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The Transfiguration of Diana
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| 30 Aug 2017
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 09/01/2017 2:51:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: DoughtyOne
The adulation and mourning for her was way over the top.
True. But the negative reaction to it was also ugly.
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posted on
09/01/2017 8:55:01 PM PDT
by
x
To: Rummyfan
I will always read ANYTHING the talented Mark Steyn writes even if it's his shopping list for Home Depot.
Leni
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Yeah, we don’t give a damn at Free Republic either.
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posted on
09/01/2017 9:28:27 PM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: x
It can go both ways, but after a while it was so over the top, I honestly came to really despise the situation.
I had the displeasure of watching some women just go catatonic over it. Sorry, that drove me bonkers.
As I said, I was very sorry to hear of her untimely death, but she didn’t represent anything much worth emulating.
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posted on
09/01/2017 9:36:08 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
To: Jeff Chandler
My sister is one of those. She has a genuine British pub sign with Queen Victoria on it on an easel in her bedroom and loves it when we send her videos about the royals and memorabilia we find at car boot sales and thrift shops. Makes it very easy for us to get her presents.
To: Mears
I wonder how the Spanish people feel about hordes of immigrants?Spain has no welfare system like America or the larger European countries, not even for their own people. Lots of migrants land here but most immediately hoof it to the French border.
To: The people have spoken
The thing I never understood is how Charles could forsake beautiful, young Diana for plain, older Camilla. Is he gay?
To: The people have spoken
The thing I never understood is how Charles could forsake beautiful, young Diana for plain, older Camilla. Is he gay?They thought the same thing when Edward gave up the throne for Mrs. Simpson but it turned out that it was more of a mistress/slave relationship. Not unusual for men with great power being attracted to women who will put them in their place.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Brits love horses and Parker-Bowles fit the bill.
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posted on
09/01/2017 11:28:15 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: Rummyfan
From the Palace's point of view, it seemed a safe enough bet: in July, the Princess had been seen comforting a weeping Elton John and his lover at the grisly memorial service for Gianni Versace;
The memorial service was grisly? What happened there? Was there a murder there too?
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posted on
09/01/2017 11:40:36 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: Rummyfan
Interesting read, thanks for posting. Was the limo driver really drunk? I don’t remember hearing that before. He survived, didn’t he?
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posted on
09/02/2017 3:38:40 AM PDT
by
jocon307
To: Trillian
The memorial service was grisly? What happened there? Was there a murder there too?Gianni Versace was murdered by a crazed homosexual who went on a short nationwide killing spree.
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posted on
09/02/2017 5:49:13 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: jocon307
What’should really interesting, at least to my mind, is that AFTER Diana was pulled from the wreck, it took around 1.5 hrs for the ambulance crew to make it to the hospital. A journey that should only have taken a few minutes.
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posted on
09/02/2017 5:51:30 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: BenLurkin
Some poor dumb slob who got suckered in marrying a mentally ill blonde.She's a skanky slut for cheating on him, but he gets a pass for cheating on her with Camilla?
To: jocon307
Was the limo driver really drunk? I dont remember hearing that before. He survived, didnt he?The French police said he had a very high BAC and was not wearing a seatbelt. He didn't survive.
To: Lurking Libertarian
Someone survived, was it the body guard? Whoever it was was badly hurt, but not killed and I do remember that person WAS wearing a seat belt.
What a disgrace to be a professional limo driver and DUI.
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posted on
09/03/2017 5:20:39 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: jocon307
Someone survived, was it the body guard? Whoever it was was badly hurt, but not killed and I do remember that person WAS wearing a seat belt.It was the bodyguard, and he was the only one in the car who wore a seatbelt.
What a disgrace to be a professional limo driver and DUI.
A disgrace, a crime and a sin.
To: gaijin
There is a RUMOR that Charles is secretly Muslim. And it's absolute garbage.
He's a devout Christian. He does tend to keep reasonably quiet about the exact nature of his beliefs but they are not secret. He's drawn to Eastern Orthodoxy, in particular the Greek Orthodox faith of his father's family. As he will be Supreme Governor of the Church of England, he's not really free to formally convert or I think he would. This is also part of the reason he keeps quiet about it.
He has made a number of quiet pilgrimages to a Greek Orthodox monastery over the years and he has what amounts to a Greek Orthodox shrine in his own home adorned with icons.
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posted on
09/03/2017 8:59:55 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: Rummyfan
ONE DAY, BACK in my disc-jockey youth, the program director called us all in and announced revisions to the Death of the Monarch procedure - a grand name for what was more or less just a dusty tape of solemn music sitting within easy reach in every radio and TV studio in the Commonwealth. It was felt that we needed to distinguish between core Royals - the Queen, the Queen Mother - who merited the full back-to-back-requiems treatment, and peripheral minor duchesses, for whom something melodious but respectful like "Greensleeves" or Pachelbel's Canon would suffice. Painstakingly, we worked our way down the list, until someone asked, "And what about the Princess of Wales?""Oh," said a voice from the back of the room, "just bung on the new Wham! album."
LOL! Diana ... I don't know what to make of her. Was she naive in marrying Charles and didn't realize the responsibilities and way of life she was committing to? Or just too young to take all that on, later deciding this wasn't for her? It's tragic that she died so young...
And the big question: was she pregnant at the time of her death?
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posted on
08/28/2022 9:18:16 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: Rummyfan
In between songs, listeners called up, sobbing, to hail the people's princess as an "angel of mercy", a "saint", a "beacon of light in a dark world"....I don't think she was any of those things but for some reason she certainly had an effect on people.
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posted on
08/28/2022 9:19:52 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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