Princess diana

[naturelover]

I know this is not wildlife but did any of you see the six oclock news tonight, Diana and Dodie were getting engaged on the night they both died,how sad is that, i dont know about anyone else but i thought she was a beautiful, kind, and wonderful girl who did not deserve to die,i loved the way she looked at the poor and starving the same way as she looked at the idle rich,she treated every one the same,she had a quality that not many posess,i cryed for days when i hurd she was killed,and i have always said it was murder from day one,now they are beginning to think the same,pity its taken all these years,what are your views on it all.?

[colincurry]

It is all very sad; both the incident and especially what has gone on since. Enough is enough.

Colin

[Jez]

She waved to me personnely when she visted Kidderminster to open our leisure Centre. Something i'll never forget!

[naturelover]

you are so lucky,wish i had seen her.

[Jez]

Originally Posted by naturelover

you are so lucky,wish i had seen her.

trying to think of the year it must have been 84? I was moved she landed in a Helicopter on the playing fields at Harry Cheshire high School as it was known then. The crowds to see her was enormous but i stood there on my todd from their school gate! like many others from Wolverely High i bunked off to see if i could get a glimpse of The Princess. She was Escorted into a car and as she came down the driveway smiled and waved to me as i waved to her! Wow what a women she was

[Cazzie]

I cried too- buckets!

I don't think that there's anyone in this country who won't remember what they were exactly doing when the news broke. Even after 10 years it still upsets me and I cried all through the princes tribute concert earlier this year as well!

I think we've be robbed of a wonderful woman and as for the conspiracy theories... well, I personally think there was foul play, but that's just my opinion and whatever we all think, it's not going to bring her back... sadly.

[svenrufus]

Originally Posted by Cazzie

I don't think that there's anyone in this country who won't remember what they were exactly doing when the news broke.

I remember exactly what was happening. I was up late and heard the news break on Radio 5 - there was some late night discussion show where one of the guests basiacally said - "Terribly sorry that anyone gets hurt, but what's all the fuss about, this was a spoilt rich woman, who played at caring but did little to actually enact her concerns into action and change, and for God's sake, let's not get swept up in a tidal wave of emotion over somone attractive who we have never met" Couldn't agree more. Funnily enough, that was the only dissenting voice I heard on the broadcast media for the next several years. Self imposed censorship? Due to guilt?

I then went to bed, and by the time I got up to travel for a training course in the morning, it seemed she had already been beatified by the media for whatever reason (guilt again?). I was going on a 5 hour trip in a car which had no radio, and how grateful I was. I was so embarrassed by the reaction that seems to be best classed as emotional hysteria.

A media contact of mine in London described how at first there was only a very small pile of flowers. for the first day, but with judicious editing, by the time the news came on in the evening, the angle the footage had been filmed at gave the impression of a mountain of flowers as tributes, and what do you know, by the next day, presentation had become fact, and the 'tributes' flooded in, and the hysteria got ramped up.

It was, undeniably, a horrible personal tragedy, but keep it in proportion - this was a personal tragedy not a national one, and it staggers me that the grief of a rich dad, in combination with his close friendship with media owners has managed to keep this non-story going for 10 years. I'm sick and tired of the whole thing.

The whole idea of any conspiracy over this is utterly ludicrous (sorry to be blunt). There is no evidence to suggest any of that. There is no reason to think that. There is only an accident, where people died. It happens all the time - worse things happen all the time - but when they don't affect the latest 'big thing' for the sunday supplements, and the glossy pulp gossip rags, no one cares. I care about the bog standard cases as much as I do about Diana and Dodi. It is all horrible - Diana is not a special case.

[zharca]

Hi,
I’m kinda with you on that one Sven and I remember being amazed at the hysteria of the time. But at least I got a grin out of Elton John’s quickly cobbled-up tribute record.

Poor old Elton had forgotten, or never knew, where Bernie Taupin got the original title. I think this was around the time the two weren’t talking, or he might have been warned.

Bernie had read “The once and future King”, TH White’s wonderful trilogy re-telling Mallory’s Arthurian legends.
“Candle in the wind” is the title of White’s third book, where the behaviour and adultery of the queen finally brings down the kingdom……..
Wooooops.

[PMG]

Originally Posted by zharca

Hi,
I’m kinda with you on that one Sven and I remember being amazed at the hysteria of the time. But at least I got a grin out of Elton John’s quickly cobbled-up tribute record.

Poor old Elton had forgotten, or never knew, where Bernie Taupin got the original title. I think this was around the time the two weren’t talking, or he might have been warned.

Bernie had read “The once and future King”, TH White’s wonderful trilogy re-telling Mallory’s Arthurian legends.
“Candle in the wind” is the title of White’s third book, where the behaviour and adultery of the queen finally brings down the kingdom……..
Wooooops.

Shouldn't that be the behaviour of the future king . . . in this particular case

Pauline

[Stewy]

I agree with svenrufus, my Mum even started buying all those rubbish Diana plates to hang on the wall, guess where they are now?

[colincurry]

I can't remember where I was when the news broke - probably at home packing to go on holiday - enough trauma in itself. The next day, we landed at an airport in Chicago and some 'news' people were asking disembarking Brits what they thought. Fortunately, I suppose, they nobbled the couple in front of us who went along with the mass hysteria thing. I would probably have sounded just like svenrufus. It was all very sad but completely, then and now, right over the top. My lips are now sealed. I am probably another grumpy old man.

Colin

[coasty]

It was and still is very sad, It is time everyone moved on though. The mass hysteria at the time was exactly that , Hysteria.

[agrumpycow]

I agree with the others, enough is enough. The problem is that whenever anyone dies young they are put on a pedestal as an 'amazing' or 'talented' person. Same is true with Bob Marley, John Lennon for example, (these are the only ones I can think of as I'm writing)

[naturelover]

Originally Posted by Cazzie

I cried too- buckets!

I don't think that there's anyone in this country who won't remember what they were exactly doing when the news broke. Even after 10 years it still upsets me and I cried all through the princes tribute concert earlier this year as well!

I think we've be robbed of a wonderful woman and as for the conspiracy theories... well, I personally think there was foul play, but that's just my opinion and whatever we all think, it's not going to bring her back... sadly.

hi cazzie i am realy suprised at some of the replys,you like me and there must be thousands more,find it hard to handle and so very sad,she did a lot of good in her short life and i dont think she will ever be forgotten,not by me anyway, every one to their own i supose.

[eeyore]

frankly i feel sorry for the boys - whatever diana may or may not have mant to joe bloggs in the street she was their mum , and it cant be good for them to have the circumstances of her death raked up again and again and again for no good cause.

if you think about it the inquest is totally pointless cos if it was an accident there is no point and if it was MI5/CIA/Mossad/ little green men or whatever you can bet that the inquest isnt going to bring out anymore "truth" than we already have.

whatever the rights and wrongs its time to put the whole thing to bed and move on for the good of those left behind

[HowlinWolf]

whatever the rights and wrongs its time to put the whole thing to bed and move on for the good of those left behind[/quote]

Unfortunately, the "traffic accident" verses the "conspiracy theorists" will wrangle and debate on this for ever more (just look at the JFK assassination: still being debated after nearly 44 years, and still no closer to what really happened). I agree with eeyore; it is her sons who have to endure the trauma all over again every time this topic comes back into the public eye. Hopefully, after this current inquest it will left to rest (although I somehow doubt it).

HW

[Stewy]

They will probably have an inquest about the inquest.

Who's paying for all this anyway?

[demicav]

All very sad, she was a good person. I remember what I was doing at the time the news broke. Many people didn't realise what lengths she went to for charity till after she'd died. She never had any peace when she was alive and still cannot rest in peace now.