ESFP 2w3 Characters

Diane doesn’t have an enormous amount of personality beyond her political mechanisms, but she seems quite present, bodily-oriented, ambitious, and uses her sexuality as a tool to get ahead at court. She is unafraid to get involved in situations, such as wanting to ride out into battle with the king, going on hunts, and recruiting women to spy for her (sometimes leading them on as to how serious her feelings are for them). She is always at the heart of everything and loves to be the center of attention, but while she can maintain politeness for its own sake, Diane is very much about furthering her own agenda, setting court policies, and controlling the prince/king from behind the scenes. He gets angry with her at one point for drawing the attention off him, or for trying to ‘control’ his decisions. She can also be quite callous in specifically caring only about Henry—she has men in the dungeon hurt in the same manner as the king in order to see if pulling the lance out of his eye would kill him (it does/will). When Diane becomes emotional, such as facing the loss of the king, she also becomes irrational, and believes he can somehow survive even though he has taken a fatal blow. She has the piece removed from his eye, and then appears with him in public a few hours later to party before the court, then is traumatized when he falls down and dies in her arms. But she is also able to adapt quickly and move on, once he is gone—leaving the court at the behest of his widow and coming back when Catherine summons her in the final episode of the first season, to now offer all her love and support in a new direction, which she senses will bring her back into power.

Enneagram: 2w3

Diane is a good example of a sexual 2, in that she mostly focuses her ‘love and help’ upon the man she wants to keep hooked into her, Prince Henry. She focuses on being desirable, seductive, and a mother/lover figure, stepping in to guide him (he later calls it ‘controlling’ and she is offended by this) through the court mechanisms and even insisting upon riding out with him into battle. Diane is warm, welcoming, and supportive to Catherine at first, but is secretly driven to self-promote and ensure that she is the most powerful woman at court. She likes to have Henry dependent on her, and later after his death, gets kicked out of court and then brought back, because in her words, Catherine ‘needs’ her support and she will ‘do her best’ to be there for her. She sees herself as generous, supportive, loving, and compassionate toward a select view, but is also ambitious, driven, and craves power. Diane even tries to maintain her youthful appearance through strange beauty methods like bathing in milk and covering herself in gold lacquer. It distresses her to get older and causes her to feel anxious about no longer being as desirable in others’ eyes.