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To: DoughtyOne
I've always been ambivalent toward the British monarchy and never quite understood the American public's mania over Diana. I thought Charles, a homely, quirky bore by any standard, married Diana because of pressure from his parents and the British 'establishment' so I felt a bit sorry for the 20-year-old woman he married in that absurd wedding back in 1981.

However, post-separation/divorce, Diana became more and more visibly promiscuous and her battles with the Royal Family were tedious and nothing anyone I knew could care about. Diana had a very comfortable lifestyle, two lovely children and a title, which is a big deal in the U.K. Her well-publicized complaints about her famous in-laws and the paparazzi fell on deaf ears in my house. She was passably attractive but nothing that would snap a man's around to stare at her had she not been famous.

This lawyers assertion that Diana's untimely, rather gruesome death was an "unexpected consequence" of some murky establishment plot to frighten her away from the millionaire Muslim playboy, 'Dodi' Al-Fayed, may or may not be true. After more than a dozen years, who really cares anymore?

While I have no use for the 'Royal Family' and never was enchanted by Princess Diana, I do respect our national and ethnic ties to Great Britain and of course, back in '97, I was sorry to learn of Diana's death at age 36 in a stupid and unnecessary car accident, plot or no plot. However, I thought the U.S. TV coverage was excessive and I slightly resented this near-worship of what seemed like a pampered, vapid and somewhat promiscuous young mother...but that's me.

59 posted on 03/11/2010 2:39:12 PM PST by Jim Scott
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To: Jim Scott

That in a nutshell is how I have always felt. Thank you.


81 posted on 03/11/2010 5:57:22 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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