Princess Diana

戴安娜王妃日记&书信 Princess Diana Diary & Letters 1. Diary, on the date of her divorce, "It's the 28th August 1996 - 15 years of marriage have now been signed off. I never wanted a divorce and always dreamed of a happy marriage with loving support from Charles. "Although that was never meant to be, we do have two wonderful boys who are deeply loved by their parents. "A part of me will always love Charles, but how I wish he'd looked after me and been proud of my work. "It has been a turbulent 15 years, having to face the envy, jealousy, hatred from Charles's friends and family - they have so misunderstood me and that has been painful and brought enormous heartache. "I want so much to become Charles's best friend as I understand more than anyone what he is about and what makes him tick." 2. "Soaring flight...Free from internment...Lifting yourself above the ebbs and flow of daily life, and then acquire broader vision." --In a letter wrote to Lisa Yacoub, the daughter of Professor Yacoub, Diana said. 3. In one of the last letter Lisa Yacoub received from Diana just before she died, she said,'I want to share this very meaningful quote with you and send you lots of love.' It was from the Little Prince. It said:'I have to go now to the stars. And one day when you look at the stars, you will remember me.' Diana's 'Darling Dodi' letters are read [ 2007-12-18 09:49 ] The extract of one of the letters from Diana to Dodi   Extracts of intimate letters from Princess Diana to Dodi al-Fayed were read out at an inquest into their deaths in a London court on Friday, and Dodi's father's lawyer said they showed the relationship was serious, not just a holiday fling. In one letter Diana thanks "Darling Dodi" for a holiday on his yacht, adding "This comes with all the love in the world and as always a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this chick's life." In another exchange, dated August 13, 1997 -- a week after the first media reports of their affair and just over two weeks before the couple were killed in a Paris car crash -- Diana sent him some cufflinks which had belonged to her father. "Darling Dodi, these cufflinks were the very last gift from the man I loved most in the world, my father," her letter said. "They are given to you as I know how much joy it would give him to know they were in such safe and special hands. Fondest love, Diana." Dodi's father Mohamed al-Fayed, owner of the Harrods luxury store in London, says Diana and his son were killed by British security services on the orders of Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband and father of Diana's ex-husband, Prince Charles. Al-Fayed alleges the killing was ordered because the couple were about to announce their engagement and Diana was pregnant. He claims the royal family did not want the mother of the future king to have a child with his son. Michael Mansfield, the lawyer representing al-Fayed at the inquest, produced the extracts from the letters as he quizzed the princess's friend and close confidante, Rosa Monckton, about the couple's relationship. "She was treating this relationship with Dodi as a serious matter wasn't she? It doesn't suggest it was little more than a fling after a couple of days," Mansfield asked her. Monckton replied that Diana tended to speak and write in an extravagant way but agreed the letters were not just written to make someone happy. 点击查看更多双语新闻 (Agencies) 上周五，戴安娜王妃及其男友多迪?艾尔法耶德的死因案在伦敦一家法院开庭审理。戴安娜写给多迪的情书部分内容在法庭上被公开宣读。多迪父亲的律师称，情书内容明戴安娜和多迪的感情是认真的，并不只是“假日玩伴”而已。 戴安娜在一封信中感谢“亲爱的多迪”带她去他的游艇上度假，并在信中写道：“我要给你世界上全部的爱，并像往常一样，由衷地感谢你给这个女子的生活带来了如此的乐趣。” 在1997年8月13日的另一封信中，戴安娜将她父亲的一些袖扣送给了多迪。写这封信的前一周，两人的恋情曝光，两周之后，他们便葬身于巴黎车祸。 戴安娜在信中说：“亲爱的多迪，这些袖扣是最爱我的父亲送给我的最后一件礼物。” “我现在把它们送给你，因为我知道，如果父亲知道这些袖扣现在属于一个安全而特别的人，他一定会感到很欣慰。深爱你的，戴安娜。” 多迪的父亲、伦敦哈罗德兹名品店的老板默罕默德?艾尔法耶德称，戴安娜和他的儿子死于英国安全当局的暗杀，并称伊丽莎白女王的丈夫菲利浦亲王以及戴安娜的前夫查尔斯王储就是幕后指使。 艾尔法耶德提出这样的控告是因为，当时戴安娜和多迪即将宣布订婚，而且戴安娜已怀孕。艾尔法耶德声称，英国王室不希望未来国王的母亲为多迪生下孩子。 艾尔法耶德的律师麦克尔?曼斯菲尔德在询问戴安娜生前密友罗莎?蒙克顿有关两人的关系时，公开了这两封情书的部分内容。 曼斯菲尔德问道：“戴安娜王妃对多迪的感情是认真的，是吗？从信件内容来看，一段时间之后，两人的关系并非‘玩伴’那么简单。” 蒙克顿回答说，戴安娜说话、写东西向来比较夸张，但同时也赞同她写这两封信并不仅仅是为了让多迪开心。     3月17日 The cad and the witch: James Hewitt's affair with a sex-obsessed clairvoyant When a balding, ruddy-faced James Hewitt was pictured recently leaving a restaurant with an ageing blonde, it seemed that the man who has spent the past decade ruthlessly profiting from his five-year affair with Princess Diana had hit a new low. First, in 1994, came Princess In Love - a gratuitous account of his affair with Diana, which earned him a reported share of ￡100,000. His autobiography, Love And War, followed in 1999 and four years ago yet another book, Moving On, which amounted to little more than a regurgitation of the same old stories for yet another fee. So it is befitting that the woman who has thrust him back into the spotlight is a minor Spanish celebrity with an even greater thirst for the rewards of fame. She materialised - I use the word advisedly, since she also says she is the world's only true witch - to give an account, complete with florid details, of what she claims was their ten-week affair. It's quite some story. The woman, Aramis Fuster (below), said she was introduced to Hewitt by mutual friends in Marbella, where Hewitt now lives. "It was lust at first sight," she says. "We chatted and flirted all night, and the sexual tension was overwhelming. "I make love potions - but there was no need to with James. When the friend who introduced us left, he sat me down and started pawing all over me, kissing me on the neck and mouth." According to her, the pair "really got to know each other" in a "secluded wooded layby by the beach. The windows [of the car] got so steamed up, I had to wipe them with a hanky before we could drive off." There was more to come: "One night we even risked doing it in the swimming pool at the complex I live in," she said. She also discussed her preference for "tantric sex" - the ability to last for hours - which she says can happen, with the aid of her special "magic mirror", when two people are in a different room or even country. All toe-curling stuff. But it's when you look at the photographs of Hewitt (coppery now, quiff thinning) and Aramis (stout and brash) that you realise quite what a comedown this is for the former tank squadron commander who served in Iraq and once romanced a princess. And the more you learn about Aramis Fuster, the more unsavoury the whole story becomes. She describes herself as the leading world authority on occultism. In Spain, she is a familiar face thanks to her many appearances on tabloid TV and in down-market magazines. She has written three books, sagely explaining, among other things, that she had her first paranormal experience aged three, and that the Devil tried to take her son (now aged 20) from her when she was pregnant. Her preposterous claims only underscore how far she is prepared to sink in exchange for the money and publicity she so obviously craves. Aramis says that as the world's only Christian witch, she can break any evil spell with her white magic. She makes personalised potions and claims to have cured cancer and halted the onset of Aids in patients. At the start of this year, she predicted on Spanish TV that Rodriguez Zapatero - now in his second term as Prime Minister - would lose this year's general election. As for her age, by Aramis's own account she is now 688 years old - which would mean she was born in 1320. She claims to be on her seventh life after a series of reincarnations, and that she has twice been burned at the stake. A likelier story is that Aramis - whose real name is reported to be Maria Antonia Perez Sanchez - was born in Catalunya in North-East Spain in October 1954, making her 53. It was in Catalunya that she made her first TV appearances, predicting things such as the wedding of the heir to the throne, Prince Felipe. Over the years, though, her outlandish behaviour soon led to her being described as a "friki" - freak. On a popular TV programme in Spain, she once announced that she'd come up with a magic formula to make it rain in Miami. She also said that during a stay there she had created another magic spell that would increase the size of local women's breasts and the circumference of men's penises. Why, then, asked one reporter, had she not put her powers to better use and tried to end Third World hunger or conflict in Iraq? Straight-faced, Aramis replied: "All they've got to do is ask!" But it was her "attempted suicide" in July last year that is widely seen as Aramis's most distasteful grab at publicity. Initially it was reported that she had swallowed 70 pills and given herself four insulin injections. Aramis later claimed she had downed 300 pills after a year of ill treatment at the hands of her Cuban ex-husband Yaemil, showing pictures of bruises on her body as proof that the abuse took place, though none of the pictures actually showed her face. Keen as ever to air her feelings, Aramis then appeared on national television to discuss it. One reason many believe the entire thing was a colourfully choreographed stunt was that Aramis had trailed the event with a TV announcement, fainting into the arms of a reporter after telling her: "I feel the right not to have to put up with any more and die when I want." In one bust-up on national television, Yaemil and Aramis traded one-word insults for nearly a minute, and Aramis ripped up her marriage certificate and wedding photographs, took off her dress, and finished the interview in her underwear. So she turned to Hewitt for comfort. Aramis tells friends the pair had been making plans to move in together - but after being caught by the paparazzi, Hewitt seems to have cooled the relationship. So what of Hewitt? He first began complaining that there was "nothing" for him in Britain four years ago, after being arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine. He was later let off with a caution. After a run-in with the Inland Revenue because he had failed to fill in several years' of tax forms, he set up home in Spain. There, he appears to have replicated the existence he once enjoyed in London's Fulham. In Spain, he is invited to the sort of parties covered in local lifestyle magazines and often eats out at bars and restaurants along the Golden Mile between Marbella and Puerto Banus. "He's got a different lady on his arm every night," says one socialite. "The Spanish often can't place his face, but he doesn't need any introduction among Marbella's well-heeled expat community." Until recently, he rented an apartment in the same Puerto Banus complex as ex-footballer-turned-pundit Andy Gray, but is now thought to be living in the hills above San Pedro. When he first moved to Spain, he hoped to open a sports bar. He is now said to be fronting a bid by a group of Irish businessmen to buy popular Marbella nightspot, Loft. He has assimilated only a little into local ways - "He doesn't speak much Spanish and prefers French if he's with someone who can't speak English," says one local. All in all, it's a rather sad existence - albeit spiced up by encounters with witches - for the once-swashbuckling former Life Guard for whom life seemed to promise so much. Source : The Daily Mail By Tendai Maphosa London 30 August 2007 Even 10 years after her death, Princess Diana's legacy continues to stir controversy.  From London, Tendai Maphosa has more on the eve of a 10th anniversary memorial service organized by her sons, Princes William and Harry. Princess Diana (file photo) The 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death has resurrected old controversies about the "People's Princess." Since her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997, Diana's legacy has been hotly debated. Some see a troubled woman who courted media attention. Others recall a warm, generous person who focused her energy on charitable causes and dared to hug AIDS victims. Australian feminist Germaine Greer described Diana as "a moron" this month, but Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed her as "an extraordinary woman" who "still has the remarkable ability to move and inspire." Despite the debate, there is no doubt that Diana spent much of her time doing humanitarian work. She was involved in such organizations as the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, the National Aids Trust and The Leprosy Mission. The Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund was established in September 1997 to continue the Princess's humanitarian work in the United Kingdom and overseas. The fund was established with the proceeds from sales of the recording of Elton John's performance of Candle in the Wind, which was played at Diana's funeral. Samantha Rennie is a spokesperson for the fund. She said Diana used her celebrity status to draw attention to unpopular causes. "She supported causes that were in her life unpopular you might remember pictures of her shaking hands with someone who had HIV/AIDS at a time that this was thought horrific and yet now 10 years on it seems quiet normal," she noted.  "Similarly she was photographed walking through minefields at a time that this was considered hugely controversial and yet now landmines have been stigmatized so in the intervening years of course peoples' attitudes change, but in many ways they change for the better." Simon Conway is the director of Landmine Action, which has received support from the Diana fund.  He said Diana's work with landmines continues to help the cause. "I think we have seen significant progress in the last 10 years," he said.  "We now have a 153 nations, three quarters of the world, have signed up to the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines, but perhaps more important in purely practical terms, the weapon has been completely stigmatized." Samantha Rennie says that though the Diana fund is no longer actively raising money, people are still making donations. "We are making what we are calling proactive grants so in a small number of very specific areas such as palliative care, care for the dying in Africa, refugee and asylum seekers in the U.K. and other areas such as cluster munitions we are working towards an international ban on cluster munitions in these specific areas we are actually identifying organizations with whom we have worked in the past in order to carry forward those very specific goals," she said. Nearly 500 invited guests are expected to attend a memorial service in the historic Guards Chapel at Wellington Barracks in central London, where her two sons are officers in the British Army.  The royal memorial service is not open to the public.  Shoppers at Harrods' department store have been invited to remain silent for two minutes on Friday along with Mohamed al Fayed, the owner, whose son, Emad, known as Dodi, died with Diana in the car crash Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she ”the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, England’s glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair; and The New Yorker could possibly give us the truth. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them: Diana’s sexually charged mother, her scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but finally came to terms with, and bad-girl Fergie, her sister-in-law, who concealed wounds of her own. Most formidable of them all was her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought till the day she died. Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate ”other woman” into this combustible mix, and it’s no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect.