XPost: alt.history.british, alt.politics.british, alt.talk.royalty   
   XPost: soc.genealogy.medieval, soc.history.medieval   
   From: panther@excelsior.com   
      
   Well-Stated & True...   
      
   By Surreyman.   
      
   DSH   
      
   "a.spencer3"  wrote in message   
   news:XPaCi.33830$ph7.31496@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...   
   >   
   > "Neil Bates"  wrote in message   
   > news:13dgrv0jvvulic6@corp.supernews.com...   
   >> I was so shocked and sorry to hear a decade ago that Diana, Princess of   
   >> Wales had left us.  One of the major funeral homes in my mid-size US city   
   >> had set up a memorial service for her about a week later, and there was a   
   >> long line.  I didn't mind waiting to sign the book, and was impressed   
   >> that   
   >> all those other Americans cared about her so much.  Let's remember that   
   > she   
   >> wasn't just a pretty royal face who knew charm, but a courageous woman   
   >> who   
   >> put herself out in the world for its people, and suffered indignities   
   >> gracefully.   
   >>   
   >   
   > And also a media-hyped pseudo-fairytale Disneyland icon, especially to   
   > those   
   > overseas who didn't see many of her day-to-day idiocies, whose continually   
   > pounded 'memory' by many with other agendas has long started to sicken   
   > many   
   > in the UK.   
   >   
   > Surreyman   
      
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