Letters

Timothy James Foxworth
Palm Desert, California

Thanks to Barry Graham for his column about Princess Diana. I was beginning to think every journalist in the USA had lost perspective on the death of the Princess of Wales. I am glad to see one person with a word processor thinks the hoopla is misdirected.

Mike McKinley
Phoenix

I agree with Barry Graham. Too much fuss is being made over Diana. I know lots of people more saintly, including around 16 animal-rights activists who will be languishing in British prisons for years. I mourn and grieve for them. They never hurt anyone. They just tried to rescue animals from laboratories and things like that. These young people are my heroes. Not the popular, famous, generally idle, animal-exploiting icons. I will always love and appreciate Diana for speaking out against wearing fur and against hunting animals. But she could have done a lot more for animals.

Shaynie Aero
Mesa

Brilliant column. Barry Graham hit the nail right on the head.
His analysis of who Princess Diana really was is not understood outside Great Britain. The British royal family is nothing short of a soap opera, and Diana was the star the audience loved most. She led a fictitious life and was basically a fictitious person.

He is absolutely correct that Diana knew exactly how to handle the press.
The hype being created over the paparazzi causing the accident is a lame attempt to find someone to blame for a very silly and embarrassing way for the famous Princess Diana to die. Even more pathetic are the unconvincing attempts of the queen and her entourage to show grief. Diana was a thorn in the side to her. What the queen may have failed to realize, though, is that Diana actually made the royal family look good. Because she was so incredibly normal alongside the hopelessly dysfunctional Windsor family, ordinary people could relate to her. With Diana gone, the royals are heading for the pits, and, this time, they may never emerge.

Paul Grill
Cave Creek

Well done, Barry Graham! At last, a voice of common sense during this whole sorry affair. The only thing I could possibly add is the insidious use of the royal family during the Tory era in the UK. Graham will recall the announcement of the royal wedding being withheld to coincide with the worst-ever unemployment figures, the sight of Prince Andrew leaving for active service during the Falklands conflict . . . I could go on at length, but Graham has made his point with eloquence. Suffice to say I would consider it an honor to buy this man a drink.

Cheers!
Eddie Connelly
via Internet