Princess Diana Part 1: The Courtship
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
We start our new series with the story of a girl, a prince and the society that convinced them they liked each other. Digressions include camels, Beyoncé and the idiosyncrasies of British place names. We're sorry to say that this episode has detailed descriptions of disordered eating.
Here's a link to the photos and clips we discuss in this episode: https://rottenindenmark.org/2020/09/28/princess-diana-part-1-the-courtship/
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Links!
- Andrew Morton's "Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words"
- Tina Brown's "The Diana Chronicles"
- Hillary Mantel's "Royal Bodies"
- Zoë Heller's "Where Prince Charles Went Wrong" (Mike said it was Adam Gopnik on the show! That sucks and he's sorry!)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think it's like a politically meaningful act to get stuff wrong about the British royal family? |
| 0:06.0 | The same as with football? |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome to You Wrong About where we tell you the story behind why your mom cried that day. |
| 0:27.2 | Awwww... that's nice! |
| 0:31.6 | I think I cried that day too. Everybody cried that day. That day sucked. |
| 0:34.6 | Well, I was eight or nine so I didn't fully get it. I was like... |
| 0:38.0 | Who is the Slady? |
| 0:39.5 | And I'm basically a boomer so I was in my mid-30s. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah. I am Michael Hobbs. I am a reporter for The Huffington Post. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic. |
| 0:48.8 | And if you want to support the show and hear cute bonus episodes, we are on Patreon |
| 0:53.1 | and there's lots of other ways to support the show including buying cute t-shirts. |
| 0:56.8 | And you can also not support the show because it's just existing in the world and |
| 1:02.0 | breathing air and doing the things you do is pretty great. We're happy you're doing that. |
| 1:08.4 | Just come hang out. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.6 | And today we are beginning our series on Princess Diana. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.2 | I have like 31 meta comments about this before we start. |
| 1:18.0 | If you don't stop me, I'm going to talk for like two hours before we actually say anything. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, we can do that. I mean, you seem like... |
| 1:25.3 | I feel like if I stick a fork in you, you're just going to be like the juiciest and |
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