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Originally Posted by mani
quite interesting - how many people actually think it was a natural accident and how many think murder?
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The night before her death I'd been at a party at Kenneth Branagah's (yawn, name dropping again,) and a lot of the talk at the party had been about Diana. This after all was the summer where every day brought new revelations in the Greek tradgedy that was her life.
Whatever she may have done wrong in her life, I always admired her for being the first public figure in the world to touch and hug someone with AIDS, which at the time certainly wasn't the cutesy photo op with cute kids sort of thing to do. It was a time when the tabloid press was whipping up hysteria that it was a plague that could proably be spread by being in the same room as someone with the disease.
On a personal level I was responsible for getting her as a customer for the company I then worked for. Quite a coup, as Charlie boy was a customer of our nearest rival. This meant my job changed for the better and my salary doubled over night. Selfish yes, but indirectly my quality of life was made much better.
Was she murdered or was her death an accident?
Like I said earlier I don't think we'll ever know, despite the offical enquirey, but the morning after the party I was staying at a friend's house in north London, and was in the shower when someone shouted the news through the door.
My first, unthinking remark was that 'they have killed her.'