Recklessness, Ignorance and Stupidity Caused Diana's Death

The Inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales has at last received an admission from Mr Al Fayed's barrister that there was never any evidence that there had been a conspiracy emanating from the Duke of Edinburgh and spreading downwards through British society to murder Princess Diana in 1997.
Down on our little allotment, Nosher and I received this news with stoical indifference. It was a nice enough day - warm for the time of year but a little cloudy - and we had a lot to do in order to get our planting up to date (in England gardening always seems to be behind schedule, if there is a schedule at all, that is).
Nonetheless, we found time to spend a few moments excavating our indifference to see if any more substantial opinions lay underneath.
'It was always going to end in a verdict of accidental death anyway' opined Nosher.
'Even that seems too bland a verdict for the death of a princess' I said 'and would conceal the fact that the British taxpayer has had to foot an extraordinary bill for an Inquest of several millions of pounds simply to pander to the conspiracy mania of a grieving father who just happens to be extremely rich and evidently has no one around him willing to tell him he's made a fool of himself.'
We stood for a while surveying our little plots, now beginning to reveal the results of hours of labour planting and toiling in circumstances that are to us far more congenial than any life of wealth and privilege.
'The irony' said Nosher after a few moments 'is that the greatest financial burden of paying for this inquest will inevitably be imposed on marginal taxpayers on low incomes who just fall within the tax system, who will end up paying extra tax on incomes that are already very low.'
'Whereas Al Fayed will shrug off the millions he's paying his legal team as if it were small change' I added. 'All in order to embarrass the British Royal family because they did not give him what he wanted years ago.'
We turned back to our planting, and I continued to ponder the reality behind the headlines and sentimental fawning always exhibited by the mass media the instant anyone mentions the name 'Diana'.
The truth is that reckless, ignorance and stupidity killed Diana, although I doubt whether that will be the verdict of the Inquest. The recklessness of the driver at propelling a heavy vehicle at dangerously high speeds in a concrete tunnel, the ignorance of Diana in not wearing a seatbelt (which would almost certainly have saved her life) and the stupidity of her consort in allowing both circumstances to proceed without wisely intervening to reduce the risk and the consequences of the already foreseeable disaster, given all the the factors in play at the time.
The official verdict will almost certainly be accidental death - but the tragic demise of a woman loved by millions for her gauche sentimentality and ceaseless adoption of charitable causes cannot conceal the uncomfortable facts. Diana grew up in the midst of great wealth and privilege, was subject to an arranged marriage which came complete with the 'other woman', and then used what little intelligence she possessed in an attempt to manipulate the media and gain popular support amongst the credulous and over-sentimental masses. In the latter she succeeded, in the former only partly so, because she then became a victim of the myth she had so assiduously created, and the mass-media became the bane of her life and in no small say contributed to the circumstances of her death.
Such are the wages of recklessness, ignorance, and stupidity.
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