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rehab71 said:
Watch Christopher Hitchen's brilliant 'Diana: The Mourning After' and give us your thoughts!
http://youtu.be/zkrPx5RQ2I0
She didn't leave a penny of her millions of pounds to charity!
Fascinating to watch. Would be interesting to examine The whole thing in the same way when it's 20 years on.http://youtu.be/zkrPx5RQ2I0
She didn't leave a penny of her millions of pounds to charity!
I have to admit, at the time the whole hysteria thing caught me. A very odd thing to get involved with.
How do I view her now? A dead celeb. Someone who ultimately had little or no long term impact on society, or the world. A dead icon from the past century, a minor icon now there is perspective on her life. She wasn't a great white hope for the future like JFK, a steadfast leader like Churchill or an uber b
d like Hitler.The world did not change for good or bad because of her.
Sure she played her part in history, in being the mother of a future king. But that's it.
Maybe her legacy will be as a phenomenon to be peered at, written about and discussed in undergraduate social science or media studies university seminars.
Had she lived would she have destroyed the monarchy? Who knows? She's dead.
wildcat45 said:
rehab71 said:
Watch Christopher Hitchen's brilliant 'Diana: The Mourning After' and give us your thoughts!
http://youtu.be/zkrPx5RQ2I0
She didn't leave a penny of her millions of pounds to charity!
Fascinating to watch. Would be interesting to examine The whole thing in the same way when it's 20 years on.http://youtu.be/zkrPx5RQ2I0
She didn't leave a penny of her millions of pounds to charity!
I have to admit, at the time the whole hysteria thing caught me. A very odd thing to get involved with.
How do I view her now? A dead celeb. Someone who ultimately had little or no long term impact on society, or the world. A dead icon from the past century, a minor icon now there is perspective on her life. She wasn't a great white hope for the future like JFK, a steadfast leader like Churchill or an uber b
d like Hitler.The world did not change for good or bad because of her.
Sure she played her part in history, in being the mother of a future king. But that's it.
Maybe her legacy will be as a phenomenon to be peered at, written about and discussed in undergraduate social science or media studies university seminars.
Had she lived would she have destroyed the monarchy? Who knows? She's dead.
Johnnytheboy said:
I never forget the morning after she died the Times/Torygraph had a comment piece really ripping into where her life was going. Their tone soon changed and she became this angel figure for simpletons.
The Private Eye following her death was superb, they just filled it with journalism from just before her death (Airhead, bonkers, manpiulater etc) contrasted with the same writers and editorials after her death (Angel, perfect princess, most wonderful fragrant person in the world etc). W H Smith and other outlets banned it and I think it is pretty rare now. The hypocrisy was off the scale. I was still living at home at the time of her death. I really wasn't bothered, but remember my parents disbelieve almost anger at the fact that I just went about my day as normal and wasn't fussed. My parents despite being normal educated people were caught up in the Diana media hysteria (before and after her death) which, being older and wiser is all it was-the advent of real obsession with celebrity status in the UK IMO.
I felt sorry that her sons were going to grow up without their mother other but that was about it. What did she actually do that made a tangible impact to the good of the world? Involved in charity etc? So have many of the other (all?) of the royals, she and her team just seemed very good at self promotion.
The media censorship and how it drummed up this hysteria was in hindsight quite disgusting.
I felt sorry that her sons were going to grow up without their mother other but that was about it. What did she actually do that made a tangible impact to the good of the world? Involved in charity etc? So have many of the other (all?) of the royals, she and her team just seemed very good at self promotion.
The media censorship and how it drummed up this hysteria was in hindsight quite disgusting.
northwest monkey said:
Baryonyx said:
northwest monkey said:
Why no bonnet vents?
Those were saved for the 4x4. But because they looked mint, a few people got 4x4 bonnets for their RWD Sapphires.
For some reason I had always thought the Sapphire Cosworth only came out at G-reg/1990. No idea why
br d said:
Johnnytheboy said:
I never forget the morning after she died the Times/Torygraph had a comment piece really ripping into where her life was going. Their tone soon changed and she became this angel figure for simpletons.
The Private Eye following her death was superb, they just filled it with journalism from just before her death (Airhead, bonkers, manpiulater etc) contrasted with the same writers and editorials after her death (Angel, perfect princess, most wonderful fragrant person in the world etc). W H Smith and other outlets banned it and I think it is pretty rare now. The hypocrisy was off the scale. Superb edition and still have it. Just amazing how two faced journos are, and politicians etc etc
I was in France with a couple of mates when she was killed. The Aussie girls we'd met in the bar were amazed we weren't gutted by the news. Why would we be - none of us knew her; felt sorry for her sons though.
Some of the stuff we saw on the news just left us with a WTF feeling. I remember one woman saying she was more upset than when her own parents died. Wow.
Some of the stuff we saw on the news just left us with a WTF feeling. I remember one woman saying she was more upset than when her own parents died. Wow.
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