Vice-Regal Saint: Good riddance to all that
I believe this is my first post ever on the late Princess of Wales; with a little luck, it will also be my last.
Sane people everywhere know what happened to Her Royal Highness on that tragic day in Paris, August 31, 1997. They didn't need an 872 page report commissioned at great expense to British taxpayers to conclude the whole thing was an accident, nor to appease the thoroughly deluded and bitter Mohamed al-Fayed and his lunatic conspiracy fantasy that his son and Diana were murdered by M16 assassins, because of the false claim she was pregant with his son's baby. But I suppose we can at least thank Lord Stevens for debunking these outrageous claims of any validity once and for all, and for allowing an emotionally fragile public to get on with their more important - one would hope - lives.
Nevertheless, I would be lying if what happened to me on that fateful day wasn't life turning for me personally. For it was the day I met my bride to be. In Paris. Just down the way. And so it's a little hard for me to say goodbye to all that, when I get to say hello to all of this. But good riddance all the same.
(Not you, honey.)
Beaverbrook
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Bottom line: a drunk driver was driving over 60 mph in a 30 mph zone and crashed into a pillar. The drunk driver was a longtime employee of the Fayed family. End of discussion. No assassin on a grassy knoll, no Prince Philip hit squad, no alien abductions.
The late Quentin Crisp spoke truthfully, if bluntly, that Princess Diana's fast and shallow lifestyle contributed to her own demise: "She could have been Queen of England -- and she was swanning about Paris. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering." (Atlanta Southern Voice, 1 July 1999).
Or to put it more kindly, Diana suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder, according to mental health experts.
The "people's princess" remains the icon of superficial popular culture. But the Royal family knew a very different character -- the one behind the facades of glamour and pseudo-compassion.
Both Diana and her brother, Charles Spencer, suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder caused by their mother's abandoning them as young children. A google search reveals that Diana is considered a case study in BPD by mental health professionals.
For Charles Spencer, BPD meant insatiable sexual promiscuity (his wife was divorcing him at the time of Diana's death). For Diana, BPD meant intense insecurity and insatiable need for attention and affection which even the best husband could never fulfill.
Clinically, it's clear that the Royal family did not cause her "problems". Rather, Diana brought her multiple issues into the marriage, and the Royal family was hapless to deal with them.
Her illness, untreated, sowed the seeds of her fast and unstable lifestyle, and sadly, her tragic fate.
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