Jo of Palatine
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Your very thoughtful post has brought me full circle. I don’t like Diana, I never identified with her, nor did I ever admire her. I have been very clear on what I’ve thought of her actions, but here we are talking about someone who was flesh and blood. She paid the ultimate price for all the wrongs she’s done, when most of us get many chances, let’s say sadly it’s no one’s fault. It’s not my place to ask/say, but have mercy on her soul, she’s dead is that not enough? How depressing...
You surely have a point here but it is not our fault that the inquest has happened but through it, we have a chance to hear for the first time people's reminiscensing of Diana not filtered through journalists or author's of books but directly. And I think it's very interesting to hear especially the witnesses who have not spoken up before but do so now to help, those who never made a farthing even though they could. Myriah Daniels explained that in an interesting way: what happened to her once it became known that she had been a part of the company of people surrounding Diana and Dodi on their last journey:
I would like for you to be aware of the fact
13 that what I did with Channel 5, "Last days of
14 a Princess" --after Scotland Yard identified me in
15 their report as having been there, because nobody knew
16 I was there, and I started getting lots of calls, people
17 tracking me down, and people were offering money to me
18 right, left and sideways, and the bottom line was -- as
19 I asked "Who are you and what are you doing?"
20 Channel 5 was the only one -- it was Discovery
21 Channel, the Learning Channel, they were the only ones
22 who did not offer me money, but they offered me
23 something that they did on a documentary on World War II
24 and on 911 and I actually was impressed with what they
25 did in their re-animation of an event and I went there
and I did that. I was not paid for it.
If you compare that to Simone Simmons, who "doesn't have a clue" how much she made from her books - Come on!
So I think this is a unique chance to follow the inquest and to talk about the picture that emerges of the princess, how it fits in with the information given by the authors of books and journalists. We're always trying to discuss here on using halfways reliable sources so this is a chance not to miss out. Even though you're right: she is dead, she cannot defend herself but she was a person of global history and thus is an object of historical research.