Princess Diana.....remember??!!

ScoobySnax

Fluffy I know. But tonight I was thinking it must be almost 6 years since Diana was killed in that car crash in Paris, and I was thinking about the outpouring of grief that happened not just here, but around the world. I never was one of the ones that went to London on the day of her funeral as at the time I was flying back from a holiday in Turkey, but I remember it appearing in newspapers out there and people of different nationalities coming up to me and expressing their condolences, particulary this french bloke hugging me whilst I was sitting around the pool a couple of days after the crash!

I wonder if people still remember her with fondness, or if like most events, they fade. I was lucky once to meet her in a museum in London about 1994, in she walked into this huge foyer of the British museum that was virtually empty, with a couple of others and walked passed me, as she did, she stopped and said directly "how are you....having fun?" and with that gave me this fantastic wink with those unforgettable blue eyes of hers.(LOL) Course I was stuck to the spot!!!, then off she went. Contrast this to a visit to our hospital from Princess Anne a couple of years back, all she did with her white gloves on and scraped back hair (like she just got off of a horse) was look totally dis-interested as she moved up the line asking each of us "Are you local" etc etc...

So I guess I was a bit sold and mesmorised by Diana,. What do you think? ...was she a force for good? or just a manipulator?

gitasatsangha

Just a rich broad that gave some noblesse oblige when she had time and got killed when her limo went to fast in a tunnel. I don't see the great tradegy. Everyone dies. At least she got the good champagne before her teeth hit the dashboard.

TresHappy

Miss her. Miss her being on all the People Magazine covers. She's not here to see how nice her boys have become (William will be 21 in June!) Remember her with fondness, which she didn't die like that.

ScoobySnax

OUCH Gita.......bit hard wasn't that?

Simon

I think she was manipulative and just "royal breeding stock" - a rich, spoilt, shallow woman who only had her looks.

I think the things that went on after she died were completely over the top and an embarrassment.

Can you tell I didn't think too much of her?

It's sad that she died the way she did but it was the life she lived.

I'm always reminded of the simpsons episode when some old relative has died and they are told to sing something more appropriate. They drive off singing "ding-ing the witch is dead ..."

LyinEyes

I remember the day Diana died. I cried. I always liked her and felt from things I read she was as a good hearted person,,,,,,by no means perfect but who is.

She loved her children , you can read it in her face in pictures. Sure she was used for breeding , an heir and a spare and all, but you have to wonder what 18 yrs old girl knows what she is getting into, or 20 whatever her age was. She was a girl dreaming of being cinderella.

I was just saddened by her death because it reminded me of the lose of my mother who died also at the same age Diana did. My mother married earlier and was miserable in her marriage with my cold hearted dad for years. Just when I though after the d/f and the divorce that my mom could start her life over, and really start to live and have fun, she too was gone, not by an accident like Diana , but still gone.

I guess that is why I cried like I did. I just thought of those boys, who I am sure adored their mother. All the things that I am sure she would have wanted to have been around to tell them , she wouldnt be able to .

I don't beleive everything i have read about Diana or think she was perfect or not to blame for her plight, but I think she wanted to enjoy life and she has a spark about her, she seemed to be geniune to me.

I thnk Git that is a little tacky to say about her , the way she died. But doesnt hurt me , but still just seems tacky. Anyone of us could be killed by a drunk driver, and it was most unfortunate......and well, I have said enough.

ScoobySnax

SIMON!!!! how could you!!!!!.....well I guess you just did. I liked her anyway. She messed up this archaic Royal family that we've got, totally out-smarted them. And made them look like the cold lauding it over everyone, out of date, hangers on, shabby lot that we have today. She was manipulative and had a degree of control over the press, I agree. but good luck to her. She knew how to beat the Royals at their own game. I still miss her.

ScoobySnax

Well said LyingEyes I agree too.

Englishman

I just recall tut-tutting at the national hysteria on TV. Then I spent 2 hours watching the funeral on TV and became part of the hysteria.

She was a bit of a Prima Donna though, wasn't she?

Englishman.

nowisee

i think practically everything said above is true to some degree. she was a complicated person, yes manipulative - probably to survive - she just wanted to be happy i think, and don't think she knew the way. she was such a child when she married, and i believe had no idea what she was getting into.

it was just a sad case.

that being said, well in a way i miss her, she was such eye-candy, even for women! you just couldn't take your eyes off of her. in a way (hope this doesn't sound strange) it was nice that she died young as that is how she will always be remembered - like marilyn, like jean (harlow), like elvis (well i know he was out of shape but he was still only 42), like john lennon....and so many others - like jfk - you tend to remember them in their primes.

Princess Diana.....remember??!!

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