To find the royal family fascinating?

[MagicKingdomDizzy]

Don't want to make this a TAAT, so I'll just say I have enjoyed everyone's observations on the royal family and it's made a boring weekend go much quicker

Please continue if you wish to......

Paul Burrell has finally come out and married his partner and I think makes his living giving interviews to Channel 5 about being the self styled “Diana’s Rock”.

@BishopBrennansArse

I will admit I did like it when Anne Robinson used to call Diana the Thorpe Park Goddess and how quickly the mirror did an about turn and started all the sainthood articles.

Quite so. The Guardian had a jokey series called "Mrs Blair's Diary" in which, a day or so before the accident*, something along the lines of "If she was any more stupid you'd have to water her" re the POW appeared.
They then joined in as fulsomely as any other publication with the "outpouring of grief".
*Sorry. "Alledged accident". Pace the conspiracy theorists.

@Whizzler

Fuck knows my mother had one her car when I learnt to drive - I think therapeutic

RubberTreePlant maybe that's where Jed Mercurio got the idea for 'The Caddy' in Line of Duty........not

They were supposed to be massagey, I think. How young are you all that you don't remember beady cars and squidgey-gate?

I remember squidgey-gate but massagey car seat covers passed me by! My mother did have a fetching leopard print faux fur steering wheel cover though!

That's okay then. I suddenly felt ancient for a moment there

What does Paul Burrell do these days?

Well, he was on a programme about the granting of royal warrants the other night ...

(And now I feel really old; those beaded car seat covers were supposed to be a "massage" thing!!)

@RubberTreePlant yup the very same, apparently Burrell has admitted to sneaking him in...

And of course the first thread had the heart surgery photo with the mascara

Was she in for a mascara-ectomy? risky procedure.

I can clearly remember tampongate; not so clear on squidgey (ick, they both sound so awful!); had forgotten about poor Ali Cockayne; beaded car seats passed me by; Will Carling has one of those bottom chins which is a bad look quite apart from his (alleged) behaviour; remember Panorama doc VERY clearly and the shock horror it induced all round. Hips worn out from practising genteel duchess style so have to go to bed and hope this highly amusing thread will still be here in the morning! (PS, PoW and Camilla were VERY common knowledge even pre-wedding)

Feel I have to step in and defend the leotard over cycling shorts combo, it was so comfortable to work out In, nothing rode up, wobbly bits were held nicely in place, bring back the 90’s!

I think she was shagging a heart surgeon and was watching a child’s heart surgery.

Respect where it is due. I remember growing up being terrified of catching AIDS from a loo seat, and she went to a hospice and shook hands with people dying of AIDS which was an absolute game changer at the time.

and am now snorting at the mascara/surgical mask pic!

• @RubberTreePlant yup the very same, apparently Burrell has admitted to sneaking him in...*

Dirty Canadian rock star!

Wasn't there some talk about Kevin Costner trying to cast her in the Bodyguard II? Maybe that was a cover story?

What about the g-string from the leotard it looks incredibly uncomfortable- or do the Lyra shorts fend that off?

Iamnotagoddess it's the gowned staff member behind her in the photo I can't get over ... never mind that vital piece of equipment the surgeon needs; I'm having my photo taken dontcha know?

@BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo, I think you need to lead the charge in bringing back the leotard over cycling shorts look! Where you lead the hipsters will follow...

I'm having my photo taken dontcha know?

I remember Julia Carling doing an impersonation of her in the surgical mask while presenting The Big Breakfast the next day.

Wgo can forget Prince Charles comparing himself to a Tampax. When we were at work and Charlie was visiting to do his while chinless wonder 'ehh what do you do routine' those of us wo remembered it declined the opportunity to meet him as we were stil smirking about the incident, plus we were expected to hang around to meet him after our shift had finished.

What does Paul Burrell do these days?

Retired florist. He was one of the subjects of a series about slebs in Therapy. You can still find it on channel 5's On demand. It made very interesting viewing.

Oh I saw the Burrell therapy. Quite sad really. Not saying that snarkily.

Retired florist. that sounds bloody lovely! but somehow very unlikely - it's not like retired bus driver, or retired bank manager, or retired CEO really.

To those bigging up Princess Margaret - you do realise the woman was known to be a truly nasty piece of work who would have absolutely despised all of us plebs?