Princess Diana Slammed by Lady Pamela Hicks: "She Was Really Spiteful"

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It's been nearly 16 years since Princess Diana died in a tragic car accident, but some members of the British Royal Family refuse to let her rest in peace.  In a Vanity Fair profile, Lady Pamela Hicks—first cousin to Prince Philip and a member of Queen Elizabeth II's 1947 bridal party—explains why she was never fond of Prince Charles' first wife.

"She had enormous charisma, she was beautiful, she was very good at empathy with the general crowd...and she had no feeling at all for her husband or his family," Pamela snipes of Diana. "Quite the reverse!"

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According to Pamela, Diana was "really spiteful" and "really unkind" to Charles during their 15-year union. "My God, he's a man who needs support and encouragement," the 84-year-old says of Charles, who went on to marry Camilla Parker Bowles in the spring of 2005.

Pamela also claims Charles' marriage to Diana "destroyed" him. "He looked grey and ghost-like," she tells the mag of Prince William and Prince Harry's father. "Now of course he's blossomed again."

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The British aristocrat—whose own fashion designer daughter, India Hicks, served as one of Diana's bridesmaids—believes the late princess reveled in the public's pity. "She made everybody believe she'd been thrown to the wolves. Such nonsense! She was given the Queen's favorite lady-in-waiting, Sue Hussey, to help her, to teach her. But she didn't want to be told anything. 'That's boring, Sue,' she'd say. Instead, she wanted to listen to her music and go disco-ing or to some jive concert," she telsl Vanity Fair. "She didn't try. She had no need to try because she saw the people admired her, then they admired her more. She reckoned she was the star."

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Zach Braff Wants to "Set the Bar Really High" for Kickstarter Movies: Star Dishes From the Set!

Zach Braff has already proved he knows how to direct (See: indie-classic Garden State), but he knows that he's got something new to prove with his latest project.

"If this is the test case for this way of financing a movie, I want to set the bar really, really high," the Scrubs star told E! News from the set of Wish I Was Here, the Kickstarter-financed film he's currently directing and starring in after cowriting the script with his brother Adam Braff.

Though Braff was initally criticized by some fellow stars for soliciting funds from average Joes, ultimately more than 46,000 donors contributed upward of $3.1 million—and it's game on!

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Wish I Was Here also stars Kate Hudson, Jim Parsons, Josh Gad, Ashley Greene, Mandy Patinkin, Joey King and Braff's former Scrubs BFF Donald Faison, so apparently not all of Hollywood disapproved.

"What fascinated me more than anything was the process of this Kickstarter campaign and getting the money through crowd-funding," Gad also told E! "It really does feel like you're making a movie for the people."

And Braff is letting the people speak.

"If any of these 46,000 people email us or contact us they get a response that day, hopefully within a couple of hours, depending on how crazy we are," Braff said. "All questions are answered quickly...We treat them like they're guests at the fanciest hotel and we're the concierge."

That would make Jennifer Terry, whose first movie date with her husband was Garden State, a VIP. She contributed $10,000 and is actually going to be in Braff's movie.

Watch the clip to see what Jennifer has to say about living the dream—and find out how Braff recently fulfilled two of his own childhood dreams!

For more scoop about your favorite stars' latest projects, tune into E! News on weeknights at 7 p.m. & 11:30 p.m.

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