Lady Di: Endnotes

This is my short contribution for original writing...Written  nine years after the car crash in which the Princess of Wales died. I was quite a fan...
I almost still am with a few reservations and that comes with growing up a bit!

Lady Di:Endnotes

Lady Diana Spencer,  Princess of Wales, will be remembered today, as it is the ninth anniversary of her death .  31st August 1997.

If she could have had a glimpse into just this day – what would have gone through her mind?

She died, as the young mother of two boys, one barely a teenager and the other a child,
Cruelly and unexpectedly torn away by a brutal high speed car chase that ended her life  in a tunnel.

She would, I think, smile in maternal joy and pride at how well they have progressed, each on their way to splendid manhood…without compromising the core of values they share with their mother.

The shy Prince William and the Jolly Prince Harry – are now at the age Diana was when she attained instant global recognition as the future wife of the Prince of Wales.
The sweet shyness of the young kindergarten teacher, the natural poise of a member of the nobility are entwined in the royal heir William. Harry seems to symbolize the fresh faced optimism and humor of the youthful Diana, who “highly recommended married life”, in a media interview.

Leaving aside the ugly truth behind the lies and deceptions of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles –is the only tribute we can pay to Diana – the Princess of Hearts.
Even though this beautiful heart was broken in its quest for personal love, it never bent to accept what Fate meted out- and earned a more public sort of love from her loyal subjects.

Sometimes the Famous walk unwary and trip over their own fame…If Lady Di had perhaps made one mistake, it was too assiduously to court the media in her later role as social ambassador and crusader, which she had desperately shunned in the first flush of her royal romance.

Had the lady known what her final fate would be when she enlisted the media in a bid to draw royal attention and concern to her personal predicament –perhaps she would have chosen to stay true to the innate reticence and reserve of the shy young schoolteacher
That she was – and then maybe we would have seen her live to a ripe old age...

I am certain had this lady lived, she would have earned the respect she so craved from the royal family and the rest of the world not as a mere royal figurehead or as a fashionista,
but as an ambassador into the heart of human misery, carving out a path for a personal approach and involvement to social activism.

This lovely blushing bride turned disillusioned divorcee would have ultimately matured into a powerhouse of compassion and charity. Queen she never would have become perhaps, but in her day Queen Mother to a proud King William, maybe. Since there was and is ground to believe that Prince Charles would be passed over in favor of Prince William for the throne of Britain.

Now we will never know – For Diana the beautiful, compassionate, phenomenal woman is lost to us forever, left behind in the chaotic crush of metal and flesh in a dark tunnel in a foreign land…and with time the tunnel of horror slowly recedes in our memories, leaving behind an age, a race, a time that made the unique Lady Diana .

Footnote:
(Of course Prince Charles
couldn't resist the throne and with  bowler hatted Camilla parked right next to him!
The age of abdication and nobility is truly over.
Will and Harry will follow suit too I guess.
This was an effusion of my innocent  ardor  for a beautiful lady in the days when I was comfortable with monarchy! )

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