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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She was a RL fairy tale...
She was like us in so many ways--- shy, fighting her imaginary weight problems, in love with a man that didn't love her etc.... And yeah, she had her own demons in her psyche to fight. But we never saw her as a bad person...just normal if anything.
And we watched her grow up, fight the paparrazzi, raise two beautiful sons, wear gorgeous clothes etc...And still feel vunerable and unloved... A kindred spirit for many in the world.
I never fell for the Cinderella/Prince Charming fairy tale, but I always admired her fashion sense. Women admired her classic style. I also think she had "it" or innate charisma. She was a fascinating person to observe, and by many accounts, if you stayed on her good side, she was charming.
She was still a neurotic, immature woman who was on a trashy path with a trashy playboy when she died.
Hmmm, besides her husband, wasn't she committing adultery with another man, who was much more a cad than her husband?
"Reasonably attractive" means she wouldn't have had to beg me. ("Rich" means she wouldn't have looked twice at me.)
However, I in no way found her breathtakingly beautiful, or particularly smart for that matter. I have found all of the stories about her from the beginning to be tedious.
(I have no interest in that jug-eared doofus that she married or any of the other "Royals" eithr for that matter.)
Bingo! That was my guess - John-John. But I have one other in reserve.
Personally I think several things contribute to it. She was beautful, feminine, sweet-natured, glamorous, married to English royalty (Americans do love royalty as long as it's not in our own country), a loving mother to two handsome little princes, and a genuinely nice person. Later I think there was also lots of sympathy for her unhappiness in her marriage.
I don't believe she was a golddigger. She was a nursery school helper when she began dating Charles, not exactly the golddigging type of job. But she actually fell in the love with the lug, was born in the right set and was the virgin he needed. Once in the marriage, she did the ugly duckling routine to a man who would never love her, and being extremely insecure, began to look for ways to find fulfillment, satisfaction and love. With her looks, she had many, many paths open to her. She looked high because she could and she dreamed. I believe that the root of her dreams was being loved, respected and finally secure.
Did Anna Nicole finally ever get that old coot's $$?
Bubba would have obliged.
According to Wikipedia, they were both, supposedly, decended from the same Henry Spencer who died in 1478. But if you got fifty Englishmen into a subway car, you could probably find two or three who could make the same claim. Once you go back 500 years, family lines get awfully woven together.
In any case, George Washington's merit was not defined by the fact that he was a distant relation to some Brit who managed to scramble to the top of the pile 300 years before, and Princess Diana's merit was not defined by anything at all, as far as I can tell.
>>>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.>>>
I watched it too and got the picture book for Christmas. She was our "Cinderella" and our love never stopped, even after we grew up and realized how miserable "Cinderella" was. Then it turned into "poor Cindarelly". At least for me.
Sort of like Paris Hilton without the television show . . . or Tupac Shakur without the bullet holes.
Or something like that.
Whoever thought of that marketing technique for Disney should get a HUGE bonus.
I wouldn't lump her in with Paris Hilton. Nor would I say she was even close to a saint. She at least gave something back of herself. Paris is in it for Paris.
Perot?
No wait...FORBES!
>>>I'm with you here. I always thought of her as a spoiled brat. Good looking but not the beauty she's portrayed and sexually profligate. She was not a role model, she was more a poster girl for glam tramps.>>>
I would hardly call Princess Diana a "glam tramp".
She was a real life normal girl, a kindergarten teacher, who would be (were it not for Camilla Horse Face Slut) the Queen of England. It's what dreams are made of for little girls everywhere!!
She was a silly, inconsequential, twit.
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