yes it was on the front page of the Express all the time, back when Al Fayed still had a reputation

I remember going to the local newsagents that Sunday morning. I've never bought another newspaper. It was a liberating move on my behalf. I started to question everything.

Likely because the media were culpable (via paparazzi hounding) and we're desperate to deflect.

It's a shame the Express didn't promote the lesson learned: wear a seat belt if you're in a speeding car.

Especially with a drunk at the wheel which both of them knew and the bodyguard. They are ALL toxic and although no one deserves to die early we now need to rid ourselves of these nobodies. The royals and nobility bye 👋 👋.

Ahh the Monday morning Daily Express front page...

The Express alternated between Diana and "maddie" headlines for a time.

I may be mis-remembering. As I recall it, she wasn't universally adored (far from it by the red tops, in fact) before she died. But immediately after the crash, The Mail - in particular - basically became MournHub, turned Di into a martyr, and whipped half the nation into a state of total hysteria.

Not misremembering, that’s pretty much it, but it was the Express more than the Mail (not that that publication wasn’t guilty of intense hysteria - shock horror!) - I used to refer to the Express as ‘The Daily Diana’

The one person wearing their seat belt survived the high speed crash. This seems to have been airbrushed out of history.

Lives could genuinely have been saved if the real lesson of the incident had been hammered home instead of the conspiracy grift. Don't drink and drive!

... and wear a seatbelt!!!

So it seems that the Express was always pushing crackpot rubbish. It's just that now other papers have graduated to this stage of BIG CONSPIRACY THEORY. The Princess Diana stuff was never based on real evidence, but they just kept pushing it. That Iron Man stuff was probably more useful!

Well, the Express had a very credible source in Mohamed Al-Fayed, a man of unblemished reputation.

Christopher Hitchens's 'Diana: The Mourning After' is an entertaining watch that sums up how a lot of people felt. On both sides. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yUYk...

Oh why did the wrong Hitchens brother have to die early...

In quotes to avoid getting sued

Wasn't a lot of it driven by Mohammed el-Fayed? He seemed convinced the establishment had murdered his son and Di.

Yes. He kept "remembering" things which weirdly he had neglected to mention at the time

There are reasons people are drawn to conspiracy theories. They make some feel like they are privy to secret knowledge. They make others feel that someone is in control in a chaotic world and they make people feel like intellectuals without the effort needed to become one for real.

And now we have this

Oh ferfooksake… 🤦🏻‍♂️ If anything I know about the woman, she’d’ve hated this

I forgot the “…is true…”🙄

Noooooooo.........

We just need one of her crocheting a poppy themed hat for a postbox

Where... where is it from?

Ask @twlldun.bsky.social, they brought it here. I don't think they made it though. Probably Facebook bsky.app/profile/twll...

Oh. Dear. God.

Jings crivens!