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Liz Smith | 08/27/2008 12:00 am

Why Liz Smith Felt 'Robbed' When Princess Diana Died

Liz Smith

I’d never given Princess Diana much thought before I actually met her at a Fashion Institute of Technology event in the Metropolitan Museum and been pleased at her beauty, charm and human  touch. When she gave her infamous BBC interview to Martin Bashir, I was more interested in her as a woman scorned and willing to blow the whistle on her royal in-laws. And I wanted to say, “You go, girl!”  As public icons go, I liked her a lot. 

But when she died I was stunned at my emotional reaction. I realized I felt I’d been “robbed.” She was a world-class celebrity, young and controversial, and I think I viewed her as the motherlode I would be writing about for years in future coverage. So I sat down and did a sprawling not-so-good article about how the world — the Western world — responded so deeply to her death because they were one and all yearning for religious feeling in a secular world. They were using her death as an excuse for their need of panoply, open mourning, getting together to express their feelings.

Then I went to London a few days after her funeral. I saw the acres of flowers, the signs, the Teddy bears, the mourning windows at Harrods, all of it. That seemed to somehow satisfy me that I had lost a glamorous creature who would have been grist for the gossip mill for eons to come. This secret, really low attitude wasn’t very nice, I suppose, but I’m trying to be honest.

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Eve Guevara-Sansom
No-one used Diana’s death as an excuse for anything Liz - Diana was told at 10 years of age that she was one of Charles’ possible brides - as being suitable in royal rank. Her life had to be lived according to that royal ‘need’. It came to pass when pressure was put on Charles. She was called - in contempt by vile uppercrust Brits as : ‘the womb-donor’. She had good Love and wanted only a special monogamous marriage and family for her Sons in real terms. She was thrown to wolves as the whole mess of royals-behind-closed-doors unfolded on her. Literally. It was a tragedy foreseen in Bible - she is recorded as an onus on Time - and her Birth Day is given as a mark to remember as ‘Day of Trumpets’. She still appears to many people in Dreams - Dreams are messages from the Parallel world. She has shown to me why GUARDIAN ANGEL - also opens to say : GUARD-I-ANAN-GEL. Anan was noted as Keeper of the Seal of the Covenant on Time Plan. The name of ANAN is in that too : guar DIAN A N gel - for a huge reason - it links to a secret in Egyptian Book of the Dead. Our Spirit is electric phenomena - so, in God-terms she is not Dead and her messages go on. They had all but destroyed her anyway - the pain she knew on being removed from Mother rights with her sons is impossible to describe. She had wanted a Daughter as sister to them. So, the real disaster happened a lot earlier - on her wedding night in fact - when Camilla rescripted that. How terrible for anyone - let alone a young Woman. I note that - Camilla’s Birth Day is given as the day on which The Ark came to a full stop in crisis : 17th day of 7th month. That is why a Raven visited The Ark and not the expected Dove. The Raven is the black bird of onus and fatality for British monarchy - it was a fatal moment - foreseen by the Creator. Eve.
By Eve Guevara-Sansom on 08/30/2008 3:25 pm