Come to think of it...I'm surprised that Swanson hasn't created a "Hungry Mullah" TV dinner.
Posted on 06/09/2007 11:46:39 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Diana 'converted to Islam'
Mark Coultan
Herald Correspondent in New York
June 9, 2007
PRINCESS DIANA considered converting to Islam during her relationship with the Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, according to a new book.
An extract from The Diana Chronicles, by Tina Brown, published in Vanity Fair, says Diana fell for the doctor while visiting a friend's husband in hospital.
"Isn't he drop dead gorgeous!" she said of the doctor after he left the room.
Diana then proceeded to visit the friend's surprised husband for 17 days straight in order to meet his doctor.
Brown writes that in no time, her Kensington Palace apartment "was fragrant with the scent of burning joss sticks".
She became a student of cardiology, got the anatomical textbook Gray's Anatomy and watched the TV show Casualty every Saturday night.
Once caught by a News of the World photographer at the hospital at midnight, she rang the paper's royal correspondent and planted a story that she went there three nights a week to comfort terminally ill patients.
Although Diana's life was been covered in excruciating detail, (there are 14 books coming out to mark the 10th anniversary of her death) Brown provides details of Diana's detachment from reality, such as telling Brown over a lunch that she thought she could solve the conflict in Northern Ireland.
"I'm very good at sorting out people's heads," Brown quotes her as saying. The New York Times reviewed the book, criticising Brown for relying on earlier books about Diana, but also saying: "At its best this book combines gossip, opinion and context in ways that cast new light on Diana's cautionary tale."
The extract in Vanity Fair, which Brown once edited, is focused on Diana's life after her divorce from Prince Charles.
For a while, the relationship between the Princess and the surgeon bloomed, she writes, but he was not interested in high society or fashion, didn't want anything from her, and had a dread of publicity.
Diana intended to turn a former equerry's room in Kensington Palace into a room for Natty, as he was known. On weekends, when her staff were not there, she would cook dinner for him.
"Marks and Spencer have got these very clever little meals that you just put the timer on and press the button and it's done for you!" Diana is quoted as telling her therapist, Simone Simmons.
On his birthday she went out to meet him wearing her best sapphire and diamond earrings, a fur coat and nothing else.
She would also spend the day at his messy one-bedroom apartment in Chelsea, where she would vacuum, do the dishes and iron his shirts.
Her trips to Pakistan with Jemima and Imran Khan were covers to ingratiate herself with his family. She once turned up without notice to his family's house in Lahore, where she lay on the floor watching cartoons with the youngest children, but her efforts were in vain. Dr Khan's mother had no intention of letting her son marry anyone other than a Pakistani Muslim girl.
The episode deeply upset Dr Khan, who had concluded that Diana, abandoned by her mother when she was six, needed more love than any man could give her.
Diana's dream was that they would become international humanitarians. They would live somewhere sunny, with a pool - Australia or South Africa, Brown says.
Diana was delusional about the relationship. She talked to Jemima Khan late at night about how to handle marriage to a traditional Muslim man. She got her butler Paul Burrell to ask a priest if it was possible to marry secretly.
Brown writes: "The priest told him it was impossible to marry a couple without notifying the authorities - let alone without notifying the fiance, as it turned out."
Dr Khan was horrified when he found out. He had doubts about the relationship, and at the urgings of his family, met her at 10pm one night in Hyde Park in London and broke it off.
Diana went into a spiral after that. Increasingly isolated, she cut off her former sister-in-law Sarah Ferguson, and her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, who had become an alcoholic, and who had objected to her relationship with "a Pakistani and a Muslim".
She became dependent on Mr Burrell, and paranoid about the royal family. Brown says Diana told an Argentinian friend, Roberto Devorik, that Prince Philip wanted her to disappear.
"They are not going to kill me by poisoning me, or in a big plane. They will do it when I am in a small plane, in a car when I am driving, or in a helicopter."
The book is due to be published in the US next week.
Come to think of it...I'm surprised that Swanson hasn't created a "Hungry Mullah" TV dinner.
She was gay actually. I’m about to go to print with a book proving that. < /sarcasm>
Her goal was to find some man, any man that loved her. Unfortunately, she probably pursued men that were unavailable in one way or the other. If they were available and open to her at the beginning, her insatiable neediness would soon drive them away. If she had ever found a man that loved her, she probably would have wondered what was wrong with him and treated him miserably.
Anyway, I don’t think people should condemn her for considering becoming a Muslim if that is indeed true. She was sick in the head and she would have done or said anything to get love. It would be like telling an asthmatic they can have air if they do this or that. They would tell you what you want to hear to get the oxygen. Diana would have become anything she thought a given man might want. Her self worth was that low. Unfortunately, no human is capable of filling those kinds of psychological holes.
OMGoodness—Banquet meals! Those are the worst of the worst.
The plot thickens.
What t.v. show? Gray's Anatomy? I don't have a t.v., but I'm pretty sure that wasn't on when Diana was alive. Or was there a British version?
Oops. I didn’t read that right. Sorry.
She brought a lot of grief into the lives of people she got involved with. When she got together with Dodi, he was supposedly engaged to Kelly Fisher at the time, a model. She was also responsible for the dissolution of a marriage and did a lot of damage to others as well.
She brought a lot of grief into the lives of people she got involved with. When she got together with Dodi, he was supposedly engaged to Kelly Fisher at the time, a model. She was also responsible for the dissolution of a marriage and did a lot of damage to others as well.
These are the facts: Diana had a second Moslem boyfriend, whose uncle was Adnan Kashoggi the largest weapons dealers in the world who promoted radical Islamic groups. Diana moves from benign charities to radical political movements...and starts a movement to remove “land mines” from the Green Zone (Lebanon/Israeli border), and other Western-held territories, in which land mines protected Western allies and US interests. This would only have benefited the Moslems and no one else who through public opinion, would have forced Western allies to remove land mines which protected not only the Israelis but the Kurds and other groups who were out numbered by radical Moslems. Of course, Diana was a vapid, empty-headed twit who had no idea what the hell she was promoting or why. She needed notortiety and the press to fill up her empty, meaningless life. Some then conclude that Diana was killed before she could become even more dangerous and anti Western. DeeVee
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