diana

she is dead. she is not coming back. it really is time to move on. but it seems we can’t. we all expect the daily express to find ludicrous reasons to feature the people’s princess. over the last several weeks we had to expect interest to flare up due to the anniversary of her death. but enough really is enough.
ignoring the “news” reports of fayed’s continuing campaign to have the windsors put on trial there should be nothing about diana in the papers. oh how i wish.
there i was reading the independent today and there is yasmin
alibhai-brown on the diana bandwagon (part of the piece has that odd journalistic tic of complaining about everyone who writes about a subject while..er.. writing about it. a bit like i am doing (shit caught on my on petard).
it is the usual stuff. diana the saint, the bastard windsors, diana the loving mother, diana one of the people, the bastard windsors blah blah.
to be honest not the sort of thing i normally expect from yasmin.
especially as she is one of the people who believe that the royals had diana bumped off. which at a stretch i could believe (if only because david icke tells me it is so and he is the man. like so many icke compared diana with jfk (yup i know they both have so much in common) but icke does go onto say both are done in because of the babylonian brotherhood) but then bizarrely yasmin seems to indicate french and american involvement: “even lord stevens, last approved arbiter on the matter, agrees the hotel was infiltrated by french intelligence; us intelligence was continuously bugging diana's phone calls. why? why? why?”
as i recall stevens also said it was an accident, but we’ll skip over that. whatever reason they were bugging her phones i doubt it was because they were involved in a conspiracy to murder her.
the simple reason why there will never be a satisfactory answer isn’t because of a cover-up it is because diana has moved from being a person and has entered the world of being a brand, of being entertainment. there is too much at stake for too many people, who want to make a name or make money from diana. it is in their interests to keep the conspiracy flame burning.
it means that the genuine supporter of diana just ends up with a tawdry spectacle and an ever-diminishing legacy, while for those who profit it just means they trouser more.
so why did she have to die? so charlie could marry camilia.
oh and because (in reference to her relationship to dodi) “she even fell in love with one of ours. and that was another reason she had to die.”
phew yasmin saved it at the end….