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Ex-Butler: Diana's Mom Called Her 'Whore' for Dating Muslim Men
http://www.foxnews.com ^ | 1/14/08 | AP

Posted on 01/14/2008 1:57:13 PM PST by nmh

Ex-Butler: Diana's Mom Called Her 'Whore' for Dating Muslim Men

LONDON — Princess Diana's former butler testified Monday that the princess' mother had called her a "whore" and criticized her for her associations with Muslim men.

At a coroner's inquest into Diana's death, Paul Burrell testified that Diana's mother, the late Frances Shand-Kydd, had destroyed much of Diana's private papers. Shand-Kydd had said she destroyed about 100 documents, but Burrell said he carried away half a dozen trash bags filled with shredded paper.

He said he didn't dare challenge the mother. "Mrs. Shand-Kydd was quite formidable ... and she did what she thought best."

Burrell said Diana had invited him to listen to a telephone conversation with her mother, who upbraided her daughter in June 1997 for romances with Muslims. That was before her romance with Fayed.

Burrell said he heard the mother say that Diana was "a whore and that she was (expletive deleted) around with Muslim men."

"She said some very nasty things," Burrell said.

Burrell also said there might be a secret about the late princess in a journal he kept but was unwilling to disclose. He later said there was no journal, he never kept one.

He was also reluctant to say which member of the royal family told Diana she should beware of surveillance, but he did write the name and passed the note to the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker. Baker looked at it, and said it had no relevance to the proceeding.

In an increasingly surreal day, Baker said the surveillance warning did not come from Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip or Sarah, Duchess of York. Burrell's note was given to a court official for safekeeping, and not disclosed.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: death; diana; lover; princess; royals
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To: Morgana
Beauty is only skin-deep, perhaps Camilla has something more substantial despite her looks.

Diana’s children don’t seem to have issues with Camilla, in case you haven’t noticed. Perhaps they know something you don’t?

61 posted on 01/14/2008 7:37:19 PM PST by Cheburashka (Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
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To: nmh
Whatever her motivations; 'wisdom' was short on her list of personal resources as per her 'robust' relataionship with Muslim Dodi. Diana was in many ways, very inmature - moreso, when contrasted against the backdrop of her life; her children and 'in-laws; and her place in the world.

Think she offered, punitively. . . the 'Royal family' a 'read my hand message'.

In the end; her choices cost her dearly.

62 posted on 01/14/2008 7:40:39 PM PST by cricket (Hucka-not)
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To: nmh

63 posted on 01/14/2008 7:48:41 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Morgana

Remember, Charles knew Diana better than any of us do.

There is nothing about her personality that is coming out even now that makes me question Charles’ decisions.

However, I do question his decision not to “take one for the team” and suck it up and deal with the wife he chose.


64 posted on 01/14/2008 7:51:47 PM PST by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: BluH2o

“Diana was a highly promiscuous trollop ... not deserving in any way the type of adulation showered on her after her untimely death.”

How interesting was it that Mother Teresa died the same week. So much ado about the “whore”, so little made of a woman who served the poor of this world. In the next world, there each will receive her just reward or punishment.


65 posted on 01/14/2008 7:56:02 PM PST by freedom4me (Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. --Gen. George Patton)
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To: nmh

I would be very uhappy my kids dating muzzies.

not in my family if I can help it...

don’t want any thank you


66 posted on 01/14/2008 10:29:15 PM PST by wardaddy (i'm in a Dylan mood again)
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To: freedom4me

How interesting was it that Mother Teresa died the same week. So much ado about the “whore”, so little made of a woman who served the poor of this world.In the next world, there each will receive her just reward or punishment.”
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“The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.”

Amen and Amen....As it should be.


67 posted on 01/14/2008 10:56:49 PM PST by cowdog77 (I'm a Christian first, conservative second, and Republican third.)
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To: wardaddy
That’s something you instill in them when they are growing up.

2Cor.6:14

[14] Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Diana was a victim of divorced parents. It affects kids and as they grow up. As adults they are often insecure, lack confidence and in the case of Diana, looking for a father figure she never had.

Ironically divorced kids often have a very difficult time believing in a heavenly father when their earthly father (biological) abandoned them on earth). I don’t look up to her. I don’t look down on her. I feel sorry for her.

68 posted on 01/15/2008 6:22:51 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Morgana

Looks aren’t everything. And in time they fade anyway. There are celebrities who were really good looking when I was growing up who would now make a freight train take a dirt road. In truth looks are relative. Beauty/eye of the beholder. And even people we may consider to be good looking aren’t necessarily good people.


69 posted on 01/15/2008 6:29:48 AM PST by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: brownsfan
I couldn’t care less about Diana, and I find the fascination with her a little very disturbing.
70 posted on 01/15/2008 6:35:18 AM PST by verity ("Lord, what fools these mortals be!")
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To: nmh
There is no “conspiracy”. Her drunk driver caused her death.

As long as there have been cars and drunk drivers, there have been wrecks. It is an old story, sad but true: four drunks got into a car, one gets out alive.

71 posted on 01/15/2008 6:42:46 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Clemenza
"Man, it was PATHETIC seeing the Brits cry over this tart."

And liberals everywhere.

72 posted on 01/15/2008 7:02:28 AM PST by Designer
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To: BluH2o; Clemenza
" Diana was a highly promiscuous trollop ..."

Yea, NOT just some cheap whore!

More upacale than that.

73 posted on 01/15/2008 7:06:48 AM PST by Designer
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