The Late Diana, Princess of Wales News Thread 1: December 2002-February 2005


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Princess Diana

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Princess Diana

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Princess Diana

1-5, 8-10. Corbis

6,7. Polfoto
 

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wow, great pics! Thank you so much for posting them, jun5
 
Diana, Princess of America?

NEW YORK (AP) -- She was a princess, yes -- the perfectly wrapped package of British royalty, complete with tiara, shining eyes and an all-too-photogenic smile.
But the United States found other, very U.S. reasons to watch, if not adore, Diana. Here was a woman who battled an eating disorder, attempted suicide, stole jet-set kisses and finally divorced her prince and became a single mother.
The things that so piqued British traditionalists made Diana's life resonate on the other side of the Atlantic, where foible so often augments halo and fairy-tale lives so often melt into dysfunction.
"We knew in this country that the Cinderella story was no longer supposed to be true," said Shari Roberts, a Penn State University assistant professor who studies how her countrymen perceive celebrity.
"Then we saw her. She was a princess for the post-feminist generation."
In the United States, the "People's Princess" made a lasting impression. Disappointed by latter-day Kennedys, left without vicarious royal glitter since Princess Grace, many looked to Diana as their princess by proxy.
"It's like we've lost one of our own political figures," said Joni Van Vliet, 18, of Bend, Oregon.
From the early years when they imitated her hairdo by the thousands, U.S. women watched Diana closely as the shy, big-eyed 20-year-old married Prince Charles. They watched her grow into a poised socialite, then a wilful activist who hugged AIDS patients and denounced landmines. When she visited the United States, they flocked around her.
"Not since Jackie O had someone come along who was accessible, had the common touch and married a prince," said Carol Wallace, managing editor of People Magazine.
"I think Americans are always captivated by how the other half lives," she said.
"And the unravelling was fascinating, too. It made her even more relevant to Americans."
British royalty, of course, has fascinated the United States from the revolution-era days of George III through Edward VIII's 1936 abdication to marry U.S. divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
And when actress and Philadelphia socialite Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, the United States won a stake in royalty that it lost when she died in a 1982 automobile accident. And of course, there were the Kennedys, Jackie and Jack, the royalty the United States so wanted to crown.
The obsession has continued. Diana's gowns were auctioned for charity in June in New York City. And just last week, hundreds of U.S. women entered the "Dress to Di For" sweepstakes -- a cable-television contest to win a $40,000 black silk gown worn by Diana during a 1992 visit to India.
"When Americans try to come up with metaphors for explaining ultimate celebrity, we keep coming up with royalty," said Richard Gid Powers, who runs the American Studies graduate program at the City University of New York.
"We invent Kennedys and Elvis Presleys and kings of pop and kings of soul," he said.
"It's one of those things that you can try to give up but there's about 10,000 years of momentum to consider."
Diana had U.S. ties as well: A great-grandmother was born in New York in 1857. Her distant cousins, said Boston genealogist Gary Roberts, who has traced her ancestry, include presidents John Adams and Franklin Roosevelt, actors Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn and writers Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"A piece of her was definitely American," Roberts said.
"It reinforced our special relationship with her."
 
From Rex Features
 

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Originally posted by Elise,LadyofLancaster@Oct 23rd, 2003 - 2:59 pm
Diana, Princess of America?

NEW YORK (AP) -- She was a princess, yes -- the perfectly wrapped package of British royalty, complete with tiara, shining eyes and an all-too-photogenic smile.
But the United States found other, very U.S. reasons to watch, if not adore, Diana. Here was a woman who battled an eating disorder, attempted suicide, stole jet-set kisses and finally divorced her prince and became a single mother.
The things that so piqued British traditionalists made Diana's life resonate on the other side of the Atlantic, where foible so often augments halo and fairy-tale lives so often melt into dysfunction.
"We knew in this country that the Cinderella story was no longer supposed to be true," said Shari Roberts, a Penn State University assistant professor who studies how her countrymen perceive celebrity.
"Then we saw her. She was a princess for the post-feminist generation."
In the United States, the "People's Princess" made a lasting impression. Disappointed by latter-day Kennedys, left without vicarious royal glitter since Princess Grace, many looked to Diana as their princess by proxy.
"It's like we've lost one of our own political figures," said Joni Van Vliet, 18, of Bend, Oregon.
From the early years when they imitated her hairdo by the thousands, U.S. women watched Diana closely as the shy, big-eyed 20-year-old married Prince Charles. They watched her grow into a poised socialite, then a wilful activist who hugged AIDS patients and denounced landmines. When she visited the United States, they flocked around her.
"Not since Jackie O had someone come along who was accessible, had the common touch and married a prince," said Carol Wallace, managing editor of People Magazine.
"I think Americans are always captivated by how the other half lives," she said.
"And the unravelling was fascinating, too. It made her even more relevant to Americans."
British royalty, of course, has fascinated the United States from the revolution-era days of George III through Edward VIII's 1936 abdication to marry U.S. divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
And when actress and Philadelphia socialite Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, the United States won a stake in royalty that it lost when she died in a 1982 automobile accident. And of course, there were the Kennedys, Jackie and Jack, the royalty the United States so wanted to crown.
The obsession has continued. Diana's gowns were auctioned for charity in June in New York City. And just last week, hundreds of U.S. women entered the "Dress to Di For" sweepstakes -- a cable-television contest to win a $40,000 black silk gown worn by Diana during a 1992 visit to India.
"When Americans try to come up with metaphors for explaining ultimate celebrity, we keep coming up with royalty," said Richard Gid Powers, who runs the American Studies graduate program at the City University of New York.
"We invent Kennedys and Elvis Presleys and kings of pop and kings of soul," he said.
"It's one of those things that you can try to give up but there's about 10,000 years of momentum to consider."
Diana had U.S. ties as well: A great-grandmother was born in New York in 1857. Her distant cousins, said Boston genealogist Gary Roberts, who has traced her ancestry, include presidents John Adams and Franklin Roosevelt, actors Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn and writers Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"A piece of her was definitely American," Roberts said.
"It reinforced our special relationship with her."
I never knew that her great-grandmother was American and europe between I knew Diana loved visit American since she marriage and divorce.

I been grew-up in American and i love Europe lots because my favorite vacation is London, England because i met Prince Charles at Prince's trust my mom told to my family about i did met Prince Charles at Prince's trust but i do! but i felt like as Princess!

Sara Boyce
 
BLAME THE MONARCHY, NOT THE BUTLER
Prince Charles's former PR man Mark Bolland believes the Royals will fall unless they change quickly...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page....894&method=full

This disconnection between the people who elect the prime minister and the popular support for the Royal Family could - when the Queen dies - prove terminal for them.

Why will anybody see any point in an elderly, invisible Institution? The Royal Family will reap the bitter harvest from the seeds their courtiers are now sowing with their "do nothing say nothing" strategy.

Of course, I can hear the cries already that William is waiting in the wings to save the monarchy. Perhaps he will. But the force that most understood modern Britain, and could have guided him to do just that, perished in a car in Paris six years ago.

Since then, the Royal Family have done so little to sustain her memory that it's hard to believe they understand (or want to understand) her benefit to the monarchy, of which the most important was her ability to connect with people and to champion important causes in a focused way.



If the Royal Family want to learn lessons from Diana, it is still not too late. Why don't they build their own memorial to her?

Encourage William to honour his mother's memory in a public way? Why not just embrace what good she represented and her dynamic force for change?

The answer is that to do so would require visibility, energy, dynamism and an understanding of the way a modern, democratic society works in an age of global communication - all forces that frighten them.

Almost as much as they are frightened of the ghost of Diana.
 
That Paul Burrell is such a traitor. He knows how much I despise the media and how I would not tolerate anyone trashing my baby brother. When I reveal to all that I staged my own death, he will rue the day he was born. . . . .
 
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Does anyone else think theres something suspicious about the news surrounding Princess Diana lately? I mean, theres never been an investigation into her death and the day she died in the car crash all the evidence was destroyed as the french authorities and police etc cleared the crash scene within hours and reopened the road but if it was a normal person who died there the scene would of been check and the road close for at least a day not just a couple of hours. If it was just an accident surely none of that would of happen and they would have treated it as a normal car accident. I personly believe the letter that diana wrote that someone was planning to kill her, if it werent all planned surely there would of been an investigation or something to show it was an accident so far there has been nothing.

Who else thinks her death was suspicious? I'm sorry if some of you dont want to talk about her death and think we should leave her to rest in peace i think we should but if you think about it surely you would want to know the truth about what happen. I also think charles and camilla had somethink to do with it. All you have to do is look at the facts, e.g Everybody loved diana and hated charles and camilla theres loads i could say. I think theres a big cover up going on and i know i'm not the only one here that thinks this. I just wanna know other people opinions about this.
 
me too!

I been read in Diana's news and Paul Burrell's news and Princes William and Harry news makes me worse all weeks! makes me disappointment!

Sara Boyce
 
Of course there's been something weird about her death from the start. However, all you have to do is mention "conspiracy" or "paranoid" and everyone wants to say it was merely an accident. How horrible if there was the remotest chance someone could be labelled a "conspiracy nut". We can't have that now could we?

And so the fact that the ambulance got "lost" and it took them 30min to go the 4 miles to the hospital, but at the same time they somehow managed to lose their police escort, is never questioned. :wacko:
 
from Polfoto
 

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EX-BUTLER BURRELL TELLS PRINCES TO 'GROW UP'

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

What a confused butler. First he says that he would not have written the book had he had a call after the collapse of his theft trial at the Old Bailey last year.

"This is not my revenge, absolutely not," he told interviewer Fiona Bruce.

"It would have been a very different world if the telephone had rung and the boys had said 'Oh Paul we're sorry we couldn't help you during your trial, we just couldn't our hands were tied. Why don't you come down to London with Maria and the boys and we'll do something'."

Specifically on the book, he added: "Just one telephone call would have stopped it, one. Is that too much too ask - really?

"Having served the Royal Family for 21 years, is one telephone call too much? It's not."
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So it's payback time, but it has nothing to do with revenge. Now I'm confused. What a nightmare, a psychotic ex-butler with a narcissistic need for attention.
 
"Open wide the gates of shapeless shadows to reveal that which has been keeping me here
in this cold dank place; now going on my seventh year."

From the poem Ripply isle cry

Courtesy of Castlehigh of Éire
 
Princess Diana's love interest not to marry

Shyam Bhatia in London | November 01, 2003 01:42 IST

Respected heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, who reportedly had a romantic liaison with Princess Diana, had decided not to go through with an arranged marriage set up by his parents in Pakistan

Sources within the UK Pakistani community say Khan was to have wed a cousin in Lahore selected by his parents Rasheed and Naheed.

Hasnat, known to friends and family as Nathie bhai, was one of the nine suitors revealed by former royal butler Paul Butler who authored the controversial book A Royal Duty that earned him a staggering £300,000 in advance serialisation rights.

Out of all the men in Diana's life following her divorce, Khan is said to have been the most respectful and loyal to her memory and remains in touch with her two sons, Princes William and Harry.

When Diana visited Lahore in 1997 and called on her long time friend Jemima, wife of cricketer Imran Khan, she confided her love of Dr Khan and her desire to make their relationship more permanent.

Soon after she was pictured in a salwar kameez, she confided in Imran's sister how much she was in love with the London-based surgeon.

One story even has Diana urging Dr Khan to move in with her and live in Kensington Palace, but he refused to do so.

It was after Diana's death that the deeply religious Khan family selected a Lahore bride for Dr Khan and the nuptials were expected to go ahead within the next few months, but all that has now changed.

For his part Dr Khan has refused to discuss his personal life with the media, a decision that has earned him the respect of the British royal family, including Prince Charles and his two sons.
 
Hasnat Khan

From Corbis
 

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I really don't know what to think. My head says: it's a accident, but my intuition say something else...
There is so much unexplained, unsolved.....
I think it will stay a mystery....
 
Princess Diana never become older when she dies at 36 year old but she still spirit at 42 year old.

I think she still alives ? im hope so or not! which best older person when she married to Prince Charles because he older than her!

Im sure mostly people never knew that Diana never become older when she dies when Diana becomes 40 year old to remember about it!

what you think about Diana never become older? have any question about it!

Sara Boyce
 
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Originally posted by thissal@Oct 17th, 2003 - 12:10 pm
Thanks Jun for all the great pictures. Remember the good ole days of the Merry Windsor Women?
your welcome :flower:
 
nice pictures with Princess Diana and also Sarah Ferguson!

I think both been bring down with Umbrella to Ascot poke with another woman but HM the Queen 2 dont see the Princess Diana and Duchess of York bring the umbrella that very tricky! that called "sister-in-law naughty" you have pictures thread to show it but im serious about Princess Diana and Sarah, Duchess of York been tricky over Queen lots!

Sara Boyce
 
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