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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I've heard the same.
One of these things is not like the others....
What a freakin' golddigger.
My cousin, Vinnie.
Sounds like small talk of the Rich and Famous to me.
Like when Marlyn Monroe speculated to Albert Einstein that they should have children together, because with her looks and his brains, the children would be unstoppable. To which Albert Einstein reportedly replied, "Yes, my dear, but suppose they got my looks and your brains, then where would they be?"
People say these things. I don't think they really mean them. This former butler has been making a good living off the Princess Diana franchise for a long, long time, and is now scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Given the story's appeal to women, I'm sure all three networks gave or will give it plenty of air time.
Thankfully, I'll miss it.
She was a fantasy. Early on, a picture of innocence. People wanted the fantasy to continue on and were even willing to ignore many shortcomings to make it do so. Then she died. She was the fairy-tale princess and the psyche is disturbed that rather than live happily ever after she had such a sad ending.
And the term billionaire was probably not precisely used (even though his Mom was married to Ari).
>>>I'm not trying to trash the thread, I understand that passing it by is an option. But this is a legit question. What is the fascination with Diana? It's like a huge cult. I just don't understand, could someone enlighten me?>>>
Real life soap opera.
And for many girls like me, Diana was a hero to them.
I don't. She was reasonably attractive and had good teeth for a Brit.
Other than that she is at the top of the list of the incredibly over-hyped.
Lady Di’s one-night stand with John F Kennedy Jr. was pure chemistry
Category: SOFTPEDIA NEWS :: World
Princess Diana enjoyed a moment of pure lust with J.F.K Jr., according to a forthcoming book written by Simone Simmons
She was, however, subject to the Law of Conservation of Momentum, apparently.
I think sandbar said it for a lot of us. Diana was a real princess when we were little girls. I remember getting up in the middle of the night to watch the wedding. It was Cinderella come to life. And until one grows up and realizes what is reality and fantasy you tend to hang on to the fantasy part. The Prince turning into the frog woke most of us up pretty early.
She had it all in a material sense and yet was so unhappy and lonely. I'm sure all women thought wow she has it all - I did when I would see her trotting around the globe looking so beautiful and being treated so crummy by "big ears" only added to her alure. She was a lot like Jackie Kennedy, that same lonliness and shyness and breeding. I only wish she could have seen her boys grow up. I'm sure she would have finally found peace and happiness.
I just loved it when they compared her to Mother Teresa...
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"She's been a huge fan of Jackie Onassis for years, and a huge admirer, too, of Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton.
One of these things is not like the others....
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LOL! My thoughts exactly when I read it!
Howard Stern?
"I'm not trying to trash the thread, I understand that passing it by is an option. But this is a legit question. What is the fascination with Diana? It's like a huge cult. I just don't understand, could someone enlighten me?"
And me, too. Plus, will there ever come a time when people like Burrell will stop trying to make a buck (pound?) off her?
In a great stroke of good fortune for our nation, nobody is descendant from George Washingon.
How much you want to bet they threw in the Clinton one? She's like the "which one doesn't fit" thing!!!!!!!!
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