Reply #81: I had started to explain, but deleted so as to stay with my point. [View All]

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I didn't want to go off into a separate discussion about relative merits, along the lines of what somebody posted above "my grief is better/deeper than yours."

First, Diana is part of the UN-Democratic royals establishment, which by definition ought to be foreign to Democratic practitioners like us. Next, she, personally, started by living out an immature fantasy life, then "rebelled" out of pique at being treated like the fluff of her fantasy. The good works she did were heavily supported by vast resources and infrastructure: Staff making appointments and photo ops, while she stood in the spotlight and wore clothes. You know, Paris HILTON said SHE was going to do some kind of humongous humanitarian thing, but is back at the clubs. I suspect Diana was basically acting out emotional revenge scenarios on her in-laws with everything she did after being dumped. She met and posed in pictures with "Mother" Teresa: Both of them got their own slice of this "celebrityhood" thing in this thread's o.p. Was there ANYTHING actually "spiritual" in it for either of them? If the Kate half of the John&Kate people (whoever they are) had met Mom Teresa, whom she said she wanted to be like, I submit it would have the same value as Diana's meeting.

Bill and Melinda use their own money, for starters.