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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"Soros was not native born."
Kissinger was not native born.
Madeline Albright was not native born.
And HOW MANY others?
Interesting, isn't it.
Diana is no gold digger, baby. She's a Spencer...as in Spencer-Churchill...one of the oldest aristicratic families in Britain. Go to althorp.com to see her family's ancestral home. Althorp has the most extensive (and expensive) art collections in Britain. In fact, the Spencers have more English blood than the Windsors.
Please, stop with the facts. People think she's just a commoner like the rest of us working class stiffs.
I do believe there is a king's mistress in her ancestry in the last 100-150 years. She married one of her own.
I think JFK would have been proud to be the step-grandfather of King William.
Diana would have been a cousin by marriage to Arnold, to boot!
I oughta write my *own* book - a historical novel of "what might have been."
Hint: on page 305, Diana finds Bin Ladin
"Hint: on page 305, Diana finds Bin Ladin"
Just think how history might have been different if Diana had fallen in love with Saudi multimillionaire and headcase Osama bin Hidin, rather than Egyptian-Saudi multimillionaire (okay, Dad is) and cokehead Dodi al-Fayed.
Better, but I still don't think she makes Di look like a man, as the poster I originally relpied to stated.
Neither is a great beauty to my eye, I see many prettier at the grocery store, but Di had a way about herself that was worthy of the Princess title.
LOL! I always thought the same thing. She had a beautiful face though...until she opened her mouth and spoke! What a voice!
Diana is buried at Althorp Castle right?
This guy is a nut; don't believe a word he says.
On the grounds, yes. It's close to a pond there on the grounds.
Althorp is a rather grand house but is not a castle.Diana is supposed to be buried on an island in a lake at Althorp. It is where the family always buried their dogs. Seriously.
SoS
At least my "offending" post made sense. LOL!
SoS
Grand indeed. Not a castle, huh? Could we call it a manor???
Certainly it is grand, indeed --- but not a castle and very possibly not a manor, either.
Now, I have seen it ... all! LOL
I was trying to be funny about the 'manor' comment, actually. However, as you say, words do have meaning. In that vein, in the U.S., Althrop would certainly be considered an estate. Have you seen photos of Althorp?
Yes, I have seen many beautiful pictures of Althorp. Among many other fascinating things about Althorp, there is a really remarkable old dairy with cream and sage colored Wedgwood tiles. It is a fabulous property. Nothing I have said about it is meant to detract from that incontrovertible fact.
Americans would vote for a muzzie??? Wow, that girl was seriously deranged.That man, Burrell said on "GMA," was a heart surgeon
in London named Hasnat Khan. It was love at first sight for the princess, he explained. "They met by accident. The princess was visiting a friend at
the Royal Brompton Hospital. The elevator was about
to close. Someone put their foot in the door. The doors
open, and the princess saw a man in his scrubs." "She looked at him and instantly knew that he was the one.
She said to me later, 'Paul, I just knew. He was
drop-dead gorgeous.'"
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