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Entry: Diana Deserves Better Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/diana_deserves_better#4147 Post contents: One final remark - you fail to understand the purpose of a memorial service. Of course, the debacle was to make it public, and for HRH Prince Charles to yield to Ms. Monkton, Richard Kay, and their ilk, and probably his mother, and to abandon his wife to further time on the cross! As Steven Glover writes today in, of all places, the Daily Mail, Camilla should have gone. You are concerned about adultery now, are you, with all your past "essays" declaiming your alleged prowess, and your long suffering wife? Or has it all been in your imagination? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=478652&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=244 How depressing the tenth anniversary of Diana's death is becoming. I know it is not supposed to be a celebration, but surely we should hope that something positive and forwardlooking might have come out of the occasion. As it is, the dead Princess remains as divisive as ever. We do not seem to have moved on at all. For one thing, those who say that the Duchess of Cornwall should not have gone to the service tomorrow - and are therefore delighted that she has been forced to pull out - are fighting yesterday's battles. Why shouldn't she be there? Are divisions and differences to persist in death as they did in life? At most memorial services, there are a number of people present who in life were at odds in some measure with the person who died. They come in a spirit of reconciliation, even recompense. The things that set them apart in life are put on one side in death. So it should have been with Camilla and Diana. No one pretends that Camilla Parker Bowles, as she was, actively promoted Diana's marriage to Prince Charles. On the other hand, there are lots of reasons for supposing that it would have fallen apart for reasons other than their adultery. Sent at: 2008 08 29