The Late Princess Diana news thread 4: September 2006 - April 2007

[TheTruth]

Yesterday night there was a TV show on the twenty events that shocked the french. The death of Diana was one of them. And an other thing really surprised me, the rate of suicide in the UK increased of 17 % in the week following her death ! It's madness !

[Elspeth]

Well, it may be madness, but it's pretty well documented:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7271/1246/c

[gfg02]

Diana; Daily Mail admits ‘we did it’
NewsBiscuit: Diana; Daily Mail admits ‘we did it’

A royal tour: Princess Diana exhibit makes stop at Cleveland museum
Yahoo! Groups

[sirhon11234]

Its kinda a surprise that the Daily Mail would admit that they had a hand in Diana's death.

[ysbel]

The News Biscuit is a comedy website - not a news website:. They wrote the piece about the Daily Mail admitting they did it as a satire.

NewsBiscuit: About NewsBiscuit

Here what it says on its About NewsBiscuit page:

About NewsBiscuit
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[sirhon11234]

My bad, I misinterputed the article. And I usually don't do that.

[gfg02]

The Night It Was A Fair Cop For Diana & Fergie

The Royalist - The Night It Was A Fair Cop For Diana & Fergie

[sirhon11234]

lol the article was soo funny. I guess it was apprioate for Sarah and Diana to behave like that back then. But now Fergie seems very immature.

[gfg02]

the Diana Memorial Swamp
Mirror.co.uk - News - Top Stories - THE DIANA MEMORIAL SWAMP

[sirhon11234]

They need to either clean up that fountain immediately. Or tear down that fountain and buld a suitable memorial to The Princess of Wales.

[gfg02]

Ten years gone by, yet Diana haunts palace
ContraCostaTimes.com | 03/18/2007 | Ten years gone by, yet Diana haunts palace

[sirhon11234]

They really need to do something about that fountain. But I don't know how Diana's ghost haunts Kensington Palace. There are just alot of reminders of The Princess since that was her royal home.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by gfg02

Ten years gone by, yet Diana haunts palace

Strange headline, there is nothing about any haunting in the article, just that there is an exhibition of pictures and old clothes. Someone should also point out that if any children can get through to the fountain, they are not allowed to paddle in the slime.

[sirhon11234]

The problem is that we don't need a statue or a fountain to commerate the memory of The Princess of Wales. Having a children's hospital, medical center or a hospice named in her honor would have been suffice. But no, we have a fountain where the water has slime in it. I believe her memorial fund was in charge of building that fountain. Why haven't they done anything to clean it up?

[Elspeth]

You may well ask. There's no reason why this water feature shouldn't work perfectly; there are others all over the world which do just fine. Goodness knows why they chose such a clunker for this one, and goodness knows why they aren't trying to fix it now they know what its problems are.

[sassie]

Originally Posted by sirhon11234

The problem is that we don't need a statue or a fountain to commerate the memory of The Princess of Wales. Having a children's hospital, medical center or a hospice named in her honor would have been suffice. But no, we have a fountain where the water has slime in it. I believe her memorial fund was in charge of building that fountain. Why haven't they done anything to clean it up?

There already is such a hospital-the NHS children's hospital in Birmingham is named for Diana. The Queen even attended the re-dedication ceremony.

To me, the playground in Kensington Gardens is a wonderfully appropriate memorial.

The original concept of the fountain-the water representing the turbulent and peaceful periods of Diana's life, etc-was lovely. It sure didn't translate well to reality, though.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by Elspeth

Goodness knows why they chose such a clunker for this one, and goodness knows why they aren't trying to fix it now they know what its problems are.

The trustees of the Diana fund do not pay for it's upkeep, they didn't even pay all the money to build it. To repair it, they would have to take the whole thing down and nobody wants to pay out for that.

[sirhon11234]

Oh, I didn't know that there was a children's hospital named after her.
Well I sent an e-mail to the memorial fund expressing my dissapointment of the state of the fountain. I hope they e-mail me back.