Diana

[Ray Singh]

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?

Last i read - it was in a shipping container on the outskirts of Paris......
Although you have all got me reading this... http://princess-diana-life-n-death.blogspot.co.uk/....

Apparently the car she died in had been stolen a day or two before and the 'chip' was the only part missing. Apparently a common way the SAS assisnate persons.

Edited by Ray Singh on Thursday 1st September 08:15

[Johnniem]

I think my, then, 6 year old step daughter summed it up rather nicely. About three days after her death she saw more news about Diana on the TV and said, "Are they REALLY still going on about her?!" Nailed it!

[austinsmirk]

I'll never forget the tragic morning when I heard about it.

I recall waking up, hungover on a Sunday am- at that time they were re-runing old episodes of Grange Hill from the 70's/80's on early morning TV.

They'd only bloody cancelled it to drone on about her all day long.


On another note, I found the moron's slinging flowers at the funeral cars particularly council and highly offensive. Have some respect for goodness sake. It wasn't a chuffing morrisey concert.

[Spx]

She gave me the gladeye as we passed on the Cirencester Road. Prior to that I admired the way she was making the royal family change. Do you remember what they were like before she was around? I thought they were bloody awful.

[Hudson]

I saw it on TV when i was a kid. I ran out of the living room and shouted up the stairs - "MUM! PRINCESS ANN'S DIED!"

I think that was my first ever brain fart. I literally saw it on TV seconds before.


Also we had to draw a tribute to her at school (primary) and the weird kid drew a car crash. He had some learning disability but holy st at the time i thought it was hilarious.

Kids are bds.

[wildcat45]

Hudson said:

I saw it on TV when i was a kid. I ran out of the living room and shouted up the stairs - "MUM! PRINCESS ANN'S DIED!"

I think that was my first ever brain fart. I literally saw it on TV seconds before.


Also we had to draw a tribute to her at school (primary) and the weird kid drew a car crash. He had some learning disability but holy st at the time i thought it was hilarious.

Kids are bds.

Off topic.

I did stuff like that when I was a kid and it freaked teachers out so they contacted my parents.

Things like draw a picture of what you did on your holidays would result in me drawing a plane crash or fire or some other disaster.

I was that weird kid.

[rohrl]

wildcat45 said:

Hudson said:

I saw it on TV when i was a kid. I ran out of the living room and shouted up the stairs - "MUM! PRINCESS ANN'S DIED!"

I think that was my first ever brain fart. I literally saw it on TV seconds before.


Also we had to draw a tribute to her at school (primary) and the weird kid drew a car crash. He had some learning disability but holy st at the time i thought it was hilarious.

Kids are bds.

Off topic.

I did stuff like that when I was a kid and it freaked teachers out so they contacted my parents.

Things like draw a picture of what you did on your holidays would result in me drawing a plane crash or fire or some other disaster.

I was that weird kid.

I got in trouble when I was about thirteen when I got bored drawing a Jewish wedding ceremony in RE and added a chainsaw-wielding Rabbi and lots of blood and fire.

[AstonZagato]

Hudson said:

I saw it on TV when i was a kid. I ran out of the living room and shouted up the stairs - "MUM! PRINCESS ANN'S DIED!"

I was living in Germany in the time. We were moving back to the UK so were packing up the house. My wife and I put the TV on and sat my eldest (then about 4) in front of it (great parenting, I know) so we could get on with sorting the house.

My daughter then came running in to find me. She was indignant as there was "something wrong with the TV". The television channels had gone to sombre news reports rather than cartoons. That's how I found out.

We arrived back as the mass mourning started. It felt very odd.

[Halmyre]

austinsmirk said:

I'll never forget the tragic morning when I heard about it.

I recall waking up, hungover on a Sunday am- at that time they were re-runing old episodes of Grange Hill from the 70's/80's on early morning TV.

They'd only bloody cancelled it to drone on about her all day long.


On another note, I found the moron's slinging flowers at the funeral cars particularly council and highly offensive. Have some respect for goodness sake. It wasn't a chuffing morrisey concert.

I was visiting my parents that weekend, came down that morning and my dad told me. My first thought was "Oh! That's convenient". I never voiced that out loud, but a few years later the first person I mentioned it to said "that's what I thought as well!".

[Goaty Bill 2]

rehab71 said:

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.

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 bd 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.

Hitchens does a great job his programme on Mother Teresa is equally eye opening.

Hitchens was undoubtedly the greater loss of the three.
I do not agree with everything he says in his debates, but I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to and considering his arguments.

[red_slr]

Pretty sure the Cossie was a loan / G&F car from Ford to RPS / HRH. I seem to recall most of the stuff on trial in late 80s were on *VW plates.

[MarshPhantom]

red_slr said:

Pretty sure the Cossie was a loan / G&F car from Ford to RPS / HRH. I seem to recall most of the stuff on trial in late 80s were on *VW plates.

I doubt the royals buy anything.

[The Mad Monk]

MarshPhantom said:

Don said:

Fluid said:

missingbadly999 said:

There's a sham royal marriage and at least two sham politician marriages currently going on but the press can't report those either. At the moment.

And where have you got this information from?

Yes, exactly.

Prince Edward?
William Hague?
Liam Fox?

Keith Vaz?

[BlackLabel]

Apparently the biggest global story today, according to the BBC world news channel, is Diana.

Does anyone actually still care?

[Willy Nilly]

BlackLabel said:

Apparently the biggest global story today, according to the BBC world news channel, is Diana.

Does anyone actually still care?

Harry and William most probably.

[The Mad Monk]

Willy Nilly said:

BlackLabel said:

Apparently the biggest global story today, according to the BBC world news channel, is Diana.

Does anyone actually still care?

Harry and William most probably.

Their mother died 20 years ago.

The moral is, it doesn't matter who you are, the laws of physics still apply to you.

[dobly]

dobly said:

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

I remember writing this, thinking it was very witty, but now, it just looks as if I am mad. I can't for the life of me remember why!

Just remembered - it isn't very funny though...

Clunk Click Every Trip.

Edited by dobly on Monday 24th July 02:21

[davhill]

Just a clothes horse and a royai sprog factory. OK, she made the Beeb and the papers a few bob and cleared up a few landmines.

However, a quick Google brought this, '20 Years after Diana's visit, landmines are still killing Angola's children'.

World changer? Nope.

[BlackLabel]

Willy Nilly said:

BlackLabel said:

Apparently the biggest global story today, according to the BBC world news channel, is Diana.

Does anyone actually still care?

Harry and William most probably.

Fair enough - in hindsight perhaps my comment was a bit crass. I just find this whole beatification of Diana very strange. The Royals moan about how the media have treated their family over the years yet are quite happy to use the same media when it comes to such PR exercises.

[rodericb]

BlackLabel said:

Willy Nilly said:

BlackLabel said:

Apparently the biggest global story today, according to the BBC world news channel, is Diana.

Does anyone actually still care?

Harry and William most probably.

Fair enough - in hindsight perhaps my comment was a bit crass. I just find this whole beatification of Diana very strange. The Royals moan about how the media have treated their family over the years yet are quite happy to use the same media when it comes to such PR exercises.

Is it the royal family or the media making an event out of this anniversary? I'm sure the Queen would rather this subject remain dead and buried. It is undoubtedly sad time for William and Harry though, no matter how crazy ones mum is, they're still your mum.