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Turquoise

1,457 posts

97 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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silverfoxcc said:
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.
That edition of PE got me 'back into the fold' in buying it again.
Superb edition and still have it. Just amazing how two faced journos are, and politicians etc etc
Is it online anywhere?

Edited by Turquoise on Monday 29th August 10:28

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

93 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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boxst said:
I'm in America today ... The truth at last ;-)


roflroflrofl

Halmyre

11,194 posts

139 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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briangriffin said:
I was only 10 at the time so it didn't really affect me, can't remember my parents making much of a fuss beyond watching it on the news.

What I've wondered though it post split with Charles was there any sort of disagreement over who Will and Harry went with? Did Diana want to take them with her?

judging by most of the relationship topics on here the woman usually gets the lions share so how did this play out I've never really seen any coverage of it
Given that the sole purpose of her marriage to Charlie was to produce the heir and spare, any likelihood of custody would be vanishingly small.

wildcat45 said:
Looks like the Cossie doesn't exist. It's numbers not coming up on an app I have.
The Daimler is SORN and looks to have been for a while.

Stashed away from ghoulish eyes? Or in a museum?

I take it the Merc was shredded and melted?
I've heard that the car is in a police compound somewhere, but can't find a source.

Coincidentally, I've just read Alexei Sayle's short story 'Barcelona Plates' which has a sort of connection to the incident.

bloomen

6,894 posts

159 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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She didn't do too badly for someone who was that inbred. I assume she couldn't dress herself but she was game enough when her handlers shoved her out the car and fed her lines through an earpiece.

Halmyre

11,194 posts

139 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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bloomen said:
She didn't do too badly for someone who was that inbred.
TBH, the Spencers had a better bloodline in that respect than the Windsors.

mattyn1

5,756 posts

155 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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I watched the funeral whilst rather drunk in the Red Light Bar in Amsterdam. I cannot remember how upset I was but I might have cheered myself up with a 50 Guilder session with a certain Bulgarian lady called Maria who had a window across the street!

That was a long day! smile

Turquoise

1,457 posts

97 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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bloomen said:
She didn't do too badly for someone who was that inbred. I assume she couldn't dress herself but she was game enough when her handlers shoved her out the car and fed her lines through an earpiece.
You are odd.

wildcat45

8,073 posts

189 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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Halmyre said:
I've heard that the car is in a police compound somewhere, but can't find a source.

Coincidentally, I've just read Alexei Sayle's short story 'Barcelona Plates' which has a sort of connection to the incident.
I think the wreck was brought to the UK as part of the inquest. It would be interesting to know if it still exists.

ReaperCushions

6,016 posts

184 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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wildcat45 said:
Halmyre said:
I've heard that the car is in a police compound somewhere, but can't find a source.

Coincidentally, I've just read Alexei Sayle's short story 'Barcelona Plates' which has a sort of connection to the incident.
I think the wreck was brought to the UK as part of the inquest. It would be interesting to know if it still exists.
I'd strongly suspect that is does, in some secret compound somewhere. What is the general rule for the time to keep 'regular' criminal evidence? I imagine its a very long time?

jamiem555

751 posts

211 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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I was in the RAF at the time, working in the Tornado engine bay. I remember us all sitting around the chiefs desk on the Monday not knowing what to say. One of the lads pipes up and says, rubbing his hands "Does that mean we get a day off Chief? and can I have mine on Friday"

stuttgartmetal

8,108 posts

216 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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Not this st again.
/facepalm

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

123 months

Monday 29th August 2016
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smile

These guys make the Sun look like a respected broadsheet.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=globe+magazine&a...


boxst said:
I'm in America today ... The truth at last ;-)


kellys hero

544 posts

250 months

Tuesday 30th August 2016
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A group of my mates decided that they wanted to attend the funeral(we all lived in Burnham, Bridgwater and Radstock areas) so they drove up to London the night before and slept on the pavement ready for the next day, mad as a box of frogs. I was asked if I wanted to go, luckily I was working early the following day for a supermarket at the time so couldn't. The truth being I didn't want to go anyway and as the whole world was closing so everybody could watch the funeral I had arranged to go in at 5 AM (maybe 6) and bugger off at 09:30 so I could have the day off. Didn't watch any of the funeral, roads were quiet though to give the old 2.8i Capri a good blast!

anonymous-user

54 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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I was at a Mini show in Blackpool on the day of her funeral. The show had a minutes silence for her, but the strip shows along the front kept right on going all day laugh

ralphrj

3,525 posts

191 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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Grahamdub said:
The show had a minutes silence for her, but the strip shows along the front kept right on going all day laugh
It's what she would have wanted.

lord trumpton

7,396 posts

126 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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I got sick of hearing that Elton fking John song, candle in the wind. I guess EJ did OK out of it mind.

Writhing

490 posts

109 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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I remember meeting some mates on the Sunday morning. One of them said "Lady Di just died". My reply was, "oh, where are we going for breakfast then"?

Funeral day, my mate kept his bike shop open and told me that he had one of his best trading days of the year. Lots of people wandering around, and, as all the shops in town were closed, the great unwashed ended up in his shop.

Dusty964

6,923 posts

190 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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lord trumpton said:
I got sick of hearing that Elton fking John song, candle in the wind. I guess EJ did OK out of it mind.
I prefer the version written for Mother Teresa

Sandles in the bin.

Halmyre

11,194 posts

139 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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lord trumpton said:
I got sick of hearing that Elton fking John song, candle in the wind. I guess EJ did OK out of it mind.
The proceeds went to charity, although he probably got a boost for the rest of his back-catalogue.

dobly

1,185 posts

159 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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If only she had followed Jimmy Savile's example - what a different world it would be today......