I didn't get it twenty years ago & I get it even less now, how a person that most people did not know could cause what I think amounts to mass hysteria.
I'm no Royalist I should say from the outset, but that doesn't mean I want to hang them all from the lampposts stretching down the Mall, though there are probably enough hangers on that we're paying for to stretch that far!
It was an appalling thing that happened, the death of anyone from any echelon of society to be killed so young in such a way is numbing & I felt then as now my sadness for her sons but how people who had never met her or really knew anything about her other than what was said in the media could be so upset is beyond me.
I've heard it said that as people still recall where they were when JFK was assassinated so it will be with Diana. Why? The two hardly compare, a young President of one of the worlds most powerful nations with every burden that has with it,compared to....... a not especially bright 'Sloane Ranger' as they used to be called, who happened to marry into an emotionless & dysfunctional family!
It is a strange irony to me that the same week Diana died so did Mother Teresa of Calcutta. A person who had spent her life in the slums of Calcutta really helping people, getting her hands dirty if you like, but so swamped were we by the death of a 'Royal' that her passing , by comparison, went almost unnoticed.
And what difference did Diana make to me? Nothing, nothing at all. Rant over.
I'm no Royalist I should say from the outset, but that doesn't mean I want to hang them all from the lampposts stretching down the Mall, though there are probably enough hangers on that we're paying for to stretch that far!
It was an appalling thing that happened, the death of anyone from any echelon of society to be killed so young in such a way is numbing & I felt then as now my sadness for her sons but how people who had never met her or really knew anything about her other than what was said in the media could be so upset is beyond me.
I've heard it said that as people still recall where they were when JFK was assassinated so it will be with Diana. Why? The two hardly compare, a young President of one of the worlds most powerful nations with every burden that has with it,compared to....... a not especially bright 'Sloane Ranger' as they used to be called, who happened to marry into an emotionless & dysfunctional family!
It is a strange irony to me that the same week Diana died so did Mother Teresa of Calcutta. A person who had spent her life in the slums of Calcutta really helping people, getting her hands dirty if you like, but so swamped were we by the death of a 'Royal' that her passing , by comparison, went almost unnoticed.
And what difference did Diana make to me? Nothing, nothing at all. Rant over.
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