Dman
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Of course the bodyguard should have insisted on safety procedures being followed like seatbelts clipped on for everyone, speed limits being kept to and a sober driver. However, as we know, there are limits to what a private employee can insist on if the employer's son and his companion want to do their own thing. Diana specifically got rid of her RPOs in order that she do exactly that, and we all know the tragic consequences.
I don't know why Mr Wharfe insists on flogging dead horses in this way. I bought his book on Diana, 'Closely Guarded Secret' and it was very entertaining and so forth, but that was decades ago, and the last time he guarded Diana was even further in the past. Please Ken, give the dead Diana, and us, a break!
Diana died because she didn't have the proper security around her. Diana wasn't in control of that security detail in Paris. Dodi and his father was. She was put in a bad position, which Ken and other security officers who worked for her understood. Mr. Wharfe is just highlighting that part.
Now, I don't understand the need to dive back into Diana's love life like he's doing though. Leave it in the past where it belongs.
Perhaps to a lot of us here that avidly take an interest in royalty, royal history and royal personages it seems like dredging up old and stale tidbits that we've heard about and have discussed until the cows come home but there is an upside to it. Keeping the information alive and available (the good, the bad and the ugly) serves as what could be a springboard into a very deep pool for someone just starting to be curious about Diana, for example, and the many facets of her life.
I understand that part, but what troubles me, is that when people dredge up her past, a lot of the stories are brushed over by years and years of false information. It becomes harder for newcomers, who have an interest in Diana, to get to the truth.
Even the circumstances around her death has caused enough speculations to last for generations.
Of course he is "flogging dead horses" because he's Selling a story. he did the same several years ago and I dont believe he shoudl have done so. He was making money then adn he's making money now.Of course the bodyguard should have insisted on safety procedures being followed like seatbelts clipped on for everyone, speed limits being kept to and a sober driver. However, as we know, there are limits to what a private employee can insist on if the employer's son and his companion want to do their own thing. Diana specifically got rid of her RPOs in order that she do exactly that, and we all know the tragic consequences.
I do, and us, a break!
I do agree with much of what you've stated, except that I've always believed that the "grey suits" at BP were the ones who got it wrong. Blair was batting clean up and took advantage.What it really all boils down to is one word. Family. At the time of her death, Diana, Princess of Wales was a private citizen and although she had ties through her sons to the British Royal Family, she was no longer a member of that family and the BRF no longer had ties to her except through her sons.
All in all, I think her burial on the island at Althorp was the best move the Spencer family made as by observing the reaction of the people to her death, the outlying cause of her death (paparazzi) and the frenzy of the days following her death, they wanted some modicum of privacy for a very public person. I do think that Charles acted admirably in doing what he could for his sons by showing deep respect for his ex-wife by doing what he could to honor the mother of his boys by escorting her body back to the UK and walking with his sons in the funeral procession. At Balmoral, away from the public eye, Will and Harry were able to have their space to take in, process and come to grips with what perhaps was the most horrific moments of their young lives before having to be gawked at and photographed and such by people all over the world. HM made the right move at this time. She was a grandmother before a Queen. Her family rightly mattered more at that time than the multitudes of people clamoring for her to express what they were all feeling.
I feel that most of the blame for any problems that arose during that time did not point to the Spencers or to the Windsors but to the Prime Minister of the day, Tony Blair, and the media itself. It was his office that coined the phrase "people's princess" and it was the media that jumped on this adding fuel to the fire creating a frenzy where it became next to impossible for either the Spencers or the Windsors to handle this tragedy within their families.
As I recall, the first "people's princess" reference actually was in Andrew Morton's 1990 book Diana's Diary: An Intimate Portrait of the Princess of Wales.
IF I'm not mistaken, that what Diana stated that she wanted to be was "Queen of people's hearts". Not exactly sure when that was. Panorama interview maybe?
Given the fact that she had her chest cracked, been intubated, flogged for hours, etc it's not like she had been made up and 'laid out' by an undertaker to look 'life like'. I am sure it was just shock and disbelief that made him emotionally deny that she was in fact dead.
"Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, was so stunned when he first laid eyes on the dead Princess, he refused to believe she was dead. ``He had to touch her skin to believe it,'' Anderson says. The faithful servant placed a simple rosary given to the Princess by Mother Teresa in her hands and a photograph of her sons and a picture of her late father in her coffin."
Why do you think Burrell refused to believe she was dead?
If you could guess what do you think happened that night when they all arrived at Kensington palace? Prior to them going to Kensington palace Charles and his sons visited the chapel royal where there mothers coffin was.
Only thing I have heard about that night that I remember is that in Paul Burrell's book "A Royal Duty", he wrote about spending the night when Diana's coffin was at KP in kind of a vigil. He may have mentioned what Charles and the boys did earlier when the coffin was moved there but I don't remember specifics.
I Viewing the coffin for the first time presented the stark physical reality that she was really dead.
I still cannot begin to imagine what those two boys went through at such a young age with losing a beloved parent.