Diana The Mourning After Princess Diana Documentary - High Quality - Christopher Hitchens

[@user-zu8qh2mb9f]

Ironically, the departure of Christopher Hitchens has been and will continue to be a significantly greater tragedy than Diana. He IS actually someone humanity needed for his rationale, intellect and reasoning. He is deeply missed, she is long forgotten.

[@saltnessmonster]

Yes, he was always willing to question things and say things no one dared to say. And I am a christian, so didn’t like what he said about that topic, but loved him on other issues

[@haroldjoseph8296]

His kids didn't even cried when he kicked the bucket 😅

[@rexcarrulers6504]

@@haroldjoseph8296 I'm betting on your English teacher showing a similar lack of remorse for you..

[@RedundantQuestion]

@@haroldjoseph8296 Any evidence for that ? Of course not. I am quite sure a lot of people will be glad when you are gone if there is even anyone who would care.

[@countessAugusta]

hardly Long Forgotten.She has a statue.. and a famous family

[@rowdy3837]

If only Christopher knew how far down the road of fanaticism and worship of celebrity culture we would eventually travel… how hollow and empty the soul of our world would become.

[@MCshlthead]

Ha try telling that to some of the committed hitchens fans here.

[@kevinmorgan8534]

@@MCshlthead I was thinking the same thing, there's definitely a Hitchens cult. He was a drunk who made a good living by being a professional contrarian. His brother is the same. He was entertaining I'll give him that.

[@rstainsbury]

Imagine what he would have made of Trump!

[@Karol-ds1qs]

Not "our" world but your own world became hollow and empty. When Diana died I mainly felt compassion towards her children who lost their mother as I would feel for any human being. My world didn't become "hollow and empty".

[@Blazedreptile]

@@Karol-ds1qs do you cry for children who doe every day or just famous ones?

[@alexroselle]

Watching this on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II dying, an occasion which has been marked with quite a lot of tone-policing and social media argument. The world misses you and your sharp insights, Christopher Hitchens!

[@grimupnorth]

You're right. I want to read back the words that some (mainly politicians) are saying, dissect them, and ask them 'what do you mean when you say...?' Every single utterance does not stand up to close scrutiny.

[@brucedickinson12]

in a time of austerity there will be millions spent on queens death , crazy

[@alexroselle]

@@brucedickinson12 worse, I saw the estimate of the funeral, coronation ceremony, and changing the pronouns* on all the nation's stationery, signs, etc as totaling nearly £6 Billion. (* JK Rowling absolutely seething at the monarchy's gender transition)

[@jodawgsup]

@@alexroselle Seriously? 6 Billion? Source?

[@kinglicks5646]

@@jodawgsup Tust me bro is the source

[@doubleknocker5221]

The silence left by Christopher Hitchens passing is deafening - but heartened to see these videos given new life, as relevant now as then

[@luismp8548]

the loudness of corporate propaganda agenda is ticktoking.

[@robertcottam8824]

Not quite sure what you mean. But, forgive me if I’ve misconstrued’, Christopher Hitchens left a far greater, more tangible legacy than Ms. Spencer. ‘Hitch’ was clever; Spencer? Errr….

[@saltnessmonster]

Do you think governments would be abusing us like they are if they had a lion like Christopher exposing them. He is loved by the right and left and hated by them too haha

[@manusha1349]

The irony is that the one thing Hitch was wrong about is that you can't mourn for someone you didn't know 😢 I mourn for him everyday ❤

[@glen7318]

why?

[@thechocablockman]

I grieved Diana's death as much as she would have grieved mine.

[@MCshlthead]

Maybe if you'd trod on a landmine she would have grieved your death

[@BenMoss01]

Not at all then......did she know you?

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Quite.....

[@thechocablockman]

@@BenMoss01 I would hope not.

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

Much the same, I'm afraid. I was sorry at the circumstances of her death, but her life and mine had so little in common that I really did not see why I should be bowled over by grief.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

"It was like Disney meets the Black Shirts". Brilliant- I wish I had said that.

[@swansong5263]

What a terrible shame we lost Christopher Hitchens.

[@davidlea-smith4747]

Hitchens may have been one of the last real journalists. I doubt any of them would make a documentary like this now.

[@Hypnobunny1]

Probably not for fear of being sued

[@tamsinthai]

@@Hypnobunny1 Or pure self interest in that they might lose their lucrative jobs. Many correlations with what's been happening the past coming up to THREE years.

[@marcokite]

no because they are not as sad as poor Hitchens

[@HumanTypewriter]

@@Hypnobunny1 That's not a fear they have, not really

[@MOGGS1942]

@@marcokite Hichens " sad" ? What an absurd comment.

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

I’m a London busker and I left it three weeks before I returned to work and the general public STILL looked down on me and said I was disrespectful. Collective insanity.

[@galesito1733]

You should have just played that awful Goodbye England's Rose song over and over.

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

@@galesito1733 Jesus Christ no way

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

You should have played Candle in the Wind 😂.

[@galesito1733]

@@Handlebar-MustDash that's clearly just a rip-off of Goodbye England's Rose.

[@stephenhartley2853]

they are indoctrinated

[@RyanAustinDean]

I have no dog in this fight as an American, but the obsession with the royal family has always confused me. My mother woke me up the day Diana died, sobbing uncontrollably. “She’s dead! She’s dead!” I thought she was talking about my grandmother. I just remember being relieved.

[@robertcottam8824]

I know what you mean. But your side of the pond isn’t immune to irrational worship of of the unworthy: Pace Trump, the Kennedys et al.

[@terriheitman8873]

My only child died 6 years ago. The deaths of Princess Di, Elvis or Olivia Newton John ... don't touch or affect me in comparison. Lets get real please people. How profound, the explanation of REAL bereavement by the lady who lost both her parents. Cant fault the realism of Christopher Hitchen, as usual. ... RIP.

[@thomasfisher5742]

thanks for a realistic view on celebrities' being greater in death than life Terri the loss of life of any child FAR out weighs the stupid public hysteria of some one in the lime light they think they know

[@KarmasAbutch]

LOL throwin Olivia in with Elvis and Di tho. 😆

[@terriheitman8873]

@@KarmasAbutch the death of Nelson Mandela did not touch me either, compared to my REAL grieving. I don't get your point, and you don't seem to get mine.

[@KarmasAbutch]

@@terriheitman8873 no it’s just that you didn’t get mine

[@martinshannon7632]

Bless you and family x

[@chicobicalho5621]

Hitchens, like Jordan Klepper always knows how to ask the stupid the right questions without seeming condescending, or tweaking them the wrong way, so they bloom in their stupidity, and we hear exactly how their minds operate. It takes a special kind of intelligence, emotional intelligence, to pry those minds open in a respectful manner. He was an unbelievably lucid person.

[@sphinxtheeminx]

I was getting my roof done when she died. The day after it happened, the roofer went up to start the work. About four hours later I went out to see if he was coming down for his dinner break and a cuppa. He was sat on the edge of the roof, legs dangling, crying like a baby and unable to come down. I asked what was up and he said he was suddenly overcome with grief at her passing and wanted to end it all. He threatened to throw himself off my fecking roof!! I calmly tried to talk him down but he began taking his clothes off, so I went in and called the fire brigade. They did not believe me when I said what was happening. Eventually the fire brigade called the police and I had a fire engine and several police cars outside while a negotiator talked him into coming down with help on the firemen's ladder. He never came back to do the roof and his trousers and tools were still up there when I sold the house, leak and all, a short time later.

[@Angry_Leeds_Bitch]

Feckin ell! Really? People lost their minds

[@stephenhawkins1139]

No ml

[@bogusmogus9551]

Unbelievable!

[@vlnow]

Rumour has it, the tools are still there to this day, rusting in the rain.

[@Angry_Leeds_Bitch]

@@vlnow 😆

[@JPL243]

'Perhaps they're out of touch' says the lady living within an actual shrine of Diana.

[@weemac4645]

A 100% nutcase,living in her own fantasy world.

[@fatdaddy1996]

I mean bless her, but that was just mental!

[@1961-v9k]

It was astounding to me why fanatical people were in mass hysterics over a person they never met. It was utterly creepy and extremely shallow. I know someone who went to see her shrine who didn’t even go to their grandmothers funeral.

[@rosequartz7841]

She had an impact!

[@1961-v9k]

@@rosequartz7841 of course she did 🤣 a mass hysteria impact, which was no impact to me, nor anyone I knew of. On the day of her separation announcement from Charles she actually visited my workplace in the Northeast of England (you can look it up) no one wanted to stay and greet her. It was all so embarrassing. Don’t believe everything the media states.

[@stephenhawkins1139]

By

[@1961-v9k]

@@Steves_fish absolutely 👍🏻

[@quitefranklysamanthatheres1018]

Like the covid hysteria mob mentality is a thing

[@weemac4645]

Britain's reaction to Diana's death was downright embarrassing, it reminded me of North Korea forced to mourn their leaders father.

[@myfemvideo]

It was pretty much a normal reaction, considering her insane popularity, and the violence of her death at a young age.

[@robertcottam8824]

@@myfemvideo Normal? A grocer’s moll dies because she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt in dodgy company? Get out of it. 😂😝😝😝

[@rivolinho]

"There is another Britain, which was there before the Windsors and will be there after they've gone. This Britain is deceptively mild and understated, but it refuses to be impressed by mere spectacle or overwhelmed by gusts of fashion. It prides itself on not panicing. It is not cold or inhuman, which is why it is not swept away by demagogs, superstars or messiahs......" I remember that Britain. It died circa 2016.

[@B123-s4j]

The great Purge.

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

I'm the type of person who doesn't envy what others have materially but I do envy those who are great thinkers/writers etc. I just love reading something thats well written.

[@thomasbeattie2257]

I was performing on the Sunday afternoon in London after her death and said I hear Doddi died yesterday what he was doing with Diana I will never understand but he did have a tickling stick and a couple of hit records! There was stunned silence! I loved it.

[@pommiebears]

I was 8 months pregnant when my husband woke me up and told me. I waddle downstairs and plonk my huge self on the floor and watch everyone crying. I didn’t cry. I was sorry for the boys, but you can’t change it.

[@robertcottam8824]

I was in a tea shop in London when made aware. Nobody seemed to give a shit, really. It was only after the mass media stoked tiny minds that folk were FORCED to pay attention. Not all Brits are this shallow. Best wishes

[@hankochai]

That guy who wrote the letter with the big-ass chickens was amazing. Also, I cannot believe they tried to cancel the lady who wanted to keep her grocery store open on the day of the funeral. Madness.

[@astralcowboy5511]

Can’t help feel a tang of nostalgia for the England portrayed in this film. Even in the short span that has passed, it is no more.

[@weemac4645]

England is no longer English,multiculturalism has destroyed our culture.

[@zeddeka]

Happens to everyone over time, sadly. The world we grow up in disappears. The people we grew up with die and are replaced by new generations. It's a bit of a shock when you suddenly realise that we're all on a giant conveyor belt through life. The saddest thing is if you live long enough - nobody else remembers the things you do.

[@deborakrolow2990]

@@zeddeka yes exacly and anyone realise that . Somtimes i think that and people ask for i stop.reality afraid people.

[@B123-s4j]

@@zeddeka That's Not true, people grow up with their neighbors with family close bye, friends you have know since infants, you marry a girl you've seen at Mass close but not to close in case her mother is a nightmare.. That's how we have lived for centuries, this mass invasion is a War Crime... And it's not how we are supposed to live.... Our community witnessed our lives.

[@danieloneill9560]

Why, what's changed ?

[@neilforbes416]

I do not mourn the loss of Christopher Hitchens, as he was not my father, brother, uncle or even a distant cousin. But I do respect what he stood for during his life, a world ruled by rational thought and not dictated to by religious superstition and dogma.

[@taroman7100]

And that's what he should stick to instead of postulating on the "brain cancered" crowd. What a cold hearted bastard.

[@rafflesxyz4800]

Plenty of people did..... ironically!

[@raygreen5926]

Life is still an unfathomable mystery even to the intellect.or the poor dunce

[@neilforbes416]

@@raygreen5926 But religion is an utterly unnecessary extra layer of *bullshit* that confuses matters still further.

[@bigbong620]

The Bush administration's useful idiot.

[@benbunyip]

I was working in a high school in Japan & remember being reprimanded by some female English teachers probably because I said Diana didn’t mean much to me. The cult of celebrity travels that far.

[@tentimetex]

24 years later, the public emotional response just seems ridiculous. Its like looking at a photo of yourself with a trendy hairstyle 20 years later.....

[@myfemvideo]

You all need to accept the fact that Diana has become an icon, very much like Marilyn Monroe. People will remember her, and talk about her, for decades to come.

[@katiejon17]

@@myfemvideo that’s not even close to being what they were talking about though. They specifically referenced “the public emotional response”.

[@jeffmotsinger8203]

Condolences to both the Spencer and Hitchens families. I personally thought Diana was quite shallow but the reaction to her death was hugely illuminating, although in a creepy sort of way. Christopher was very classical, with great experience and contributed greatly to my understanding of the serious world.

[@myfemvideo]

Diana was certainly not as shallow as people who are trying their best to spew vitriol on a dead woman.

[@myfemvideo]

@@balletshoes I'd rather believe people who knew her personally, than a random stranger who only knew her public image 😂

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@myfemvideo And I’d rather hear about neither one. I mean come on! She’s not Jesus. 🙄

[@myfemvideo]

@@Lobsterwithinternet And ? Michael Jackson or Marilyn Monroe are not Jesus either, yet they are loved worldwide. Leave Diana alone.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@myfemvideo Make me.

[@pdodox]

Hitchens said it was apt that Diana was dubbed the patron saint of land mines, as land mines are very easy to lay and very expensive to get rid of.

[@Thepateisgreat]

Yeah that was pretty foul 😅 Lmao. Even a royal princess of the largest monarchy in the world/ the most famous woman in the world wasn’t immune to one of his hitch slaps.

[@linuxzorin6811]

The mass hysteria to her death was nauseating. I think what most people who reacted this way were grieving for was the crapness of their own lives, in contrast to the unearned, glamorous, jet-setting, pampered and work-free life she lived. How else to explain hysteria over the death of a woman most had never met? They lived through her, and when she died they were back to face the dreariness of their own lives: shit jobs, debt, mundanity, crap weather, with two weeks in Lanzarote representing the apex of excitement and respite from the unrelenting dreariness of it all.

[@BlueInk912]

... With no thought for her sons! demanding Charles not leave their side? Cruel & inhuman, self-indulgent to make these demands on people REALLY affected by her death.

[@ambassador8524]

Imagine a C.Hitch’s break down of prince Andrew and the royal family today. RIP

[@jemmajames6719]

I felt very sad hearing she’d died, she had problems like we all do, she was young and her sons were now motherless, but it made me sick to see people hysterical in so called grief wallowing in the misery of her actual families grief. I remember her brother saying she wasn’t a saint she was a person like anyone else and those who loved her were grief stricken, he was trying to take back their personal loss away from the circus. It also makes me sick how people made money out of her death and still do.

[@evelynwilson1566]

Yes, I was the same. I did sign the local condolence book in our town hall. At 22 I was shocked and saddened by her death - I had grown up with her, she was only 37, she had two children and she had lived through a difficult marriage from a young age - but I never understood why people had the need to mourn so much for her. I actually found it uncomfortable to see her children having to console people who had never met the woman. She was turned from a real flesh and blood person with flaws and good qualities into a saint, just to sell newspapers. The whole manipulation ' show what a few people deem is appropriate grief, or it's the end of the monarchy' was nothing more than bullying.

[@kanyebreast6072]

The thing i hate the most is Paul Burrell, her butler. He never misses an opportunity to make money out of her death, then has the nerve to say he loved her! How? When you are making every penny you can from her death? Just saw more interviews with him because its the 25 year anniversary. He makes me sick

[@kanyebreast6072]

@@evelynwilson1566 She was 36 hun

[@BlueInk912]

@@kanyebreast6072 agree, he is shameless. (and dangerously stupid, if after a lifetime 25 years! he still publicly feeds off this. Plus.. Its a very different world with more immediate issues to deal with. How many didn't die alone and totally isolated in the past two pandemic years.. with her younger son's dramas taking centre stage in his little world. Very much his mother's child methinks. 🙏

[@rosequartz7841]

Her nature and heart were real.

[@mrs.herculepoirot7763]

There is only one time that I cried when someone I didn't know died and that was for Christopher Hitchens. His brilliance and wit will live on long after everyone has forgotten the Spencer girl.

[@rossleeson8626]

Hitchens would’ve probably thought you were a moron.

[@rijale1981]

Reads like lyrics to an alternative Candle In The Wind

[@taroman7100]

I rather doubt it!

[@rafflesxyz4800]

He would have been disappointed in you.

[@MCshlthead]

Ha. You hate a woman that did a ton of good in the world. What's wrong with you?

[@TheDrakelicious]

Thanks for the upload

[@elirien4264]

"Our Lady of Versace ". So Hitchens. Gods, I miss him.

[@fifi24hgf]

That just to funny 😁 😂

[@bogusmogus9551]

It right though! Armani a little bit pissed now 😮

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

If you don't mind, I'm going to start using "Gods" as it's a way of saying "God" as a written or verbal exclamatory without invoking a particular (Christian) god and thereby going against my atheist stance😀 Gods, religion is a load of old superstition which despite understanding the appeal - forgiveness of all sins, salvation and eternal life in a heavenly kingdom thereby ameliorating the fear of death - I'm afraid I'll just have to be extra brave! I have no recollection of anything before being born and I long ago accepted being consigned to everlasting oblivion when that day comes. And don't get me started on all the hypocrisy, guilt, fear, sexual repression, self righteousness and extremism that Hitch used to go to town on😏 It's taken me a lot longer than most, but by my forties I had largely come to a fairly settled place in terms of having questioned everything, realising most of my views are fairly contrary😎 As I said, when Diana's death was announced, while everyone else was wailing and rending their clothes, not only was I not doing that, I was actively bemused by it. That doesn't mean I had particular antipathy to the woman - and neither have I refuted religion to be awkward, provocative or "different" - in both cases it comes from a far more bland and neutral standpoint - I didn't know Diana, never met her even and have no interest whatsoever in any "celebs", not just her (which remains the case to this day) so why would her death cause any more reaction than momentary surprise and a drop of sadness that dissipates in 10 or 15 minutes? Likewise, I didn't set out to "disprove" the existence of deities, I just gently alighted, all things considered and looking at the balance of probabilities, on the notion that it was overwhelmingly likely to be nothing more than fairy stories.... Although funnily enough I do feel very strange about the death of the Queen so there you go, I'm human after all😏

[@marcokite]

what do you miss? the bitterness? the toxicity?

[@bogusmogus9551]

@@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311 Yeah that's all right but wot about Ancient Aliens and stuff? I need some 'Ancient Aliens' in my life 👽👽❤

[@bubsybrown8308]

I feel all of this now, with the queen. We haven't learnt - particularly resonated with me hearing 'all of Britain mourns' absolutely I don't, please don't talk on my behalf!!

[@simoncampbell3144]

I was in the army in Germany at the time and we were all absolutely gobsmacked at the pathetic excessive pretend grief that was going on in England, truly pathetic to watch

[@DieFlabbergast]

Of course you were; most foreigners in Japan, including us British, were equally amazed. We were beyond the reach of the hysteria, as were you in Germany.

[@taroman7100]

You are heartless. Are you really human or like Hitchens a supercillious bloated poser who had a nasty end?

[@thebouncer9107]

I was in the UK at the time and it was embarrassing.

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

I was in the American Army in Germany at the time. Until Christmas that year.

[@jackshit3355]

She was a textbook narcissist

[@markcollins7470]

What a truly great man Christopher was!! I'm a massive fan and seeing him here so young and full of life is so upsetting...rest in peace Christopher......the world is a lesser place for your not being here

[@lushhclub819]

Him and Diana went to Hell....for different reasons

[@myfemvideo]

@@lushhclub819 Hell doesn’t exist.

[@lushhclub819]

@@myfemvideo You cannot prove anything does not exist...only that it might or does exist

[@robertcottam8824]

@@lushhclub819 In that case, why waste your time howling at the moon about such trivia?

[@lushhclub819]

@@robertcottam8824 Maybe you can answer why you are

[@ninamimi6622]

Forced grieving is with us again. Now with more timetabling. I was a child when Diana died and I still can't believe there are people crying out in public about another woman they never met.

[@seamusblack5876]

Wonder if Diana would have such a following if she had been obese

[@myfemvideo]

A lot of Diana's haters here. Diana was just the most famous woman on earth. She was loved by millions, for many different reasons.

[@hazeshi6779]

Name them

[@robertcottam8824]

@@myfemvideo Had you ever considered that you might be a little shallow, poppet? Being ‘famous’ is not an achievement if one drops one’s drawers for Charlie Windsor, a Fayed or two, several other women’s husbands… I don’t expect your sky god would have been very complimentary if he had existed.

[@tallontedvideoandtechsolutions]

Quite apt to rewatch this masterpiece during the current royal hysteria.

[@ianclarke7958]

I entirely agree. Eerily similar in every way.

[@JosephusAurelius]

I don’t think so. The Queen, with the role that she has, with the pressure of 1000 years of history & national identity on her shoulders and the eyes of the world on you for 70 years whilst your empire declines, she did a commendable job. Certainly better than I would have done. And for that, I think it is right to pay respects but of course not become tearful.

[@tallontedvideoandtechsolutions]

@@JosephusAurelius You are on the wrong thread then son.

[@gmbs360]

Indeed.

[@JoolzThePirate]

Ain’t no royal hysterics buddy

[@thomasbeattie2257]

This woman managed to get one 'O' level for art at school and a low paid job in a nursery then she married into the German royal family and that's about it !!!!

[@myfemvideo]

The level of bitterness is hilarious.

[@grimupnorth]

I remember going down to the village high street to do my usual Saturday morning shopping, and there being no one else around. The butcher's shop door was barely ajar, as I don't think he was expecting anyone would dare venture out to do something as heretical as shop on the day of her funeral. The whole experience just bolstered my belief that the human race was living under some kind of self-induced mass hypnosis, and I wanted no part of it.

[@brucedickinson12]

don't let sweeney hear or see you saying that

[@ChillAssTurtle]

@@brucedickinson12 lol yeah he may be arrested for not loving the royals XD

[@gnolan4281]

Hitch's trademark approach to commentary brings to mind Brazilian cantora Carmen Miranda who famously said "Bananas is my buisness." For Hitchens, acerbic and monotone dissection of notable figures was his business. Without a moment's hesitation he'd double down on his assertion that revered Albanian born Mother Teresa was the "Ghoul of Calcutta'. I miss you Hitch. I so wish I could come over to share a bottle of the amber restorative.

[@VictoriaGirlBC]

CH was a brilliant man. He’s the one that made me see the light when it came to the sham known as God. Great documentary 🔥❤️🇨🇦

[@TehHale]

Great watch, thank you for posting

[@novakingood3788]

Over twenty years on and the idea of being unable to speak your mind for fear of being cancelled or prosecuted has really set in. Would that Hitch were still here to voice so eloquently what we all know to be true.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

A comedian having a slump in ticket sales because of racist or transphobic remarks isn't really comparable to this hysteria. Especially when you misidentify which side was which.

[@vermilliongecko]

No, it's not the same. If you say or do shitty things, you can rightfully expect negative consequences.

[@Isisbridge]

@@vermilliongecko The problem with that philosophy is that someone has to decide what's shitty and what isn't, and that's how you end up with totalitarianism. Free speech is a fundamental human right.

[@Blazedreptile]

Funny how transphobia is the only word with phobia in it which isn't defined by having a irrational fear, hatred or disgust. It's political correctness.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@@Blazedreptile I take it you've never heard of xenophobia, homophobia, islamophobia etc?

[@Levin-ey1bu]

That sound of the 'weeping woman'...repeated throughout the documentary...it still hasn't left me 25 years later. LOL.

[@robertcottam8824]

Yes. I hope her shame has eased by now.

[@rrickarr]

Thank you Chris for this honesty!!!!! Very timely message now that the Queen has died (Sept.10).

[@biglongun]

A, Christopher Hitchens hated to be called “Chris” B, The death of the longest reigning monarch in British history and the death of Diana cannot be seriously compared.

[@aidankiely9672]

I was a kid so I thought it was a bit sad and then I got bored by it. Now in my 30s I’d like to think I’d react in a similar way, perhaps mindful of how often I’ve seen death make a saint of someone and my disgust at it. This documentary is a brilliant look at the fascinating phenomenon of Mass hysterias. I wish Hitchens had done more stuff like this instead of crusading against religion. He targeted anyone who became untouchable and beyond reproach in public consciousness. We need people brave and skilled enough to do that. He was a true one-off.

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

The world needs more curmudgeons! I was in my late 20s so not a kid, but can happily report being bored with it inside of 60 seconds and later feeling total bewilderment at this bizarre outpouring of "grief". I mean even when various great aunts and uncles have died over the years, they're still "other people's" parents, wives and sisters. Seen that they all "lasted" a long time, by the time grandparents started dropping off, I was in my 20s so by then, one has built up a broader view of appreciating a long life well lived rather than a small child's black and white devastation at never seeing Granny again. It was also fascinating to find out that Diana hadn't left anything to charity, despite her much vaunted work, albeit the possibility should not be discounted that there may have been an understanding by those who inherited her estate that some of it would be donated - and indeed her famous wardrobe was subsequently auctioned off to the benefit of some worthy cause. But the fawning hero worship for all the work for various charities used to strike me as odd since, as was stated in the program, what else are they gonna do? It also borderline annoys me they get made Knights and Dames of various orders.....it's like knighting someone for doing their job. Imagine Sir Fred Smith of Vauxhall for a car salesman meeting his targets or Lady Jones of Sainsburys for being Employee of the Month for most consistent till reconciliation? It seems slightly insulting, not just the fact they're already Princes and Dukes, rendering knighthoods rather irrelevant - but to the regular people who get them for doing something altruistic outside of their jobs and on top of cleaning the house and driving the kids to school. At the very least, if their job is already in the third sector, for doing it far better than the minimum requirements to avoid being sacked - or for for some other amazing thing in the Arts or Sciences. Anyway don't get me started - despite having mixed feelings about the various members of the Royal Family, I am a monarchist, if for no other reason a Republic would be no better. Presidential palaces, staff, travel, wardrobe and catering are just as expensive as royal ones as well as the fact they require regular, tedious elections. .... despite the apparent unfairness we should also remember the Head of State is a figurehead only despite the vestigial powers he or she still technically has. And whatever one's personal opinion, undoubtedly having a King or Queen, gives the country an aura, a magic, a specialness that most others lack. We know that other than a few pinpricks of land dotted around the world's waters, there is no longer an Empire, we know the pomp and ceremony is anachronistic and we know the people wearing the jewels and silk are fallible - but so are elected officials and I think they also try less hard because their positions are by definition of limited duration, rather than the sword of Damocles constantly swinging over the entire institution..... Speaking of the Nation apparently losing its collective capacity for critical thought - not to mention letters to newspapers - this reminds me of a very pithy one to The Times by a hepatologist at one of the big London hospitals who, responding to the craze about "liver detoxes", wrote quite simply that there's no such thing as something that cleanses the liver. It does its own "detoxing" by itself. 😄 I thought that was very Christopher Hitchens at the time - and continue to think that whenever I see such examples of common sense, reason and evidence being offered as a bulwark against a rising tide of melodrama, screechiness, mawkish sentimentality, illogic, commercialism posing as altruism and outright lies....

[@aidankiely9672]

@@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311 Of course one can be sad about these things: it was a very sad and tragic end to a life. I just don’t think you can claim the right to grieve if you didn’t know the person. and lots of people went back on things they had said about her, as often happens, when she died. I think the displays of emotional incontinence were self-serving, as they always are with these things. We saw some echoes of it in other examples: Jade Goody and Michael Jackson come to mind, but the Diana frenzy was in a league of its own.

[@BlueInk912]

Watching from afar from an ex colony, the visuals of well fed nation reacting like it was utterly chilling. An educated population, so-called charitable nation DEMANDING that her blood relations and those accused of cold-heartedness 'be there' for them was mind-boggling. Had there not been established considered tradition to govern procedings of a state funeral (which the Queen/The Crown has upheld) how would this have played out? Something had to hold the centre. How would the hysterics and 'media' have responded? If the Queen started wailing; The adolescent and teenage sons asked bystanders to help them make sense of whats happened/or asked why ARE you crying? Charles & Phillip(protecting HIS wife as was his wont) responded publically to the Head of the Spencer family, an aristocrat, who has had the benefit of his birthright but none of the responsibilty to day in day out hold steady the seeming nuanced ideals of a Sovereign Democracy. The stuff of Grimms fairy tales revealing too many uncomfortable truths.

[@hollybigelow5337]

I had the same reaction. I don't know if you were in a school that was forced to watch "Channel One News," but it was basically an excuse to force students throughout the district to watch plenty of advertising. When Princess Diana died I swear they covered that story every single day for the rest of the year and almost nothing else. The first time I saw the story I also thought it was a bit sad, but it very quickly became boring to me. I didn't understand why she was getting so much attention when so many other people die every day. I mean, sure, I get maybe up to 3 days of coverage. I actually had never even heard of Princess Diana before she died, so maybe that was part of the reason the impact was so small to me. The news story always started with the tag line, "They said she was the most photographed woman in the world," and my response would always be, "Yeah, but what did she actually do in life that should make me care more about her death than anyone else's?" And in an entire year of coverage they never managed to answer that question for me. I'm not saying her life was an entire waste, but it really came out that most of her contributions were media coups. I have since learned she may have been instrumental in taking some of the stigma away for those suffering with HIV, and maybe she helped a little with racism, and she did go through a sad divorce, but none of those distinctions are unique to her. When almost anyone dies, especially at a younger age, it is a bit sad, especially to those who knew the person well, but beyond that I genuinely never understood why I was being forced to endure what felt like never-ending coverage of this particular story.

[@aidankiely9672]

@@hollybigelow5337 great points! Shows what good PR can doo. Also shows what lack of debate produces: different views should be heard whether many find them distasteful or not. I hope the queen’s death is handled more sensibly.

[@richardfuchs3690]

I miss Hitchens greatly but I feel nothing for the loss of this Spencer girl.

[@Hillers62]

Hitch was one of the Four Horsemen...He is greatly missed...

[@DavidTheRoss]

Thanks for the upload you legend

[@theklaus7436]

This once again shows Hitchens dares to say what nobody didn’t. And he certainly has a point!. Was she important- not like that exposure she got. A mass hysteria is well known and have been studied!. She was a princess who did some good things. But did she move than so many others! No but because she had this status a total mass hysteria broke out. This is a recipe for crow mentality! In this case griefs or like hooligans destructive behavior. A kind of a god figure - we can easily drown lines directly to a belief system. A doc for reflection! She left Buckingham palace and yet all these poems, Teddy bears and flowers placed at the address which she fought against. Strange! To say the least!

[@johncarlisle2755]

I was living and studying in Northern Ireland when she died. As an englishman I took part in many a discussion with irish republicans. I was fascinated by how they were mortified by her death. The whole thing completely passed me by. But open supporters of the PIRA were grief stricken

[@Martin-sp4zf]

I'm from South Ireland. Bushmills is a good whiskey and is imbibed by all political sides.

[@robertcottam8824]

@@Martin-sp4zf Hahahaha! A superb response. 😂

[@cronistamundano8189]

The one occasion in wich I saw a country stop because of grief was when Ayrton Senna died. It was completely different from what is presented in this documentary. Whe were back then a developing country, and Senna was reaaly worried about the faults in our society, did something about it (and still does, by a foundation run by his sister) and carried our name and flag with him. But however sad the brasillian people were, I can't recall having this spectacle of despair and tears. It was all very solemn and silent.

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Britain plays the stiff upper lip lie and then immediately eschew it for tears and mawkish sentiments

[@alanmartin6436]

I am not an atheist. I am not a liberal. I am however addicted to this man's videos.

[@rafflesxyz4800]

Yawn! ZZZzzz

[@Mike-nv6zn]

Same here..believe in God etc..but love his work..listen to him most days...

[@ShikataGaNai100]

Devastating in its truth, like all that Christopher said. He is missed by intellectuals everywhere.

[@nectarinedreams7208]

Intellectuals don't call themselves intellectuals

[@educateme8455]

People of all IQs are cringe. The media is not real life. And a princess died young in shady circumstances. The End

[@robertcottam8824]

@@nectarinedreams7208 What would you term yourself, poppet? I take it that ‘intellectual’ would not be your sobriquet of choice. 😎

[@mazetoeden9334]

awesome, thanks for uploading!

[@Thepateisgreat]

Honestly I think the sane non obsessive people were mostly crying for Harry and William; it was very very sad to see them lose their mother. Edit bc I forgot to add this: Harry and William ALSO thought it was odd that so many people who didn’t know her were screaming crying when they followed her casket during the funeral. They also found it traumatic and it made them feel guilty about their own grief.

[@britishnerd3919]

"What she is at the moment Liz is dead" both hilariously dead pan and weirdly suggestive that shes only dead at the moment, like she might rise up. I will speculate that diana's popularity among women was to do with her symbol as a woman who showed all the positive signs (beautiful, caring, kind) but stood up to Charles who was seen as a symbol of the traditional aristocratic system that ignores women, what with his mistress and all.

[@Mriya6]

Hitchens left a bigger legacy than Diana ever did, or perhaps even would have.

[@duderyandude9515]

The issue is that he hasn’t. If there were any justice in the world, he would have.

[@Robert-tl2vg]

@@duderyandude9515 agreed. Yet someone just needs to find a 30 year old receipt showing Diana bought some lip balm from Boots and it makes the front page.

[@toddgraber3675]

@@duderyandude9515 Not so sure about that. KZbin is full of great clips, documentaries like this, interviews etc. in which he took part. It has inspired me and probably many others much more than what we know of Princess Diana. His way of thinking/reporting will continue to inform others. Her memory will continue to sell trinkets...

[@MCshlthead]

MRIYA6 what you got against Diana?

[@MCshlthead]

@@Robert-tl2vg did she choose that?

[@ebneigh5191]

Hitchens taught me how to read write and think and like a lot of very good (if remote, involuntary) teachers, gave me the tools to discern where and when he was wrong or glib or sensationalising. However this documentary is one of his masterpieces.

[@Hillers62]

I remember hearing the news of Diana's death in the evening when I lived in Hawaii...I thought it was sad, but nothing more...When Christopher Hitchens died, I was more moved, as an atheist, and having read all his books, I was more personal to me...

[@fredlark9048]

A most prophetic piece, helping to assimilate again, the currency of performative grief and the media management of Us and Them in September 2022. You're missed Peter. History truly does keep repeating itself, and forever will. Watching this has helped enormously in making sense of it all, and truly

[@coolexio]

Peter? Did you mean Christopher?

[@robertcottam8824]

Now. Deep breath Peruse your comment. Evaluate Another deep breath We’re you pissed? 😂😂😂

[@richardbrown1189]

The content of this programme has come into sharp focus again in the last week with the passing of the queen. Once again the media has decided that there is a 'national mood' which is shared by everyone in the country and which has to be broadcast and amplified ad nauseam. As has been demonstrated by the shameful arrests of anti-monarchy protesters, it has been decided what everyone has to think and feel about the queen and no dissent from that view is allowed.

[@northsouth252]

11 Sept 2022. I'm here for the sanity.

[@pragueuprising560]

"Grieving is a long term process" 25 years later, I can say that it certainly is!

[@myfemvideo]

No one is grieving her anymore. People just like to remember her legacy and memory.

[@user-zu8qh2mb9f]

She’s been completely forgotten, no one in Britain talks of her

[@robcousins231]

It was so weird watching this event from Ireland. It's still hard to fully figure out what happened to Britain. The country seemed to go a bit mad. The old beliefs you had of the British, the English especially, of the stiff upper lip, the stoicism etc was washed away in a flood of hysterical tears. It seemed a bit mental and was a sign IMHO that something had gone strangely amiss in the UK.

[@evelynwilson1566]

Honestly, I live in Scotland and I think the majority of people I have ever talked to about this were stunned by these events and couldn't understand what was going on in 'that London'. What I remember seeing in my local area was a condolence book and some flags at half mast on public buildings, the last of which is what you would expect for a noted public figure but this idea that the country was awash with tears - well I was working the day of her death, and I didn't notice it, although the flag on my tourist attraction workplace was at half mast. The whole thing was just weird and didn't feel like something you could relate to at all.

[@paulharper6464]

It was the most surreal thing I’ve ever experienced and was quite disturbing. I realised that the country I thought I lived in didn’t exist anymore.

[@brucegibbins3792]

From the far distance of Aotearoa, the country of my birth, I registered the announcement of the death of Diana as being unfortunate in the circumstances of a car crash. Diana was a Royal Family ad-òn and achieved her status through marriage, and became a figure head that captured the minds and emotions of a great many people across the Anglospher and places where someone outside of themselves assumed more importance than the every day drudgery that characterises their lives. The Diana death was a gift, not only for the world's daily newspapers, but a windfall for the same world's magazines aimed at a primarily female readership. Diana was a media darling, a nice person no doubt, yet, like her countrymen, Cliff Richard, appeared incapable of making any comment that was worthwhile hearing. Her marriage to the Prince of Wales was a cynically orchestrated event to offer a popular female alongside, at least in the popular press, the equally youthful PM, Tony Blair. One was a reflection of the other. An then in what appeared to be an opportunity to give a song written as a peon to a popular American pin-up girl and movie actress of the 1950s, Marilyn Monroe, a renewed sales windfall, by altering the songs lyrics to be now Diana centric. The Diana industry seemed to be without principal, restraint, respect and good taste as media outlets engaged in a strange and peculiar, deification of a young girl, the subject of a cruel and cynical purpose from the Royal family to the most insignificant of regular folks across the planet. Baying hounds everywhere, opportunists everywhere. The tyranny of her life, must never be repeated again.

[@TroupeGoal]

Admirable restraint with only the slightest hint of an eyebrow raised at the royal fanatic's house.

[@moduslive]

This is an excellent documentary.

[@rafflesxyz4800]

It goes on a bit!

[@vermilliongecko]

@@rafflesxyz4800 50 minutes is short for a documentary. What are you, a goldfish?

[@colinjames2469]

@@vermilliongecko 😂😂

[@brucedickinson12]

watch his mother teresa documentary brutal but true

[@heiltd1286]

The outpouring of 'emotion' surrounding Diana's death was tacky and disingenuous to the extreme.

[@myfemvideo]

She was the most famous woman on earth at that point. And she had 2 young children. The emotion was understandable.

[@sugarmouse3555]

I’m the same age as William and felt very sad to hear that a young woman had died and her sons had lost their mother but I didn’t grieve. I felt as though everyone had gone mad. I was confused as to how you would mourn someone you didn’t know.

[@rstainsbury]

I worked at B&Q on a Sunday back then (I was 16 or 17). Unaware of the news, I arrived a bit late, yet there was no other staff around. I found them all, except Tracey, crying in the staff room. “What on Earth’s wrong?” I asked. “She’s dead. Car crash.” Someone murmured. Devastated, I sobbed, “But…but…Tracey gets the train to work!”. They all said, “No! Princess Diana!” I was so angry. I thought they’d been crying about someone who mattered.

[@AndreUtrecht]

😀 hahahahahaha .... hilarious! Had to laugh out loud, it is in the middle of the night right now 😀

[@timburdsey]

😂😂😂

[@marcokite]

what a rather sad life you must live

[@rstainsbury]

@@marcokite It’s pretty amazing, compared to most. Never hungry, have a safe home, loving family. Why, what makes you think that?

[@alihenderson5910]

@@marcokite 25 years and you still haven't got over it. Bless.

[@nevadamareno3713]

This was ahead of its time

[@sananselmospacescienceodys7308]

When I first heard of Diana's death I immediately remembered watching the TV coverage of her marriage to Charles. Four or five British pundits were singing Diana's praise and talking about what a wonderful Queen she would make someday. Then one of them (didn't know his name) said, "But Diana may never be Queen." His colleagues were gobsmacked and horrified. The pundit went on to explain himself. He said, "I've lived long enough that I can remember many things that people considered absolutely certain to come to pass but which never took place. All I'm saying is that in life there are no guarantee." That stayed with me.

[@SaoirsedohÉireann]

Yes indeed..the benefit of wisdom

[@padstowphantom]

I was distraught when I heard that Dianna had died, because by the time I had gotten to the video store all the good movies were gone.

[@jaredburgess8381]

Can't remember cringing this much for such a long time, watching idiots copy each other and try to outdo one another in grief over a complete stranger's death.

[@SMHman666]

Jared Yes, it is a strange reaction. It happens often and I remember it with Senna's death, Robin Williams, Steve Irwin, etc. We are a strange species, lol.

[@jaredburgess8381]

@@SMHman666 I guess I *kind* of understand it more for characters who are on the TV a lot. I mean, those are people that the public have laughed with, been surprised by. They've been in families' lounge rooms. But people like Di?! Do t get me wrong, I don't really understand any of it but I'm trying to be open-minded and to not judge too much. Seeing that sea of flowers and teddy bears all sent to a damn DEAD PERSON?!?! Is there the most ludicrous thing you've ever seen?! CRAZY!!

[@patsavage1245]

Rev. Ian Paisley: "On The last day there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth". Old Lady: " I don't have teeth" Rev. Ian Paisley: "Teeth will be supplied".

[@fwqkaw]

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[@bijou4735]

This is high larious. Thank you! 😂

[@catsupchutney]

I don't think we really grieve for people we don't know personally. I think we are simply reminded of our own mortality, which feels exactly the same as grief for a loved one.

[@ninagray4441]

No it doesn't.

[@catsupchutney]

@@ninagray4441 In other words I don't think so, and you disagree. Thus the world is functioning as it should.

[@ccva780]

Bahahahaha nope, that's not how it works at all.

[@catsupchutney]

@@ccva780 Don't cry, it will be okay.

[@ccva780]

@@catsupchutney I cry because space is wasted by people with your room temperature IQ

[@forbiddenworlds7064]

Yep, recreational grieving. I quickly realised I had to keep my cynical, although not unsympathetic, viewpoint to myself as she was being portrayed as a saint. I just, wisely in retrospect, kept my thoughts to myself.

[@myfemvideo]

The level of bitterness is hilarious.

[@MaRi-zp9zk]

It’s hard not to see why they were angry, it was anger at themselves, that their attention was responsible for killing some kids mom, a lot of them felt that, remember those type of stories don’t make money without a market…

[@bogusmogus9551]

Exactly

[@markalexwhite]

Similar 'grieving' for Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 - with whom none of the 'grief groupies' had a personal relationship! Once upon a time you bowed your head as a coffin passed. Now, it appears, you press record on your mobile phone!!!

[@3allz]

I was 11 years old when she died. It didnt affect me at all at the time and I remember the huge spectacle that followed her death too. I was old enough to know who she was, but I never understood why everyone was so upset. As I've gotten older, I still dont understand why everyone was so upset lol. Sure, she seemed like a nice person and definitely was a force for good amongst the royals (even if they didn't always see it that way) but as mentioned on this documentary, she didnt change the world or something.

[@smoly37]

The only reason I remember Diana's funeral is because my mother died in that year unexpectedly also. The same year that Mother Theresa died, (good timing, mother Theresa!) and John Denver came crashing down in his plane. (Handle in the wind.🤣) Nobody even remembers. I think the analysis of Hitchins is spot on. I wonder about the same things. Could it be also, that a lot of people do not have that much of an interesting life? To get so involved emotionally about the death of one young, handsome woman? While handsome young women are dying every day, all over the world? I do blame the media also; they are the ones that decide, that the drowning of 400 people elsewhere is far less important then the funeral of Diana. It disgusted me, at the time.

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

I think it is a misunderstanding, to assume people grieved for someone they didn’t know. They didn’t grieve her, personally; they grieved an aspect of their own humanity, they wish to feel more connected with. The image people were drawn to, wasn’t sinister, or false, it was the part of her that was authentic, and genuine, in ways uncommon to public figures. Collective grief isn’t meant to be conflated with personal grief. By treating it this way, Chris is representing the limitations of his own cynicism. The fact that some people may have over-identified with the loss, speaks more to the mental health of the individual. Either way, to mock this type of collective grief, as if it is mocking genuine personal grief, is absurd, and ignorant.

[@robertcottam8824]

What on earth do you mean? What sort of dolt needs the presence and affirmation to grieve? Self-pity is best enjoyed with the self. There’s a clue there.

[@j_vasey]

I was 19 at the time and my mother passed away in front of me a few months prior. I didn’t understand. I was angry at times. I remember the numbness walking around town shortly after her death as everyone else got on with there’re normal life. Then this happened and suddenly everyone appeared to be in mourning I was hurting again. I did not get it. I even remember after the funeral a woman who barely knew my mother was wailing inconsolably, I was furious. This I felt was similar where so many with no real knowledge of Diana were playing the part.

[@jays2877]

I think that Prince Harry has publicly stated that he felt exactly as you did. To 'mourn' publicly for someone you didn't know does make a mockery of genuine grief.

[@j_vasey]

@@jays2877 thank you for the reply felt a bit self conscious after that post. I didn’t know that. Thanks again.

[@jays2877]

@@j_vasey Some posts require a response. Hope you have a lovely evening.

[@alihenderson5910]

@@j_vasey It's come to something when we have to be careful about expressing a rational position. COVID anyone?

[@jacklawrence2212]

As ever, Christopher Hitchens deals out the knock out punch. Hitchens:1 Sentimental, vacuous bullshit: 0

[@katiejon17]

I’m convinced people are so enmeshed that they think someone saying they aren’t grieving the death, somehow means they are happy about the death.

[@billkingston4402]

Got off a coach on Monday afternoon at Victoria, where the underground was closed because of an incident, walked for a bit and it was unreal the way people were behaving, this is a great program, lady of Versace gets me every time, also celebrity culture is a bit silly

[@oldmacdreadapexriddims1460]

Celebrity Culture is populated with sad lost people who have no life with an undercurrent of wanting and jealousy.

[@BenjaminNavillus]

I remember being so annoyed at how the then all powerful (pre-internet of any significance) media was operating that I fantasised about spray painting a local advertising billboard to express my own feelings. One instance that really got me was when a woman was being interviewed outside Kensington Palace and she stated that she had cried more than when her own mother had died. The reporter turned back to the camera and said, “well, that’s the feelings of the nation.” At least, now there’s the outlet of Twitter or other social media forums, but of course, any attempt at publicly expressing myself would be futile as my well-honed, carefully prepared piece of vitriol would simply get crushed under the weight of the umpteen million other ‘for and against’ comments.

[@kpax2066]

I never understood the fascination that so many people had with Diana. She was beautiful, but so are many, many women. She did good work with charity, but so do thousands of people every day. Imo, she was a shallow woman who married well and was an excellent manipulator of her public perception. She certainly didnt raise her second child with enough discipline.

[@truthismycause2800]

Ah, her charities yes! The Spencers were broke asf, Althorp Estate was leaking through the roof falling into decay and a few years later after her gold-digging marriage her brother just happen to find 10 millions quid laying about to bring the estate to a new splendour. Mmmmm🤔

[@MichaelElias-q2z]

Hitchens could be scathing when in a debate with a rival, but so gracious in his interviews with ordinary people.

[@captaincanary5385]

Anyone feel they are suddenly living through this again!!??

[@davidcardew6853]

It's pretty much exactly the same and it's gross.

[@millwaal]

I came here to make exactly the same comment.

[@UnknownUnknown1]

Yes currently being pulled into a comment war with a fanatic on tiktok. They’re exhausting

[@hazeshi6779]

Tell me about it! So many fanatics fooled by the monarchies PR team

[@wwered96]

Watching this to help prepare for the current outpouring 25 years later!

[@weemac4645]

All cheering King Charles 111 and Queen consort Camilla,we now have two Queens.

[@imnobody115]

Hitch is no match for Black Twitter

[@AM-db6gc]

That "slightly beaky" comment almost ended me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@artyfingers4488]

Here we are once again experiencing the same sycophancy and hysteria over the Queen, with 24 hour coverage of events from Balmoral to London, and suddenly the war in Ukraine isn't happening, the floods in Pakistan must have miraculously receded, and as for the cost of living crisis...what cost of living crisis.? The irony may be lost on the young royals, but the very mental health problems that they supposedly champion, must be being exacerbated dramatically by the force-feeding of events surrounding the Queen's passing, leaving one unable to watch any other current event. Today we have news channels following a six hour long cortege from Balmoral to Edinburgh at around 15-20 mph with not even a break for a weather report.

[@grahamariss2111]

The loss I feel in the premature loss of Christopher Hitchin's is much greater than any loss I feel for a Windsor, a ludicrously privileged family of mediocrity.

[@skonther0ck]

And the art of the con.

[@anneroy4560]

@@skonther0ck she was a con, always alerting the press where she would be ... she had affairs when married to Charles ... he had only Camilla ... they were never suited, he had dated her sister!

[@Joanna7428]

Wow thanks for this xx

[@iwantthe80sback59]

I remember watching off and on during that week, thinking what a colossal waste of money all those flowers were. And the pile kept getting bigger and bigger like it was some kind of bizarre contest.

[@DieFlabbergast]

But I'll bet the florists loved it: they probably still talk about with nostalgia :)

[@mc.8391]

the flowers were representative of feelings of sadness for the end of a womans life who many valued highly.... it isnt much is it a bunch of flowers....

[@bogusmogus9551]

@@DieFlabbergast yeah. Everywhere else was closed except for the florists. Must have make a ton of money at a time of year that is slow with everyone on summer holiday and no Valentines, Christmas, Mothers day to rely on.

[@CK2008able]

This is as relevant as ever with the news about the Queen today ...

[@weemac4645]

The Queen served Britain all her reign, Diana was a model and celebrity srar.

[@alihenderson5910]

@@weemac4645 Here we go again.lol.

[@garrybroadbent8297]

I woke up to my alarm going off ready for work…the National Anthem was playing on the radio and the announcement was made that Diana Princess of Wales had died…it was the morning after going to two parties the night before but if anything could sober me up apart from this news I luckily haven’t experienced since. Michael Jackson’s death is a close second though.