Re: I remember Diana, Princess of Wales

"Fred Williams" <unclefred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Saturday 01 September 2007 15:53, Neil Bates wrote:
>
> >
> > "a.spencer3" <a.spencer3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > news:XPaCi.33830$ph7.31496@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> "Neil Bates" <neil_delver@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >> news:13dgrv0jvvulic6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> I was so shocked and sorry to hear a decade ago that Diana, Princess
> >>> of
> >>> Wales had left us.  One of the major funeral homes in my mid-size US
> >>> city had set up a memorial service for her about a week later, and
> >>> there was a
> >>> long line.  I didn't mind waiting to sign the book, and was
> >>> impressed that
> >>> all those other Americans cared about her so much.  Let's remember
> >>> that
> >> she
> >>> wasn't just a pretty royal face who knew charm, but a courageous
> >>> woman who
> >>> put herself out in the world for its people, and suffered
> >>> indignities gracefully.
> >>>
> >>
> >> And also a media-hyped pseudo-fairytale Disneyland icon, especially
> >> to those
> >> overseas who didn't see many of her day-to-day idiocies, whose
> >> continually pounded 'memory' by many with other agendas has long
> >> started to sicken many
> >> in the UK.
> >>
> >> Surreyman
> >>
> >
> > Well I'm sure Diana had some silly quirks, but none I suspect as
> > idiotic as ruminations about being a tampon etc? Her discussions with
> > James Gilbey
> > (http://www.geocities.com/rickanddarvagossip/diana_gilbey.html)
are so
> > much more elegant than those of Charles and Camilla
> > (http://www.geocities.com/rickanddarvagossip/camillagate.html.)
I'm
> > just asking for some perspective ...
>
>         It's best to remember her for what she stood for in her own
words.
The
> stories about her "silly quirks" have mostly arisen since her death,
> not during her life.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Fred
> <http://www.fredwilliams.ca/thesecretofmoney.html>

Rubbish, sorry.
And 'her own words' were often scripted by her PR guru - "Princess of
Hearts", "There were three in the marriage" etc.
She was largely disliked and criticised in the UK until her death, and it
was then that a strange public fantasy hypnosis suddenly took over for
some
weeks.
My experiences both sides of the pond are that in the UK most are now
largely fed up with the continuing hype, while in the USA a Disney-like
adulation still largely exists.
Not a criticism. One US friend and wife are hugely intelligent and worldy,
but still have this oddity, to the extent that they're coming - again - on
'pilgrimage' to Althorp this year. My conversations with them can't shake
them an inch - they're all the way into the whole Prince Phillip - Nazi -
Murder syndrome.

Surreyman