Chapter 2 2. The sorrow of being a girl

Diana was born on the evening of July 1, 1961, weighing 7 pounds and 12 ounces.Her birth was not warmly welcomed by her parents, as she was the third daughter of Viscount Althorp, and her parents, Viscount Althorp in particular, wanted a boy to carry on the Spencer family line.Her father called her "a child with a perfect body", but immediately turned the joy of expecting a boy to the cold.The couple, desperate for a boy to inherit the name, didn't even have a girl's name in hand.It took a week before the couple named her "Diana Frances," after an ancestor in the Spencer family, and "Frances" after her mother.

Viscount Althorp called Diana "a child with a perfect body", and there was subtext in his words.Eighteen months before Diana was born, the Viscountess gave birth to a severely deformed boy named John, who only lived 10 hours.What is even more pitiful is the heartbroken mother. Under the pressure of the elders in the family, she went to the hospital for various gynecological examinations to see if there was anything wrong with her.At that time, it seemed that it was the woman's fault to give birth to girls one after another.The proud and stubborn Viscountess was sent to various hospitals in London for physical examination. For the 25-year-old Viscountess, this was a great grievance and an intolerable insult.It was at that time that the seeds of a long feud and eventual divorce were planted for the Althorp and Viscountesses.Diana's younger brother, Earl Charles Spencer, commented on that period as a terrible time, and his parents never got rid of the psychological trauma and shadow of that period.

In 1964, when Diana was 3 years old, the heir to the Spencer family, the son the family hoped for was born.The heir, Charles, was baptized at Westminster Abbey, and his godmother is Queen Elizabeth.Although there are differences between the East and the West, when it comes to heirs, men are superior to women.The church where Diana was baptized was Sandringham Church, and the godmother was just an ordinary wealthy family. According to the theory of psychologist Freud, especially childhood memories will determine and continue to affect people's life.Although some people can work hard to get rid of psychological distress through experience, psychological shadows become lava under the sleeping rock.Although Diana is young, her child's young heart can still clearly feel the neglect of her family and the respect for her younger brother.In her heart, she began to tell herself that she was a "disappointing child", with a sense of inferiority and insignificance.This sense of inferiority lasted throughout her girlhood and the early days of entering the royal family. It was not until she devoted herself to public welfare activities and was warmly loved that she found a sense of value to be recognized and to be (existence).