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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Althorp has been home to the Spencer family for nearly 500 years. Since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Althorp has become a house known across the world, but before that event Althorp was also known to connoisseurs on account of the magnificence of the artefacts and the beauty of the setting. Its house and grounds are open each year as well as an exceptional exhibition celebrating the life of the late Princess. All profits from these openings are given to charity.
Many thanks gopwinsin04 for the pretty pictures.
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Poor Dodi Al Fayed. I too had someone else in my life.
I miss her as well, and how I wish she had lived and could have been happy. Diana has had a terrible smear campaign against her by the Palace, not the Queen, so that Charles would be free to marry Camilla. She was a lovely yet sad young lady, who was used terribly by Charles, who must feel some guilt now. RIP Diana.
...but we can only speculate....
Please, tell me where you shop!!
While few have the grace, etc. of Diana, I think a good 40%+ of the general population is more pretty.
Good to know. I never believed it in the first place. But with the MSM it's hard to tell truth from fiction. The Diana I like to remember is the time she and Fergie were goosing everyone at the races with their bumbershoots.
And just as a meaningless PS, while the name looks like "Al-Thorp", the pronunciation is actually "Ol-trup".
Thank you Friend for the pictures. They are beautiful indeed.
>>>LOL. I was just kidding. I never actually wanted to be either. Well, aside from becoming Mrs. Jon Baker. Or maybe Mrs. Parker Stevenson, with a fling with Shawn Cassidy on the side.>>>
I would have settled quite nicely for Ms. Rick Springfield. ;o)
The stable quarters at Althrop!
... not a meaningless PS, at all!One of the things that has always fascinated me about the Brits is their quirky pronunciation of names, e.g. Cholmondeley [Chumley]; Taliaferro [Toliver]; Laughlin [Loffland]; and countless others.
SoS
IIRC, the temple looking structure on the island was bought from another site [unrelated to Althorp] and moved to the little island in the lake at Althorp.
SoS
Don't forget Featherstonehaugh, which comes out as "Fanshawe". Or Auchinleck, which comes out "Affleck". Maybe Ben is Scottish?
How could I forget ... especially Featherstonehaugh [Fanshawe]! Such fun names!
Check this out. Apparently the Spencer family occupied another home in St. James Court. Sorry I don't know how to post pics, so here's the link:
http://www.spencerhouse.co.uk/
Thanks for the link. I knew of Spencer House and what a fabulous place it was. It would, indeed, take Rothschild wealth to do such a restoration. These old houses --- call them what you will --- will eat up the fortunes and break the financial backs of many families.
SoS
That hasn't prevented her brother from being a sleazy cad.
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