Author: Eton-educated journalist Charles Spencer, a k a 9th Earl Spencer, whom I know and who lost his adored sister Princess Diana in August 1997.
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who → educate → August
A copy was delivered to me before he crossed the ocean to meet every US reporter this side of Guam.
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he → deliver → Guam
It explains her future king husband hissed, and here’s his Page 121 quote, “We’ll forget her soon enough.”
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We → explain → her
Page 128: “Diana was made to feel as if she was stupid.”
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she → make → ?
Chapter 22’s “A Permanent Quest to Bring Her Down” states, “I used to fear that a terrible accident could take place.”
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accident → bring → place
Spencer’s quote: “I always believed she’d be killed in the end.
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she → believe → end
Buckingham Palace did not favor her.
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Palace → favor → her
And her husband was “extremely jealous of Diana’s star power,” Spencer writes.
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Spencer → write → power
As for the night it happened, its how/what/why/who is never reported on.
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who → happen → night
Only how “the Queen looked smart and composed in a black dress for the funeral.”
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Queen → look → funeral
Only how “the Queen was seen in the streets outside the royal palaces thanking people for their kind condolences.”
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Queen → see → condolences
A wacko zaps a homeless person in a subway?
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wacko → zap → subway
Chat shows nobody’s heard of discussing the story.
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nobody → show → story
Princess Di gone?
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Di → go → ?
Social media and AI will tell every detail.
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media → tell → detail
And nobody knows nothing?
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nobody → know → nothing
Would seem somebody knows something.
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somebody → seem → something
But nobody says anything.
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nobody → say → anything
We have podcasts, radio, newspapers, marchers schlepping placards, airplane skywriters, supermarket ads, devotees, chewing gum wrappers, T-shirts — and not one single body reporting what might appear to have happened?
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what → have → placards
His Majesty the King — with infirmities and how the book treats him, and how the world views the rest of his family — is not sending copies of this for the holidays.
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world → treat → holidays
Still, a lifetime later, nobody dares suggest knowing anything about that August night.
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nobody → suggest → night
Maybe someday somebody will know and somebody will tell.
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somebody → know → ?
I have stuff to tell you: 1918 in Biarritz, France.
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I → have → Biarritz
It’s where he painted “Woman in an Armchair.”
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he → ’ → Armchair
Understand, we are not talking cockamamie Crayolas here.
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we → understand → Crayolas
Solomon Guggenheim acquired the canvas for his foundation.
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Guggenheim → acquire → foundation
In 1960 it was lent to the University of Pittsburgh.
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it → lend → Pittsburgh
Suddenly this masterpiece disappeared — stolen from the student union.
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masterpiece → disappear → union
Chubb Insurance paid $7,000 for the loss.
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Insurance → pay → loss
The plot thickens.
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plot → thicken → ?
This painting recently popped up at Christie’s.
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painting → pop → Christie
How, I don’t know.
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I → know → ?
But now a crate of Guggenheim lawyers is suing Lawrence Jay and Wendy Cohen Handler, who claim they bought the stolen Picasso in ’99 from Fifth Avenue’s Beadleston Gallery.
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they → sue → Gallery
They want it back.
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They → want → it
Split the baby in a Solomonic solution: Guggenheim takes the woman, the Handlers get the armchair, I get a grainy photo on my crappy phone and Donald sells the specs to Iran.
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Donald → split → Iran
The thing could end up as a Crayola on 14th Street.
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thing → end → Street
The Aporia
