Dear Is Mise,

No. Princess Diana was not an ordinary woman by any
stretch of the imagination. She was the first wife
of the Prince of Wales and mother of royalty.
She came from the Spencer family, one of Britain's
pre-eminent aristocratic families whose family
members have been made knights, baronets, and peers.
Her father was Viscount Althorp.

As for being out of her depth? Hardly. A woman who
was "out of her depth" as you put it, would not
have achieved what Princess Diana did in both reaching
out to people and raising funds in the millions for
the charities and organisations that she supported.
She also raised awareness for so many causes - including
mental illness, aids, land-mines, the plight of lepers,
and so on. A woman out of her depth would not have
had the effect that she did on the people of England or
globally which was shown by the reaction of people to
her death. Everyone felt the loss worldwide. And today
20 years after her death - it still resonates with most
people.

As for the media? Yes they are making money out of it
all. They always have. However, if she was just an
"ordinary woman out of her depth," as you claim I doubt
if the media would give her the time of day.

Foxy,

"She did not shine academically, failing her O-levels twice. Her outstanding community spirit was recognised with an award from West Heath.[21] She left West Heath when she was sixteen.[22] Her brother Charles recalls her as being quite shy up until that time.[23] She showed a talent for music as an accomplished pianist.[21] Diana also excelled in swimming and diving, and studied ballet and tap dance.[24]
After attending Institut Alpin Videmanette (a finishing school in Rougemont, Switzerland) for one term in 1978, Diana returned to London, where she shared her mother's flat with two school friends.[25] In London, she took an advanced cooking course, but seldom cooked for her roommates. She took a series of low-paying jobs; she worked as a dance instructor for youth until a skiing accident caused her to miss three months of work.[26] She then found employment as a playgroup pre-school assistant, did some cleaning work for her sister Sarah and several of her friends, and acted as a hostess at parties. Diana spent time working as a nanny for the Robertsons, an American family living in London,[27] and worked as a nursery teacher's assistant at the Young England School in Pimlico.[28] "
From Wikipedia.

That is someone quite ordinary the later charity work was probably orchestrated although she had shewn an interest in such previously (see quote above).

As far as family goes I have some 50 Kings in the family tree, including 15 kings of England and 6 of Scotland, Brian Boru, High King of Ireland and Lords, Dukes, Earls and down the line.
I have a Scots title (that I don't use).
I am distantly related to the Queen (very, very distant!!) but I'm just an ordinary bloke, noble forebears mean nothing more than an interesting family history and a bit of privilege, if one plays on it, when in the UK.

Medieval Ireland had 150 kings at the same time , Tudor/Yorkists and Jacobites had 2 and George I had 50 further up the tree than himself. Queen Victoria had 1130 descendants . When Oz gets an Australian monarch then Is Mise could find 5.5 million royal contenders battling for the Crown.

Yes, Is Mise for President of the republic. And an acknowledgement, that my DNA apparently connects me to both Robert the Bruce and George 1.

I apparently share a rare genetically transferred skin disorder? I hope it doesn't also include a reported mental disorder?

That said, let's not stray too far off topic and what a tragedy, the untimely premature death of Princess Diana was! And as square peg thrust in a round hole, she stood out among the "royals" as a class act and a fair dinkum caring human being!
Alan B.

I blame his mother. When HM returned from her conquest of Australia without Charles she met him aged 5. She shook hands with the little man. He probably saluted .

If an aristocrat falls in a forest and there is nobody there to hear it, does anybody care?