What's with people and Princess Diana?

Question

Why does everyone think she was this superwoman? What did she actually do?? What differentiates her from the rest of the bloodsucking leeches?

Think about it. Did she make any difference at all to your life in a real way?

Answer 1

None whatsoever and now we've got the Princess Diana Memorial Concert in July - chances are though u won't be going to it. Not because the idea of a memorial concert for an over-privileged woman with an eating disorder who nobody really liked before she died who did a bit of vanilla charity crap to pass the time and featuring the stomach-churning line-up of Elton John, Duran Duran & Andrew Lloyd Webber quite rightly makes u want to run into the sea & not stop until u reach the safety of another country but cos 60,000 red-eyed housewives with embroideries of Diana as an angel on their walls have already beaten u to it. The gig sold out 1/2 an hour after the tickets went on sale & that's without Paul McCartney inevitably announcing he'll close the concert with a version of Hey Jude so preposterously stretched out people will wish it was him who bit it in Paris. The organisers have promised more acts that reflect Diana's tastes which means Chris De Burgh will either sing Lady In Red or use the freaky power of his magical hands to reanimate Dianas body & make her bodypop to Elton John. It's been a decade since she died & events still burn brightly. Weirdos buying more flowers & generally being sadder than they were when members of their own family died, weirdos ironically throwing so many flowers at the hearse of a woman who died in a car crash that they almost caused a bigger car crash, weirdos starting fights in Woolies because they overheard teenagers questioning the words in Elton John's shoite Candle In The Wind single, pretty much a lot of weirdos doing all sorts of stupid things but Diana's memory still lives on. For instance, David Hasselhoff remembers Diana because she almost had sex with him & George Michael remembers Diana because she almost had sex with him. What about the rest of us, the ones Diana didn't want to have sex with. Luckily Prince William & his titty-groping brother Prince Harry have organised a special concert for these plebs "The Diana Didn't Want To Have Sex With You But Here's Andrew Lloyd Webber Anyway Memorial Concert". Hopefully there will be a freak strom during the concert and all the sycophantic leeches who go to drink from the pool of Diana traumatic stress syndrome will all perish and we can perhaps then start to put her behind us.

Answer 2

The difference she made to my life is that I know that somewhere, a child will not have had it's limbs torn apart by shards of jagged metal from a landmine that would have been there but for the efforts of Diana, Princess of Wales. RIP

So to answer your question, she was a superwoman differentiated from your "bloodsucking leeches" by her actions and the fact people STILL love her.

Answer 3

I can't stand the whole thing either. I'm sorry for her kids that she died so young.

In fairness, she did try to help landmine victims and a few other good causes, but nothing truly amazing given her priviliged position.

I think the reason why so many people are infatuated with her is that their own lives are so mundane and boring and she represented someone they could empathise with. She had become this Evita-like person out of complete obscurity by being elevated to the highest realms of European royalty. Then it turned out that her husband got bored of her and everybody felt sorry for her that she was used as a breeding machine. On top of all that, just as she was starting to enjoy life a little, she tragically dies in a car crash. Fate had been too unfair to her and a massive outpoor of pity ensued.

Answer 4

Yes she did make a difference to many people. It does help to see someone with everything she ever wanted, doing something for people whom had nothing. She offered a cuddle to many AIDS victims, when no-one would even go near them!

Princess or not, she was a remarkable woman and although there are hundreds of people helping and doing as much or more than her, the idea that she (being a princess), was there to help, made people more aware of the problems/illnesses and pushed people to help out and look at the disease in a different light.

Answer 5

I'm sure she helped a lot of people, but she's not the only one (from reading the other answers, I find it shocking that Mother Teresa didn't get as much attention).

Personally I feel most sorry for her kids who have to deal with a 10 year investigation into her death, how are they able to get over their grief when all these conspiracy wuestions about their mUM are being thrown around?

Answer 6

totally agree. it's easy for someone to go visit developing countries when they don't have to work, earn a living, worry about anything else. I'm sure lots of us would love to help people less fortunate in a real way, but unfortunately full time jobs get in the way of nipping over to Africa. What exactly does holding a baby and looking forlorn do for anyone really - the reason people loved her so much is because she was attractive too, no one cares that Princess Anne has done heaps and heaps for charity and children, becasue she doesn't look like a 'princess'. The woman died at 36, and had two young children, that is sad for anyone.
but difference to anyones life NO.

Answer 7

Yeah, she made me realise that she Princess Diana had no control of the drunk who drove the car. Maybe as a demoted princess she became hazy and could'nt distinguish right from wrong (who should drive). I've know made sure this does not happen to me.

Answer 8

Yep. She made a difference. Before she came along, very few knew anything about AIDS. She went and visited hospitals with AIDS patients and spread awareness.

When Rock Hudson had AIDS, people were freaking because he kissed some ladies on Dynasty. No one really knew then that AIDS couldn't be spread by kissing.

No one wanted to be associated with the disease up until this point. And the Royal Family was outraged by her actions.

Now Africa is dying of AIDS. If she were still alive, there'd be no doubt that she would join in efforts to change this.

She also was married to a very powerful man that didn't love her and she found the strength to leave despite all the pressure to live a lie.

Answer 9

I choose not to be rattled by the media hype and only read about something if I'm interested in reading about it. If not - why give the media the pleasure of making a fuss about it???

Answer 10

I'm annoyed by the cheap remark that "African americans (!?) didn't give a **** whether she died".

This just goes to show,, that it's not worth trying to help that particular species. Unless you give them money or guns, of course. They're always ready to accept THEM.

And here was me thinking that Diana had done a LOT to raise the issue of land mines - even to the extent of going to Angola and digging a few up herself.

But like I said, you wonder why we bother trying to help some of these creatures.