Film review: The Duchess
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Parallels with the life of Diana, Princess of Wales fail to enliven Keira Knightley's role as a troubled aristocrat, says Sukhdev Sandhu.
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WHERE WAS I?
Small Town Scribbles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks Peter ! Love these things : Where was I when I learnt about: Princess Diana's death - 31st August 1997 In our first little flat, on the phone to my mom. It was really early and I had panicked getting out of bed to answer the phone. Good news can wait, bad news can't. I had thought of my nephew, then of Tony Blair. I was always sure Blair was going to be assasinated because he seemed too good...
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Taking Palin Apart
My Two Cents (Free subscription) | yesterday
The media has been taking Sarah Palin apart all week. Here’s what they’re finding, I think: The iconic appeal of a Princess Diana. No kidding. The jaw of a Rocky Balboa. The real-life feel of your sister or daughter. The conservatism of a Phyllis Schlafly. Well, almost. The “stick-it-when-it-counts” timing of a Mary Lou Retton. The nerve of an assassin, which [...]
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Where Were You? (Non-Mekons Content)
Counago & Spaves (Free subscription) | yesterday
A meme pinched from Norm , too much fun to pass up. Princess Diana's Death—31st August 1997 Bayview Drive, Killiney . Watching TV at about 2 in the morning after a good night of heavy drinking when the news started coming through. Stayed up for an hour or two just to make sure she was dead. Margaret Thatcher's Resignation—22nd November 1990 Walking through Altrincham Town Centre . A billboard outside...
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Bow Down to the Power Pearl
Truemors (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
England gave the US its language, some great music and, grudgingly, our freedom, but often overlooked is the tradition of the “power pearl.” Big or small, roped or choked, both the Queen and Princess Diana were rarely seen without this particular ornamentation. Condoleezza Rice can be seen all over the world delivering various dire warnings [...]
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where was i?
personal political (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
It's a meme:Princess Diana's death - August 31, 1997 Australia is 9-11 hours ahead of Europe so it was Sunday daytime here. We were scheduled to go for lunch at Helen and Gaz's place. We had Foxtel (cable) at the...
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Not about Diana
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Why Keira Knightley won't talk about the late princess
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Where were you?
Flesh is Grass (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Harry’s Place and Norm are asking. I only remember two events. Princess Diana’s death - 31st August 1997 In a boyfriend’s mid-town Memphis apartment, waiting for him to come home from his shift, looking at the Web with the TV on in the next room. It was hot as hell. There was an interruption in the programme with [...]
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Where were you when you heard about...
Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Dave Cole has just tagged me with a meme- and as I think its an ok one- and furthermore I hadn't got any better ideas of anything to write about this evening here goes, The Death of Princess Diana- I was half asleep. To be fair I remember being half asleep and my brother coming into my room and saying Diana's dead and we went down and watched it on TV. I can't remember anything else about it- apart...
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Where Was I when?
Havering On (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Big Rab has tagged me to answer these questions, partly because I'm one of the few people he knows old enough to answer them all! Princess Diana’s death - 31 August 1997 I was living in Arundel in West Sussex at the time. Mrs. H. and I were walking down the high street on our way to take the dogs for a walk along the banks of the River Arun. We bumped into someone we knew who told us. Like everyone...
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Where was I when…?
Freemania (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Peter has tagged me with this one. Princess Diana's death - 31st August 1997 I’d been in my student house that weekend and was due to go home that day. I got up a bit after 9, flicked on the radio en route to the kettle and started making coffee. It took a couple of minutes to realise what had happened, and then I stood in the middle of the sitting room processing it. Then I got on with my breakfast,...
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Demarchelier wants to take on Camilla
The First Post (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Patrick Demarchelier, the photographer responsible for the iconic photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales that appeared in Vogue magazine in the early 1990s, is keen to aim his lens at…
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Where Was You?
No Good Boyo (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
A fruitful meme via Normblog and Harry's Place , asking where we all were as history lifted the duvet and slobbered on our toes: Princess Diana’s death - 31st August 1997 Having a bath in my flat in Tashkent, waiting for the car to take me to the airport for the flight home for my brother's wedding. It was coming up to eight o'clock in the morning, local time. Some royal correspondent was reminiscing...
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Where Were You When
wongaBlog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Paul tagged me in the Where Were You When meme. Princess Diana’s death - 31 August 1997 In bed. My radio alarm clock came on, and I couldn’t work out why Extra AM (now long-defunct, but I can still hear the jingles) was playing endless classical music. And then the hourly news came on. I went to [...]
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The "Where were you when.....?" meme
Paul Linford (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
A week or so ago Bob Piper tagged me with the meme asking what were you doing when Princess Diana died, Thatcher resigned, the planes flew into the twin towers, Lineker scored, and Kennedy was assassinated. Long-standing readers of this blog will know where to find at least three of the answers, but here for the record are my responses, although I'm not going to tag anyone else as this one has been...
