AN ATTEMPT TO FORGET PRINCESS DIANA - Update 21 August, 2015

KENSINGTON PALACE

UPDATED;  21 August, 2015 --

The latest report stated that most of the memorials in honour of Princess Diana are not upkept and in a very sorry state.

However, her two sons are keeping all the charities Princess Diana started.  Prince Harry is building living and hospital quarters in Lesoto for children with aids or orphaned by it. Again a charity his mother started. Lesoto is the poorest country in Africa

UPDATE 27 October 2012 – Although the Royals did go an ahead and turned Princess Diana’s Apartment into an office but Prince William and his wife decided to move into another section of the Kensington Palace and had it decorated. It proves that Prince William is totally devoted to keep his mother’s memories alive even so he couldn’t prevent the change of his mother’s apartment to be turned into an office.

Another attempt is being made to forget Princess Diana. Why?

The Kensington Palace where Princess Diana was living with other Royalties such as Princess Margaret and the Duke and Duchess of Kent.  Princess Diana had an apartment there after she divorced Prince Charles.

It was decided that a 12 million overhaul of the Kensington Palace was necessary. It will be completed before the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

Princess Diana's apartment will be used as an office and therefore a great disappointment for her fans when they are going there to lay flowers at the gate of the 17th century palace, on her anniversary of her death. Over the past years, her apartment was used for exhibition of her glamorous evening gowns and portraits. Many of the portraits were made by her favourite photographer Mario Testino.

Princess Margaret's apartment will be opened to the public in a month or two which is another insult to Princess Diana's memories. Especially Princess Margaret who was known for her great reputation which was more than disgraceful being the Queen's sister. To open her apartment to the public does not show the Royal as having great principles.

When it re-opens Queen Victoria's and Princess Margaret's apartment will be the main attraction. Queen Victoria was living there at the time she was told of her ascension to the throne. Princess Margaret's apartment will be restored to its former glory for the first time since her death in 2002. Princess Margaret called it her 18 feet of Mystique. Isn't it marvellous? 

The chief curator, Dr Lucy Worsley, responsible for the Historical Royal Palaces which also includes Kensington Palaces stated that Diana is yesterday's woman. They don't think that she is of such a great interest to the people that it would be worth while to have her own exhibition space. How can they say that when people still cherish her memories and lay flowers on her anniversary of her death? They don't for Princess Margaret and not even at her funeral.

She thinks that Diana will remain a very important part of history of the palace. However, she is no longer part of contemporary culture. It's time for her to take her place in the gallery, alongside all the others. (What about Princess Margaret and Queen Victoria?).

Dr Worsley said further, "In fact, of the 250,000 annual visitors to the palace, almost as many want to see the later 17th century historic state apartments are drawn to the palace because it is Diana's former home." Isn't she contradicting herself by stating above Diana is yesterday's woman?

Diana's dresses are on permanent display. However, nobody seems to know if exhibition space will be given in the redevelopment.

Kensington Palace was built in 1605. William III and his wife, Queen Mary bought it in 1689. George I and Queen Anne held court there; Queen Victoria was born and raised there.

When Princess Diana died in the Paris car crash in 1997 thousand of people went there laying wreaths and flowers at her former home.

The Prince and Princess of Michael of Kent and the Gloucesters are still living there.

In an interview recently, the two princes said that thinking of their mother everyday is helping them a lot

THE AMAZING NUMBERS OF FLOWER LAID AT THE GATE OF KENSINGTON PLACE AT TIME OF HER DEATH

QUEEN VICTORIA BLOOMERS NICKED - TRUE STORY

QUEEN VICTORIA

It is a true story about Queen Victoria got her bloomers nicked

This is such a fascinating and amusing story about the bloomers belonging to Queen Victoria. A teen stalker was nicking the bloomers of the Queen and she was not amused when she found out.

A Cardiff University professor Dr Bondeson heard about this story and pieced it together from newspaper cuttings. He wrote a book about it and it is called Queen Victoria's Stalker which is on sale now.

The story was not very publicized until now because the whole affair was kept secret as much as possible.

Edward Jones was 14 years old and broke several times into Buckingham Palace. He sat on the throne and slept in one of the Royal beds -- no, not with Queen Victoria. He managed to slipped into the young Queen Victoria's apartment. He read her letters, and hit beneath her sofa. She was 19 years old at that time.

Queen Victoria remarked afterwards: "Suppose he had come into the bedroom how frightened I should have been."

The record shows that Jones broke in three times from 1838 to 1841. Every time he was close to the newly crowned Queen but for a few yards but then he was caught. On one occasion he tried to get out of the Queen's dressing room window with a pair of the Queen's bloomers stuffed down his trousers.

At the first time Jones was acquitted in an open court for theft. The following trials were held in secret to avoid publicity and embarrassing the Royal family. Twice he received a sentence of hard labour and in those days it was really hard labour. However, the moment he was freed he went back to the palace. Eventually the government had no alternative but to transport him to Australia. This at last would ensure Jones would be kept away far enough from the Queen and her husband Prince Albert.

This amazing and amusing story of Jones the teenage stalker was known to the police as Boy Jones. It was due to hard work of piecing it together from old newspaper reports by Dr Ian Bondeson that it became widely known. He stated that it was remarkable how close he got to the Queen and the extraordinary lengths it took to get rid of him.

The reason for this point was that they were worried about what Boy Jones might tell people. No one knew what he had seen or heard in the palace.

Dr Bondeson added: “The Boy Jones was the first known celebrity stalker in history. If he shown signs of madness they would have locked him up, but he was fully lucid. He was undesirable so they just stuck him on a ship to Australia and got rid of him."

Due to further research, Dr Bondeson found out that Jones was working as a pie seller in Australia. He died in his 70s on Boxing Day 1893 after falling off a bridge while drunk.

SUMMARY: There is no doubt the story of Queen Victoria's bloomers being nicked is a really amusing story. The author Dr Ian Bondeson must have just as fascinated and therefore done this hard work of research and written the book Queen Victoria's Stalker.

I hope you enjoyed ‘How Queen Victoria’s bloomers were nicked’ as much as I did. Thank you for reading it.Top of Form

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