Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: Diana of Wails: The Princess and Me https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address daleaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25750#post25750 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25750#post25750 Now behave.

Harry looks exactly like all the Spencers did at his age, right down to the red hair – he's especially like Sarah McCorquodale, Diana's sister. If they AIDS test prospective royal brides before the wedding (and they do), the Windsors would certainly DNA test the offspring.

I know…

]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:48:03 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25746#post25746 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25746#post25746 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:54:06 +1200 dc_red https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25744#post25744 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25744#post25744 Wikipedia reports "It has been suggested that Hewitt could be the natural father of the Prince, but this is not possible given that Diana did not even… ]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:41:09 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25737#post25737 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25737#post25737 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:35:39 +1200 Raymond A Francis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25735#post25735 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25735#post25735 Passed me by to a certain extent

I was told as I walked out of my mother's hospital room
We had pulled the plug and were just waiting for her to die, which she did that night

"Such is life"

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:05:33 +1200 Michael Fitzgerald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25725#post25725 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25725#post25725 "she added some much needed fresh stock to the royal gene pool."
My point exactly, but does that make Harry Royal?

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:16:21 +1200 mark baker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25719#post25719 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25719#post25719 We can only thank Di for one thing: she added some much needed fresh stock to the royal gene pool.
As for the rest, well she was a product of her time and could probably not exist in these post-Paris and Britney days.
I somehow can't imagine the Princess getting…

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:56:43 +1200 Simon Chamberlain https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25701#post25701 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25701#post25701 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:20:36 +1200 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25686#post25686 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25686#post25686 Found, online, Private Eye's priceless editorial that week:

**IN recent weeks (not to mention the last ten years) we at the Daily Gnome, in common with all other newspapers, may have inadvertently conveyed the impression that the late Princess of Wales was in some way a neurotic, irresponsible and manipulative…

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:27:41 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25685#post25685 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25685#post25685 My husband's grandmother was a wonderful woman, but she could occasionally get similar words confused. The CNN coverage she was watching in the aftermath discussed the blame laid at the feet of the paparazzi, while showing photos of Diana's famous friends.

This left Granny convinced that... Pavarotti had killed Diana.…

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:25:54 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25682#post25682 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25682#post25682 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:07:24 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25681#post25681 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25681#post25681

Later that year, our family and the larger Irish family up the road won a special prize in the Holy Cross Parish Fancy Dress Parade as "The Royal Wedding". I was Diana (I was blonde then),

Oh my god! I seem to remember I was Charles, on account of my…

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:05:38 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25660#post25660 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25660#post25660 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:44:09 +1200 dc_red https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25653#post25653 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25653#post25653

I was channel surfing when I heard she'd died, so stuck on ZB to hear the outpourings. The first caller set on nice tone with her ''who cares, they're all Germans anyway..''

Are you sure you were listening to ZB? My mid/late afternoon they had woken chief royalist Leighton Smith…

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:14:36 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25648#post25648 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25648#post25648 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:59:14 +1200 Ray Gilbert https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25642#post25642 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25642#post25642 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:37:09 +1200 Paul Scoones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25633#post25633 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25633#post25633 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:55:59 +1200 GemmaG https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25632#post25632 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25632#post25632 I heard via a cellphone message from Jaquie Brown, as a car full of pals sped back to the city from a day out of range at Wenderholm, in Oly Driver's beautiful old set o'wheels.

Jaquie's message was both hilarious and horrified (she is English after all). I can still…

]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:48:05 +1200 Richard Wain https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25627#post25627 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25627#post25627 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:22:08 +1200 InternationalObserver https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25624#post25624 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25624#post25624 Anyway I went back to my hotel afterwards, wrote the feature up and faxed it back to the Heraldheh heh ... faxing? In my mind I'm sure I was using email in the 90's. But I'm really not so sure. Funny to think something we don't even think about anymore… ]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:45:59 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25621#post25621 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25621#post25621

. . . the vicarious enjoyment we had through her, but she was just human, right?

I remember a very pregnant Jane Turner on Fast Forward playing a bikini-clad Diana besieged by paparazzi. When asked when the baby was due she denied being pregnant and insisted that she just had…

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:40:49 +1200 Quardle Oodle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25620#post25620 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25620#post25620 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:13:12 +1200 Richard Bol https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25617#post25617 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25617#post25617 I'm not quite sure how I found out about Di's untimely demise. I seem to recall an interruption to Sunday afternoon programming, followed by confirmation in the 6pm news that she was dead. If it meant anything to me I would have a better recollection.

Although, I remember seeing the…

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:14:22 +1200 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25616#post25616 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25616#post25616 I found out about the death of Diana on the internet!

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon, and I was hanging out in the #nz IRC channel, when someone announced that Diana had been in a car crash. I went to CNN.com to check that this was true, and they…

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:47:46 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25615#post25615 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25615#post25615 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:23:36 +1200 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25612#post25612 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25612#post25612 I was about to go for a run – this was in the days when I did things like that – and there was a news flash that she'd been in a car accident.

My black-hearted cynical journalist's response was 'Brilliant PR move – wonder who thought of it?' and…

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:58:41 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25611#post25611 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25611#post25611 Much ado about nothing.

Who cares about the machinations of the ludicrous remnant of the age of kings and its bizarre codes of behaviour? At least Paris has a higher hemline, and I guess Lindsay would be more fun at a party.

Bring on a Republic!

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:56:44 +1200 Kim Griggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25610#post25610 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25610#post25610 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:48:11 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25609#post25609 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25609#post25609 Diana, aged 11, with possibly the best friend she ever had:
http://www.oginet.com/Cavies/abcdd.jpg

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:38:49 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25608#post25608 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25608#post25608 Good column by Charles Moore in the Telegraph.

He notes something that appalled me at the time: the way people, with the encouragement of the news media, felt entitled to pass judgement on the Windsors for, er, not mourning in the prescribed fashion.

Nice comment on Blair too:

One day,…

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:37:28 +1200 Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25606#post25606 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25606#post25606 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:26:13 +1200 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25605#post25605 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25605#post25605 I was subbing on a provincial daily here in NZ when i heard about. It was at about 3pm on Sunday and I remember thinking "All hell's going to break loose at work tomorrow".
Anyway, I rolled into work at 7am on Monday, turned on my computer, flicked to the…

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:12:31 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25604#post25604 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25604#post25604 I've long thought that you could divide humanity as to who bought into Diana and who didn't. Christine Rankin, I am sure, wept buckets over Lady Di.

I can see how Tony Blair so ably captured the hour after her death though. Watching old clips of Blair speaking in Andrew…

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:09:56 +1200 Graham Reid https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25602#post25602 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25602#post25602 oh shit
that was so long ago i had forgotten . . .
mea culpa
i guess it proves the only time i ever think of this woman in when these damn anniversaries roll around
i shall get out of here now

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:02:42 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25601#post25601 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25601#post25601

I think I've heard this one before.
;)

Should we vote on which version of the yarn we like better?

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:57:42 +1200 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25600#post25600 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25600#post25600 I think I've heard this one before.
;)

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:38:34 +1200 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25599#post25599 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25599#post25599 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:26:59 +1200 Michael Fitzgerald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25597#post25597 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25597#post25597 Hail Mary full of grace ...
...forgive me my spelling

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:23:58 +1200 Michael Fitzgerald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25596#post25596 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25596#post25596 I started craking jokes in the office with the rest of the boys and we were stopped by a wall of tears from women I really thought more of than that. I'm still puched in the arm when I make "He's his fathers son" jokes about Harry.
A lot of…

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:22:14 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25595#post25595 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-diana-of-wails-the-princess-and/?p=25595#post25595 Discussion from blog post.

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