Princess Diana - Does The USA Not Know Something?
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
United States
May 1, 2012 9:48am CST
hubby has a coworker that is from the UK but has been in america for like 10 years now and he mentioned one day when Princess Di came up that she was NOT the great person the US thinks she is but didnt get a chance to explain why.
obviously she wasnt a saint but she did do a lot of charity work etc. but does the UK know something we dont? did we only see the good side of her?
what do you think he meant? if you are from that area what is your take or do you know what he meant?
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
2 May 12
I get so tired of the celebrity kind of people getting titled as such great and wonderful people. All they do is the same thing the rest of us do, the only difference is that they are in the "lime light" cause of who they are. No body films me voluntering at the food bank, but all a celebrity has to do is walk through one and smile and they are deemed the greatest and most wonderful caring person ever!
And it isn't just P.Diana. It is any famous person. I am sure she was a nice wonderful kind of person, but to put them on such pedestals has just gotten so far out of hand and reality. And here in the US...the celebrities...most of them all they do is go help some other country...seldom do any of them help THIS country! They go to other countries to adopt children...why don't they adopt in this country and give kids in this country a family? They go help environmentally damaged countries..but Katrina hits and all they do is complain that the govt hasn't done anything, but boy a diaster happens in some other country and they are all on top of money raising and such.
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@dfollin (25351)
• United States
2 May 12
Some of what you say I agree with and some I don't.Yes the celebrities get noticed about it more because they are more noticeable.In local newspapers more nationally unpopular people get noticed,but it doesn't get put on the tabloids and other major magazine's and TV because the people in California will not know the man in Virginia that dished food to the poor.But,he gets a pat on the back from his family,church family and friends.
And sadly you are right,the celebrities rarely do anything to help their own country.I am part Native American and think about it,how many kids are orphans on reservations and other american children who are without parents in this country.Look at our economy.I do know people that helped with Katrina and with the tornado in Tuscaloosa last year.
I live in a county in Virginia that has a very intellgent fire department that gets called on many times when there is a natural disaster in many places including Japan,Katrina areas,Tuscaloosa,Oklaholma,just to name a few.Many people from our church went to Tuscaloosa as well.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
1 May 12
What means a Saint? Nobody ever said she was. She had a hard life with a jerk, trouble to stay slim, she was cheated, the ugly prince did not love her at all, she was never really accepted and did everything what was asked and nobody took notice of who she really was. What more do you want or expect from a person?
Was it a reason to kill her? She did way more good as most of that royal family and people liked her.
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@dfollin (25351)
• United States
2 May 12
I have to agree with you.No one said she was a saint.But,she was cheated by her jerk of a husband and the rest of the royal family.She was never given proper credit.
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
1 May 12
of course, we know certain people by what the media is feeding us. princess diana was projected by media as a true princess. - very charming, beautiful, charitable, elegant, and kind-hearted. she became not just the princess of wales, but our princess. and we know that she was not perfect, but we chose to believe that she was truly our princess.
