There was a time, I'm ashamed to admit, when I thought Paul Burrell was a good person who had been badly treated by the Royal Family. I revised that opinion some time ago. Today's revelation from him that Diana supposedly buried the miscarried foetus of a close friend, is so utterly incredible that I am almost lost for words. He says he searched his conscience before revealing this. Yeah, about as long as it took for someone to say, "would fifty grand be enough?" The man brings new meaning to the phrase 'copper bottomed shit'.
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The Daily Express is beyond a joke now with its Diana obsession. She's on the front page every single day now.
The man is an utter loon. But as long as there are enough tabloid-reading morons to lap up this kind of stuff he will keep on producing it.
The Express is nothing more than a vehicle for the increasingly deluded rantings of Mohd. 'fugger' Al-Fayed.
I cannot imagine how any journalist working there can live with themselves, and believe they are members of a profession.
Why, oh why do people keep buying it in the belief that it is a newspaper ?
I'm told that their sales figures go up by 30,000 when she appears on the front page - If people weren't so foolish as to buy it, they might just stop!
Who actually gives a shit, copper bottomed or not?
(Apart from Daily Mail & Daily Express Readers? And do they matter more than Sun readers who, as we all know, don't care who runs the country as long as she has big tits?)
This is what Burrell calls "defending her memory", is it?
A loathsome man who has made a very good career out of his former employer's death.
If the Express could blame asylum seekers for the death of Diana, the paper might self-combust in indignation
verity, journalists at the Mail & Express are members of a profession. The oldest one.
I understand, perhaps, maybe, allegedly, that this Diana-fest is driven by a close friendship between Al Fayed and Richard Desmond, the owner of the paper. The Editor must be quite some placemat!!
I agree with Vervet - the humiliation must be utterly unbearable for the reporters.
Anyway, I suppose the Express is just one of those examples of liberty and democracy losing all grip on reality and everyone just having to grin and bear it. Ho hum!
Since we know there arre lots of journos out therre reading this blog, perhaps one of you might like to comment on the humiliation of being an Express reporter! Anonymously if you must!!
But Diana WAS murdered. She was arguably the most famous woman in the world at the time. She was killed for reasons that feed into the war between Judeo-Christianity and Islam we see being played out today in Iraq. And 9-11 was partly about payback - for her murder.....
Why WOULDN'T you want to run that story everyday until people took you seriously...
If the great British public stopped buying this nonsense, then Burrell and a lot like him, together with those in the so-called media who are making a good living out of it all too, would disappear from the face of the Earth. Nobody would notice or mourn their passing...
I like richard Bailey's point! Let's hear from one of the Express hacks!
Burrell? Remind me someone! What was or is his profession? He must be VERY important to command large sums of money from the gutter press!
With you all the way... Vermin is simply too nice a word for this eejit.
2br02b - Why are you addressing me? I haven't commented.
In The Mail, Diana is only being used to fill in the lulls between news of Heather McCarney, further revelations about her former life and her latest outrageous demands for ever-more money from Paul McCartney. Diana's a stopgap. Just look at the Readers' Comments columns. Hardly anyone comments on Diana, but they pile in on the Heather front.
Must we have 4-letter words on the blog?
Why all the venom?
He is just some grotty little toady raking in a few bob selling stories about the nut job he used to work for, so what.
anon2:57
yes we "must" (theres one)
"2br02b - Why are you addressing me?"
Sorry, verity; my remark should have been addressed to vervet.
Peter Hitchens said...
Why all the venom?
He is just some grotty little toady raking in a few bob selling stories about the nut job he used to work for, so what.
Not to different from your average ex MP then?
Today's revelation? I thought this was already common knowledge?
I assume we're talking here about Rosa Monckton and Kensington Palace. Frankly if I knew about it then it must be common knowledge. I read it in a newspaper I think. I remember thinking at the time how awful it would be for them if Diana's death meant they could no longer visit the grave.
A quick google groups search shows that "today's revelation" has been known since 2002.
It's an indication of Diana's level of maturity that she made such a pal and confidante of her butler.
verity 7;45
look at the clown she died with, look at hewitt, look at Chazza.
Apparently manliness wasn't a priority for the peoples princes when it came to choosing a partner.
A self absorbed idiot .
Tony blair with tits.
Burrell knows he's being accused of revealing too much -- telling secrets to make a buck.
"That'll always be thrown my way," he said. "I am caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, because I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't."
But Burrell says he has many secrets about Princess Diana he will never share publicly.
"There are secrets that will go with me to the grave," he said.
Having said all that, I hope he gets knob cancer.
Peter Hitchens - and look at that fellah who was the captain of the England Rugby team - can't remember his name, but he'd only been married a couple of months when Diana grabbed him.
She was a busy, busy bee. I never thought she was "shy Di". I always thought she was "sly Di".
"But Burrell says he has many secrets about Princess Diana he will never share publicly.
"There are secrets that will go with me to the grave," he said."
I cannot help myself but laugh at this. We do indeed live in the age of post-irony.
I enjoyed the excerpts from Sara Bradford's book in the Mail, claiming that PB was so close to Diana that he started to adopt some of her mannerisms [shy..half-turned down face..long-eyelashes...mascara??]. Now picture the Diana-mannerismed PB loring it over his wife and two boys at home!!
Nevertheless, has anybody ever understood that long conversation that HM the Queen had with PB that led to the collapse of his trial?
Will Carling!
I could never see the sex appeal that Diana supposedly had.
Like Nicole Kidman, everything was as it should be, however, something lacking, probably a brain, totally asexual and no warmth despite all that cod compassion.
Now the queen (+:
very sexy lady in her day (in a good way)
Sarah Ferguson, cart horse,
I loathe women who cannot walk properly.
Personally, Peter Hitchens, I could never see the appeal of Will Carling, either. But he was soon one of those given a pass at the back door of Kensington Palace. And what a nasty, self-regarding woman to use her position and glamour to take him away from his wife of two months. (Yes, also his fault for being taken away, of course, but flattered and bedazzled and going to Kensington Palace to see a princess. What pain she must have caused his new wife.) Sly Di, at it again.
I must say, I think Prince Charles summed it up well when Her Maj didn't want Diana brought home in an RAF plane because she was no longer a member of the royal family, and Charles said, "Would you rather she came back in a Harrod's van?"
Anyone else remember Tony lurking on the circumference of the RAFB, ignored by all as it was private family business, but wearing a long overcoat, a la Churchill at Yalta, and trying to look as though he was presiding over a national event?
Peter Hitchens said..."I loathe women who cannot walk properly."
Disability discrimination?
I agree he is a shit, and nothing but a profiteer...just like the media who since Dianas death have made millions, i fnor tens or even hundreds of millions out of her with front page spreads.
Even the latest 'revelations' of a conspiracy have been a boon to the media and their bank balances.
For that reason alone I wouldn't be too quick to judge him.
shotgun - But the media owe no loyalty to Diana. He, as her servant and confidante, does. He was in a position of trust. The media were not.
Was he Verity? Or was he an employee, who is now making a few quid out of her, just like the media?
If he was a confidante and real freind, then maybe we should listen to what he has to say, afterall, isn't he the one in the know?
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