Princess Diana: This Party Girl Doesn't Deserve Sainthood

By Timothy Sexton, published Sep 11, 2007
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Confession time. I never really cared terribly much about Princess Diana. Oh sure, she appeared as almost a beatific saint when compared to her doddering dolt of husband, but I just never could understand the attraction of the woman. Diana married Charles in the early 80s and even then, while probably not yet out of my teens and not even close to the wisdom that experience has now afforded, I could tell that whole royal wedding was a sham. It should have been perfectly obvious to anyone not blinded by the glare reflecting off Diana's mile-long (I'm only slightly exaggerating) wedding gown train. It was more than obvious from the moment Diana and Charles announced their engagement that Charles was only in it for the breathing body that he must have assumed would be someday be a dutiful Queen like his dad. (Yeah, that's pretty good one, I must admit.) But buried within Diana's face even during those pre-wedding days when she shyly avoided eye contact with the camera was the inner opportunist that eventually came bursting out of her body like the alien in the movie of the same name.

Yes, her death was sad and tragic and for a few days I actually experienced far more prolonged moments of melancholy over Princess Diana's death than I would have expected. I think much of my own personal sadness over the death of this woman I really didn't care about much at all was the apparent circumstances of her death; those initial rumors that Diana was ultimately a tragic victim of the people's right to now. No, when it finally emerged that Pres. Bush lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the people have a right to know. But nobody has the right to know the specifics of the apparently quite legal activities taking place in Princess Diana's car that night. It doesn't matter whether she was applying lipstick or applying her lips to Dodi's stick, it doesn't concern you or me. It is, to put it bluntly, an invasion of privacy.

 
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Weird ideas you have, no real facts to back up your ideas either. Diana was loved and she didn't just die she was murdered and it is sick that her murderers 'the establishment' ;will probably get away with it. Have your read Linda Corby's article on this? You should at least she has backed hers up with facts and personal experience on accident Recovery's, and has a finger on the pulse on how the majority of British people feel about Diana's murder.

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Posted on 02/19/2008 at 2:02:06 PM

 
ANd by the way, her name may spell out whatever it spells out, but she said in an interview that she was probably going to be murdered she did not die, she was murdered Oh, and if she was taking care of her children. Her two sons were not in her custody at the time. They were with the queen. I don't understand why you would even post this article. Your facts are completely invalid. You apparently know nothing about her except mere rumors, forced down the throat of the public, by the english government. Diana loved people, life, and her family. SHe gave nothing but years of devotion and money to people she barely knew, as well as spending time with the sick and less furtante then her.

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Posted on 12/22/2007 at 6:12:25 PM

 
this article has absolutely no validity you are completely false and should be ashamed of yourself, for making such an angelic and highly respectable person.

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Posted on 12/22/2007 at 6:12:39 PM

 
Royalty bores me.

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Posted on 09/15/2007 at 11:09:00 AM

 
Your stance is a little strong for me, but ultimately, I have to agree. It is annoying when a celebrity dies tragically and people try to rewrite history. She did some great things publicly and she did some stupid things in her private life. It is disrespectful to try now to make believe that she was an angel. She isn't someone that I would consider a role model in the slightest -- no more than I would a character on a daytime soap. But if her sons uphold a pristine memory, that is probably best. For everyone else, just deal with who she was and let her rest. In response to Avis, I know she is referred to as beautiful, but she actually was a plain girl. I believe this is yet another bit of postmortem fluff being hyped.

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Posted on 09/12/2007 at 10:09:00 AM

 
Why do women have to be portrayed as either a whore(not that I am saying Diana was a whore, but she was partly chosen to marry Charles because she was a virgin) or a Saint like in the case of Mother Theresa? I agree, I don't understand the admiration and constant and bizarre outpouring of grief?..I don't think that grief is the word for Diana's death. I have a sneaky suspicion it might be because she is constantly referred to as 'beautiful.' As if being beautiful and kind don't go together. I wonder if Diana had simply been a plain girl she would be remembered differently, flaws and all. As for Mother Theresa, I have not read any biographies on her, but I don't think that she liked poverty. A saint, she probably wasn't, but images of Mother Theresa are of an old, wizen women..so saint she must be? Aren't all plain women saints? T Also, of course Mother Theresa did not believe in abortion and birth control, she was a Catholic nun. To be a nun or a priest you have to, for the most

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Posted on 09/11/2007 at 3:09:00 PM

 
Saint ? I have my doubts but she did get the monarchy out of the closet back to helping those truely in need. The old saying only the good die young maybe the best analogy. ;-}}>

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Posted on 09/11/2007 at 3:09:00 PM

 
I still say I'm right though - if you're going to nominate someone for sainthood better Diana than Mother Teresa- the last thing this world needs is one more "religious" saint. We could use more secular saints however like they had during the French Revolution and the Enlightenment. What the world needs now is some interesting saints who everyone knows aren't exactly perfect. I nominate Bono, Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, and Leonard Cohen - a new roster of the saints of democracy. Either that or we get rid of sainthood altogether.Nobody really deservesto have that millstone around their neck for all posterity - possibly even all eternity. Would you want to be a saint? I wouldn't- who wants to have to try and live up to all that bullshit?

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Posted on 09/11/2007 at 3:09:00 PM

 
If you don't believe me about Mother Teresa just read Christopher Hitchens wonderful essay on the subject. It was his job to be devil's advocateand hewas happy to do it because really if Mother Teresa hated poverty so much why was she so against birth control. You know what would really do a lot to solve the problem of poverty in India, Latin America, Africa, and Asia - condoms!And don't you dare feed me that crap about that being racist either -that's a load of B.S.- using condoms wouldn't end the Indian or Asian or African races but it might make conditions a lot more tolerablefor themto live in and give them a chance to advance their civilization and build democracy.

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Posted on 09/11/2007 at 3:09:00 PM

 
I stand by everything I just posted underneath as well. Is Diana a candidate for sainthood - NO! My take on that though is simple - not one damn human soul on this planet comes even close to being thought worthy for sainthood - not one! The whole idea of sainthood is hypocritical elitist fanciful nonsense. We are all sinners and we are all saints. Period. Good God Tim I thought you were a socialist - you should know better.

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Posted on 09/11/2007 at 2:09:00 PM

 
Of course you're right about Diana, Tim. I never cared for her much either but I don't know that she didn't love and value her children - I think that's a stretch. Not that I noticed whether the boys were crying or not - I didn't watch that much of the funeral but one possible explanation for the lack of tears - SHOCK. I mean come on Tim - if they wouldn't cry for her then who? perhaps they're just a lot like their Dad and Grandparents but I just don't see it. Truthfully Diana probably did more for the poor than Mother Teresa ever did just by being human - she did stuff for the poor but she was still a whore - why sweat it - what for - we're all whores. For all have sinned and fallshort of the glory of God.

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Posted on 09/11/2007 at 2:09:00 PM

 
Mother Teresa was as much a con job as Princess Diana though. All this stuff about Mother Teresa loving the poor is a total crock - what she loved was poverty because poverty brought people nearer to God and laid them low as human beings - the people she loved had no pride or sense of accomplishment at all - they lingeredlong on death's door and stood ad a reminder to us of our own frail humanity. This is why Mother Teresa was against not only abortion but birth control of any kind.

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Posted on 09/11/2007 at 2:09:00 PM

 
All that talk about making Diana a saint is just fringe thinking at this point, isn't it? Anybody who still thinks Diana should get a fast track to sainthood must be still trying to sell those commemorative plates and other cheapo trinkets that came out around the time of her death. You still see ads in magazines all the time to buy those plates with her image. And I guess you still see the random Diana merch on QVC. Well, I wrote a piece about her here last month that praised her as an (eerily) effective mover and shaker. She had a state of power that nobody else really had--and she used it for good in the case of world affairs. Had she lived, perhaps she would have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize eventually. And that would have been more than appropriate. But even Mother Theresa would roll over if she heard Diana would even be considered being beatified. That, after we hear MT had her struggles with faith as any human being would.

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Posted on 09/11/2007 at 1:09:00 PM

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