Our beloved Diana, Princess of Wales would have been 60 years old today.
The world still mourns.
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
Showing posts with label Princess Diana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Princess Diana. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 July 2021
Friday, 13 January 2017
"The Jones Boy"
Dame Edith Evans
Joyce Grenfell
Princess Diana
Rupert Everett
Gary Lineker
Tom Stoppard
Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Janet Baker
Princess Margaret
Photography by Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO, RDI (7th March 1930 – 13th January 2017)
[with Andre Leon Talley]
RIP.
Saturday, 22 October 2016
"Acid Raine" no more
“I don’t care what people say behind my back. What I want is for them to be nice to my face.”
Daughter of the inimitable Barbara Cartland, stepmother to Diana Princess of Wales; from her three marriages, she became first Lady Lewisham and later Countess Dartmouth, then Countess Spencer, and latterly, and briefly, Contesse de Chambrun. The Spencer children resented her arrival intensely and nick-named her "Acid Raine", yet in both her political career and in her social life she was admired for her steely and trustworthy nature. In the end even Diana reconciled with her.
And she had great hair!
RIP Raine, Countess Spencer (born Raine McCorquodale, 9th September 1929 – 21st October 2016)
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Oh, to have been there that night...
Freddie Mercury, Cleo Rocos and Kenny Everett dressed Princess Diana in an army jacket, cap and sunglasses for a night out at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern gay pub in London in the late 1980s.
"When we walked in... we felt she was obviously Princess Diana and would be discovered at any minute. But people just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. But she loved it," said Rocos, who co-starred in Everett's television show.
She said she did not know whether Diana was propositioned in the bar in her guise as a male model, but added: "She did look like a beautiful young man."
The presence of Mercury, Everett and Rocos diverted revellers' attention and Diana was able to order drinks undetected, Rocos recalled.
She made the claim her book The Power of Positive Drinking serialised in the Sunday Times.
Read my previous blog about The Kenny Everett Video Show
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