Thanks Brownie, for the sardonic check. Re heads of Australia, there are a few that I think should be on a platter. But considering your wish list, we may as well go King Edward Maguire or Crown Prince Shanus Warnus (now that he has a head of hair fit for a crown thanks to Advanced Hair Studio) How about Queen Kylie or Princess Nicole. No Idea would lurve that. Please tell me you're not contemplating Prince Phone Rusty Crowe!

Diana... emotional revolutionary. HAHAHHAHAHA

Methinks Diana was

1. chained to the fairytale of the cindarella complex when she married a prince with a long history of womanising, thinking that it would all be peaches and cream, glass slippers and carriages
2. a self pitying fool who had no concept of personal accountability
3. a great media manipulator with her pouting face and puppy dog eyes
4. a fool who played the media that turned around an bit her on her bulemic bum
5. a naval gazing fool who spent her days validating her weak victim mentality
6. immature and self serving twit who couldn't let go of a royal title and priviledge AFTER she divorced the royal family who enabled that title.
7. an ineffectual aristocrat, not quite of the arm chair variety, but more of the podium parading, fashionable charity, picture opportunity, empty nobilitity of raising awarness type.

All in all, she was no Queen of England. The Queen has composure, integrity, humility and above all else exudes STRENGTH of character. She is not a sloppy publicity addicted emotional manipulator.

Poor Diana, married off like a brood mare at 19 to a much older man who never loved her but married her out of duty because she was the only virgin he'd met he could imagine having sex with. No wonder she was emotional and immature, what other chance did she have?
She was just a good looking, rather ordinary young woman who made the most of the awful situation her parents and family (her brother-in-law is one of the top aides in the Palace) cynically pushed her into.
But to return to the Queen (who I agree is admirable) and her ancestor Queen Victoria who she was compared to in this excellent article. Queen Victoria actually had much more in common with Diana. Far from being unemotional, Queen Vic was obsessed with her husband Albert to the extent that, when he died, she plunged herself and the court into ostentatious mourning that did not end until she died, almost 40 years later. Queen Victoria only appears reticent because of the lack of mass media during her reign. Queen Elizabeth actually is reticent, and dignified and, to my mind, sad.

Interesting post Enaj and comparison. Having seen Mrs Brown with the awesome combo of Billy Connolly and Judi Dench, where Queen Vic transferred her love onto Mr Brown as a substitute for her dead hubby, yes, very Diana in its obsessive emotion. The lack of media let her get away with it re the outside world but not the upstairs/downstairs world where gossip really does reign. (let's face it, they're the ones selling the stories these days, otherwise why would you be a nanny to Posh and Beck?) I find the whole family these days, rather sad, Lizzie doesn't score any points with me whether she's eating her dinner out of Tupperware or lavishly living it up a'la dear departed Princess Margaret. At least Madge had some good times to take to her grave.

hey guys,
very interesting reading here. cool opinions.

im from the UK and have specific views of the monarchy and the Queen and Diana, i was just wondering have your views changed after the recent OScar winning film "The Queen" what did you think about diana and the queen? whether the way they were portrayed, (mainly the queen) was exactly the way you imagine them to be in real real life?