Posted on 09/13/2006 9:19:21 AM PDT by presidio9
A Kennedy-crazed Princess Diana was obsessed with becoming America's first lady - and plotted to use her torrid affair with a mysterious, older, New York billionaire to pull off the sensational scheme, the tragic royal's butler reveals in his explosive new book. "She had it all dreamed out in her head - how she would redecorate the presidential apartment and become 'the new Jackie O,' " Paul Burrell writes in "The Way We Were: Remembering Diana," which hit bookstores yesterday.
Despite persistent rumors, Diana never had an affair with John F. Kennedy Jr., whom she considered intellectually challenged, Burrell scoffs.
Instead, "she had built up an exceptionally close relationship with a politically well-connected billionaire" - a silver-haired, 50-something, Manhattan bachelor she met at Wimbledon in 1994 - and the princess "felt that he was capable of running for office," the ex-servant asserts.
"With me beside him and him beside me, how could we fail?" the ex-servant says a starry-eyed Diana told him.
"She'd been a huge fan of Jackie Onassis for years and a huge admirer of Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton, too. But Jackie Onassis
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Hey Hildy....long time no see.
Just wondering....who do you admire?
In my life regarding historical figures its been very limited with number one being Benjamin Franklin.
Later years (meaning years i have been alive since 1967) of course, Ronald Reagan.
Of the living, I have a good friend who has battled brain cancer since 1998 and I admire everything about her.
Lady Diana met a sad end however its her hangers on who keep this crap in the media.
She's dead. Who friggin' cares?
Imagine how many women will claim an affair with the Bent one after he passes.
We will have our very own Princess Diana when the time comes.
Good point.
OK, I read DI to mean Drill Instructor. I think if we have drill instructors who dream of being Jackie, we have troubles.
Most of the stories would likely be valid.
I want to be Jackie Onassis
I want to wear a pair of dark sunglasses
I want to be Jackie Onassis...oh yeah
Oh Yeah
I want to be Jackie Onassis oh yeah....
Oh-o-oh I'd be happy to be Jackie
I'd be happy to be Jackie
I'd be happy to be Jackie
Oh yeah
...apparently not such an original idea since I heard this song back in the early 1980's on WLIR-FM
"she had built up an exceptionally close relationship with a politically well-connected billionaire" - a silver-haired, 50-something, Manhattan bachelor she met at Wimbledon in 1994 - and the princess "felt that he was capable of running for office,"
Jim McGreevey?
I was at the market today and one of the rags had BILL CLINTON BATTLES MAJOR DEPRESSION.
... brings to mind a favourite line ...... an admirable trait in a spaniel ... or a whore ... [Francis Urquahart]
SoS
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