Ten Million Quid Later
Ten million quid, it cost, and what do we know now? Princess Diana was unlawfully killed, that's what we know.
I like recording things like this sign - little pieces of history.
Now then, unless you're the Duke of Edinburgh and you're reading this blog at your Me and MI6 - We Got Away With It! party, I think we all knew that the least exciting explanation of what happened was probably going to be the most accurate one.
Common things are common, as doctors are always being told. Your headache is almost certainly just a headache, and not a brain tumour. And just because Diana was a princess, that doesn't mean that she was any less vulnerable to a drunken driver, a high-speed pursuit and not wearing a seat belt.
Ten million quid and 252 witnesses later - not one of whom happened to have a video of the Duke of Edinburgh plotting Diana's death - we're back to square one, even though "unlawfully killed" is rather stronger than the possible "tragic accident".
Mohammed Al Fayed can't let it drop because his son was killed and he knows in his heart of hearts that his employee Henri Paul was most certainly a contributory factor: and that if Dodi and Diana had put their seat belts on, they might still be alive.
The dramatic events of Diana's life somehow served as a marker for the period, and even for the lives of people like me with little interest in the Royals. On the day that Charles and Di got married, with all that pomp and circumstance and that big, creased, not wholly successful fairytale dress, I was at Blarney Castle kissing the Blarney Stone. And I'm sure that, just as everyone was supposed to know where they were when President Kennedy was shot, most people remember where they were when they heard the news that she had died.
But an inquest ten years later? It was always going to be a pointless, expensive waste of time, and so it has proved.
I like recording things like this sign - little pieces of history.Now then, unless you're the Duke of Edinburgh and you're reading this blog at your Me and MI6 - We Got Away With It! party, I think we all knew that the least exciting explanation of what happened was probably going to be the most accurate one.
Common things are common, as doctors are always being told. Your headache is almost certainly just a headache, and not a brain tumour. And just because Diana was a princess, that doesn't mean that she was any less vulnerable to a drunken driver, a high-speed pursuit and not wearing a seat belt.
Ten million quid and 252 witnesses later - not one of whom happened to have a video of the Duke of Edinburgh plotting Diana's death - we're back to square one, even though "unlawfully killed" is rather stronger than the possible "tragic accident".
Mohammed Al Fayed can't let it drop because his son was killed and he knows in his heart of hearts that his employee Henri Paul was most certainly a contributory factor: and that if Dodi and Diana had put their seat belts on, they might still be alive.
The dramatic events of Diana's life somehow served as a marker for the period, and even for the lives of people like me with little interest in the Royals. On the day that Charles and Di got married, with all that pomp and circumstance and that big, creased, not wholly successful fairytale dress, I was at Blarney Castle kissing the Blarney Stone. And I'm sure that, just as everyone was supposed to know where they were when President Kennedy was shot, most people remember where they were when they heard the news that she had died.
But an inquest ten years later? It was always going to be a pointless, expensive waste of time, and so it has proved.
posted by Daphne at 7:27 pm
2 Comments:
Yeh, 10 years and £10m later is somewhat excessive. I hope for all involved that's it's finally laid to rest now. And I hope that heinous little turd known as Burrell doesn't come back to the UK.
I was at Disneyland with a soon-to-be-ex boyfriend...
On a completely different but still tabloid-related topic - what the hell is going on with the Shannon Matthews case?! (As a Yorkshire dweller I assume you have the Scoop). Rumour has it that her family staged the kidnapping to get money from the public, a la Madeline... *shudder*...
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