It’s not often that I comment on celebrity stuff, but this takes the cake:
The American people still hold a grudge against the Royal Family for how Princess Diana was treated, claims a senior journalist at ABC News.
The late Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, captivated the hearts of people worldwide with her charm, grace, and unwavering commitment to humanitarian causes.
And she had a particularly strong impact in America – with rumours she even planned to give up her life in the UK and move Stateside.
What a load of bullshit. I dunno where this “senior journalist at ABC News” conducted his poll — no doubt among his “senior” journo buddies, over several cocktails at some foul Manhattan bar.
I doubt whether the average American under age… I dunno, maybe 60 — even knows who the Virgin Princess was. And among the over 60s (like me), the reaction is most likely in the “who gives a rat’s ass?” class.
Indeed, the whole Royal Family concept is treated with barely-concealed contempt Over Here, with only a few royalty groupies even aware of the dramatis personae in Britishland’s little social soap opera. (I know who most of these parasites are, but that’s only because my university degree is in Modern Western Civilization — such as it was — and it’s necessary to know these goofs only because of the part they played in European history prior to WWI.)
And as it turns out, Prince Charles only married this upper-class twit because he couldn’t marry Camilla — yeah, that worked out well — and even better, she wasn’t the saintly Lady/Princess Di, but a shallow little Sloane Ranger (Britain’s Valley Girl equivalent, named for their fondness for the shops and clubs of Chelsea) who won the ultimate Sloan Prize: to marry royalty. And that worked out well, too. Not.
Anyway, there is no “grudge” Over Here towards the Royals. I bet this “senior journalist at ABC News” only made that statement to create some controversy prior to Charles’s coronation next week.
Sic semper iournalisti (or however they would have put it in 100 AD).
