Princess Diana 'regretted marrying into German family'

Diana, Princess of Wales regretted marrying into a “German family”, according to Anthony Julius, her divorce lawyer.
The Telegraph
Feb. 04, 2010

Mr Julius said the Princess made the comment to express her empathy with him as a Jew. The claim is made in the lawyer's new book about anti-Semitism.

He writes: “She was interested in Jews but had no idea about them, save that Jewish men (she had heard) were more likely than the men of her own class and background to treat women decently. She was happy to take Jews to be hostile to everything to which she herself was hostile. She once said to me that she should never have married into a German family.”

Mr Julius first represented the princess when she sued over surreptitious photographs that had been taken of her exercising at a gym.

In extracts from his new book published by The Sunday Times Mr Julius, who was not a divorce specialist but was persuaded by the Princess to represent her again, writes: “Diana lived as if in a vacuum. She was undereducated in the approved style of her class and gender.

"She was very receptive to new experiences, which meant that she was sometimes taken by odd fancies. She had a strong desire to please, to leave her interlocutor happy, but often without quite understanding what that person was ‘about’.

“She was intuitive, but not always accurate in her assessments of people. Sometimes she went wildly wrong — not just in the big things, but in odd misreadings of moods or sentiments.

“I never had the feeling that she set out to impress; perhaps she had surrendered that ambition as a child.”

He adds: “She was interested in everything that was outside her own world; she had a tendency to esteem a thing just because it was not part of her world — even more if it was excluded by her world. She herself was not quite of that world, but did not belong to any other either.

“She gave the impression of living in a general condition of alienation, but that did not prevent her from operating successfully in many different milieux.”

Mr Julius’s book, Trials of the Diaspora, examines the history of anti-Semitism in England.