14-10-2013, 11:10 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Yeah, despite when it came to bloodlines Di was more royal than any of the German Windsor/Battenbergs the House of Saxe Coburg are a vile bunch of eugenicists and I doubt they liked that sort of company she liked to keep.David Guyatt Wrote:Peter Presland Wrote:I agree David's 'Defense of the Realm Boys' attribution but pose the question 'where does that definition end and the Royal Household begin?'
I don't rule out that, say, the Duke (or more likely a senior functionary but not a blue blood) may have had a Thomas Becket moment. It's possible and we'll never know one way or the other of course. But I do sometimes look at the Royal Household and wonder about them, and think of the film the Last Emperor.
Whatever, it seems their 'blue blood' runs 'ice cold'......I don't even think a verbal Thomas Becket moment would have been needed...just a look or long set of them....and the Praetorian Guard knowing that Diana was an 'embarrassment' and a 'hindrance' to certain sang froid en bleu. [as well as the British Arms Establishment with her anti-mine and cluster-bomb campaigns; not to mention a Royal, or former one, touching AIDS victims et al. - making them all look bad while being more popular with the Public than they were.]
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.