Princess Diana visits Damart HQ in Bingley (1991)

Royal blind item? "The racist dimwit"

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This A++ list celeb who is one of the top three or four celebs on the planet is single. If you snag him you will live a life of luxury. He is also a bit of a racist or needs to work on his language. He was talking to a rapper the other day and used the N word in a conversation with him. Our celeb is foreign born, but still, no excuse. His people apologized to the rapper and have been kissing his butt so he doesn't say anything. Obviously he told some people.

Source: Crazy Days and Nights

My best guess
Prince Harry

In her own words: Princess Diana on why she had to die so young

"I believe there’s a lot of power in the bereavement process. I believe there’s a lot of power in memories. I’ll always be held in the hearts of many. If I had stayed alive, the work I would have done would have been in and out of the media. There would have been years when no one would be interested, and then there’d be a project or scandal that would pique media interest. 

But, since I've left this world, all they have to hold onto now is the memory of who I was and what I've accomplished. That will keep being played back over and over. Often, the memory, the bereavement for a person is much stronger than having that person stand in front of you. It’s that bereavement that will always keep me alive in peoples’ hearts."

Source: channelingerik.com

Princess Diana: The truth about my death is now being revealed

Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of Princess Diana's death. This year's observance has been overshadowed by recent allegations that she was murdered by the British military.

According to Diana, however, the timing of this revelation is no coincidence. Channeling psychic Anne Stewart, she discusses this and the impact on her sons in the below video:

Video pick: ITN's "The Royal Year" (1987)

"ITN presents a documentary of The British Royal Family to commemorate their year in 1987. We take a look back at Diana, Charles, The Queen, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Fergie, and Prince Andrew."

Video pick: Sky Art's "The Book Show: 'Diana - Her True Story' "

"Andrew Morton’s controversial book ‘Diana: Her True Story’ surprised the world when it was first published. Now, in the book’s 20th anniversary year, Sky Arts determines how the publication’s revelations threatened the reputation of the Royal Family and irrevocably altered the relationship between press and monarchy.

In this exclusive Book Show special, Mariella Frostrup narrates the definitive story of Morton, his publisher and key players in the events leading up to the book’s publication in 1992. Through interviews, they look back at the influence this extraordinary book had on UK society, the press and within the Royal Family itself, who failed in their numerous attempts to stop the book from being published.

From press suspicion and character assassination to burglary and death threats, ‘Diana: Her True Story’ turned Andrew Morton’s life upside-down. In this candid interview he reveals how the opponents to his book attempted to discredit and destroy his reputation and how he struggled to cope under the pressure of the public reaction to his work.

Detailing in revealing insight, Morton explains how the Royal Family were suspicious of him from his time as the Daily Mail Royal correspondent and long before the book went into print. Following an investigation by Scotland Yard as to his insider sources, his office was broken into and his contacts documents and working files were ransacked.

The book’s serialisation in June 1992 by a cautious editorial team at The Sunday Times, created public hysteria as Morton was accused of orchestrating an elaborate hoax regarding the books’ revelations about an unhappy Princess Diana: her mental state, eating disorders, the breakdown of her marriage and her attempted suicides. He reveals how fellow journalists were briefed to write against him and leading retailers refused to stock the book. Morton received the protection of armed guards following death threats from an Irish terrorist group.

'Sky Arts has built a reputation for bringing its customers closer to writers, authors and books on television.” comments James Hunt, Sky Arts Channel Director. “Andrew’s story is fascinating and this Book Show Special will reveal in illuminating detail the repercussions this extraordinary book had on society and in shaping how we view the Royal Family today.' "

From the Royal Archives: "A personal loss: A grieving Princess Di flies to the bedside of a friend dying of AIDS"

Source: People Magazine

IT'S NO SECRET THAT PRINCESS DIANA IS less than thrilled by summer vacations at Balmoral in Scotland. But when she interrupted her family holiday there on Aug. 20, it wasn't just the standard royal getaway. Learning that her close friend Adrian Ward-Jackson, 41, was in the terminal stages of AIDS at St. Mary's Hospital in London, Di left Prince Charles and the children behind and anxiously rushed to his bedside.

Over the next three days, Diana visited Ward-Jackson, a successful art dealer, at least twice a day. As the end neared, the Princess settled in for an eight-hour bedside vigil on Aug. 22, during which she stroked her friend's hand and comforted his family. When an aide asked her when she planned to leave, Diana replied, "How could I leave him now, when he needs me most?"

That night she left the hospital at 10 P.M., instructing nurses to call her if Ward-Jackson's condition deteriorated. Sadly, the end was nearer than she imagined—just three hours later he died. When she was notified at Kensington Palace, Diana rushed back to the hospital at 1:30 A.M. and paid her last respects by kissing Ward-Jackson lightly on the forehead. She stayed with his grieving family until 8 A.M. "She proved to be a very, very special friend of Mr. Ward-Jackson," said a nurse. "Those last hours would have been much harder for him but for her support and kindness."

As patron of the National AIDS Trust, Diana has never hesitated to confront prejudices about the disease. In fact, in 1987, when ignorance about AIDS was still rife in Britain, she made the point that the disease was not easily transmissible when she extended her ungloved hand to grasp that of a patient at Middlesex Hospital. "Shaking hands with an AIDS patient is the most important thing a royal's done in 200 years," commented journalist Judy Wade after the event.

But Diana's visits to Ward-Jackson were more than symbolic. Over the past five years, as their interests and social orbits overlapped, they had developed a warm friendship, sharing a passion for ballet. "They were really quite close," says Marguerite Littman, founder of the AIDS Crisis Trust, of which Ward-Jackson was deputy chairman. "Adrian was heavily involved in fund-raising. The Princess came to all the galas."

Ward-Jackson enjoyed a discreetly gay lifestyle, sharing luxurious homes in London and New York City with companion Harry Bailey until Bailey's death from AIDS last year. When Ward-Jackson was diagnosed HIV-positive, he kept his illness secret from all but Diana and his closest friends. As his condition worsened, Di frequently visited him at home, reading to him for hours and holding his hand.

In her grief over Ward-Jackson's death, the Princess's commitment to AIDS patients is expected to deepen. "Diana has long campaigned against the stigma and ignorance faced by AIDS patients. But yesterday [with Ward-Jackson's death] she showed the very real depth of her caring nature," editorialized the Today newspaper. "When we see her hold a hand, it is not from duty but because she really does care.

MARY H.J. FARRELL
TERRY SMITH in London

Source: People Magazine (first published September 9, 1991)

Video: Charles and Diana officially open LOROS Hospice (May 30, 1986)

Royal blind item: "Which royal couple had regular stand-up fights?"

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Flashback to over twenty years ago….

Imagine the scene: one of the most opulent buildings in the world. It’s a royal palace, not necessarily in England. A man is standing in the study of a member of a royal family, waiting for the royal to arrive. The royal’s secretary is also waiting.

Suddenly, there is total chaos in the corridor outside. Loud noises, shouts, scuffles are heard. The man turns to the secretary in alarm and asks, “What on earth is going on?”

“Oh it’s just xxxx and xxxx having one of their regular set-tos,” replies the secretary, as though such stand-up fights were commonplace. As indeed they were.

Source: The Morton Report

My best guess
Prince Charles and Princess Diana (War of the Waleses)

Royal blind item? "Which famous woman parades both her husbands?"

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This Famous Woman has had lots of male admirers — which is surprising as she is rather lacking in the looks department. But she has other credentials that might make up for her unattractive appearance and under that stern exterior lies an unexpectedly hot-blooded creature.

Even so, men must show masculine meekness, as the two who married her soon found out. After one divorce, she maintains good links with her ex but gossip surrounds her second union. Are her domestic circumstances all they seem and do she and husband #2 actually lead separate lives?

Whatever goes on behind closed doors, our Famous Woman likes to show that there is no ill will between the two husbands and sometimes parades them together, as one wag puts it, ‘like two prize studs at a horse fair’.

Source: The Morton Report

My best guess
Princess Anne, Mark Phillips (husband #1), and Tim Laurence (husband #2)

From the Royal Archives: "Prince Charles memo: Know your place"

Image credit: Alex Pereira

"Just what kind of man is Prince Charles? That seems to be the question on many Britons' lips after a two-year-old memo surfaced in which the prince chastises a member of his housecleaning staff.

The paper came to light following a lawsuit filed by Elaine Day, a 45-year-old personal assistant to Charles's deputy private secretary. Day resigned last year, but she is suing the royal house, claiming that she suffered unwanted sexual advances and discrimination from her superiors, PEOPLE reports.

On Wednesday, Day revealed that she had written a memo to Charles in March 2002 explaining that she might be qualified for higher positions on the household staff. Instead of responding to the assistant, the prince jotted some comments to her immediate boss and sent back the memo.

Day saw the note in her boss's basket, and took it for herself. On the note, Charles had written: 'Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far beyond their actual capabilities? This is all to do with the learning culture in schools – the child-centered learning emphasis which admits of no failure and tells people they can ALL be pop stars or high court judges or brilliant TV personalities-heads of states!' The king-in-waiting blamed 'social utopianism' for such ideas.

Many citizens in the U.K. didn't see eye-to-eye with Charles on the topic. 'I think he is very old-fashioned and out of time and he doesn't understand what is going on in the British education system at the moment,' said Charles Clarke, Britain's education secretary.

Charles's written comments stand in contrast to the public portrayal of him since Princess Diana's death in 1997. Charles has come to be seen as a man of principal and a devoted father.

In a new interview with the BBC, Prince William, his eldest son, said, '(Brother) Harry and I and my father, we're a very close family. There are disagreements … But when they're happy times we have a really good time.' "

Source: People Magazine (published November 19, 2004)

The fourth person in Diana's marriage (part II): "Diana's secret tapes forced Charles to admit he is at center of royal scandal"

Charles, Diana, and Michael Fawcett. Source: aangirfan.blogspot.com

"Prince Charles' aides panicked him into revealing he is at the centre of a serious allegation - after the aides learned intimate details still exist on one of seven video tapes Princess Diana made before her death six years ago.

The tapes were filmed at her request by a former BBC cameraman. Last week, he was interviewed by a senior MI6 officer at his home in California.

Afterwards, he broke six years of self-imposed silence to disclose all he knows about the tapes in an exclusive interview.

His revelations are guaranteed to escalate the crisis now engulfing the Royal Family.
"I was told by the intelligence officer that the tapes involve important matters for not just Charles, but the entire Royal Family. I cannot therefore say where the tapes are today. But they have definitely not been destroyed," he said.

Sir Michael Peat, the prince's private secretary, learned last Thursday that the tapes still exist.

Charles was immediately informed when he arrived in Oman. Next day, he issued his unprecedented denial to try and end mounting speculation about the incident.

The cameraman said he was told the tapes were stored in a bank vault in the United States.

Diana's former butler, Paul Burrel, has denied "they are anything to do with me".
This week, Royal legal advisers will explore how they can recover the videos that not only contain intimate details of Diana's marriage to Charles - but also deal with his relationship with Michael Fawcett.

Last week, Fawcett failed to keep his own name secret after the High Court in London refused to continue his injunction for privacy.

Prior to the four day court battle, a senior courtier at Clarence House had leaked to a Sunday national newspaper last week that the videos had been destroyed.
It was the opening shot in a desperate effort to avert the now burgeoning Royal scandal - culminating in the prince's extraordinary denial that no British newspaper can legally reveal what the allegation is based on.


Lurid details of the allegation are now widely published on the Internet. European and American media are planning to publish their versions of an allegation that no British newspaper can yet report.

That was the final reason the former BBC cameraman agreed to talk.
"I feel it important people in Britain know the facts. Then they can judge for themselves whether Sir Michael Peat's statement can be the final word," he said.

He requested his name and whereabouts in California should not be identified. His identity is known to this newspaper and his request will be respected.

"I have seen too many media feeding frenzies to be part of this one. I just wish to set the record straight on certain matters.

"There were seven tapes, not twenty as reported. They were shot on a camera Diana provided. My job was to set-up the technical side, framing and lighting.

"She retained the tapes. She told me she was placing them in a bank vault in America. I understand a close friend in New York arranged this.

"I believe the tapes still remain in the vault. I have made a statement about all this to the intelligence officer so that it can be given to the appropriate persons advising Charles."
The cameraman said he had "probably been offered the film job because I was known as a safe pair of hands. I had also worked on several Royal-related films for the Beeb and knew the form."

From time to time, he consulted notes he had made at the time of filming to refresh his memory. He spoke in a soft, modulated accent. It was agreed he would not be recorded.
"This is a one-off. I'm doing no more interviews," he said at the outset.

This is what the cameraman said are on the Diana tapes.
"She describes the incident that is now at the centre of what is happening. She spoke of her concern about Charles relationship with Fawcett. She believed it played an important part in the end of her marriage.

"She was very calm and factual. The only time I sensed her pain was when she spoke of Camilla Parker-Bowles. On one tape, she talks of catching Charles and Camilla de flagrante. She reveals that she had listened in to their phone sex talk. She said that Camilla was the raunchier of the two.

"On another tape she spoke of how she had pleaded with Charles to give up Camilla for the sake of the children.

"Diana said she had asked Princess Anne and Prince Andrew to help. She said they refused to lift a finger.

"But time and again, she came back to Fawcett. She described how she came across he and Charles whispering to each other in Palace corridors (Kensington Palace). Several times, she said she didn't like the way he seemed to dominate Charles, not just in a physical way, but mentally also.

"On one video, she spoke at length about sexual goings on among the Royal Household staff. She claimed Charles tolerated it. I made a note after one video filming that she spoke of one staff party being like something out of Caligula."

The cameraman described how he came to be asked to work on the film.
"In February 1997, I was approached by a former colleague at the BBC. He explained that Diana was not happy with the BBC Panorama interview with Martin Bashir and wished to make her own film. I was asked if I was interested. A fee of £5,000 was mentioned. A few days later, I was in Kensington Palace, in the same room where Bashir had done his famous ëthree in a bed' interview with Diana.

"Diana explained she would not need me to ask any questions to prompt her and she said she had been coached in how to face a camera.

"From the start, she was very professional. All I had to do was supervise the camera. She would talk into it. There would be no "cutaways' or what are known in TV as ëbridging shots'. She said that after each video I would check its quality and hand it to her. There would be no other copy made.

"The first filming took place in early March 1997. I arrived by taxi at Kensington Palace. She was waiting for me in the drawing room. I set up the camera and positioned the chair on which she sat. It was like doing a home movie, a video diary. I used the room lights.
"The first video runs for an hour. The others, I recall, were a little shorter. The last one was about 40 minutes and dealt with her hopes for the children.

"At the end of the final session, she handed me an envelope. It contained my full fee in cash."

The cameraman emphatically denied reports that the tapes were the ones which had been seized from Paul Burrel's home in Cheshire two years ago.

"Whoever was involved in those tapes, it was not me. Burrel was not there when I worked with Diana. Also the report that Diana was emotional when filming is not true. She was very calm and knew exactly what she wanted to say. There were no hesitations or retakes. It was a very professional performance," he said.

"I asked her what she planned to do with the tapes. She smiled and said ëkeep them in a safe place', something like that. I later learned they had been couriered to a close friend in New York to place in a bank vault. I am told the tapes still exist."

The decision to involve the secret intelligence service came after high-level discussions in Whitehall.

"While the tapes are unlikely to have any bearing on national security, their contents have a direct bearing on the Royal Family and it is the duty of the security service to protect the Crown," said a source.

The world's foremost private detective, Julius Kroll, will be asked to help Prince Charles recover the videos.

On returning to Britain, Charles was told by Royal lawyers that they could mount a successful case to reclaim the tapes as they form part of Diana's copyright over which Princes William and Harry could now claim full rights.

Prince William and Camilla Parker-Bowles, key members of the crisis management team Charles set up before he flew home from Oman, will also urge him to have an urgent meeting with Britain's two security chiefs to explore what one Royal insider has called "a plot to destabilise the entire Royal Family".

Both Sir Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, and Eliza Manningham-Buller, director of MI5, have already indicated in briefings to Downing Street that "the sustained campaign of smears" is already having a world wide effect on the Royal Family.

Kroll and his team of high-priced detectives - the firm charges Stg £1,000 an hour upwards - have been employed by governments all over the world to discover the hidden secrets of the powerful and notorious.

The US government used them to uncover the whereabouts of billions of dollars hidden by Philippine's president Ferdinand Marco and his wife, Imelda. The Haitian government asked Kroll to trace even more billions laundered through world banks by the island's former dictator, Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.

Currently the agency is helping to locate Saddam Hussein's secret fortune.
The 62 year-old super detective has investigated the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell who stole his staffs' pensions."

Source: Rense.com (first published November 10, 2003)

Video: "Diana - The Fairytale Princess" (2002)

The fourth person in Diana's marriage: "Diana's secret agony over 'sexless' marriage"

Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and Michael Fawcett (behind Diana) in 1990. Source: Image Collect

"Sensational new details emerged in the press last night about the video diary in which Princess Diana tearfully describes the lonely despair of her loveless marriage.

The video was uncovered by detectives investigating theft allegations against former royal butler Paul Burrell during a raid at his home two years ago. They were looking for evidence for his trial which eventually ended with his aquittal.

In the secret tape, made in the mid-1990s, Diana also attacks the bizarre relationship between Prince Charles and his butler, Michael Fawcett. And she tells of her yearning to run off with 'James' and start a new life with him and her children. Though she doesn't give his surname, the man is believed to be her one-time lover James Hewitt.

The bombshell tape lay hidden for five years in the loft of former butler Paul Burrell. In it, the Princess appears softly spoken and sad one minute, while the next she is sobbing or raging against the treatment she received at the hands of the Royal Family.

Of her marriage she is understood to say: "I am not loved. Charles just loves Charles and his position. I have tried to love Charles but he loves someone else." She revealed that although she and her husband lived together at that time, they had only a "father and daughter" relationship.

Dressed demurely in pink cardigan, white blouse and pearl earrings, she claims Charles once told her that her only purpose was to provide an heir to the throne.

Although she does not name Camilla Parker Bowles, she adds that she is sure Charles is doing "something with someone else" because he is always so "disinterested" in their relationship. After a tirade against the fawning royal servants, she is understood to say: "It's not an equal relationship. It's 100 per cent what Charles says he gets, plus we don't even sleep together".

She attributes much of the blame to Fawcett, who was recently forced to quit his job in the royal gifts-for-sale scandal. She says she can't come between them as there will be "eruptions". And she complains that she and her husband can never talk like a normal married couple because Fawcett is always there "next to Charles".

The two men apparently spent many hours alone in Charle's appartment at Highgrove. Refering to this, Diana adds: "If Fawcett was a woman I could see it, but what are you doing spending so much time with Fawcett and neglecting your family?"

Bemoaning her fate as a "prisoner in the House of Windsor" she yearns for the "freedom and liberty" she enjoyed as a single girl in London. It is here that she thought to refer to Hewitt. She tells of wanting to make a new life in "a loving relationship" with a man who can show he loves her. At one point she says she is feeling more secure now than she has ever felt - this again is thought to be a reference to Hewitt.

She worries frquently about her sons and says Prince William will make a better king than Charles will ever be. Then she says she hopes William and Harry will have better lives than her "drab existance".

Finally she turns her wrath on other members of the Royal Family. She claims the Queen doesn't like her, dismissing her as "dizzy". Then, her anger mounting, she adds: "As for Philip. I am sure he is short of a picnic (sic). I wonder if he doesn't have Alzheimer's, you just can't get through to him. Is this how Charles will turn out?"

At the end of the tape a male voice in the background says "that's enough" and the tape ends."

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Source: Rense.com (first published October 29, 2003)

Video: Pregnant Kate Middleton 'doesn't want special treatment' just because she's royal

Royal blind item? "Which famous man is psychologically dependent on another?"

Source: Gawker.com

This is a very famous man, known all over the world. Very rich. Very spoilt. Very privileged. He’s married, happily, according to some. But there is a man in his life that he cannot let go. They are not lovers, although rumours have linked them together. It’s not even a bromance, yet our man has become psychologically dependent on his man. As someone who has professionally observed the relationship tells me, "Dependency is like love — a very powerful emotion. Love can be blind and extreme dependency can too. He sees what he wants to see. The other man can be Superman in his eyes.”

Source: The Morton Report

My best guess
Prince Charles and former valet Michael Fawcett

Princess Diana: The musical - "There was a time"

Princess Diana: I'm so miserable now (Spitting Image videoclip)

"Spitting Image" was "a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996" (source: Wikipedia). Nobody was off limits, including the Royal Family. Below is a 1992-93 clip in which Princess Diana bemoans her miserable life with Charles:

To put this clip in context, Andrew Morton's explosive biography of the princess had been published earlier that summer, which extensively cataloged her despair over her loveless marriage. In addition, the so-called "Squidgy tapes" had been leaked, in which Diana discussed her miserable Christmas with the royals.

 And yes, that is Jimmy Saville introducing Diana.