I'm sorry to ruin your happy moment but it is saddening that we (Indians) still identify people through their caste surnames.
They didn't identify her through culture but through the caste name (Reddy in this case), if you know anything about India then you'd know how f#çked up the casteism is and surnames are one of the contributers to that.
Good on her, I constantly pull legs of my friends who have caste names in their names (they are from upper caste) for putting it on social media, stickers on their vehicle house name board etc.
but why did they choose Rajasthani costume if the girl was from Telengana/Andhra. its coz the organisers thought "India, oh yes lets put on a colorful Rajasthani dress on her".
It wouldn't be happening in Telangana, they would be in Delhi or somewhere and the girl's School thought to put up a colorful dress on students, it just happens to look Rajasthani
Is "being from the same language" a thing people normally say in India? As in an expression that came up because being from the same region sometimes isn't enough? 😆
In my state everyone speaks same language, but there are few states up in North like Rajasthan, Bihar, Himachal etc which have multiple languages in state.
For many years after her visit, Diana kept in touch with the little girl and her family. Avanti and Diana were set to meet in the UK during a family trip in 1997, but sadly, Diana was killed in a car crash before it could happen. "I remember her funeral, it was very sad," Avanti, who was 10 when the Princess passed away, recalled. "When I got older I started to realise more about who Princess Diana was. I appreciate all the work she did for the charities and all the things she did for poor children and people with leprosy." When it was time for Prince William to travel to Diana's beloved India with the Duchess of Cambridge in 2016, Avanti was unable to meet Diana's oldest son due to the death of her one-year-old daughter. If the future allows, she still would love the opportunity though she added: "But this time I won’t be sitting on the Prince's lap. I don't think Kate would like that."
I think if English was your first language, you'd be more confused- not less. Something being described "of the day" is often used as an insult to describe someone having a fleeting, nonimportant attachment to something. Often used in dating, calling someone a "girlfriend/boyfriend of the day" suggests that the person is only interested in them because they're new, and they'll soon be dumped.
"For the day" would be the proper way to describe this in English.
By reading comprehension, do you mean the title? Because the title is vague and could imply a few things.
I think more accurate would be to say they clearly didn't read the article or understand the context. Now if they read the article and still were making dumb comments, then I'd say they lacked reading comprehension, but otherwise that's not what's going on here.
At least here in the states, it’s a feature not a bug so to speak. People are a lot easier to trick/manipulate when they have low reading comprehension. That’s one of the reasons conservatives have been attacking education since the Reagan administration. It was happening before but it really ramped up after that jelly bean freak got in office.
Is this the full clip? I remember Hasbulla swinging at Tyson ahahahah imagine being Tyson being like why the fuck is this 3-year-old kid swinging on me hard as shit?!
Edit. I opened up the clip I couldn't get more than like 3 seconds into that oh my God so awkward
She worked at a nursery school before she became a princess. She worked with lots of charities, particularly children’s charities. She cared about children. You people are overreacting.
Clearly you haven't met my mother. The number of times I have to explain I do not know or care who any of the royals are or what they are doing is ridiculous.
Based on a quick search it seems there was a royal tour of India, the girl performed a traditional Lambadi dance. Diana supposedly loved it, Diana told her she didn't have a daughter, so the girl was her daughter for the day, then Diana kept in touch in letters and stuff.
She's a orphan ? Or just randomly picked a child and called it her daughter ? Also by "daughter of the day" are they suppose to be her daughter for that particular day ? is it a tradition or what? sorry for all these question, I am kinda confused 😅
She was the youngest of the dancers performing at the welcome ceremony for her. She affectionately said, 'I don't have a daughter, so today you are my daughter.” And then had her hang out with her the whole day. She kept in touch with her for years later until her death.
“You are now my daughter for the day” is a hilariously entitled way of saying “I wanna hang out with you today if that’s cool” if you look at it from that perspective, but Diana really was too good for royalty.
I could see Michelle Obama doing the same. Hanging with some random kid just to talk with and maybe mentor a little for the day. They both just have that influential mom energy.
Maybe repost with "daughter of the day" in quotes so people get that she actually called her that. People implying she's a pedo in the comments are concerning...
If people want to try to make a woman who has been dead for 30 years with no record of child abuse allegations, into a pedo, they can't be saved.
Reddit hates people who don't live paycheck to paycheck. They will claim anybody with means is a pedo. I leave them alone with their broke asses and misery.
I know it's probably not the case but I love the kid's expression, she looks like she's so done with everything and hating her parents who put her in this position lol
"Princess Diana earned the title "Princess of the People" through her genuine compassion, humility, and unconventional approach to charity, connecting with the public by breaking royal protocol to champion causes like HIV/AIDS awareness, homelessness, and landmines, and by treating people with warmth and dignity, leading to an extraordinary outpouring of grief and affection at her death in 1997, as famously described by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Furthermore:
Princess Diana famously challenged the stigma around HIV/AIDS by showing compassion and physical affection, including hugging and holding children with the virus, to prove it wasn't spread by touch, breaking down fear and isolation, particularly during visits to wards in London and Harlem in the late 1980s.
That part freaked people out. Believe you me, in Australia there was this scare campaign with this skeleton/grim reaper (representing death) playing ten pin bowling - the pins were people who died from AIDS.
And then you have Princess Diana do something like this - brings a tear to the eye. People weren't identified by their disease but were people who were afflicted by a disease. She was truly amazing.
She had several affairs. I don't blame her, considering the situation she was put in, but when your children are due to inherit the throne that's a very big deal.
I kind of disagree, somewhat. How was she deeply controversial? I don't believe this to be one of those scenarios where someone terrible dies and becomes almost canonized in death. I remember her as getting the short end of the stick in her marriage - getting with a bloke that was older, stuffier, and maintained eyes for Camilla during the entirety of their relationship. She did that which was expected of her - bearing heirs, but from what I remember, appeared to live a life separate to Charlie.
Maybe she was more controversial in the latter stages - what with Dodie etc..
she was controversial with the royals themselves because she wasn't 'royal enough' for them, and they all knew fuckface loved Camilla and was boinking her the whole time.
Prim and proper asshole upper crust elites disliked her because she was looked down on by the royals and they classed themselves as the same group... pretty much everyone else loved her. Because the royals and some of the elite disliked her the papers always tried to shit talk her but it just made everyone else like her more because she was seen by the elite as not good enough while to everyone else she was the poorly treated princess who genuinely tries to do good.
She really wasn't controversial in general, just a certain group of people tried to make her look not good enough.
I didn't say who the papers were aimed AT, but who they were owned BY.
No different to how the sun, mirror or daily mail will praise a white english footballer for splashing on some fancy new car but shit in a black english footballer for buying his mum a house.
What people actually thought of Diana at large and what the papers tried to say are not the same thing.
Trying to shame her in the press was what the royals and elites did, because she actually showed she cared about people as opposed to money so they tried to drag her down, very few people actually disliked her. More than that poorer people tended to see her getting shit on for being nice to poorer people, and understood that it was the rich wankers who were trying to make you hate her.
The OP is not providing more context, though if the context helps or not is up to you.
Based on a quick search it seems there was a royal tour of India, the girl performed a traditional Lambadi dance. Diana supposedly loved it, Diana told her she didn't have a daughter, so the girl was her daughter for the day. The girl was sitting on the ground after the dance and Diana picked her up. then Diana kept in touch in letters and apparently the now woman treasures them and the interaction when she was 4.
Doesn't seem she just grabbed some random kid and claimed ownership for the day. Still might rankle some people though.
Wouldn’t be weird anywhere I’ve been. I remember being picked up, fed cookies, and having my hair braided by people(specifically women) I didn’t know at all but who knew my fam. I was a pretty cute kid tho, uggos might have had a different experience.
The cultural detail is incredible here, from the clothing to the posture. It’s easy to forget how much effort went into these visits, and images like this capture a rare, unguarded moment rather than just a public appearance.
One of the things that made Dina so loved was how genuinely present she was with people, especially children. This doesn't feel staged at all, just quite kindness.
It's amazing how natural this feels for a royal visit. Do we see anything like this from public figures today?
This photo always gets me. The way she’s leaning in and making the child comfortable says so much about her natural empathy, especially during official visits where everything is usually stiff and formal.
"The People's Princess showed her maternal side with Avanti throughout the day. "She asked me what my name was, so I told her and which my school was and class," she shared. "I had a cold so she wiped my nose with her own handkerchief. She kept me with her the whole time then as she was going said, 'I don't want to leave you.'"
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So basically like a casual god daughter then? Not just for the camera. Nothing too weird about it
Damn she's (Avanti) actually from same state, same language as me, I was thinking she was from Rajasthan a far away Northern state 😭
Assuming you're from Andhra Pradesh (or Telangana) why would a Reddy be from anywhere else? Lol
Yeah from Andhra but the post didn't have her name and I assumed she's from Rajasthan. But only after looking at her name I got to know.
I love how you and ozy identified each other and the little girl through culture. What a beautiful moment. 💖💖💖
I'm sorry to ruin your happy moment but it is saddening that we (Indians) still identify people through their caste surnames.
They didn't identify her through culture but through the caste name (Reddy in this case), if you know anything about India then you'd know how f#çked up the casteism is and surnames are one of the contributers to that.
This exactly.
My Indian colleague changed her surname precisely for this reason and told me only after I knew her for years (I'm not an Indian).
Good on her, I constantly pull legs of my friends who have caste names in their names (they are from upper caste) for putting it on social media, stickers on their vehicle house name board etc.
I'm glad she chose to do what she did.
The dress that she's wearing suggests otherwise.
They're in a function which would have been put up for the guests hence the costume.
but why did they choose Rajasthani costume if the girl was from Telengana/Andhra. its coz the organisers thought "India, oh yes lets put on a colorful Rajasthani dress on her".
It wouldn't be happening in Telangana, they would be in Delhi or somewhere and the girl's School thought to put up a colorful dress on students, it just happens to look Rajasthani
It's a lambadi dress
Some Reddys are also from Karnataka
Wait.. I thought she was dressed in a “Lambadi” traditional attire?
same girl same!! when i saw this pic i imagined little Avanti dancing on “rangeelo maaro dholana” and assumed she’d be from rajasthan 😅
Is "being from the same language" a thing people normally say in India? As in an expression that came up because being from the same region sometimes isn't enough? 😆
India has 22 officially recognized languages, 161 major languages spoken & over 19,500 mother tongues.
So yes, language may be a signifier in ways we may not comprehend
In my state everyone speaks same language, but there are few states up in North like Rajasthan, Bihar, Himachal etc which have multiple languages in state.
It's a thing that means what it says on the tin tbf
i can vouch for it 🤚, ig same mother tongue means similar cultures maybe thats why 😆
How is she 28 when the picture was from 1992 (almost 34 years ago)?
Looks like it's because the article was from 2017. So she'd be around 36 now.
Yes , the article is old . She is 37 now and made her career as a dance teacher and choreographer
That tripped me up too. Article is from 2017
Oh damn this article is almost ten years old
For many years after her visit, Diana kept in touch with the little girl and her family. Avanti and Diana were set to meet in the UK during a family trip in 1997, but sadly, Diana was killed in a car crash before it could happen. "I remember her funeral, it was very sad," Avanti, who was 10 when the Princess passed away, recalled. "When I got older I started to realise more about who Princess Diana was. I appreciate all the work she did for the charities and all the things she did for poor children and people with leprosy." When it was time for Prince William to travel to Diana's beloved India with the Duchess of Cambridge in 2016, Avanti was unable to meet Diana's oldest son due to the death of her one-year-old daughter. If the future allows, she still would love the opportunity though she added: "But this time I won’t be sitting on the Prince's lap. I don't think Kate would like that."
"But this time I won’t be sitting on the Prince's lap. I don't think Kate would like that."
Lol. Imagine a grown ass woman sitting on Prince's lap tp recreate this image.
It’s not William she needs to worry about sitting on, it’s his Uncle Andrew!
She's an adult now, don't think Andrew would be such a problem.
I’ve heard he’s not fussy once he’s got a few lines up the (ex)Royal hooter
Due to some old British tradition, that cant be broken. That would be hilarious.
Glad to know she has Diana's wit
This isn’t as deep as the comment section seems to think
Seriously. These people don't seem to understand human connection, and it's sad.
Yes. They're not like us.
This whole comment section has no reading comprehension thats.... worrying for the world
Top comment “what” … 🤪
Someone actually had to explain to them what "daughter of the day" was!
With no context the title could be interpreted as her picking a different girl to be her “daughter of the day”, every day.
Shit that’s what I thought at first
Wait it isn't that?
wtf is it than
I don't want to sound like a smartass or anything but english isn't even my first language and I understood the title immediately lol.
I think if English was your first language, you'd be more confused- not less. Something being described "of the day" is often used as an insult to describe someone having a fleeting, nonimportant attachment to something. Often used in dating, calling someone a "girlfriend/boyfriend of the day" suggests that the person is only interested in them because they're new, and they'll soon be dumped.
"For the day" would be the proper way to describe this in English.
By reading comprehension, do you mean the title? Because the title is vague and could imply a few things.
I think more accurate would be to say they clearly didn't read the article or understand the context. Now if they read the article and still were making dumb comments, then I'd say they lacked reading comprehension, but otherwise that's not what's going on here.
Yea. Its a title and a picture. the title is 100% of the issue. "Daughter for a day" would have been better
Gods I know. I hope they’re all bots for engagement cause damn.
At least here in the states, it’s a feature not a bug so to speak. People are a lot easier to trick/manipulate when they have low reading comprehension. That’s one of the reasons conservatives have been attacking education since the Reagan administration. It was happening before but it really ramped up after that jelly bean freak got in office.
This comment section? Try social media in general
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Imagine if she was like 40 years old like when Mike Tyson was cuddling with Hasbulla not realizing he's a whole ass man
Lmfao
He nibbled his ear lollll
https://youtube.com/shorts/70uj5D0SRHg
Whoever gave the little man that hat knew what they were doing.
Is this the full clip? I remember Hasbulla swinging at Tyson ahahahah imagine being Tyson being like why the fuck is this 3-year-old kid swinging on me hard as shit?!
Edit. I opened up the clip I couldn't get more than like 3 seconds into that oh my God so awkward
Bahahaha I hadn't seen this, Tyson seems like a fun uncle, got a bit scared when he got too close to the ear tho.
That video killed me
‘I thought it was a baby’
💀
Imma eat yo babies
She worked at a nursery school before she became a princess. She worked with lots of charities, particularly children’s charities. She cared about children. You people are overreacting.
Did you mean to respond to op because they seem to be very positive about it.
Daughter of the day is such an odd thing to say, I’m guessing it doesn’t translate well outside of royalty and that air of monarch obsession back then
Clearly you haven't met my mother. The number of times I have to explain I do not know or care who any of the royals are or what they are doing is ridiculous.
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We Indians don't have anything like daughter of the day lol. Maybe OP needs some better phrasing to convey what he wants to say .
The dancer looks a lot older than 4 years old
Makeup and stuff
Some people genes work differently
This is like the beginning of RRR.
Red Read Redemption
What's a "daughter of the day" ?
Based on a quick search it seems there was a royal tour of India, the girl performed a traditional Lambadi dance. Diana supposedly loved it, Diana told her she didn't have a daughter, so the girl was her daughter for the day, then Diana kept in touch in letters and stuff.
Yeah op could’ve explained it better. Or even bothered to explain at all.
Apparently, a random Indian girl she picked up.
She thought the little girl was adorable and gave her a cute nickname. There's nothing deeper to it than that.
She's a orphan ? Or just randomly picked a child and called it her daughter ? Also by "daughter of the day" are they suppose to be her daughter for that particular day ? is it a tradition or what? sorry for all these question, I am kinda confused 😅
She was the youngest of the dancers performing at the welcome ceremony for her. She affectionately said, 'I don't have a daughter, so today you are my daughter.” And then had her hang out with her the whole day. She kept in touch with her for years later until her death.
Random kid, kidnapped from her mother
/s
Diana started the tradition and Lindsay Lohan keeps it alive 😭
Listen, she was a princess. Maybe not the most informed act today, but her heart was in the right place lol
I didn’t really condemn it. I just said it was a random Indian girl she picked up.
I guess being the smallest dancer in a performance technically makes her not random. Depending on how you define “random”
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Im white and have never heard of this in my life. I wouldnt say its a white person thing, Id say its a Princess Diana thing.
But, if Princess Diana were Indian, would she still have done this 🧐
Can you reliably say yes or no to that question yourself?
If an Indian Princess Diana would pick a daughter for a day? No, I can absolutely not answer that question lmao
Kinda looks 85
Like that scene in RRR?
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RRR was a popular movie from India a few years ago. Revolutionary heroes fighting British colonialism, I believe.
Just rich people things
“You are now my daughter for the day” is a hilariously entitled way of saying “I wanna hang out with you today if that’s cool” if you look at it from that perspective, but Diana really was too good for royalty.
I could see Michelle Obama doing the same. Hanging with some random kid just to talk with and maybe mentor a little for the day. They both just have that influential mom energy.
We also do this nowadays,especially when we miss our grandkids we will randomly entertain other people’s children just to help with the loneliness.
Whatever the girl is sooo cute ☺️ aww.
Maybe repost with "daughter of the day" in quotes so people get that she actually called her that. People implying she's a pedo in the comments are concerning...
If people are thinking that from this, then they have some serious fucking issues with themselves I’m afraid.
Definitely a tell imho.
If people want to try to make a woman who has been dead for 30 years with no record of child abuse allegations, into a pedo, they can't be saved.
Reddit hates people who don't live paycheck to paycheck. They will claim anybody with means is a pedo. I leave them alone with their broke asses and misery.
Not sure why you made this about money? That's equally weird
Because there are a number of comments in this thread about how this is "rich people behavior."
Human connection is rich people behaviour? People are cooked
Exactly.
Sorry I initially misunderstood you.
I know it's probably not the case but I love the kid's expression, she looks like she's so done with everything and hating her parents who put her in this position lol
Reminds me of a grumpy cat
The current headline doesn't make sense in English.
The problem here is that OP should've written the headline with this:
"Daughter Of The Day"
It's a given title.
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Fyi Op - Daughter Of The Day may be a title, but it doesnt hold any meaning in other cultures, thus the confusion
Begin by understanding who Diana was:
"Princess Diana earned the title "Princess of the People" through her genuine compassion, humility, and unconventional approach to charity, connecting with the public by breaking royal protocol to champion causes like HIV/AIDS awareness, homelessness, and landmines, and by treating people with warmth and dignity, leading to an extraordinary outpouring of grief and affection at her death in 1997, as famously described by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Furthermore:
Princess Diana famously challenged the stigma around HIV/AIDS by showing compassion and physical affection, including hugging and holding children with the virus, to prove it wasn't spread by touch, breaking down fear and isolation, particularly during visits to wards in London and Harlem in the late 1980s.
That part freaked people out. Believe you me, in Australia there was this scare campaign with this skeleton/grim reaper (representing death) playing ten pin bowling - the pins were people who died from AIDS.
And then you have Princess Diana do something like this - brings a tear to the eye. People weren't identified by their disease but were people who were afflicted by a disease. She was truly amazing.
To be clear, she was a deeply controversial figure when alive, she only became this saintly figure when she died.
As far as I remember she was controversial because royalty is understandably bcontroversial, not because of things she did. Or am I misremembering?
She had several affairs. I don't blame her, considering the situation she was put in, but when your children are due to inherit the throne that's a very big deal.
I don't think you know what those words mean.
There was lots of controversy surrounding who she was and what she did. What do you think it means?
I kind of disagree, somewhat. How was she deeply controversial? I don't believe this to be one of those scenarios where someone terrible dies and becomes almost canonized in death. I remember her as getting the short end of the stick in her marriage - getting with a bloke that was older, stuffier, and maintained eyes for Camilla during the entirety of their relationship. She did that which was expected of her - bearing heirs, but from what I remember, appeared to live a life separate to Charlie.
Maybe she was more controversial in the latter stages - what with Dodie etc..
she was controversial with the royals themselves because she wasn't 'royal enough' for them, and they all knew fuckface loved Camilla and was boinking her the whole time.
Prim and proper asshole upper crust elites disliked her because she was looked down on by the royals and they classed themselves as the same group... pretty much everyone else loved her. Because the royals and some of the elite disliked her the papers always tried to shit talk her but it just made everyone else like her more because she was seen by the elite as not good enough while to everyone else she was the poorly treated princess who genuinely tries to do good.
She really wasn't controversial in general, just a certain group of people tried to make her look not good enough.
You should read what the tabloids said about her when she was alive. I don't think The Sun is aimed at "upper crust elites".
The narrative has been rewritten after her death, it's very common.
I didn't say who the papers were aimed AT, but who they were owned BY.
No different to how the sun, mirror or daily mail will praise a white english footballer for splashing on some fancy new car but shit in a black english footballer for buying his mum a house.
What people actually thought of Diana at large and what the papers tried to say are not the same thing.
Trying to shame her in the press was what the royals and elites did, because she actually showed she cared about people as opposed to money so they tried to drag her down, very few people actually disliked her. More than that poorer people tended to see her getting shit on for being nice to poorer people, and understood that it was the rich wankers who were trying to make you hate her.
Yet millions of people were happy to buy newspapers calling her a slag.
She definitely wasn't "terrible", but she was a real, flawed person. People don't want that, they want an angel.
This.
I think she had a decent heart but man she was thick. Even compared to the royal family who aren't exactly Mensa material.
Ummmm....
The OP is not providing more context, though if the context helps or not is up to you.
Based on a quick search it seems there was a royal tour of India, the girl performed a traditional Lambadi dance. Diana supposedly loved it, Diana told her she didn't have a daughter, so the girl was her daughter for the day. The girl was sitting on the ground after the dance and Diana picked her up. then Diana kept in touch in letters and apparently the now woman treasures them and the interaction when she was 4.
Doesn't seem she just grabbed some random kid and claimed ownership for the day. Still might rankle some people though.
If she wasn't so beloved this would be weird and made out to be slandering.
We pick and choose our evils.
Sad she was abused and murdered by The Crown.
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Wouldn’t be weird anywhere I’ve been. I remember being picked up, fed cookies, and having my hair braided by people(specifically women) I didn’t know at all but who knew my fam. I was a pretty cute kid tho, uggos might have had a different experience.
this would be seen as affectionate everywhere in the world. People just trying to imply it's weird.
This is some prime photoshop battle material. She at least needs a cigarette in that hand
Trumps “Daughter of the Day” Photos are being scrubbed by the FBI.
Diana remains ever so based even decades after her passing.
I remember that period of time, 1992-India
Angelina Jolie would be up for that
Aw
Aww that's cute
RRR :- inspired by true events /s
She was by far the best of them all.
Well this is freaking cute as hell.
Can you explain what the hell the title means? Why be intentionally vague???
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That’s really weird of her
it's engagement bait for top 1% commenters
The cultural detail is incredible here, from the clothing to the posture. It’s easy to forget how much effort went into these visits, and images like this capture a rare, unguarded moment rather than just a public appearance.
One of the things that made Dina so loved was how genuinely present she was with people, especially children. This doesn't feel staged at all, just quite kindness.
It's amazing how natural this feels for a royal visit. Do we see anything like this from public figures today?
I bet she would have blown the whistle on the pedo prince!
This photo always gets me. The way she’s leaning in and making the child comfortable says so much about her natural empathy, especially during official visits where everything is usually stiff and formal.
I never commented on a post the word "aura" cause it's kinda used often.
But this picture... it's full of AURA!
Daughter of the day 😩😩😩
Rich white peope do the darndest things
It’s just a kid happily sat on her lap there’s nothing weird about it
what do you mean lol
What's with so many subs posting Princess Diana? Didn't she die in August?
Is that some scheme of stealing a kid from each nation they looted?
1992 or 1892, no difference.
“Photo op complete? “ get it off me
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"The People's Princess showed her maternal side with Avanti throughout the day. "She asked me what my name was, so I told her and which my school was and class," she shared. "I had a cold so she wiped my nose with her own handkerchief. She kept me with her the whole time then as she was going said, 'I don't want to leave you.'"
https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2017081741671/princess-diana-avanti-reddy-1992-india-visit/
She was all for the optics after all