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right okay, but to be fair i didn't see what she was pointing at right away, and i thought she was talking about all the crummy-looking scaffolding that is currently exo-skeletoning westminster abbey (princess di is buried there, i think, and also you can get in free if you pretend to pray -- or really pray, i guess-- but we weren't about to risk a smiting thunderbolt to fake it). i took a real baller photo of big ben, too, but it didn't save or something, so instead i'll leave you with these iconic renderings:
marion's and my associations with big ole ben were, respectively, basil the GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE and PETER PAN.
oh oh oh, and by the way, westminster abbey is uber impressive, too, (built circa 1050).
Dear Hallie:
ReplyDeletePrincess Diana is buried in Althorp Park (the Spencer family home), which is in Northamptonshire. The original plan was for her to be buried in the family vault at the local church in nearby Great Brington, but this was changed by her brother, Earl Spencer because it was thought somewhere private would be better so that her sons could visit her grave in peace.
Within Althorp Park, she is buried on a small Island in the middle of a lake called the Oval Lake. She does not have an actual grave marker (all that stands on the island is an urn on a pedestal) but I don't think her actual body is buried beneath the urn because I've heard that the family was paranoid psychos would try and dig her up so bits of metal were scattered around the island so that they would confuse anyone with any kind of ground detectors trying to find the actual location of her coffin. She definitely wasn't cremated because her pallbearers have spoken about what it was like when they lowered her coffin in the ground and they were regular people in the armed forces so I don't see why they'd lie.
Four black swans swim in the lake symbolically guarding her grave, there are water lilies in the lake (one of her fave flowers) and there are 36 oak trees (one for every year of her life) bordering the path down to the lake. You can not actually get on the island (just look at it across the water) however there is a memorial near the lake that you can go into and you can visit the arboretum with many tress planted in honour of her, some were planted by her sons.
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