Media's fascination with those inbreds will never stop...
Posted on 08/31/2017 8:18:06 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Diana died on Aug. 31, 1997, after she was in a car crash which killed her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and the couple’s driver, Henri Paul. Her funeral at Westminster Abbey in London was reportedly watched by 2.5 billion people worldwide.
The princess left behind two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, who were 15 and 12 years old, respectively, at the time. Now in their 30s, they went to Kensington Palace on Wednesday to visit a memorial garden for their late mother.
Here's how Diana has been remembered ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death.
Prince William and Prince Harry
Diana’s two children participated in a BBC documentary, “Diana, 7 Days,” which will premiere on NBC on Sept. 1 and looks at the week after their mother’s death.
“I couldn’t understand why everyone wanted to cry as loud as they did and show such emotion as they did when they didn't really know our mother,” William said in the program, admitting that he sometimes felt protective about it.
He said that “looking back over the last few years I’ve learned to understand what it was that she gave the world and what she gave a lot of people.”
The two princes also participated in “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy,” which premiered on HBO in the U.S. in July.
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Just as with the Kennedys.
It did give us a great quote, when Keith Richards said of Elton John, “His writing is limited to songs for dead blondes.”
Media's fascination with those inbreds will never stop...
She was Britney Spears with rich parents.
Flitting from one wealthy guy to the next.
She made photo-op charity a moderate priority to shield her from some of the scorn that promiscuous people without a full time public relations firm recieve.
I haven’t forgotten for a moment who she actually was without the smoke and mirrors.
Ain’t no way.....no way those two came from Charles’ loins.
> About ten years ago I was talking with a Catholic Priest who told me there was no way the Catholic Church was going to let her marry a Muslim. <
Do you mean the Church of England there?
Yup, yet they worship a celebrity instead of a Saint.
After WWI a lot of those monarchs were gone, and those remaining had to find a way to justify their existence.
The UK eventually figured out that a media-friendly royal family full of celebrities would help the monarch remain somewhat relevant. This worked OK for young Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and others. Diana was the next generation of glamour and she took it to an even higher level of celebrity.
And then the dark side of the cult of celebrity appeared.
Hollywood can do this better. Lyndsay Lohan is great — until she self-destructs. Shia LaBoeuf is great — until he self-destructs. These people are interchangeable. They have their 15 minutes of fame and then someone else is on the cover of People Magazine.
It's different for the Royal Family. You're kind of in there for life, and that can prove embarrassing if the chosen celebrity self-destructs. In the end, I'm pretty sure that everyone in the British upper class (except her children) was relieved that she had an accident.
Says it all, doesn't it.
The Bodyguard was ex-SAS.
20 years after the crash in the middle of a messy divorce his soon-to-be ex-wife stated that her husband had told her that Diana had been killed:
She was carrying the muzzie playbook Dodi’s child.
there would be a (sort of) Queen of England with a Muslim child and that was (and should be) unacceptable.
In their defense I don’t believe any of them really wanted to kill her.
Princess Anne did magnitudes more charity work than Diana without all the drama and without dragging the paparazzi around with her. It’s irony that the paparazzi ultimately were instrumental in Diana’s death.
The lesson here is don’t use a prozac addled drunk for a chauffer.
I remember that also, thinking why is she overshadowing Mother Theresa’s death? It was the media that built her up and manipulated the masses. The outpouring of mass grief was hard to believe. I have a recollection of somebody writing words to the effect, “Please everybody, we will survive, we will overcome this.”
"First thing I'm going to do when I get home ..."
And i thought mother Teresa got a smaller halo than princess Diana, then i realized dianna’s was a steering wheel.
She wasn’t Catholic.
It’s not a competition, and I suspect Mother Teresa would be the last person to begrudge Diana her fame, or to envy it for herself. In all probability, she would have eschewed any mourning at all, since she truly believed she was bound for Glory.
That said, the fixation on a shallow, glamorous, but deeply flawed celebrity instead of a godly woman of deep conviction reflects more on us than it does on either the Princess or the Saint.
And I never found her attractive at all. She looked to me like one of her sons dressed up like a woman.
I remember her as the loon who advocated doing away with landmines, while I sat on the border between South and North Korea, safer because I had a wide belt of those evil objects between me and the Norks ...
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