Elan
Aristocracy
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2018
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- Sheridan
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- United States
He doesn't really sound like a guy indifferent to publicity about his life back then with Diana. When the moment arrived and 'News of the World' dropped the bombshell, Army brass of course, took notice. So one day an adjutant took him off to the side, handing him the front section, pages long, article.
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"I looked at the front page that read: "I LOST MY LOVER TO DI". There was a picture of Diana, and beside her an old girlfriend who had written to me in the Gulf.
"I just froze. This was the moment I had been dreading for more than four years, and it was more heart stopping than anything I had come up against in the past weeks. I took the paper out to the desert to read it. Today I am a little more acquainted with the ways of the tabloid press and accept much of it as pure fiction. At the time I innocently believed what I read, that Emma Stewardson had gone to the News of the World, to say that she and I were lovers (this was not true -- we had been lovers but the relationship was long over).
"There were pages of the stuff..Emma had been dressed up to look like Diana -- same hair, jewellry, and pose. I wondered what had possessed her to do this. She had often been changeable in her moods when I knew her but she had never been downright spiteful.
'I had to talk to Diana. This was not at all easy from the desert but there was a Ptarmigan field telephone that linked up with other connecting nodes which could eventually be patched through to London.
'..I told her I had just seen News of the World. She said she had seen it, too. I told her I was terribly sorry -- I wanted to know what the reaction had been there. She said nobody was saying much. She said she wasn't too worried about it. In retrospect she seemed remarkably cool. She hoped I wasn't getting too much stick about it. I said my worst concern was just sitting here in the desert not being able to do anything to help. Diana told me not to be worried and we both sort of reassured each other that it would blow over and everything would be all right. But we both knew this would not be so."
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"I looked at the front page that read: "I LOST MY LOVER TO DI". There was a picture of Diana, and beside her an old girlfriend who had written to me in the Gulf.
"I just froze. This was the moment I had been dreading for more than four years, and it was more heart stopping than anything I had come up against in the past weeks. I took the paper out to the desert to read it. Today I am a little more acquainted with the ways of the tabloid press and accept much of it as pure fiction. At the time I innocently believed what I read, that Emma Stewardson had gone to the News of the World, to say that she and I were lovers (this was not true -- we had been lovers but the relationship was long over).
"There were pages of the stuff..Emma had been dressed up to look like Diana -- same hair, jewellry, and pose. I wondered what had possessed her to do this. She had often been changeable in her moods when I knew her but she had never been downright spiteful.
'I had to talk to Diana. This was not at all easy from the desert but there was a Ptarmigan field telephone that linked up with other connecting nodes which could eventually be patched through to London.
'..I told her I had just seen News of the World. She said she had seen it, too. I told her I was terribly sorry -- I wanted to know what the reaction had been there. She said nobody was saying much. She said she wasn't too worried about it. In retrospect she seemed remarkably cool. She hoped I wasn't getting too much stick about it. I said my worst concern was just sitting here in the desert not being able to do anything to help. Diana told me not to be worried and we both sort of reassured each other that it would blow over and everything would be all right. But we both knew this would not be so."
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