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>>>>>>I don't know if you guys watched the funeral day live as we did, but there were the points where even I got a little choked up.
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>>>>>>OTOH I do have serious reservations about her sainthood, to put it delicately.
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>>>>>I felt very uncomfortable with that whole national grief thing. I don't know anyone who felt that way. Most people I know felt like me that it was sad for the family but thats all. I felt the media presentation was a complete distortion. Even my parents (right wing tories) felt that way.
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>>>>There was more to it than that. Do you think all the people who bought flowers and took them down to Buckingham Palace were acting out of some sense of duty? One of the main points of "The Queen" IMO was that she was loved in a way the royal family was not.
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>>>I could see some people felt that way but the media played it up to a ridiculous degree. It was a salutary reminder that somtimes the news as reported in the media can be basically b____cks and that the media can whip up a storm over anything they choose. I know many people and I don't know one who reacted the way the media portrayed the whole nation as reacting.
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>>Yeah, our next-door neighbour was out with a circular saw cutting up counters for their new kitchen all through the processions and stuff. "And now as Diana's Corte ..." - BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! lol
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>HAd to be careful though. I had a friend who was talking to someone who said "Isn't it sad about Diana". They where about to go off on the "its all out proportion, sad but who cares" line when the other person ws revealed to be a cousin.

Presumably a cousin of Diana's and not your friend's!?