Diana. On the accident side:# MI 5 categorically denied anything untoward and they should know;
# The driver was drunk;
# The car was speeding;
# The one with the motivation was Di, rather than Charles – he was the cheater;
# Mohamed Medjahdi, 29, driver, had no doubts that the crash was an accident;
# Sir John Stevens is expected to announce on Thursday that the investigation has ruled out foul play.
On the murder side:
# The couple's relationship was embarrassing the royal household;
# The enquiry is the necessary whitewash demanded from on high;
# It was the 13th pillar of the same bridge connected with the Merovingian Kings of occult fame, where sacrifices to Diana the moon goddess took place;
# Diana was pregnant at the time and she planning to marry al Fayed;
# Paul was dazzled by a blinding light;
# The white Fiat Uno car which Paul swerved to avoid went missing;
# Diana’s delivery to hospital was painfully slow and her chest was opened – also an occult punishment;
# Royal family members are Grigori whisperers;
# Mohamed Al Fayed was always convinced it was a murder;
# Diana’s letter to Paul Burrell said she suspected Charles was trying to kill her:
"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury."
She'd had a tragic life with Charles and it’s not hard to feel the anguish along with her. Plus there really are some very real questions about ‘The Firm’. On the other hand, I’m afraid I never liked Diana - even at the start, when the craziness for her was in full swing, I said to a girlfriend she had shifty eyes and I didn’t like the way she walked ahead of Charles. Of course I was shot down in flames over that remark. This is far more how people want to remember her. The Will Carling biz merely confirmed the misgivings but this one was the clincher.
Still, none of that matters any more, really, does it?
Still, none of that matters any more, really, does it?
Diana was vulnerable at first, but later learnt how to play the game, she had no option. The real tragedy is that two dear boys lost their mother, I can't imagine anything worse for a child.
ReplyDeleteIf only she had been wearing her seatbelt .....
Actually, all the while I was writing this, I was thinking of you, Ellee and what your reaction would be. Yes, the tragedy for the boys is more terrible than anything probably.
ReplyDeleteWhat Ellee said. Although I love a good conspiracy theory - this is not it. The more interesting aspects of this to me are how the country allowed itself to be paralysed by hysteria for a week and how we seemed to get sucked into the idea that was anything more than a personal tragedy.
ReplyDeleteI distinctly remember the news at 1pm on that Sunday: "This is the BBC, from London". I thought war had been declared. And the playing of the national anthem...
I agree with Ellee and you, James, that the worst thing about the whole sad episode was that those two boys lost their mother so young. No amount of riches can ever make up for that. People here in Sicily are always asking me if I think there was a "complotto" - conspiracy and I think they'd like me to say there was. I think Diana was daft, really, not realising what she had got into and not understanding that if you are going to use the media then they are going to use you. Yet she was "modern" in that she wasn't going to close her eyes to the fact that her husband had a mistress.
ReplyDeleteMurder, conspiracy or just a plain accident - for God's sake leave the woman in peace.
ReplyDeleteAmen to that.
ReplyDeleteBottom line: a drunk driver was driving 60-90 mph in a 30 mph zone and crashed into a barrier. End of discussion. No assassin on a grassy knoll, no Prince Philip hit squad, no alien abductions.
ReplyDeleteThe late Quentin Crisp spoke truthfully, if bluntly, that Princess Diana's fast and shallow lifestyle contributed to her own demise: "She could have been Queen of England -- and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering." (Atlanta Southern Voice, 1 July 1999).
Or to put it more kindly, both Diana and her brother, Charles Spencer, probably suffered from borderline personality disorder (BPD), rooted in their mother's abandonment of them when they were young children. For Charles Spencer, BPD expressed itself as insatiable sexual promiscuity (his wife was divorcing him at the time of Diana's death). For Diana, BPD expressed itself as intense insecurity and an insatiable need for attention and affection (which even the best husband could never have fulfilled). These sowed the seeds of her fast lifestyle and her tragic fate.