Did you hear about the guy who walked into the pub? After the first drink, his legs fell off. After the second drink, his arms fell off. After the third, his torso fell off. Trying one last drink, his eyes and ears fell off. The bartender turned to another customer, and said, “Like I was telling you, some people need to quit while they’re ahead”
I was in my second year of college when the interest and infatuation with Lady Diana Spencer began. She had been dating Charles under-the-table, but a reporter had trekked up to a cottage in the way-far out country, and saw them together. They were actually fishing, and Charles had his canvas and easel propped (the prince is an accomplished artist). Diana worked in London at an elementary school, and when she returned to work she was nearly mauled by a teeming crowd of people. Soon after, she obligingly posed for photographers, not knowing her underwear shown through her light dress. The queen was enraged, and thus began a permanent rift. (Diana hated not being allowed to tell her side of things since she was a small child). Although the queen would be publicly kind, it has been documented that she was condescending to Diana, sarcastic. Diana once went to the kitchen to get a snack, and talked with the service staff casually. It was reported, and The Duke, The Queen, and Charles gave her a bawling- out that lasted several hours. Some Americans at the time were upset at Ronald Reagan’s win of The White House, and First Lady Nancy’s uppity smarminess, so they naturally saw Diana as a celebrity nouveau, and dismissed her validity ( at first). It was only after the separation, and the “ tell-all” of Camilla’s involvement, that people started seeing which way the wind blew. What a mess. The marriage should never have happened. And Charles and Camilla are together, after all. What a Donnybrook Fair that could have been avoided.
In all fairness, people leave high-power jobs, and for varying reasons. I think this many at once is a tad odd, and I believe the timing is rather awkward. But at least two of them are taking “other senior government administrative positions”, so the gravy train must not be all that polluted….or they wouldn’t stay at all. Wondering if she’s just really difficult to work with/for, or personalities just clash so badly it interrupts a comfortable office environment? I admit it would seem that something’s really rotten for people to leave high-paying, coveted positions.
George C. Scott was considered extremely macho, and most of his pictures portrayed that personality. But he was married to Colleen Dewhurst, a very modern, ‘I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar’, type. Perhaps their combined strengths were the catalysts that made their relationship…
Some people appear to be lucky. Winning a jackpot is “Luck”. Surviving cancer that kills most is “Luck”. But being able to have a nice, plentiful life…well, I like this quote:
i had a great French teacher in high school. I remember her telling us some of the current (1970’s) slang, like “chouette” for “cool”, and “ genial” for “brilliant/far-out”. She also told us that a few people used “ vache-bonne” (it’s as good as a cow), but most French people would think you’d crawled out from under a rock, like Americans saying, “keen” or “ hunky-dorrie”.
Everyone’s experience “counts”. I’ve been around long enough to know that wealth and status aren’t immune from Life’s problems, and we’re seeing a renewal of Diana’s frustration with Meaghan Windsor. Be that as it may, I want to point out that both these women were/ are formally educated and well-heeled. In short, they both knew the world they were joining; Diana was acutely aware of Charles’ infatuation with now Duchess Of Cornwall. (Neither lady can read the baby act..) I spent a huge chunk of my career advocating for people who called wet cardboard and tin pail lids home… I’m not trying to be mean, but given that, I find it difficult to weep for a spoiled actress/princess worth hundreds of millions of dollars who is “ stressed by it all”. Then don’t marry a prince, FFS…
Heres something friends and family in UK have told me: most of The Royals, even the dozens of cuzzens—- have developed foundations, et al…these generate cash flow from philanthropic gentry. The “Royal” in question is the CEO, as it were, and gets a paycheck (usually millions) and may have several of these artsy-fartsie “ let’s help one- legged coal miners” or whatever, foundations.
First, all this is just suppositional. OK, perhaps not the most popular way to put it, but my point is that, given the OP’s question, I’m saying Diana would have jumped out of the pan— and into the fire. ( you mean you didn’t “get” this?)
Lets suppose, for the moment, that Diana live(s). Has it occurred to anyone that, also supposing she was with Dodi Fayed, let’s say married— that her independence and suffrage would be exponentially compromised, far more than it was with Charles? I’m just asking that people really think about this; the abject irony her life would be. Dodi Fayed’s innate culture is not conducive to womens independence.
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RE: Anyone with my warped mind?
Did you hear about the guy who walked into the pub? After the first drink, his legs fell off. After the second drink, his arms fell off. After the third, his torso fell off. Trying one last drink, his eyes and ears fell off. The bartender turned to another customer, and said,“Like I was telling you, some people need to quit while they’re ahead”