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not to want the 'Diana' video for Christmas?

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ohmymimi · 20/09/2013 13:55

It's bound to be out by then. Never keen on her, but also sorry for her sons having her life raked over again.

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GoshAnneGorilla · 20/09/2013 23:37

I agree that the hysteria over her death was a black period for this country. The radio just playing muzak for several days, people walking around wearing black ribbons, flowers being left (to rot) outside every town hall

This film does have tv movie written all over it and Watts did indeed make an arse of herself on the Kermode and Mayo show, I love the way Mayo handled it though.

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AlannaPartridge · 21/09/2013 00:00

I love the way Mayo handled it though

Me too. Didn't make a meal of it, just let the whole thing speak for itself. Which it did.

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almapudden · 21/09/2013 00:15

What happened on Mayo's show?

I was 12 when she died and living in Northamptonshire.Some of my friends and their mothers took a picnic and camping chairs and went to spend the day lining the funeral route. I was revolted, tbh.

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GoshAnneGorilla · 21/09/2013 00:34

Alanna - I like that she tried to do the whole "We're out of time" guff and he was quick to counter that, rather then just simper over her.

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ItIsKnown · 21/09/2013 00:39

DD in Yr 9 is doing a history module on Titanic. All I can remember from history at that age was the alcoholic dinosaur droning on about barons.

Anyway, I remembered that that I was once so obsessed keen with the film that I bought a special box set with books, photographs and VIDEOS of the film and the making of. She was most perplexed at the cassettes.

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Alisvolatpropiis · 21/09/2013 14:22

Zing she was a princess. As is Kate. They take the title if their husbands so Charles and William are Princesses. By marriage.

Kate simply goes by a different title in everyday life. As does Camilla.

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noblegiraffe · 21/09/2013 14:52

Kate and Wills looks fab. 'I'm just the girl he hangs out with, not the girl he takes home'

I wonder if Kate and Wills have seen it.

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PomBearArmy · 21/09/2013 18:53

My Dad couldn't stand her when she was alive, but he made such a big deal of her death. He actually woke me up to tell me about it, and had the news running on TV for days. We went shopping that day and the cars on the road were crawling along, everyone looking across to compare devastated expressions. Such a strange few days!

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RedPencils · 21/09/2013 19:00

Noblegiraffe - watch it you won't be disappointed. Its hysterical. It's so Mills and Boony.
I might have to watch YouTube clips Whilst the dcs are watching xfactor.

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Justforlaughs · 21/09/2013 19:02

I found her incredibly annoying in life and the hype around her death a farce. Having said that, it was tragic that 2 boys lost their much loved mother in such a way, it was worse that they had to face the media circus and even worse that we still can't let it go and rehash the whole thing every couple of years again. The wounds cannot heal, when they keep seeing pictures of her plastered over the press and media, and now there is another generation to face it.