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Ode to a real princess

Dear Editor:

Diana’s youth and rebel-
lious eyes led her to perceive
truths distasteful to many who
shared her elevated station in
life.

They were truths thar
escape most of us toiling in
the vineyards of life but forced
themselves upon Diana in a
way that compelled her to
stip away ignorant and smug
hypocrisy which is blinding
both the ruled and the rulers.

Diana was a natural expres-
sion of life mired in fossilized
Precepts and conventions
toxic and snultifying in the
extreme. Her valiant struggle
to demystify and rid her life of

Royal rot

Dear Editor:

een with the unremit,
ting royal goings-on Noe:
Wrght still oihes to remain
a sincere monarchist When
you consider family’s
283 years of documented
bad mannered history, one
might ask Mr. Wright, why?
However, if he is thinkin:
only of the institution itself,
well just maybe the institu-
tion itself could be worth-
while. But the rest, all of the
Hanoverian-Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha-Windsors, should be
gone, without the mx-free
billions, and not given a sec-
ond thought.
Denis Mason

the banal subterfuge and false
role model matrimony she
was yoked to both redeems
and cleanses her and those of
us who felt spiritual kin to her.

Toward this aim= s
focused on her children
whom she fought desperately
to enlighten as she had been
and was still just becoming.

A breath of fresh air blow-
ing away dusty catacombs
within a hoary dying monar-
chy? Yes, that and much more
many of us dimly felt as her
life story was thrust beture us
day after day.

Not just glamor but a
spark was before us courtesy
of those who recorded virtual-

ly her every breath.

She was a natural, an
example of life’s force
atempting to be true to itself
while tossed about on a sea of
trouble and confusion.

Nobility was her birthright
and nobility of the finer truer

y re and unrecon-
structed individuals sponta-
neously respond to the sud-
den loss of such a developing
spirit.

Clearly even death's sting
can have a ringing and strong
counterpoint in our favor.

T. Greenbank
North Vancouver

tab readers’ hands

Dear Editor:

In response to Noel
Wright’s | comments on
Princess Diana. No editor or
publisher is going to stop
signing million-dollar
cheques for paparazzi pic-
tures as long as people keep
buying this kind of disgust-
ing sensationalism.

Has society become so
numb to. suffering and
tragedy that we rush to buy
a magazine filled with an
invasive depiction of a
human being’s misery? Kind
of reminds you of photogra-
phers racing to capture on
film “a dying Princess

trapped in her car.”

To everybody who has
ever bought a trash maga-
zine (National Enquirer,
Vancouver Sun, et al) you
contributed to the death of
Diana.

As for myself, who
already tries to keep this
media garbage out of my
life, 1 will not continue to
support stores and other
businesses who sell these
magazines for profit. People
need to take a good look at
the blood on their own
hands. It starts with you!
Leah F. Darling
North Vancouver

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