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Tribute to the People’s Princess

by Kazi Alauddin Ahmed
****Never before in the annals of history such a massive, heart-rending mourning spectacle was seen, nor shall it ever be in future. Thus the entire world population elected Diana as the 'Princess of the People', thought ***
PRINCESS Diana has achieved more In her premature death than in her life. When alive she was briefly a member of British monarchy — surnamed the Princess of Wales, not by her own parentage but by virtue of being the wife of Prince Charles. It was an Irony of fate that she could not live long enough in the royal hierarchy and was insidiously compelled to have her marriage broken. Here, ostensibly, the malevolent faithlessness made the inevitable inroad Into her otherwise deep longing for a serene, peaceful life conforming to the regal disciplines. Though not to cast aspersion on Prince Charles unilaterally, stories coming out of the Iron curtain' during the last days of their life together as man and wife could have apportioned much of the blame on him. His none too sober relationship with the divorcee Camille Parker waa In itself an outrageous episode that could easily wreck the poor Lady Diana's heart. In her own words we find that despite the ignominious frustration brewing she made desperate bids to untangle Charles from the Parker cob-webs but failed
Concurrently, she was conscious that she too waa not completely immune from similar weaknesses born of her vivacious age notwithstanding the legitimacy or desirability of such stances when she was already married. The initial distant tremour soon rocked her sweet home, her dream, her hopes and aspirations. She was tom asunder.
But Princess Diana collected herself sooner than was expected, to forbear with the shock. She was already a mother of two children Prince William. 15. and Prince Harry. 13, with whom she wanted to live for the rest of her life. But there too the laws of the land, vis-a-vis. the rigmarole of monarchical regulations stood In the way. She nad to eventually accept a sort of divided guardianship on rigid time frame. Naturally, her lime was in itself an onerous burden on her; she had to look for distractions that would help her disengage herself from the world of mental agonies dished out to her in consequence of her broken marriage.
Both instinctively and emotionally Diana was disposed to serve the suffering humanity. So. soon she was seen associating herself with at least a hundred charities across the world till her death. It demanded frequent public appearance In slums. In homes of the destitutes. In children's orphanages and In many other dwellings of the deprived, poor, have-nots. In the course, she was seen hugging black undraped children or those in their swaddled clothes with profound motherly care. She waged a literal crusade against the dangers of land mines planted by feuding people In different parts of the world who reckoned for a huge toll of human life. This took her to the war-ravaged Bosnia-Herzegovina tn recent months to show her personal concern to the innocent people there whose family members were the casualties.
In her fund-raising pro-Kammes for poverty ailevia->n. for health and nutrition for the poor children round the
globe, for rehabilitating HYV patients, for creatihg' extended facilities for treatment of those suffering from deadly diseases like cancer. Princess Diana was fast turning herself out as a veritable dobe-trotter. But. wherever she moved, be it in Africa. Asia. United States she was chased by an over-enthusiastic group of roving photoJournalists. Unfortunately, their interest veered more around her private moments than her public activities for providing succour to the poor. It was almost a perpetual pestering that affected her private life malevolently. The British tabloids in particular were all out to capitalize on the events preceding her divorce. A vicious gamble was also evidenced to scandalize her post-divorce
his stallion tugged chariot. as it were, through the blue heaveri, the orchards strewn with flowers. passing by tumultuous streams and flanked by myriads of chirping birds. Indeed, it would be an unending spring.
In recent times her hectic activities on the social front could have served a twin purpose — one to fulfil her express commitment to the society, to the deprived children nay. to the suffering humanity, and the other to embalm her bleeding heart and to forget the pangs of life. After all she too was a human being with flesh and blood. She had the right to live in her own way and obviously, the choice was hers alone. Her affair with the Egyptian Dody Al-Fayed, if it was at all an affair, was absolutely personal and
rendezvous with friends, which could be treated with compas slon in consideration of the devastating episode that consumed her being at the time But still, she was constantly shad owed by the hawks' to mint money trading with her miseries.
In fact. Diana s predicament had started right from the day she was married to Prince Charles. A young blonde, barely 16, would not be expected to foresee the Intricacies of a fam ily life. She would only learn by rotes. Till then. It would be most natural that she would see everything around her so beautiful and blossoming. She would nurse no suspicion about her partner in life whom she would envision as a vibrant, di vinely radiant Prince driving
private Naturally it would not brook any Intrusion since she was free to plan living with him as man and wife. There couldn't be anything wrong in it. Her worst disadvantage was that she belonged to the Royal family being Prince Charles's ex-wife And her overwhelming popularity was in Itself a curse on her
Her tragic death in Paris with her companion on board the same car has been condemned all over the world for its being a veritable murder ’ The virtual killers had been the so called paparatse' chasing her car and compelling it to race up in uncontrollable speed. This was induced.
At home, in England the news of her death gave a big Jolt to Buckingham Palace.
Initially the Queen was cold and indifferent to such a grim tragedy. Surprisingly, however. Prince Charles rose to the occasion. He flew to Paris and came back with the cortege of Diana — the dead mother of two chil-’ dren'Priiice William and Prince Harry. It was a unique humane ""’gesture Utat nothing
press. But it was abruptly Mter-i vened by the escape of the Royal entourage to Balmoral Castle in Scotland when the entire Britain was plunged into a sea of grief and the people round the globe were in tears. Rightly, vox populi in spate and consternation. The British monarch — Queen Elizabeth could not sustain for long the scathing remarks in the electronic media and the press about her cold, unmoved attitude. However, she commanded her wisdom before It was too late and bowed down majestically to public sentiments. As a result, the whole world saw her making live statement on British Television, eulogizing her former daughter-in-law's qualities of head and heart and prayed for the salvation of her soul.
_ Evidently, she was swept ,by 2 emotion, may be partly irr-o duced. and surprised the British o people and other thronging i2 along the gates and walls of o Buckingham Palace by her p physical presence at the gate and receiving herself bouquet and flowers from mourners who gathered there in tens of thousands. And it was for the first time in the history of British monarchy that the Union Jack flew at half-mast on Buckingham Palace and all other public installations for one who wasn't in the bondage of royalty. An estimated six million people turned up in the streets of London, around Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace — Diana’s post-marriage home —. St. James Palace where her dead body was kept before burial, and around the historic Westminster Abbey. All converged there for 3-5 days with flowers and tears to show their last respect to the person they loved so dearly. Never before in the annals of history such a massive, heart-rending mourning spectacle was seen, nor shall it ever be in future. Thus the entire world population elected Diana as the Princess of the People', though posthumously.
At the Westminster Abbey ceremonial last rites, her brother Earl Spencer echoed in splendid terms the wounded feelings of the people of the world. His brief but thoughtprovoking speech eloquently testified the great love and affection his family had for Diana and an oblique detestation of the terrible mental agonies she suffered at the hands of her royal in laws He promised her dead sister that he would do all he could to keep her two sons William and Harry away from the stigmas of regal life and splendour.
Diana s last words were: "leave me alone, leave me alone." Yes. she was at last left alone in the lush green ancestral home at Althrop. Northamptonshire in eternal peace. None would bother her again, nor would the paparatse’ ever chase her. She has gone beyond everyone's reach unto her Divine custodian for good. God bless her. Amen.