Posted on 09/12/2006 12:19:42 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
Diana Wanted to Become America's First Lady
Paul Burrell with Princess Diana. (ABC News)
By KATE SNOW
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2006 — In his new blockbuster book, "The Way We Were," Paul Burrell says that Princess Diana had ambitions to become the first lady of the United States.
"She knew a billionaire in America, and she suggested to him that if they were together. … His yearning to run in politics could lead to the White House, that one day she could be the first lady and she'd visit Britain on a state visit," Diana's former butler and confidant said to "Good Morning America's" Kate Snow in an exclusive interview.
Burrell said that in the mid-1990s Diana had dreamed of following in the footsteps of stylish first ladies.
"She's been a huge fan of Jackie Onassis for years, and a huge admirer, too, of Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton. But Jackie Onassis had the edge. And she fantasized about redecorating the White House," Burrell said.
"It wasn't a fantasy. It could have been a reality. It really could. They would have been a golden couple."
While the mystery man in New York had political connections, he was not the love of Princess Diana's life.
Neither was Prince Charles or Dodi Al Fayed, Burrell said, who dismisses claims that Diana was engaged to Fayed when they died in a Paris car crash.
"She was not going to marry Dodi Al Fayed, because there was someone else in her life. She had a soul mate, and she'd fallen in love with someone else," he told Snow.
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Different strokes for different folks. I am sure Mrs. Gridlock could pick out an appropriate match for me, should the situation arise. Not likely to, however.
LOL!!! I just can't recall the original song title but the singer had an Elvis-like voice.
She should'a married Mellencamp... together, they'd have a functioning brain.
How about Monica Blewinsky?
His Royal Chuckness has mama and insecurity issues. Camilla is maternal and unconditionally accepting of him.
Steve Forbes? Bloomberg? Trump? Perot?
Thanks for the note.
I would have enjoyed seeing your high school!
I think Joe Pesci would have made a swell husband for Diana. You know, he had that "regular guy" look!
I don't understand the fascination with Diane either or with Jackie Onassis. I cannot think of anything truly noteworthy that either of them did. Maybe it was their shallowness, along with looking cute and perky and wearing pretty clothes, that made it easy for people identify with them.
I think you are reading too much into it. He needed and heir and a spare and Camilla was married. He never loved Diana at all. Unfortunately, she didn't know that until it was too late.
6 months of Greta should beat this story to death.
She wasn't significant at all (ie. she was just a fat, interchangeable bimbo used by Slick - no significance to her whatever). Diana, OTOH is another story...
>>>Whoever thought of that marketing technique for Disney should get a HUGE bonus.>>>
That's because every (almost) little girl wants to be a princess.
Beautiful. Messed up. Very high maintenance.
My suspicion: The fantasy of "the perfect life" meets "really she just like me."
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...but Diana Spencer had 'it.' That intangible quality, aura, sense of being...that set her (and very few others) apart. Carolyn Bisette was attractive yes, Princess Diana was in a league unto herself. The camera loved Diana in the same way it loved Marilyn Monroe...one of a kind.
Agreed....1000%.
Messed up. Very high maintenance.
Agreed.But in the 60 minutes that I would have wanted,these things wouldn't have represented a problem.
I think.
Unlike Diana, she played a key role in the demise of a U.S. president, and the establishment of said president's legacy as a goofball with a serious personality disorder and a bad disco haircut.
The Kennedy/Bisette marriage came after the death of Princess Diana.
You are probably right. Trump always says that she was very beautiful. Once or twice and I probably wouldn't remember, but I probably heard him say it over twenty times forit to stick in my thick skull.
>>>Nancy Reagan married a Democrat. But then he wised up!>>>
Too bad she couldn't raise a Republican.
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