Since the book was not a part of returning home, let's highlight the phone calls in the desert and piles of letters for the moment? No book deals happened in Iraq. As I've suggested, I don't believe there was a deep abiding love from her, even if he been 'the perfect gentleman'.
So imagine if Diana had decided she would spend the rest of her life with Hewitt, 'in spite' of public fallout to her from this, (assuming she loved him). It would have required a different type of spirit, determination, and braveness to do such a thing. To not be consumed by what the press says in the short term, including the purported waving of letters around. Ignoring everyone that implored her NOT to write him, for abject fear that one day, someone would be reading her private thoughts.
Her reputation would have continued to flourish, and I guarantee you she would have been widely applauded for doing so, in a short time. That kind of tenacity, gutsiness in the face of adversity, is uncommon.
I really dont know what you are saying. Diana had to be afraid of the press because the press were always watching her and the press put out the stories that made her beloved and popular. She needed popular support because her marriage was shaky and if she wanted to end it, she clearly needed the support of the public to ensure that the RF gave her a good deal when she divorced. She couldn't leave Charles and move in with J H if that's what you appear to be saying. And I doubt she would have been "applauded" had she done so, even if people were over all sympathetic to her for her bad marriage. JH clearly wasn't a particularly admirable man. He was known as a womanizer, was a brave soldier but not that bright and continually failed promotion exams and was willing to take presents from his royal girlfriend.
I am not understanding you very well but if you're saying that Diana would have been applauded had she just walked out of her marriage to hitch up with J Hewitt, absolutely not. She wasn't an ordinary woman. She couldn't just leave and take her kids, and she would not have just ditched the children to live iwth him...
She was scared of her affair with him getting out because she didn't know how the press and public would react. Luckily for her, she was popular with many people and knowing of Charles' affair, by and large the public were willing to forgive her when she had one relationship with a single man, during her unhappy marriage..
And the way that the afair became known to the public did disgust many people that he was so cheap as to sell their story for money.. so people thought "OK she had this affair with him.. and was let down badly by him..." so while they forgave her the affair, I don't think the public would have liked the idea of her leaving her marriage for a man who behaved so badly....
people thought "OK she had an affair, thought he was an OK guy, and he gave her some consolation for Charles cheating on her, but he's turned out ot be a piece of work who sold her out. Why would a beautiful woman like Diana want to marry a man who'd let her down as much as Charles did?"
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