It's my understating that she came from a very wealthy,titled.family.Particularly if that's correct she should have been warned by her parents,siblings,etc of the "royal" tradition of kings and future kings having a roaming eye.A horrible tradition to be sure but tradition nevertheless.
Also,I think I recall having read that she was fooling around too.If true that kind of colors things a bit.
A victim? Yah,a victim of a horrible car accident.Other than that I don't see anything exceptional here.
Many people don't know that Mother Teresa died within a few days of Diana.She was a woman who was worthy of a billion times more respect than Diana yet many people...many Brits...have never even heard of her.
Her father was an Earl. That’s why she was “Lady Diana.” Her parents divorced, with drama, when she was young. Mark Steyn’s writings (which he is re-running on his site) say Diana was rather a mess before her marriage, let alone afterward.
It’s easy for an older person to think, “Why couldn’t she just make the tradeoffs, enjoy the position, live with the infidelity?” etc. However, I have a 19-year-old daughter. That’s not how they operate. It might have been no big deal to a teenager in 1585 ... although Catherine Howard couldn’t take it, either ... but not for a girl in the 1980s.
This is not to say Diana was anything marvelous, but she was a very young woman put into a difficult situation for which she was, if one can believe most reports, utterly unprepared.