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MEETING DIANA:
Tammy's Turns
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A memory of Diana visiting near where I used to live.
Diana was talking to the family of a terminally ill patient. Her Lady-in-Waiting made her aware of the time ,the tight schedule and that she would be late her response
"tough".
lady of hay, I love that story!
Another story of Diana with a hospital patient...shortly after her divorce she was visiting Great Ormond Street Children's hospital and a little girl who was terminally ill admired the Princess's nail polish.
Late that night after all the photogs were gone, Diana came alone with the same nail polish in a bottle, sat on the child's bed and painted the little girl's nails herself.
Every time I think about that story, I start tearing up to cry.
What a special person the world lost.
I heard that story before... and blubbed my eyes out! What a woman! The doctor said Diana made the dying children feel more comfortable faster than medicine, and I believe him!
MEETING DIANA:
Tammy's Turns
that sounds like Diana i hope she did that because that is a really heart warming story
Thank you for that detail. Again, not surprising, considering the person we're discussing here.The following is Sarah Lindsay's own words...
I thought this story from Mr. Seabrooke was very touching. Its the first I've heard of it. Overall a very interesting article.Just found a long article remembering Diana. There are a lot of lovely stories of her.
Among those drawn to Kensington Palace to pay respects to Princess Diana after her death was Vincent Seabrook, 27, who was sleeping in a doorway in central London when the Princess spotted him and stopped to chat.
He says their chance meeting saved his life. "Without her help, I really believe I would be dead by now," he asserts.
Now working as a security guard and with his own home, he carried a handmade plaque to leave with the floral tributes. On it he wrote: "Diana, I will never forget you. I met you twice and, at the time, I was homeless. You came to me and asked how long I had been on the streets. You then went and got me something to eat and drink. It was very cold and wet on that night.
"The next time I saw you I remember you saying to me: 'I will get you somewhere to live.' And you did. You asked me about my life and I told you about the abuse I went through when I was a kid, and I could see you had tears in your eyes.
"You have a very caring heart, and I will never forget the help you gave me. Love from Vincent."
Seabrook said the Princess wrote two letters to him after their meetings in the street, expressing her continued interest in his case. This follow-up is another unpublicized aspect of Diana's human touch.
I think it was a very spontaneous and genuine act of her to help the poor guy. But it is still a surprise to me to read that she had tears in her eyes when she heard about that man's abusive childhood. I think Diana must be a very emotional person.
I think it was a very spontaneous and genuine act of her to help the poor guy. But it is still a surprise to me to read that she had tears in her eyes when she heard about that man's abusive childhood. I think Diana must be a very emotional person.
gfg02 said:
Are we discussing the same person? Diana's mother walked out and abandoned Diana and her young brother. When their father remarried, they had no particular affection for their stepmother, to put it mildly. You don't think that a child on the receiving end and experiencing at first hand this reversal of "maternal instinct" would have a greater chance of developing fear of abandonment issues and general relationship insecurity and carrying them into adult life?I think Diana's trauma in her childhood was overstated. Hers was far away from being abuse. I think her own sons' childhood are more miserable than hers. We must give some credits to her parents.
But in my opinion, it was partly due to she was in a bitter mood at that time, which made her look through her childhood with a grey glass.
And Diana herself had never said her mother had abandoned her.