If Princess Diana died now would there be such hysteria

lazygal · 02-02-2012 10:15AM #1

Remember when she died, all the outpourings of grief and mad flower leaving around London and other places. Would it happen now? Or would it just be another celebrity death?

Crazy Horse 6 · 02-02-2012 10:18AM

I'd say it would be worse tbh. I remember when she died and the news came through i was actually on a British airways flight to NY and the cabin crew where actually crying and stuff which i found very strange.

mikemac1 · 02-02-2012 10:21AM

The hype and media coverage would be even bigger
There were no twitter feeds or facebook memorial pages back then or live streaming over the internet
And there were a lot less TV channels

CardBordWindow · 02-02-2012 10:22AM

I wouldn't say so. Sure she's been out of the limelight for ages now!

bleg · 02-02-2012 10:22AM

The Royal Family will just have to have another princess killed to find out..

Yahew · 02-02-2012 10:23AM

The older she died the less the effect. She would be 50 now and maybe off the magazine covers.

ScouseMouse · 02-02-2012 10:24AM

But she would still have been in the limelight.

She was very popular, as she was the only reasonable influence on the whole shower of wasters.

I have high hopes for william and harry as the rest are useless c**ts.

Duggy747 · 02-02-2012 10:24AM

Jade Goody still would've had a better reception at her funeral :pac:

ednwireland · 02-02-2012 10:26AM

what annoyed me most was that the grand prix qualifying wasnt shown on the bbc :mad:

02-02-2012 10:26AM

superscouse wrote: »

But she would still have been in the limelight.

She was very popular, as she was the only reasonable influence on the whole shower of wasters.

I have high hopes for william and harry as the rest are useless c**ts.

High hopes for them to do what, achieve world peace or live a pampared privileged life?

Mercurius · 02-02-2012 10:27AM

If one buys into Carl Jung's theory of the Collective Unconscious, then Princess Diana's archetypal story (virgin princess, wounded by romance, who won people over with the power of love and her humanitarian efforts, and not the love of power etc.) would affect peoples psyches as much today as it did then.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 02-02-2012 10:27AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4meFC1ee7Q

kfallon · 02-02-2012 10:46AM

Her death caused an Old Firm game and a Liverpool v Newcastle game to be postponed and basically you couldn't watch TV for about 2 days after it cos it was wall to wall coverage of her death :mad:

The Queen of Hearts my fooking hoop! :rolleyes:

Tarts more like!

Mr. CooL ICE · 02-02-2012 10:47AM

Imagine if she was killed at an Egyptian football match. That would be nuts

Hasmunch · 02-02-2012 10:50AM

It was hardly hysterical the first time around

abouttobebanned · 02-02-2012 10:51AM

Zombie apocalypse?!

TeddyTedson · 02-02-2012 11:05AM

I'd be fairly hysterical if she died again to be honest? Maybe I'm on my own here:o

kfallon · 02-02-2012 11:20AM

LordChessington wrote: »

Imagine if she was killed at an Egyptian football match. That would be nuts

Tbh last night's tragic events at the football in Port Said and Diana's death both started out the same way......with an Egyptian trying to penetrate the box.....

theteal · 02-02-2012 11:26AM

Anybody i knew was more concerned with the passing of mother theresa on the same day and rightly so

SafeSurfer · 02-02-2012 11:29AM

theteal wrote: »

Anybody i knew was more concerned with the passing of mother theresa on the same day and rightly so

Elton John penned a song for her too, "Sandals in the Bin".

mike65 · 02-02-2012 11:30AM

I'd say it would much the same assuming all the circumstances/context were the same.

ScouseMouse · 02-02-2012 11:30AM

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

High hopes for them to do what, achieve world peace or live a pampared privileged life?

The whole lot are useless. Maybe, just maybe they could be of some use. William is doing ok, hes actually working for a living. Search and Rescue pilot out of Valley, near Holyhead, and now he is off to the falklands.

Cantona's Collars · 02-02-2012 11:33AM

I still wouldn't care.

kincsem · 02-02-2012 11:35AM

I just checked the thread to see if Run_to_da_hills had posted. :rolleyes:

Seomra Mushie · 02-02-2012 11:55AM

Hasmunch wrote: »

It was hardly hysterical the first time around

In the UK it was, and whilst it wasn't as hysterical over here, I'd say it was still disproportionately hysterical for a Royal from another country.

summerskin · 02-02-2012 12:20PM

ednwireland wrote: »

what annoyed me most was that the grand prix qualifying wasnt shown on the bbc :mad:

Me and my mates(all northern english, and not royalists at all) had just landed in Spain for a holiday and wondered why the liverpool v newcastle match that night had been cancelled.

Some cockney woman at the bar we were having breakfast in was crying and shouted over to us "It's princess Di, she's dead ain't she!!"

So i shouted back "And? Was she meant to be fcuking playing or something?"

Didn't go down well in "The British Bulldog" bar....

Paparazzo · 02-02-2012 12:37PM

theteal wrote: »

Anybody i knew was more concerned with the passing of mother theresa on the same day and rightly so

She was an old geebag too.

Son Of A Vidic · 02-02-2012 12:43PM

lazygal wrote: »

Remember when she died

Remember? I was living in London back then and the hype was unbelievable. There was just no escaping it.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 02-02-2012 12:48PM

I'd say if she hadn't have died in 97, survived another fifteen years and then died today there wouldn't be as much hysteria. But if we're talking about if the Diana of 97 died today, it would be much worse.

theteal wrote: »

Anybody i knew was more concerned with the passing of mother theresa on the same day and rightly so

Mother Theresa died nearly a week later. So you're embellishing what happened there.

farmchoice · 02-02-2012 12:48PM

i was living in london as well and the whole thing was crazy.

as an aside, on the sunday morning i bought a copy of the irish Sunday Independent, it was ther international edition so would have been printed early the previous saturday evening, inside was a headlie that ran

'' It's do or die for Di and Dodi''

typical Sindo ****e article but i understad it was later pulled form most of the irish editions.

Capt'n Midnight · 02-02-2012 01:17PM

By now there would have been a lot of newspaper expose on her.

Can you imagine the stuff that the phone tapping would have found out ?

Major James Hewitt
James Gilbey,
Hasnat Khan,
Dodi Al-Fayed,

She would no longer have been the young princess that she was.

And had she gone down the Fergie route ?

If Princess Diana died now would there be such hysteria

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