Posted by CatherineNY
on 25/9/2009, 4:05:42, in reply to "Re: Giscard d'Estaing's memoir - secret romance with Diana? "
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Well, there was Teddy Forstmann, who was even older than Charles.
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: The timing is completely wrong so cannot
: reflect any real affair between Giscard
: d'Estaing and Diana. He left office a year
: after she married Charles.
: It's just a story he wrote. If the old man
: fantasized about an affair with Diana and
: wrote a book about it, that's just what it
: is a book of an old man's fantasy. At least
: he had the dencency to use fake characters.
: No doubt his publishers very much enjoy this
: speculation about Diana as it will boost the
: sales.
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: There seems to be a bit of a pattern of
: French presidents fantasising about
: prominent British women.I recall the late
: François Mitterand's comments about Margaret
: Thatcher ,"She had the eyes of Caligula
: and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe ".
:
: I think Giscard was a little too old for
: Diana's tastes.Prince Charles seems to have
: been the only older man that she ever had a
: romantic relationship with and after that
: turned sour,she never entertained any
: others.All her subsequent boyfriends were
: men of (more or less) her own age group.
:
: But older men are as entitled to their
: fantasises as anybody else!
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