Showing posts with label princess diana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label princess diana. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Princess Diana Gets Royally Crapped On by Former Butler


Intimate details of the life of the late Princess Diana are being revealed by her butler who was in her employment for 10 years - and she continues to be his meal ticket long after her death.
In the new tell-all "The Way We Were: Remembering Diana", Paul Burnell claims the Princess of Wales found her true love in heart surgeon, Dr. Hasnat Khan, and not in the Egyptian playboy Dodi Al Fayed.
Furthermore, Burnell dismisses claims that Diana was engaged to Fayed when she died in a car crash in 1997, saying that their month-long relationship was her way to get back at Khan at the time. Fayed may have been preparing to propose to Diana the night they died together in Paris, but Burnell says that Diana had asked him to find out if it was possible if she could somehow get secretly married to Khan.
Among the other controversial things he the book, he writes
* He says Diana asked him to help her by burying the stillborn child of a friend, Rosa Monckton, on the grounds of Kensington Palace.
* Diana wanted to be the new Jackie Onassis and possibly marry an American billionaire who would run for President so she could be First Lady and redecorate the White House.
* The butler criticizes Princes William and Harry, who he said have not done enough to defend their mother's memory in the nine years since her death.
"I have thought long and hard about whether to tell this story," Burrell writes in the book, which is to be published by Harper Collins on Sept. 12. "But what I witnessed was the ultimate act of compassion and friendship, which I think reflects greatly on the boss and sums up her humanity. Acts of kindness don't get much bigger than this."

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Prayers composed for me by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan WIlliams on my 10th death anniversary




The First prayer reads:
God our Father, we remember before you Diana, Princess of Wales, and offer you our gratitude
For all the memories of her that we treasure still.
Her vulnerability
And her willingness to reach out to the excluded and forgotten
Touched us all; her generosity gave hope and joy to many.
May she rest in peace where sorrow and pain are banished,
And may the everlasting light of your merciful love shine upon her;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.



The Second prayer reads:
Father eternal, unfailing source of peace to all who seek you,
We entrust to your love and protection
All for whom this anniversary of the tragic and untimely death of
Diana, Princess of Wales
Reawakens the pains of grief and loss.
Comfort all who mourn, that casting all their cares upon you,
They may be filled with your gifts - of new life, of courage and of hope;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Harry's speech made me wish against hope to get bak to Earth.




William and I can separate life into two parts. There were those years when we were blessed with the physical presence beside us of both our mother and father.
And then there are the 10 years since our mother's death. When she was alive, we completely took for granted her unrivaled love of life, laughter, fun and folly. She was our guardian, friend and protector.
She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated.
She will always be remembered for her amazing public work. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world.
We would say that, wouldn't we.
But we miss her. She kissed us last thing at night. Her beaming smile greeted us from school. She laughed hysterically and uncontrollably when sharing something silly she might have said or done that day. She encouraged us when we were nervous or unsure.
She — like our father — was determined to provide us with a stable and secure childhood.
To lose a parent so suddenly at such a young age, as others have experienced, is indescribably shocking and sad. It was an event which changed our lives forever, as it must have done for everyone who lost someone that night.
But what is far more important to us now, and into the future, is that we remember our mother as she would have wished to be remembered as she was: fun-loving, generous, down-to-earth, entirely genuine.
We both think of her every day.
We speak about her and laugh together at all the memories.
Put simply, she made us, and so many other people, happy. May this be the way that she is remembered.