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And there are still conspiracy theories saying she was bumped off by the Royals because she was more popular than "Horse Face" Camilla.
Thoughts?
Not aware of that particular conspiracy, although it's still sad about her death. My earliest memory from my childhood was in March 1996 and when it came to television, I didn't really pay that much attention unless it was a cartoon or something I enjoyed like You've Been Framed! or Robot Wars or Gladiators, etc.
As such, I don't remember even hearing about her death on the news - or if I did, I didn't really pay heed to it.
Looking back and having learnt more about her, her loss was a great one to all. I've since listened to the version of "Candle in the Wind" that Elton John dedicated to Diana and it does make me feel sad that she's no longer with us.
Yes, I feel sad for her sons, especially Harry, he was so young and he really didn't know himself and was at a very sensitive age, and suddenly his mom was gone and his father didn't care. I think that it was at the root of all the bizarre acting out he did for years.
I have a CD copy of Candle In The Wind 1997, the CD is likely very rare and hard to find. I remember it well, and Mother Teresa died a week later, and suddenly the world was a much poorer place in spirit. The thing that sticks out is when one reporter said something like "you know, we run simulations and such for events like this, but we never expect it to actually happen, this doesn't seem real right now".
I also think that all the bizarre conspiracy stuff and the so-called "rememberances" must be like constantly rubbing turpentine into a wound for her kids, they will forever have that hanging over their lives. The woman is dead, let her rest in peace and look towards the future.
I just remembered, earlier this year William was meeting some disadvantaged youths, and one told him that he had just lost his mom, and William said something like "my mom has been dead for 20 years, and it's always with you but it eventually gets better". You could tell it was from his heart.
he's next in line if anything happens to his Gran, the current Queen, Charles has gone down the queue recently.
I just came across this thread from a more recent link. No-one really knows what any of the royal family are truly like unless they know them personally, every single bit of information obtained is taken from what people have seen on the media, obviously when they're on their best behaviour knowing that they're in the public eye, sometimes even with pre-written lines. Even if you've seen them in public, they will obviously still be on their best behaviour and will almost certainly be on the media too. William may appear to come across the way he does, but he is most likely totally different when he's not putting on an act for the media and public, and most likely not in a good way as I suspect most of the royal family. I however suspect Diana was somewhat different, but look what happened to her.That's the thing about William though, he's very genuine, he means what he says. I think eventually he'll make an excellent King, because he's next in line if anything happens to his Gran, the current Queen, Charles has gone down the queue recently.
Also, I was watching the Royal Edinburgh Military tattoo the other night, and commented that William, who is in his early to mid 30's, actually looks quite a bit older than he is IMO, probably because he has a very stressful job.
So you think the royal family are just nice people as portrayed by the media, E.g. The queen is a lovely elderly lady portrayed as everyone's perfect grandmother that truly cares about the people of her country? Do you believe the queen has never lost her temper in her entire life? If not then lets see the media footage, but you won't because you are seeing a rosy and artificially created public image of her. Similarly you won't really ever know the queen or anything bad she does and I believe she would have at least authorised/allowed the murder of Diana, but she probably even ordered it. There's masses of loose ends in Diana's death, well in fact there's numerous reasons why it was very suspicious as well as covered up and there was also a very big motive which I think was much more than just the embarrassment (please watch the documentary below). I believe Diana was keeping shocking inside secrets they were worried she could leak because what evil and very powerful people fear the most is exposure and the problem was that unlike just a conspiracy theorist a lot of people would have believed Diana. If there's nothing for them to hide then why are the royal family immune from prosecution and even police investigation? The police can't exactly get a search warrant to raid Buckingham Palace and/or Balmoral Castle and then take members of the British royal family in for questioning (BTW. they're really German and they had Nazi connections, their name changed in 1917, Windsor was taken from the name of a castle), yet they most definitely had both the motive and the means to organise such an assassination, I'm only surprised that it wasn't done even more professionally, because it's pretty obvious it wasn't just an unfortunate accident and evidence strongly suggests that the driver wasn't even drunk or an alcoholic as officially claimed. It's very closed minded to believe everything the state tells you. Where there's power there is usually corruption, and in their case there is so much power and wealth it's ridiculous, their assets literally run into the £Trillions, for instance they own most of the land in Canada and charge for it and this is just a small fraction of what they own, while they take many £Millions of public money each year on top, the Queen alone gets £4Million a year just for travel expenses.As I said, I don't buy the conspiracy theories. The YouTube video I posted earlier (a sketch from "That Mitchell and Webb Look") debunks most of them. To which I would add: where's the motivation? Contrary to what Mohammed Al-Fayed apparently thought, Diana was royal by marriage only. Any children she'd had subsequent to her divorce from Charles would have had no claim to the line of succession, just as the children from Camilla's previous marriage don't. Nor is there any official prohibition against ex-royals dating Muslims, as witness Diana's previous relationship with Hasnat Khan. And that at least was by all accounts a genuine relationship whereas there is no evidence either that her association with Dodi Fayed was anything other than a casual fling, or that she was pregnant. Incidentally, M A-F only started the pregnancy assertion two years after the accident.
I think that it's about time Britain became a republic. Retire the royal family. What does Britain, or any country need a royal family for, other than public propaganda? The royal faimily is part of the aristocracy/feudal system of government which belongs to a bygone age and has no real useful function in today's reality other than for propaganda or entertainment or tourism. The idea that a person is born into such a family, and has such power and wealth through birthright and not through achievement is totally against my ethics.
Edit: also, what was all this public outpour of emotion when she died? Was she a personal friend of all these people, that they felt such grief? I just can't get emotionally attached to people I don't know like that - I don't like it that she died for whatever reason, or anyone dies, public figure or not, but I don't/can't feel grief for people I don't know. I don't feel like I know someone or feel attached to someone just because they are in the public eye.
Won't happen.
Like them or not, the Royals bring in a LOT of money for the UK in tourism etc.