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...Fayed's wealth, prestigious holdings and good works, he has never managed to be accepted into British society. He has lived in England for 20 years, and the four children of his second marriage are all British citizens. He was a friend of Diana's father, the late Lord Spencer, and employs her stepmother Raine, Countess de Chambrun, as a director of Harrods International, the store's duty-free arm. Al Fayed sponsors the Royal Windsor Horse Show, at which he shares the Queen's box. Still, the British government has for years denied his requests for citizenship without explanation...
WESTMINSTER: Before the sadness finally flooded his voice, Earl Spencer's tribute to his sister was a requiem of steel. Here was the head of her blood family drawing a line in the dust against those who had wronged her: the press, who "hunted" Diana, and the Royal Family, whose title she did not need. The implication was clear: All that was good about the Princess existed outside Palace walls...
...Diana into "the most hunted person of the modern age." The Earl, who pointedly withdrew the invitations of six British tabloid editors yesterday, wondered aloud why her "good intentions were sneered at by the media." Though in the end, when he came to the "small mercies" of his loss, Spencer dropped his sword ? and simply reminded us of all the humanity that is not apparent on the cover of a newspaper...
...obviously, there are traditionalists that would say ? and I'm one of them ? that you should never applaud in a church. But this was so spontaneous, and so magical, that it was really perfect." The complete text of Earl Spencer's speech...
...scattergun of public outrage was let loose on the paparazzi first. But soon it wheeled on drunk-drivers, the British press and the Al-Fayeds before settling, finally and inexplicably, on the Royal Family ? as if the Queen herself had been at the wheel of that Mercedes. When Earl Spencer stood up at his sister's funeral and fired a volley of veiled threats at her former in-laws, the search for scapegoats was complete. So now the world has turned upside-down, perhaps we ought to listen to China's considered opinion on the whole Diana business: "this...