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To think Princess Di was killed

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Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:35

There OK I said it. You hoo, crazy conspiracy theorist over here…

Yes, I know they had an inquiry though anyone high up enough to kill a Royal could snowball an Inquiry or influence the outcome ? I think it’s naive to think the law is this perfect thing.

Ive always found it odd that she was labelled a “loose cannon” by the press and was campaigning against landmines. It was said that it caused a lot of noses out of joint in politics. I would have thought that weapons dealers and the industry would have taken a huge hit.

There aren’t many celebrities or organisations that could have taken on the weapons or arms industry as powerfully as Diana. It was until then an issue that nobody touched.

Since her death there’s still landmines and the issue has never really been addressed.

I wonder if she’d been alive today what she’d be doing. Not hard to imagine her visiting children impacted by war and maybe even Palestinian refugees, beaming images around the world to restore some sanity and humanity.

I dont think we realise the humanity, bravery and brilliance she had. Could have been going to glamorous events and being a Princess but instead she was carrying on even when powerful people were upset.

I wonder how powerful those people were or was it someone British. Men don’t take a liking to women with power and it amazes me more that she wasn’t killed deliberately in the context of this.

What are the chances she would die at such a young age and to not be wearing a seat belt seems bizarre to me. Just too many coincidences.

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wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 31/01/2025 16:50

Meandhimtogether · 31/01/2025 11:32

How nice you all are putting a DEAD woman down.
She can't defend herself. Yes she had flaws.
Whether you think it was an accident or something else
let her RIP.

I'm taking a wild guess that you are not a historian...

Americano75 · 31/01/2025 17:00

I wonder what it would have been like if Wallis Simpson/prince deviant was all happening now? They tried to say that she had a DSD, and that she had learned special tricks in a far east brothel. The Internet would have had a field day with her.

pelargoniums · 31/01/2025 18:41

Americano75 · 31/01/2025 17:00

I wonder what it would have been like if Wallis Simpson/prince deviant was all happening now? They tried to say that she had a DSD, and that she had learned special tricks in a far east brothel. The Internet would have had a field day with her.

We can see exactly how the internet would treat Wallis and it’s the same stories. The murkier parts of the anti-Meghan internet make similar claims – she had a child from a first marriage (making Harry her third husband), she was a yacht girl who learned her skills on Randy Andy and used them to woo Harry, etc.

Americano75 · 31/01/2025 18:53

pelargoniums · 31/01/2025 18:41

We can see exactly how the internet would treat Wallis and it’s the same stories. The murkier parts of the anti-Meghan internet make similar claims – she had a child from a first marriage (making Harry her third husband), she was a yacht girl who learned her skills on Randy Andy and used them to woo Harry, etc.

I know, right? It would have been as relentless.

Longleggedgiraffe · 31/01/2025 19:02

Lavenderfarmcottage · 28/01/2025 15:46

I just think it’s coincidental that of all the times to die in accident it was after bringing a huge level of attention to landmines & making a whole bunch of arms dealers and politicians annoyed/putting them on the map basically.

There is nspiracy. Diana died because she didn't fasten her seat belt. Are you ignoring the fact that the only person to survive the crash was the only one to be wearing a seat belt? How do you think the powers that be persuaded her not to wear it? Telepathy?
Out of all the methods available to Governments and Intelligence Agencies to conduct an unlawful killing do you really think they would choose such an imprecise method?
Diand died in a tragic accident 27 years ago. It's really time to put this sort of rigmarole to restand allow her to rest in peace.

Tomatotater · 31/01/2025 19:22

pelargoniums · 31/01/2025 18:41

We can see exactly how the internet would treat Wallis and it’s the same stories. The murkier parts of the anti-Meghan internet make similar claims – she had a child from a first marriage (making Harry her third husband), she was a yacht girl who learned her skills on Randy Andy and used them to woo Harry, etc.

The amount of people whoncompare them is ridiculous! And they all seem to revert back to the 1950's and gasp at the horrors of a divorced woman having a relationship with a member of the RF as if its a moral failing, when most of The Late Queens children, her sister and grandson are also divorced, as well as half the population!

pelargoniums · 31/01/2025 19:39

Tomatotater · 31/01/2025 19:22

The amount of people whoncompare them is ridiculous! And they all seem to revert back to the 1950's and gasp at the horrors of a divorced woman having a relationship with a member of the RF as if its a moral failing, when most of The Late Queens children, her sister and grandson are also divorced, as well as half the population!

Ah, but the Queen’s sister, children and grandchildren are chosen by God, which means God must want them to be divorced. Meghan and Wallis are part of the great unwashed and should know their place.

PeppyGreenFinch · 31/01/2025 19:48

Gloriia · 28/01/2025 15:54

That car accident could not have been planned. I'd understand your point if she'd been found dead alone in a house or something but I mean how much evidence do you need?

No point in wondering what she'd be doing if alive as she sadly isn't. If only she'd have chosen her boyfriends a bit more carefully and lived her life a bit less recklessly.

Yes if only she hadn’t dated two brown men she’d still be alive Hmm

JoyousGreyOrca · 31/01/2025 21:52

Pretty vile to say if only she had chosen her boyfriends more carefully she would be alive. Disgusting thing to victim blame.

Flindersonbark2896 · 31/01/2025 21:55

JoyousGreyOrca · 31/01/2025 21:52

Pretty vile to say if only she had chosen her boyfriends more carefully she would be alive. Disgusting thing to victim blame.

Totally agree Joyousgreyorca

AliasGrace47 · 31/01/2025 22:07

Americano75 · 31/01/2025 17:00

I wonder what it would have been like if Wallis Simpson/prince deviant was all happening now? They tried to say that she had a DSD, and that she had learned special tricks in a far east brothel. The Internet would have had a field day with her.

There is evidence she did have a DSD. The Anne Sebba biography is quite respectable & posits it as possible. The allegations that she seduced Edward w the 'Shanghai Squeeze', not so much...😂 And yes, there are nasty parallels w Meghan,

AliasGrace47 · 31/01/2025 22:11

PeppyGreenFinch · 31/01/2025 19:48

Yes if only she hadn’t dated two brown men she’d still be alive Hmm

Nasty comment but the point about decisions is true at core. Not their race : the family had no issue w Hasnat Khan. The issue was w Dodi's Playboy image & arms dealer uncle, also his father's battle for a British passport. And the media frenzy was built partly on this, plus the Fayeds were clearly not v tight on security.

BMW6 · 31/01/2025 22:14

PeppyGreenFinch · 31/01/2025 19:48

Yes if only she hadn’t dated two brown men she’d still be alive Hmm

Why are you bringing Colour into this? Racist much?

Nanny0gg · 31/01/2025 22:16

username299 · 28/01/2025 17:56

What I remember first about her was her insistence on not using a nanny. She was the first royal to hold her children and hug them in public.

The second was holding the hands of AIDs patients when people were terrified of HIV and patients were treated like pariahs. The Terrence Higgins Trust speaks very effusively of how she helped change minds and how she helped raise funds.

Um. Barbara Barnes and Tiggy Legge-Bourke to name but two. There were others in between

JoyousGreyOrca · 31/01/2025 22:43

Nanny0gg · 31/01/2025 22:16

Um. Barbara Barnes and Tiggy Legge-Bourke to name but two. There were others in between

She had nannies, as all Royals do. But she was a much more hands on mother than was usual in the Royal family at the time. That has changed though.

JoyousGreyOrca · 31/01/2025 22:47

AliasGrace47 · 31/01/2025 22:11

Nasty comment but the point about decisions is true at core. Not their race : the family had no issue w Hasnat Khan. The issue was w Dodi's Playboy image & arms dealer uncle, also his father's battle for a British passport. And the media frenzy was built partly on this, plus the Fayeds were clearly not v tight on security.

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Prince Andrew had a playboy image and no one in the Royal family at the time appeared to have an issue with this.
People are not to blame for what their Uncle does.
You are still victim blaming. Do you blame Queen Elizabeth for Michael Fagin breaking into her bedroom? Queen Elizabeth had turned down proposals for tighter security before the incident.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 01/02/2025 01:28

JoyousGreyOrca · 31/01/2025 22:47

Prince Andrew had a playboy image and no one in the Royal family at the time appeared to have an issue with this.
People are not to blame for what their Uncle does.
You are still victim blaming. Do you blame Queen Elizabeth for Michael Fagin breaking into her bedroom? Queen Elizabeth had turned down proposals for tighter security before the incident.

Charles also had a pretty playboy image back in the day!!

pelargoniums · 01/02/2025 09:09

I’d be more astonished by princes and millionaires not having a playboy image. If I had piles of money and totty queuing up I’d probably spread it around a bit too.

Letsbe · 01/02/2025 09:25

I think she was shot by Lord Lucan riding Shergar.

Abra1t · 01/02/2025 11:57

Letsbe · 01/02/2025 09:25

I think she was shot by Lord Lucan riding Shergar.

It was Lee Harvey Oswald! Lord Lucan shot JFK.

LaMarschallin · 01/02/2025 14:52

It was Lee Harvey Oswald! Lord Lucan shot JFK.

Didn't he shoot JR?

JoyousGreyOrca · 01/02/2025 14:53

You enjoy taking the piss? Why not just leave the thread if you think the idea is ridiculous?

LaMarschallin · 01/02/2025 14:59

I don't know if that's to me or not, JoyousGreyOrca.
If it is, let me just say that I'll carry on posting where I like, within guidelines obviously.
I don't care to engage with you any further so I won't be replying to you again.

ruethewhirl · 01/02/2025 15:19

Serenster · 30/01/2025 21:04

Yes, let's shame the female victim as usual, shall we. Nice.

Objectively speaking, a playboy who is already engaged to an American model, but whom he immediately dumps on meeting you, with a dodgy Dad, whom several of your friends warn you about getting involved with, and who is immediately keen to show you off as a trophy, isn’t a great choice for a boyfriend, no. Not matter how rich he is.

Diana's relationship choices are irrelevant to this. Unless, of course, you meant to imply they had something to do with her death. But I'm sure you didn't, because that would be tantamount to suggesting she deserved it...

Abra1t · 01/02/2025 15:24

LaMarschallin · 01/02/2025 14:52

It was Lee Harvey Oswald! Lord Lucan shot JFK.

Didn't he shoot JR?

Sorry, yes, that's right.

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