BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:28 PM

Of course, she doesn't bring out the best in all people . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:18 PM

"Slipped a little in her personal life".
How was that?
On her back with her legs in the air?
The woman was a serial adultress!

Colyn.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:16 PM

Call me Mr Curmudgeon, but let's face it, the royals came upon their huge, obscene wealth over the centuries by bleeding the poor bloody peasantry dry. All their big palaces, stately homes and vast estates (including "duchies," the one which Prince Charlie owns yielding a cool £15m last year), not to speak of their jewel-encrusted tiaras, fleets of Bentleys and royal yachts and trains (just the thing for driving into a siding and purportedly shagging Camilla in on the night before you marry Diana!) are ill-gotten gains. My heart surely bleeds when I see them so "graciously" patronising various charities. So I have a better idea. They should give most of their wealth to their beloved charities. Failing that, we should bloody well take it off 'em and give it to the charities. Their idea of doing good work for charity is to get people who are far less well-off than they are to cough up. Hey, and a large proportion of the population actually swallow that! :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:01 PM

"Normal person."


Hahahahahaha!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: GUEST,James Hewitt
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 07:53 PM

Can you just let the dead rest in peace. This woman was a normal person, she was a divorcee and mother, there are lots of them out there.

She attached herself to good causes to create a good image after she slipped a little in her personal life.

Are you going to start a thread about Paris Hilton next ?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 07:48 PM

Might have been more appropriate if they had arranged a stage walk-on part for each of her lovers.
Perhaps they could have come on as a chorus, with streamers of perished knicker-elastic.

Colyn.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 07:16 PM

It always amazes me that we set such high standards for "the Royals". They are no different, in many ways than the rest of us..married, divorced, ok kids, and so on. I must say that Diana was perhaps the most priviledged woman on earth, she did some high profile chairy stuff (Cameras along for the ride), then goes on National telly and washes the family laundry. Not a class act. I say just leave them all be. Most of us could not do any better in that fish bowl...that is why this thread is here ten years on.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 06:46 PM

I thought those two silly half-sibling sods wanted to be left in peace to mourn their mother in dignity, paparazzi-less, blah blah. So what do they do? Organise a whacking great pop concert to celebrate her 46th birthday (not 40th or 50th or any other significant landmark, but her 46th for Pete's sake!) with a line-up consisting of a bunch of Radio 2 staple has-beens, at which they're frequently to be seen gigging around and clapping for the world, literally, to see (mainly out of time) with their latest glamour-puss hangers-on. Well, good luck to 'em say I, and if they find the paparazzi scumbags hanging around a little more because of it all they'll know they have only themselves to blame. Cake, eat it, etc. ad nauseam.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 05:18 PM

"In the 1980s, for instance, Aids was viewed as a modern-day plague. The Princess smashed taboos when, in 1987, opening an HIV ward at the Middlesex Hospital, she shook the hand of an Aids patient; and, what's more, did it without wearing gloves. It was a simple act by a 26-year-old woman that dominated the front pages around the world. And it genuinely made a difference to many millions."

I am no fan of the 'Royals', but she wasn't really one of them, anyway. I admired the good works she did. I do think she was a humanitarian, and I think she would have been regardless her connection to Britain's royalty.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 05:06 PM

How can a dead person have a happy birthday?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 04:26 PM

Maudlin rubbish

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 04:22 PM

Oh, do me a favour!

Subject: BS: Happy Birthday Princess Diana!
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 04:20 PM

"At a dinner following the opera, she walked, alone, down a huge winding staircase without ever looking at her feet, so we knew she was a princess. But at dinner she ate like your sister, tearing into her meal with a kind of wanton delight, turning aside her lady-in-waiting's insistence that it was time to be leaving with the flat observation that dessert hadn't come yet."

James R. Gaines, former managing editor of People magazine