Princess Diana The Royal Visionary
PRINCESS DIANA – THE ROYAL VISIONARY
Dangerous Ambitions or Incurable Romanticism
I asked her what was going on and she answered, with that curious, secretive turn at the outer edges of her eyes. “Oh it’s a press day for the children “It was almost whimsical and she breathed the words out as if she had been answering the telephone when she was about to take a nap. The words were to remain rolling around in my mind for years to come.
I noticed she had a rather slinky, flimsy long dress through which I could see a shadowy pair of the sort of legs that I looked for in my choice of partner. She was not what I would have thought of as any man´s idea of a sex symbol and a bit lanky for me but there was something in that look that made me feel that she was teasing me gently. The word that came to mind in future years when I thought about her, was demure, whatever that meant. At the time though I was unaware of what was going on… Well, not quite, because her recent change of behavior had alerted the Dolphin Square tenants, who knew something about her not being the ordinary young girl we all thought she was. She had started to ask the arcade grocer, wide eyed and with a bit of a nervous twitch, for proper written receipts for the odd piece of fruit she bought regularly from them. Who on earth however, would, have imagined even in those early days that this singularly shy girl had been chosen to be the next Queen of England or mother of the Crown heir at least
I forget at this moment of time, the name of the kindergarten or where it was, except that it was round the corner and I passed it when I walked to the Pimlico Tandoori restaurant where Diana often went for a curry. It