magazine in May 1997.But her discussion of Diana's divorce, relationship and bulimia incensed the Princess.Shand Kydd had declared it was "absolutely wonderful" that Diana had been stripped of her HRH title - something the Princess found deeply humiliating.Mother and daughter never spoke again, with Diana dying four months later in August 1997.As the news broke at first that her youngest daughter had been injured in a car crash in Paris and her lover Dodi Fayed killed, Shand Kydd, alerted by a friend, watched the events unfold on television at home.Later, when finally Diana's death was confirmed to her over the phone, she was forced to remain in the background as royal protocol took over.Much to her distress, she was not permitted to tell anyone Diana had died for an hour, nor invited to collect her body from Paris, nor asked to identify her daughter.difficult to cope with what she saw as the commercial exploitation of her daughter's death.Born a Protestant, she had converted to Catholicism in 1994 and her faith offered her comfort. There they bought an 18thcentury farmhouse called Ardencaple and opened a gift shop in Oban, 10 kilometers away from their home.Frances and her husband lived a secluded life for years.
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"I remember thinking the night Diana died, 'Thy will be done on earth' and that seemed fair," she later said.After Diana's death, Shand Kydd returned to her protected life alone on Seil.She continuing her charity work which included supporting the Mallaig and Northwest Fishermen's Association, comforting families of fishermen lost at sea.When finally a French investigation declared the crash was a tragic accident, a dignified Shand Kydd accepted the ruling "without reservation".Throughout she refused to acknowledge Dodi's outspoken father Mohamed al Fayed, infuriating him by ignoring him and his pleas that Diana had been murdered.No comments have so far been submitted. She blamed the unwanted media attention for the failure of her marriage, stating that she had become Diana's mother and not his wife in the eyes of the public.Frances Shand Kydd's divorce with her second husband was finalized in 1990, following which she shut down the gift shop and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1994.
When Diana died in a car accident on August 31, 1997 in Paris, she was not on talking terms with her, according to her statement at the trial of Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler.She stated that her conversion to Roman Catholicism helped her cope with the pain as she never blamed anyone or expressed anger over the details of her daughter’s death. Biographer Max Riddington, who was the writer of Frances: The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Mother, described Shand Kydd as a woman who was "certainly complicated" and also "funny, warm, intelligent, and energetic". She suffered the loss of her son early in her life and couldn’t conceive a male child immediately after the demise of her son, which strained her relationship with her husband. After divorcing two women, he is currently married to Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer.After having married a man who was much older than her, Frances Shand Kydd could not lead a happy life. Eventually, Frances left Althorp to marry wall-paper tycoon Peter Shand Kydd. Frances Shand Kydd was a Viscountess who was widely recognized as the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She also visited the family of Henri Paul, the driver of Diana's Mercedes, who was one of the three to die in the fatal accident.In her later life, she was diagnosed with a terminal brain disease, now thought to be Parkinson's disease, which rendered her incapable of walking or talking in a proper manner.