I don’t think anyone could dispute that the death of Princess Diana was a great human tragedy — senseless, brutal, horrific. But just think how much more of a tragedy it would have been, had she been en route to delivering a speech in which she divulged the cure to cancer.
July 30, 1999
Princess Diana
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