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Originally posted by @wolfgang59
It would be exceptionally naïve for a woman of the eighties to not know that royals had mistresses. Phillip's indiscretions would be well known and Charles's love of Camilla was also not a secret.

Dianna never had the chance to know Charles and could not have loved him. It
was a sham. Dianna knew it, her family knew it, the aristocracy knew it.

The "love story" was just an invention of the magazines around the world.
I don't necessarily believe that Diana loved Charles either, but that she was in love when they were married. The rest is a tragedy.

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40 years go today
22nd Nov 1977
BA begins a regular London to New York supersonic service. (Concorde)

What happened to supersonic flight?
Did the internet make it redundant?

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Originally posted by @torunn
I don't necessarily believe that Diana loved Charles either, but that she was in love when they were married. The rest is a tragedy.
Diana was a loving mother who sadly died too young. It was so moving to see how well her sons
composed themselves on the day of her funeral. They were only 12 and 15 and had to make that long
silent walk behind her coffin with the eyes of the nation upon them then talk to the people in the crowds.

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1963
John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Torunn

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Originally posted by @drewnogal
Diana was a loving mother who sadly died too young. It was so moving to see how well her sons
composed themselves on the day of her funeral. They were only 12 and 15 and had to make that long
silent walk behind her coffin with the eyes of the nation upon them then talk to the people in the crowds.
It was an unbelievable thing what these two very sad boys managed, so composed as you say, under such extreme circumstances. And now they are fine grown-up men doing good things.

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On this date in 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species,"
explaining his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

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1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) ... 1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas. ..

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100 years ago today
25th November 1917
German forces defeat the Portuguese at Negomano in Africa.

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26 years ago.

Death of Freddie Mercury (well, I think officially Freddie was a few minutes ago, on 24th)

Also 26 years ago, actually on 25th, Kiss drummer Eric Carr sadly died.

I know this, because 26 years ago my eldest son was born on 25th Nov

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Originally posted by @vivify
The word is actually not even pronounced that way. It's pronounced "ur-uh-nuss". That stupid joke shouldn't even exist as a pun.

Audio of how to pronounce Uranus:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/uranus
What are you, the humour police? 😛

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Originally posted by @blood-on-the-tracks
I know this, because 26 years ago my eldest son was born on 25th Nov
How old is he now?

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Almost 51

Very Rusty
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Originally posted by @blood-on-the-tracks
Almost 51
Wow...That makes you....how do I put this...Distinguished?...

1034 Malcolm II, King of Scots (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) (b. 980) dies; Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.

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Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is found guilty of an attempt on President Gerald Ford's life.

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1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.

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