Let's stop the bickering before this thread gets closed. Back on topic!!!
Hear Hear!
As I voted "{ Other"and an explanation was requested,here it is.
On Diana.She never was my next best thing instead of a pet she seems to be to many others.
Remembering the day of their engagement,I recall I thought;
"What is this suppose to be?" A "lightweight",unfit for her future role.
With the years,one saw her change,elevate from a schoolkid to a young woman,into a hysterical belated adolescent,a state
of mind she never got away from.A loose canon and flimsy superficial girl who acted while camera's buzzed,but other then that,
wasn't halve as special as the St.Di diehards would like you to believe.
But then that comes/came with that silly cry for celebrities,for superficial/fake/plastic stuff/people that reached hysterical proportions really,focussing on Diana.The Panorama interview hit us all like a brick,and god,was she good,she knew exactly how to play the camera's,
work her eyelashes for her,her "innocent" appearance,all of that and then some.
Her causes,yes,they did raise awareness,got to give her that.
She could focuss on a cause for as long as it took,and certainly while camera's were rolling,
I never lost that feel of "fake" watching her.
She made an impact nonetheless.
Nevertheless,I recall I heard about an accident in Paris late that night in '97.I never went to bed but watched/listened to the BBC as,
little by little,news broke.
And was really devastated to learn they both had died,she,I 've always felt,due to a sloppy Paris ambulance system.Why drive from
one end of Paris at the Pont d'Alma to the other end while other hospitals were so much closer by?I've never understood that,
it was so unnescesary.
What developed then was the most unheard of display of grief.
Well,it should have been,but right from the very start that sunday morning,I recall the BBC's Duncan Kennedy,and Jenny Bond,
using phrases as if a saint had just left us and talked each and everyone into a sort of media hysterics unknown to history and
a vox populi ad nauseam.
There was immense grief,mixed with,what I saw/see,as immense fake as well,and it often was not as much the grief for Diana's
passing as well as their own frustrations or 5 minutes of fame or whatever,poured out into the streets of London.Appalling.
Those of you who were old enough at the time,will understand when I say "it chooked me up to watch the funeral".Everything,from the moment her coffin left Kensington Palace to the Abbey,to the boys joining the procession,the millions lining the streets in silence.That
made a lasting impact.No/one in his right mind wants anyone to die that young,but no/one could ever have imagined this outpoor either.
It was perplexing really,beyond anything known to men before,except for JFK´s assassination and funeral,if you were old enough,and I was.Felt I couldn´t breath at times,so chooked up by the images on tv,the service at the Abbey,all.
And all that for a girl I never thought was fit for her role at all.She made an impact,even on me.
