Princess Diana Remembered

Last night as I sat listening to Matt Lauer’s Dateline conversation with Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, I was impressed with their desire to celebrate Diana’s life and energy. They want to focus on what she brought to the world—not on any image that the press has given of her.

I remember the moment I found out…wow, almost tens years ago now…about Diana’s accident and death in August 1997. My own son had only been a few weeks old when Diana died and I recall feeling shock, disbelief, horror, and sadness. It was that sudden, unexpected loss that had ripped at my heart (just like when my sister, Cindy, died eight years earlier) – it didn’t matter that I hadn’t known Diana personally because I had cherished her, as did so many people around the world.

Lauer asked Princes William and Harry if they thought they would ever see a day when they won’t wonder what happened (in the tunnel) the day their mother died. Basically their answer was, “No.” And I understand that. I know I will always wonder, just as I will always wonder what really happened to my sister, Cindy James.

Thankfully the brothers had each other to rely on to deal with Diana’s death. And I understand that too. I know I could never have dealt with Cindy’s tragedy if I hadn’t had my sister, Marlene, beside me.

Thanks, Marlene, for all your support and love!

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
The unsolved mystery of the death of Cindy James

Paris Hilton is related to Cindy’s tragedy, how?

Now I don’t know about the following…seems very confusing to me…

A PI from the east coast of Canada contacted me recently and tried to draw a parallel between my sister, Cindy James, and Paris Hilton, because they both had breast implants and had been terrorized, he said. Life was a nightmare for them, he continued, (and this is where I get lost on the concept) because they had breast implants? Paris will be out of the penitentiary soon to face her terrorist -- one Sean Penn, according to this PI. (And this PI also says Paris had implants only after a terror campaign against her was in full swing.)

Well Cindy never went to jail, but she was harassed (but not because of the breast implants that she had six months before her terror began) by an unknown perpetrator and eventually had her life extinguished after enduring 7 years of hell.

I’m sorry, I just don’t see the connection!

By the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Cindy…

You would have been 63 today!
Sis, I love you and I miss you!

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
The unsolved mystery of the death of Cindy James