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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Exactly,
Bessett looked like a bleached out white rabbit....
I remember seeing the wedding pictures and thinking "Dear Lord in heaven! That gorgeous man married human wall paper paste!"
GW is not known ever to have sired a child ... he has never even been rumoured to have sired a child ...
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That's one of my favorite pictures.
She was always welcome to be my First Lady.
Betcha believe in the Easter Bunny too. ;)
She got too thin and over-bleached her hair. There are pictures of her when she was 10-15 pounds heavier and her hair was more brown in which she was quite striking and beautiful.
My husband, who has a keen eye and great appreciation for a pretty woman, never thought she was pretty at all. He has always said that she was incredibly photogenic [which is not the same as beautiful] and that, any day, he would take any woman with a brain in her head over a woman who was self-described as being "thick as two planks" [Brit for not very bright] ...
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Oh who gives a crap about what Diana Spencer "wanted". She was a mildly attractive upper class chick who hit the jackpot. Other than that she was a nitwit, and why anyone should still care about what she thought or desired is quite beyond me. Will the fascination with this utterly insignificant person ever end?
Not to be old fashioned, but how can anyone view a "one off" one nighter as a "romantic affair" ... even if it did happen, which is unlikely. All of these things are said about people who are dead. It happens all the time. It is sheer exploitation of people who are no longer around to set the record straight. Why sully their reputations in this manner except for personal enrichment? Admirer or not, I wish shameless opportunists would let these people go and allow them to rest in peace.
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Warren Buffet...lol.
Hmmmmmmm. Never saw anyone riding a horse in a ball gown yet ... LOL
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Already addressed in earlier resposes...
Good lord! She actually has features there!
When she married John John, I honestly was flabergasted....she was so pale, thin and you couldn't see her facial features...
Eybrows, eyelashes, cheekbones etc just washed together.
Honestly, she had to have gobs of personality or be great in the sack, because she was the ugliest bride I'd ever seen.
George Soros (gag) comes to mind.
Her Butler is trying to ramp up U.S. Sales having us all speculating as we are doing here.
I really didn't like Carolyn's wedding dress either. It was a silk sheathy sort of thing with a tulle wrap resting on her arms. It was just so plain. Designer yes, but plain.
He could always change the laws.
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