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Subject: Princess Diana
Posted by: Shiningstar7
Date: Jul 01 10
Today is still the 1st of July where I am, I know it's already the 2nd in other parts of the world, but the 1st July is Princess Diana's birthday. She would have been 49 today. I miss her.
Posted by: Shiningstar7
Date: Jul 01 10
Today is still the 1st of July where I am, I know it's already the 2nd in other parts of the world, but the 1st July is Princess Diana's birthday. She would have been 49 today. I miss her.
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lesley153
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That's OK - I hadn't been up long, and hadn't got a train of thought yet. I got it right the second or third time I read it. [blush] Reply #41. Jul 03 10, 11:08 AM |
| lesley153
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Judy, that's a compelling and fascinating article - thank you. I wonder how many more people have disappeared mysteriously. Reply #42. Jul 03 10, 11:18 AM |
Lochalsh
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Do you mean worldwide? Don't forget the desaparecidos in Latin America. (doing my professional duty) Reply #43. Jul 03 10, 11:56 AM |
| Lochalsh
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Maybe I should read the article before I comment on the "disappeared"? Smarty-pants, I. (Off to peruse) Reply #44. Jul 03 10, 12:00 PM |
baldricksmum 
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One of the things that strikes me is that the only survivor of the crash was the only one to wear a seatbelt. Would one normally expect someone to NOT be wearing a seatbelt in the last decade of the 20th century. Conspiracy theories always make things more interesting and I suppose we all have an amateur detective living inside us. Now, what about James Hewitt and Prince Harry? Reply #45. Jul 03 10, 1:04 PM |
honeybee4
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Baldricksmum, the affair with James Hewitt supposedly began two years after Harry's birth. The red hair is a Spencer trait. A blood test was, again, supposedly given to both William and Harry in the 1990's and both proved to be Charles's sons. I am sure somewhere online you would be able to find a site that gave you different results. I don't know. Reply #46. Jul 03 10, 1:39 PM |
| Lochalsh
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Back to the original theme: I am sorry that Diana is no longer with us. I would have enjoyed seeing how she made a life of her own, apart from most members of the royal family, but I'm sad to think that she would never really be free from them. I hope her sons have better lives than she did. Reply #47. Jul 03 10, 1:47 PM |
| baldricksmum
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Sorry, but you must admit she had a privileged life. She was vivacious and beautiful, but certainly no victim of an evil husband. It just makes a great story. Perhaps, had she lived, she would have wished to live a "normal" life, in which case few of us would know how she looked at 49. Reply #48. Jul 03 10, 4:03 PM |
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Privileged materially, yes, but not emotionally. Her parents were cold, as was her husband, whose sights were always set on another woman. She lived in isolation among a crowd. At any rate, I'm not here to discuss whether her life was good or bad; that was for her to determine. I merely say, as I've indicated before, that I miss her. She was a delight to the eyes and the ears, and I honor her for that. Reply #49. Jul 03 10, 4:36 PM |
| baldricksmum
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I guess we'll never know. Sorry to hear about your regrets. Reply #50. Jul 03 10, 5:10 PM |
Cymruambyth
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I think Dodi's daddy was the first in the field with the royal conspiracy rumours, and he hasn't been able to let it lie, either! I can understand grief, but Mohammed strikes me as being somewhat obsessive on the subject! Poneke, you make some good points when you shift the conspiracy thing from the royals to the arms dealers. I'd be much more likely to believe that they'd arrange to have Diana bumped off, and I wouldn't put it past MI6, the CIA, the whatever-it-is-that-replaced-the-KGB. or any simi;lar covert outfit, either. Reply #51. Jul 04 10, 8:36 PM |
| lesley153
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"he hasn't been able to let it lie, either" Isn't that what happens when your child has died? twice the ferocity when you believe the child to have been murdered? And I don't think it matters if your child is a pretty eight-year-old girl killed by a paedophile, or a grown man killed by forces unknown: you've still got a dead child. No, I don't think Charles was an evil husband either. He behaved as all his predecessors have behaved, and doing what his mother told him to do, while her expectations were very different. If your're marrying, for love, someone who is marrying you because you have good blood, there's going to be fireworks, regardless of personalities of the happy couple. Reply #52. Jul 06 10, 10:37 AM |
spidersghost43
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I agree with you Lesley. Charles is not evil but he could have used a little backbone and married who he wanted. Of course he woulf not have gotten the the throne but his mother doesn't appear to be stepping aside anytime soon he should have just opted to being happy. Then Di could have lived her life the way she wanted and might still be here today. And know I don't they were murdered they were victims of a horrible accident Reply #53. Jul 06 10, 1:27 PM |
daver852
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I think Princess Diana was a wonderful woman, one who made a lot of men happy, both during and after her marriage. The world needs more like her. Reply #54. Jul 06 10, 1:47 PM |
| honeybee4
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Daver! She was a wonderful woman and I wish everything would have turned out to be the Fairy tale that it could have been. Reply #55. Jul 06 10, 2:09 PM |
| Cymruambyth
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spidersghost, re your post #53: ascending the throne is not a reward for good behaviour. Charles is the heir apparent and when his mother dies (or in the very unlikely event that she abdicates), he will be King. Apart from his comic opera love life, he's not a bad chap - a little obsessive about organics and architecture, maybe, but we all have our characters quirks! Reply #56. Jul 07 10, 3:45 PM |
| lesley153
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Good point - he wouldn't have had to give up the throne, as Edward VIII did, to marry the divorced Mrs Simpson, or his claim to the throne, as Margaret would have had to do if she'd married the divorced Captain Townsend. I don't think there's any rule about your parent, the monarch, having to like your intended, but members of the inner royal family must have the monarch's permission to get married. Perhaps the Queen gave him permission to marry Mrs Parker-Bowles at last because he already had "an heir and a spare" (Diana had done her job) so it really didn't matter now. Yes Camilla was divorced but there was a media campaign to see how the British public felt about his marrying a divorced woman (it would have been a resounding no for Edward VIII and Margaret), followed by an irritatingly "subtle" and patronising media campaign to make us like Camilla or, at least, stop hating her. I never hated her. I just didn't understand why Diana had to come between the two of them. Can't have been a picnic for Charles, being forced to marry suitable breeding stock. Daver, you're a very naughty man. [giggle] Reply #57. Jul 07 10, 4:14 PM |
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