The Talking Clock: ...but the people everywhere they've kept faith with Princess Diana

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Friday, 28 January 2011

...but the people everywhere they've kept faith with Princess Diana

Apologies for light blogging this week. Normal service will now resume.

One thing about blogging is that you need to feel inspired enough by a story in order to want to comment.

One subject - one person is guaranteed to get us back to the computer...

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"...but the people everywhere, they kept faith with Princess Diana - they liked her, loved her, they regarded her as one of the people. She was the people's princess. And that's how she will remain in our hearts and in our memories for ever."

Okay, the messenger of that tribute - Tony Blair - is no longer held in high esteem, but the person to whom he was speaking about most certainly is.

In a very unusual story, the Daily Express reports that "MOST Britons think it is possible to communicate with the dead..."

And we love the next part of the sentence:

"...and the person they would most like to talk to is Princess Diana."

Wonderful, wonderful!

Of all the many great people who have lived and died, the people have kept faith in Princess Diana.

She may have been killed in the way that she told people was being planned...

There may have been a vile campaign to trash her memory and smear her reputation...

...but the people everywhere, they've kept faith in Princess Diana. She is the People's Princess and that is how she will remain - in our hearts and memories for ever.

It is unusual stories like this, the rare and lesser stated British sentimentality and romance, their love of genuine goodness and kindness...

Fourteen years gone, and still we love her.

I'm suddenly more proud to be British after reading this.

And I'm very proud to play a continuing part in keeping the cherished memory of our Diana alive.

We live in troubled times, and the person that the people turn to is the Princess who pledged to her 'man-on-the-street':

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Friday, 28 January 2011

...but the people everywhere they've kept faith with Princess Diana

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