From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Violent Di Batters Charles
Keywords: Poor Little Princess!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:49:30 GMT

From the National Enquirer, Sept. 26 (approx), 1992:

"VIOLENT DI  BATTERS CHARLES"

        Di and Charles' divorce has turned shockingly violent - she's
    flying into rages during which she punches and kicks the Prince,
    leaving him bruised and battered.
        Desperate to escape the beatings, hurt and humiliated Charles 
    secretly ran off to France in mid-September with a sexy physical
    therapist - who recommends sex as a cure for bad backs! .....
        Di stayed home in London. And Charles will be spending even
    more time away from his wife because her assaults have left him
    terrified, say insiders.
        During one recent slugfest Di gave her hubby such a pounding
    that he phoned his former girlfriend, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and
    said that he's at the end of his rope, according to a royal insider.
        "He whined to Camilla: 'Di has beaten me up! She is a mad thing
    and I just can't cope anymore'
        "Di's crazed attacks have become so vicious that recently
    CHarles has needed makeup to disguise the bruises on his face...
        Author Nicholas Davies - whose recent blockbuster, "Diana: A
    Princess and her Troubled Marriage," was serialized in THE
    ENQUIRER - disclosed in an exclusive interview:
        "Di has struck Charles several times during violent arguments.
        "Sometimes she worked herself up into such a fury that she'd
    batter away at him, striking his chest with her fists....
        Lady Colin Campbell, author of the blockbuster book "Diana in
    Private," recently revealed that Di even tried to kill Charles by
    pushing him down a flight of stairs.
        Di, 31, confessed she's under such stress she can't control
    her temper anymore - and that she's lost all respect for her
    "weakling" husband, according to the royal insider.
        "She told me recently that she punches, scratches, and kicks
    Charles and grabs anything handy to hit him with.
        "Di has thrown crockery and cutlery at him - and she told me
    she once hit him with a silver-framed photograph of the Queen!
        "She said, 'He's a sniveling wimp. He just skulks away.
    Sometimes he even cries.'"
        During one argument, Di swung a fist at Charles' head, his
    pal disclosed.
        "He walked away and she screamed after him: 'You bloody
    royal wimp! Why don't you stay and fight! You don't have the guts!
    Running away to your mommy, are you?'"
        But in Di's defense, pals point out that she isn't solely to
    blame for the couple's problems. Charles' long emotional neglect
    has left her an emotional wreck - and stress has taken a physical
    toll....

Of course Di should batter her husband - her *needs* weren't being *met*!  :)

Poor Prince Charles (indeed, poor Royal Family); yet another casualty of
the contemporary headlong rage for gender-bending.

Some questions for the Net:

  A) Should Charles fight back?

  B) Why isn't Di just *delighted* with Charles? He's the very model of
     a soft, sensitive, non-exploitationist husband, a dependable
     provider and loving father, exactly what feminists SAY they want.

  C) Might his marriage now be in far better shape if he had stood up
     to her abuse from the beginning?

  
-- 
  
        Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
  
 Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!

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        broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
        where it will end."
                               - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
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