Can we talk about Princess Diana?

[Ca.]

An enlightening documentary of the humility of Diana. Sorry it's from the BBC so it's slightly sanitized from reality.
Still her radiance on others was a common observation.

The Day I Met Diana (58:24)
(23 days left to listen) Aug. 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092gjmz

Among those recalling their meetings with Diana - Charles Stonehill a friend of one of Diana's flatmates in the days before she was a member of the Royal family, former HIV nurse John O'Reilly who met her when she kissed hands with an Aids patient in 1987 and land mines survivor Jerry White who was with Diana just weeks before she died.

Also those recalling their meeting with Diana for the BBC Radio Wales programme, a man who served on the Royal Yacht Britannia during the couple’s honeymoon, a woman who sang in a choir on Diana’s first official visit as the Princess of Wales, and victims of the Towyn floods in 1990. Amateur photographer Colin Edwards from Ruthin in North Wales recalls his many meetings with the Princess and how they came to be on first name terms. Former lifeboat man Tony Jepps remembers painting a picture for Diana while Dale Miles from Merthyr Tydfil tells about a royal kiss he will never forget. Another story involves Sara Carr, who was nine years old at the time. She tells of a fairy tale meeting with the Princess on a narrow gauge railway in Wales in 1982.

 

[Yupo]

First (of very few) prophetic dream I remember having was in late 1970s, about Prince Charles getting married. This was shortly before Lady Di became news, but she was the one in the dream. In my dream, she had been taken to a fertility clinic in Florida to determine if she was good to go for producing an heir. When I woke up, I told my friends/suite mates that HRH was getting married. It really seemed like I had heard it on the radio, like it was real news, yet I had a visual impression of it all. And yet in the real world there was no news of it. I searched papers, genuinely surprised no one else had heard the news. After a while I realized it had been a dream.
My mother used to tell me (as reason to hang on to virginity) that Prince Charles was still single. Seriously . So I eventually interpreted this dream as a message that is was OK to start dating. Well, dream turned out to be true. But I don't know abut the Florida part. Maybe a linguistic thing for flowering and fruiting?

 

[seek10]

I came across this daily mail article that talks about BBC investigating itself the methods BBC used to allow Diana to talk about her health and marriage challenges.

Panorama will investigate itself over Martin Bashir's Diana interview

In a special programme, reportedly set to include an interview with her brother Earl Spencer, the investigative show will delve into how the journalist obtained the talk with the royal.

www.dailymail.co.uk

here is one piece of interview. Pretty straight forward comments w.r.t modern standards, but how difficult for her to come out of royal secrecy mould to express her self.

It is a joke that BBC is investigating itself. Why even to bother about it now? The amount of hoopla with Phillip's death made me wonder whether real PTB wearing royal masks are celebrating Phillips death as if they didn't have any festivities for some time. Probably this has to do constant narration fight with Trump. Probably, PTB is trying to give signal to any dissenters. Any way, these motives tend to be complicated depending up on who is in the controversy.

 

[Keit]

YT algorithm offered me this video. Here's the full description of the footage. I recommend you to watch it, because not only it's a genuine example of how various people react to news (first jokes, disbelief, continuing with the things they were doing) and then their reaction to the shocking announcement. This also clearly shows how loved Diana was, that some guys in Iowa reacted in such a way. And it also reminded me of 9/11, and how when there was still a fire and the towers were still standing, probably many people continued doing what they were doing, just like the guys in the video. The shock and the realization came when they fell.

Historic event - The unexpected death of Princess Diana.Friends playing cards learn that Princess Diana was injured in a car accident, then react when TV news says she has died. I recorded this home video in 1997 and it sat in a box for many years. This is the full, unedited version as I recorded it that night, from the original videotape. To answer some questions that have popped up - Why was I recording? I was trying out a new camcorder by recording friends playing the card game UNO. When my mom called me to say that Diana was in a car crash I turned on the TV, on silent, and we kept playing the game while monitoring the text on the bottom of the TV screen. When the screen text changed to "Diana dead" the true reality of the situation hit like a ton of bricks and we stopped playing UNO of course, and rushed over to the TV. This was recorded in America, in the state of Iowa. All of the guys in the video are still alive today (as of today, May 21, 2023). The guy who screams when he learns Diana has died is my friend Ken who still lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is his genuine reaction to the news of Diana's death. Some people call it a "Wilhelm scream." (Apparently that's a movie term). The guy who stifles a smile after Ken's scream is Scott. (His brief smile was a reaction to Ken's loud silly scream, NOT to Diana's death). When CNN announced that Diana had died I didn't turn the camera back to the TV because my instinct was that it would be more interesting to capture my friends' reactions. Some people call this video the first of what are now called "reaction" videos, a term that didn't exist in 1997 (and neither did YouTube, which began in 2005). - I keep in touch with all the guys today and we still played games regularly up until Covid came along.