had a frank and intimate discussion on that just last night. She is feeling much better... 
about the whole thing.
Posted on 08/30/2007 2:31:11 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Last month, I read in a new woman’s magazine an excerpt from a recent biography that stated Princess Diana was planning to “revert” to islam to marry a moslem BF (not the one killed with her; an earlier BF , a doctor IIRC). However, his family refused to consider her a “worthy” bride, so the BF dumped her in favor of a moslem fiancee chosen for him. If this is true, I cannot begin to imagine the damage that would have been caused had Princess Diana NOT been rejected, and she’d gone through with the “reversion” . The hysteria at her death-certainly NOT just in the UK-suggests to me she would have inspired a wave of fashionable “reversions”.
“It was the horrific maudlin demonstration at Diana’s funeral that drove home to me the fact that the England of a “stiff upper lip” was long gone....”
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That turned my stomach. I remember the unfavorable comparisons many conservative writers made to the dignified funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965. I see one more teddy bear at a funeral and I swear I’m gonna...
I loved Helen Mirren in “White Nights” with Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, and Isabella Rossellini.
I never could understand what was so noble and self-sacrificing about a woman dressed in designer clothing jetting around blessing the little people with her smile. Until Charles went really nutty (or showed his true nuttiness), I had a bit of sympathy for him preferring to be with an earthy, bawdy Englishwoman rather than a dressed-up insecure neurotic. Princess Alexandra was the last one who could pull off that role, with dignity.
I’ve always found it interesting that one of Camilla’s ancestors was Alice Keppel, last best mistress of Edward the V!!.
“never could understand what was so noble and self-sacrificing about a woman dressed in designer clothing jetting around blessing the little people with her smile. Until Charles went really nutty (or showed his true nuttiness), I had a bit of sympathy for him preferring to be with an earthy, bawdy Englishwoman rather than a dressed-up insecure neurotic. Princess Alexandra was the last one who could pull off that role, with dignity.”
I agree about the Queen and her riches and what she does. She is basically a figurehead and she HAS comported herself with dignity. Her kids...oh well...Charles, should have been allowed to marry whoever he wanted but he waited to long to ask Camilla and she got married while he was away. You read about Charles’childhood and he was not nurtured enough and he seems to have been lonely and insecure covered with a coating of privileged and spoiled. Oh fun!
Fergie is/was a trip but she is cute, Andrew is handsome but I don’t really know what he does, same with Edward. Princess Anne seems hard-working but kinda scary. Prince Philip...echhhhh!
Diana was a breath of fresh air in that she broke away from the waving British muppets and dared to make mistakes and also to reach out to those less fortunate.
I’m sick of hearing about both Diana and Katrina. Everyone just needs to get over it and move on. Unfortunately we’ll probably have to suffer through repeats of this crap for the next 50 years.
I don’t think that Diana’s funeral marked the end of the ‘stiff upper lip’. Living in the UK, I think that it was a one off event. Diana did a lot of good work when she was alive and her ‘common touch’ transcended the class barrier in the UK. Given her relative youth and young sons all of these factors combined to create much sympathy and sadness in the UK at the time.
Contrary to some rather disrespectful comments on this thread, I hope that Diana rests in peace and my thoughts go out to her sons and family. As other people have noted, Mother Teresa’s death was sadly much overlooked at the time. However, this was hardly Diana’s fault.
I must say that it is slightly odd that the reaction of the UK public to this unique tragedy has been described as soppy on, of all things, an Amercan forum. Don’t get me wrong. I love the US and the US people. But gargantuan levels of schmaltz have been produced within the US. Just look at US TV: Women (and men) constantly blubbing on the Oprah Winfrey Show, people told to ‘get in touch with their feelings’ on Dr. Phil. US people have always been far more comfortable about being ‘emotional’ that UK citizens. That is by no means a criticism, just an observation. This US trait is far more preferable in some situations. Commuting in London in dead silence (where talking to strangers is seen as strictly taboo) is hardly much fun.
Let me get this right. The remember Diane, who really never did anything but have children, BUT, WWII and Winston Churchill is irrelevant.
Trust me mate, having gone through the UK school system: It was obsessed with WW2. Churchill was never really mentioned because everyone did (and still generally do) know all about him. If changes have been made they will just have been to refresh the curriculum. Please don’t believe sensationalist stories in the UK tabloids on these issues.
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Fair enough mate :-) Still, I don’t mind being a ‘subject’ to one of the oldest functioning (symbolic) monarchies in the world. (Lets not forget how many Americans go to the UK specifically because of the monarchy/Diana.)
had a frank and intimate discussion on that just last night. She is feeling much better... about the whole thing.
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