What were you doing the morning that you heard that Princess Diana had just died in car crash with the thirteenth pillar of the tunnel under the Alma bridge in Paris? It's been two decades since that last day of August that shook our consciousness. We had all consumed the magazines and newspapers and knew that the Princess of Wales had been unhappily married.
She herself had confessed in that famous television interview that "there were three of us in this marriage". Prince Charles had always been in love with his current wife, Camila Parker Bowles. So much so that a famous leak of his adulterous messages included the line: "I want to be... your tampon". Diana, now divorced, ended up in the arms of a multimillionaire: Dodi Al-Fayed, heir to Harrods department store. That 30th August, that night they left the Paris Ritz through the back door.
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They were fleeing from the paparazzi, from all of us who wanted to know. We consumed that story greedily. The rumors followed them: Dodi has asked her to marry him. Diana was expecting a third child. The brother of the future king of England would be a Muslim. Diana knew that her life was in danger. A Spanish pro-conspiracy biographer have even claimed that she left behind an immortal phrase: "If anything happens to me, the Duke of Edinburgh is to blame". The father-in-law, it's always the father-in-law.
@flashculiao
Queen Elizabeth II reacted late and badly. She never had much affection for her daughter-in-law. The Duke of Edinburgh, with all his known obsessions, philias and phobias, has been accused of organising a plan for the secret service to cover up key aspects of the accident. The investigation concluded with a simple "the driver was drunk" and filed. They didn't know that the worst was yet to come.
@nic120688
The men of Diana's life parading with her coffin. Lovers of conspiracy theories say that the coffin was empty and that Diana was cremated without an autopsy taking place. Of the five men, her brother, Charles (in the middle), has remained, 20 years later, the beneficiary and her ex-husband, the other Charles, consults betting shops to find out if he'll be king for a short time or not at all. Her father-in-law has retired and her two sons have managed to preserve the good image of the most royal family of the planet.
@RadioTimes
The British were half traumatized. Their people's princess died cruelly. The beautiful face, the lover of minorities. She would join any good cause. Fight against landmines? Let's do it. Battle against homophobia? Let's have it. War against the resignation of the cuckolded woman? Let's win it. It had to be the now-disgraced prime minister Tony Blair, the swindler-in-chief the Kingdom, who guided the queen. Elizabeth did not know how to react. Her sang-froid was suitable for normal times, but at a moment like this it didn't please her subjects. They didn't hold a state funeral because Diana wasn't of royal blood. She didn't know what to say or do. To appear sad did not fit with her Victorian education. And she lost the match. 20 years later the queen of England in the hearts of half the planet is called Diana Spencer.
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