 1969 and dianas death. Diana of course was a fashion icon.