"The Way We Were: Remembering Diana" - Paul Burrell

[Duchess]

good points sassi. burrell will one day run out of "secrets" to reveal and what will he do then? i hope he's saving all that money he's making off diana.

[bbb]

thanks for sharing all your knowledge on these confusing (to me) connections jo of palentine, i always enjoy your input.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Internatio...2422021&page=1
this article is a repeat of most of the posts but the alarming story was the burial of a child in a garden!!!!
*quote from article "Diana asked him to help her by burying the stillborn child of a friend, Rosa Monckton, on the grounds of Kensington Palace"
*"It was then that she told him, according to the book, "The only problem … is that people will find this baby one day and say it was mine."
am i the only one appalled that people would bury their child like this in an unmarked grave!!!!!!! i just can't believe it
as far as i'm concerned they need to get the old chopping block out of the museum and be done with his head.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by bbb

but the alarming story was the burial of a child in a garden!!!!
*quote from article "Diana asked him to help her by burying the stillborn child of a friend, Rosa Monckton, on the grounds of Kensington Palace"
.

Has he offered any proof at all that they buried this supposed still born baby, did no one notice that Rosa had been pregnant and now was not, after all she was regularly part of the society scene?

Still, I think it was probably Rosa, that reminded him that he was not Diana's lover - just a servant and not a very good one at that.

[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

Has he offered any proof at all that they buried this supposed still born baby, did no one notice that Rosa had been pregnant and now was not, after all she was regularly part of the society scene?

Still, I think it was probably Rosa, that reminded him that he was not Diana's lover - just a servant and not a very good one at that.

That's the only reason I can imagine why someone would do such an infamous thing as to tell such stories about a friend of Diana. I mean, what can anyone do about it? Noone believes for a moment that the queen is going to let search the gardens of Kensington Palace for a baby skeleton and that they are doing DNA-test to find out whose baby it was. So it's a story that is now out in the public and can neither be verified nor proofable be rejected. The only thing one can do is not think about it.

But it's an interesting view into the media scene - how they all give a platform to Burrell for his people bashing and how only rarely someone actually says sonething against it.

[sassie]

Rosa Monckton's response:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...2430772&page=1

[bbb]

she isn't denying it, so it must be true. sick sick sick the buried pets in my garden at least each have a brick to mark their spot as a memorial. i'm sorry this is just weirdest thing to me. i know my part of Texas you can't bury people on your property. my grandfather wanted to be buried on family land (not in town in the country)and it wasn't no it was H*** NO. some people thought we'll do it anyway then found out it was up to 18 YEARS of jail for it.

[Jackswife]

I personally wish that Burrell would take his ill-gotten gains and shut the up. I know Diana was far from perfect but I hate seeing her being used and exploited like this from beyond the grave. Burrell has shown to be nothing more than a mercenary pretending to be a "friend" when he is obviously nothing of the sort. Rubbish!

[bbb]

that sound you heard jackswife was a collective yell of "you go girl" a commentator was quoted as saying, looks like he was her rock and she is his pension. shame on him SHAME perhaps a write in campaign to bring back the block for certain deserving people. where does he live? i'm surprised some really far out diana fan hasn't tried to find him if you know what i mean

[Sammy]

I must say I'm surprised at the outcry regarding this story.
Not because of the pure tackiness of it, but because as one who has collected on Diana for 25 years, I've heard this story before! It was old news as far as I knew. I wish I could remember where I read it, but it seems to me it was Rosa herself who originally told the story.

[Duchess]

Originally Posted by Sammy

I must say I'm surprised at the outcry regarding this story.
Not because of the pure tackiness of it, but because as one who has collected on Diana for 25 years, I've heard this story before! It was old news as far as I knew. I wish I could remember where I read it, but it seems to me it was Rosa herself who originally told the story.

sammy i'm with you....i'd heard this story before but also can't remember which book i'd read it in. something tells me it was morton's but i could be wrong.

[Duchess]

Originally Posted by bbb

thanks for sharing all your knowledge on these confusing (to me) connections jo of palentine, i always enjoy your input.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Internatio...2422021&page=1
this article is a repeat of most of the posts but the alarming story was the burial of a child in a garden!!!!
*quote from article "Diana asked him to help her by burying the stillborn child of a friend, Rosa Monckton, on the grounds of Kensington Palace"
*"It was then that she told him, according to the book, "The only problem … is that people will find this baby one day and say it was mine."
am i the only one appalled that people would bury their child like this in an unmarked grave!!!!!!! i just can't believe it
as far as i'm concerned they need to get the old chopping block out of the museum and be done with his head.

what really gets me is that he keeps saying how he's "waving the flag for her" and now that william and harry haven't patted him on the back he's taking jabs at them. he's just can't get it thru his head that there's no need for anyone to wave the flag for her. if he calls cashing in on her memory "waving the flag" i'd hate to see what he'd do if she'd sacked him and he was
calling these books what they really are...his cash cow!

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by bbb

she isn't denying it, so it must be true.

This was her response and to me it speaks of someone who is absolutely horrified that Burrell would make up something so vile, added to which Diana, Rosa and Burrell would have been subject to prosecution for the illegal disposal of a body, failure to notify the authorities of a birth, failure to obtain or register a death, the list goes on and on.

"Her first reaction was, "I'm utterly appalled." Monckton went on to call Burrell "unbelievable" and added, "I'm so angry."
She would not comment on the reported secret palace ceremony itself and fell silent for several seconds. Then Monckton said that if she said anything else, "I will just burst into tears," adding that "I do not want to speak about this further."

[sassie]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

This was her response and to me it speaks of someone who is absolutely horrified that Burrell would make up something so vile, added to which Diana, Rosa and Burrell would have been subject to prosecution for the illegal disposal of a body, failure to notify the authorities of a birth, failure to obtain or register a death, the list goes on and on.

It's not illegal-says quite clearly in the article that:
"The Rev. Allen Morris, secretary to the Department of Christian Life and Worship at the Catholic Bishops Conference in London, said, "It is perfectly legal to take place in private grounds."
He added that since Father Sherbrooke presided over the funeral, it would have been with the Catholic church's permission.
Jeremy Smith, owner of London's Abbey Funeral Directors, told ABC News, "You can bury someone anywhere, with consent of the landowner and environment officers for the borough — because of the water table — and so long as it is recorded on deeds for the property." Smith added, "It must not be consecrated ground, though, and if it is, one needs a faculty from the C. of E. [Church of England]."

It wasn't Rosa who first told the story, it was Simone Simmons in one of her books. Rosa Monckton has never deneid it.

It's simply particularly distasteful, especially to Rosa, that Burrell saw the need to relate the story yet again in his new book.

[Duchess]

i know i didn't read it in simone simmons book as i've never read hers...darn i wish i could remember where it was. it might have been shadows of a princess?

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by sassie

It's not illegal-says quite clearly in the article that:
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1. You have to, by law register a birth - if the baby was delivered at home, there would have to have been an autopsy before a death certificate was issued, to ensure the child was not murdered or died through medical neglect.
2. You have to, by law register a death if anyone but the hospital is going to dispose of a 'stillborn' baby.
3. You have to, by law have permission from the Environmental Agency
4. You have to have the permission of the landowner and the relevent council
Before you can bury anyone, on private ground or otherwise you have to have a death certificate.

Does anyone seriously believe that none of them were seen, that anyone in their right mind would do that to the body of a dead child? My goodness you do have a low opinion of Diana to believe that!

[sassie]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

1. You have to, by law register a birth - if the baby was delivered at home, there would have to have been an autopsy before a death certificate was issued, to ensure the child was not murdered or died through medical neglect.
2. You have to, by law register a death if anyone but the hospital is going to dispose of a 'stillborn' baby.
3. You have to, by law have permission from the Environmental Agency
4. You have to have the permission of the landowner and the relevent council
Before you can bury anyone, on private ground or otherwise you have to have a death certificate.

Does anyone seriously believe that none of them were seen, that anyone in their right mind would do that to the body of a dead child? My goodness you do have a low opinion of Diana to believe that!

Do you know, for a fact, that Rosa didn't do anything of those things required by law?

And, no, I don't have a low opinion of Diana, or Rosa. None of us know what the circumstances were, where the alleged grave is located, what permissions Rosa obtained legally, who saw what or where or when. Unless Rosa Monckton offers her side of the issue, we'll never know-and that's just the way it should be, since it really isn't anyone else's business how or when or where she buried her child. That's a highly personal thing, and it's sleazy of Paul Burrell to relate the story, true or not.

[sassie]

Originally Posted by Duchess

i know i didn't read it in simone simmons book as i've never read hers...darn i wish i could remember where it was. it might have been shadows of a princess?

No, I just looked, it wasn't in Shadows of a Princess.

Simmons also spoke of it in a few interviews, and there was some little mention in the press of the story being in her book-and then it faded away. I imagine not even the tabloid press really wanted to delve into the details of the whole thing. Possibly, you might have read it in one of the second hand stories?

I've never read Simmons' books, but I know that story was in one of them, because she answered questions about it.