Sunday 16 July 2017

Acteon


Diana 
The Latin designation, popular in Europe since the Renaissance, for the goddess of the hunt, in Greek Artemis, who by this time had only allegorical or symbolic meaning. Statues of Diana with the crescent-MOON in her hair, bow and ARROWS in her hand, accompanied by hunting DOGS, adorned especially the gardens of the baroque period.

On occasion, the legendary scene is represented in which ACTEON, having observed the chaste Diana bathing, is transformed into a stag (see DEER) and torn apart by his own hunting dogs. 



Saturday 15 July 2017

Accession : Scapegoat


Parker Bowles to escape prosecution over car crash

Camilla Parker Bowles will not be prosecuted over a car crash in a country lane while driving to the Prince of Wales's Highgrove Estate, it was announced yesterday.

The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that there is insufficient evidence to bring charges over the head-on accident involving Mrs Parker Bowles, 50, and Carolyn Melville-Smith, 53, last month. Neither woman was seriously hurt in the collision between Norton and Easton Grey, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

Ms Melville-Smith, of Easton Grey, whose Volvo estate car turned on its side in the accident, leaving her trapped by her skirt, which was caught in the car door, claimed Mrs Parker Bowles "appeared like a missile" at the wheel of a Ford Mondeo before the impact.

Mrs Parker Bowles left the scene of the accident to use her mobile telephone to call the ambulance service and police from a nearby hill. She then called the Prince, who was expecting her for dinner at nearby Highgrove House, his Gloucestershire home.

He sent his own police bodyguard, to the scene with two of his valets and two other members of staff. Mrs Parker Bowles told the police she had not remained at the scene of the accident or exchanged details with the other driver, as required by law, because she was concerned about the security risk.

Ms Melville-Smith, an interior designer, of Easton Grey, said yesterday: "I don't want Camilla to be prosecuted because it won't get me anywhere. So long as I am not left out of pocket I am happy to let the matter rest. At the moment we are sorting it all out through our insurance companies but if I don't get full compensation I think I will write to Camilla. It would be really bitchy if I did pursue it because Camilla has a hard enough time anyway and she would only get more bad press."

The decision not to bring charges was partly due to Ms Melville-Smith's refusal to make an official complaint. However, even she had complained, it is understood that there was still insufficient evidence to bring charges. A police spokesman said: "There were no independent witnesses to this accident and the evidence available at the scene, such as skid marks and other marks, when taken in isolation, was not sufficient to justify or support a prosecution."

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 Prince Charles' flame Camilla Parker Bowles, blamed by Princess Diana for the failure of her marriage, was slightly injured in a car accident near the prince's home in southwest England.

News reports said Parker Bowles, 49, suffered a head injury and a sprained wrist when her car hit another head on.

Police said the collision happened Wednesday night as Parker Bowles was driving between two villages close to the prince's Highgrove estate at Tetbury. She was alone.

Although dazed, she managed to call the police post at Charles' estate on her mobile phone.

The other driver, a woman, was treated in a hospital for chest injuries, then discharged.

News reports said after giving a statement to police, Parker Bowles was taken to the prince's estate. She returned to her nearby home Thursday morning.



I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me & encourage me to keep strong & hold my head high — this particular phase in my life is the most dangerous — my husband is planning "an accident" in my car. brake failure & serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy. 

Camilla is nothing but a decoy, so we are all being used by the man in every sense of the word.

I have been battered, bruised and abused mentally by a system for 15 years now, but I feel no resentment, I carry no hatred. 


I am weary of the battles, but I will never surrender. 

I am strong inside and maybe that is a problem for my enemies. 

Thank you Charles, for putting me through such hell and for giving me the opportunity to learn from the cruel things you have done to me. I have gone forward fast and have cried more than anyone will ever know. The anguish nearly killed me, but my inner strength has never let me down, and my guides have taken such good care of me up there. Aren't I fortunate to have had their wings to protect me.

Accession : Princess Diana - The Witnesses in the Tunnel









An in-depth look at the final photographs taken of Diana, Princess of Wales, on the night she and Dodi al Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris, by the photographers who were arrested that night and witnessed the tragic event. Documentary from 2007.

Accession : The Last 100 Days of Diana


"She did actually go round to his flat - his dirty flat to do his ironing for him.

She didn't do her own ironing - but she did Hasnat's ironing..!"

- Paul Burrell

Accession : A Female Deer

doe or hind 
A female DEER, stands in many myths for the female animal in general, which can have a demonic character, despite what we see as the gentleness of the doe. 

The second of the Labors of Hercules was to capture the Hind of Ceryneia. 




The chariot of Artemis (in Latin myth DIANA), the goddess of the hunt, was pulled by does

The animal is also important in Asiatic myth. In the Ural-Altaic regions she was the supernatural ancestor of several peoples (compare TOTEM).

The Hungarian myth of origlls of a fleeing doe who lured two primeval hunter into a swamp, where she transformed herself into two princesses who coupled with the hunters, becoming the progenitors of the Huns and the Magyars, respectively. 

Similarly, the family tree of Genghis Khan shows a doe and a WOLF as his progenitors. 

A doe was said to have rescued fleeing Frankish warriors by showing them a point at which they could ford the Main River. 

In many old European fairy tales young women and girls are transformed into does. 

In one ancient Chinese legend a doe gives birth to a human child, a girl who is later reared by a man; but when she dies her body disappears, revealing her supernatural origins. 

In prehistoric rites of passage does may have symbolized female initiates.

 In Mayan mythology of the Yucatan, Zip is a god of the hunt; under the name A Uuc Yol Zip he is portrayed in ancient hieroglyphic writings as a horned man having intercourse with a doe.

Diana - The Accursed Hunteress


Diana Emphasises the Monstrous/Terrible aspect of Woman’s nature. 


Nevertheless, because of her vows of virginity, she was endowed with a morally GOOD character.




Diana - The goddess of woods, related to nature in general and to fertility and wild animals.

She bears the Greek name of Hecate, meaning ‘She who succeeds from afar’, and she is therefore linked with the ‘Accursed Hunter’ (such as Wotan). 


Accompanied by dogs, she becomes a night-huntress, in turn linked with the demons of chthonian cults.

It has been pointed out that her characteristics vary with the phases of the moon: Diana, Jana, Janus. 


This is why some mythological and emblematic designs show her as Hecate with three heads, a famous, triform symbol which—like the trident or the three heads of Cerberus—is the infernal inversion of the trinitarian form of the upper world. 



According to Diel, these threefold symbolic forms of the underworld allude also to the perversion of the three essential ‘urges’ of man: 




Conservation
Reproduction and 
Spiritual Evolution


If this is so, then Diana emphasizes the terrible aspect of Woman’s nature. 




Nevertheless, because of her vows of virginity, she was endowed with a morally good character as opposed to that of Venus, as can be seen in the Hippolytus of Euripides.



Diana 
The Latin designation, popular in Europe since the Renaissance, for the goddess of the hunt, in Greek Artemis, who by this time had only allegorical or symbolic meaning. Statues of Diana with the crescent-MOON in her hair, bow and ARROWS in her hand, accompanied by hunting DOGS, adorned especially the gardens of the baroque period. 

On occasion, the legendary scene is represented in which ACTEON, having observed the chaste Diana bathing, is transformed into a stag (see DEER) and tom apart by his own hunting dogs. 

The crescent is explained by the fact that the early Italian goddess Diana was originally the goddess of the Moon and only later were the myths relating to Artemis, the mistress of the animals (potnia theron), carried over to her. 

Diana seems to have lived on not only in garden sculpture but also as a mythical figure in Italy. 

The American mythologist Charles G. Leland (1824-1903) reported in his book Arcadia (1899) about a cult of "WITCHES" (streghe) who revered Diana and appealed to her as a great goddess: "Diana! Diana! Diana! Queen of all magicians and of the dark night, the stars, the moon, all fate and fortune! You, mistress of ebb and flow, who shine at night upon the sea, throwing your light upon the water! You, commander of the sea, in your boat like a half-moon. . ." (from a hymn appearing in a legend in which Melampus has his mother ask that he be given the art of understanding the language of SNAKES). 

Diana's mother 'called her a whore for sleeping with Muslim men'

P17:06, 14 Jan 2008, updated 13:04, 15 Jan 2008
The mother of Princess Diana called her a 'whore' for dating Muslim men, her inquest has heard.
Frances Shand Kydd made the 'disgraceful' comment when she discovered her daughter was in a serious relationship with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
The pair did not speak again before Diana died two months later, according to her butler Paul Burrell. 
The sensational revelation came on the day that he told how:
 • Diana was planning to marry Dr Khan;

Her romance with Dodi Fayed was just a '30-day' fling;


Prince Philip did write 'cutting' letters to the princess but would not have ordered her murder;


The [So-Called] Queen warned him of mysterious 'powers at work' - but he had no idea what she meant.

The 49-year-old former butler revealed that Diana's bitter conversation with her mother happened in June 1997, during the last throes of her relationship with Dr Khan and just two months before she and Dodi died in Paris.
Mr Burrell told the High Court that the princess had held up the phone as they sat together on the sofa of her Kensington Palace apartment so that he could hear her mother's rant.
He said Mrs Shand Kydd, who died in 2004, was a 'formidable lady' who often expressed herself 'in extremely forceful terms about Diana's consorts, especially if they were Muslim'.
Asked to describe what he had heard on that particular day, he hesitated.
It was only when the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, interjected, saying: 'This is relevant', that Mr Burrell replied: 'Well, she called the princess a whore and she said that she was messing around with f****** Muslim men and she was disgraceful. She said some very nasty things.'
Mohamed Al Fayed's barrister, Michael Mansfield, asked: 'It was shortly after one of these telephone calls that the princess decided she did not want to talk to her mother again?'
'Yes,' Mr Burrell confirmed. 

Mrs Shand Kydd went through a bitter divorce from Diana's father Earl Spencer, after she left him for wallpaper tycoon Peter Shand Kydd. 
She endured a rocky relationship with her youngest daughter and had no idea how serious Diana's relationship with Dr Khan was.
In fact the princess had been planning to marry the man she described as her 'soul mate' just months before she embarked on her high-profile relationship with Dodi Fayed.
Mr Burrell told the court that he discussed the matter in confidence with Father Anthony Parsons, a priest from a Catholic church near Kensington Palace, without Dr Khan's knowledge.
But the pair split up the month before Diana died in a clandestine night-time meeting in Battersea Park, South London.
As he took the stand yesterday, Mr Burrell appeared nervous. His voice was barely audible and he failed even to remember the date of his wedding with wife Maria, who worked as Diana's dresser.
As he went on, however, he gave a voluble account of his time with Diana and her troubled personal relationships, describing Dr Khan as the love of Diana's life.
'The princess said that this was her soul mate, this was the man she loved more then any other and it was a very deep spiritual relationship,' he said.
'I witnessed it at first hand and they were very much in love.'  The couple met in 1995 when the princess visited a friend at the Royal Brompton Hospital in West London, where Dr Khan was working as a heart surgeon. 
At first they held secret rendezvous, with Mr Burrell smuggling the consultant into Kensington Palace in the boot of his car.
But towards the end of their two-year relationship Dr Khan had, Mr Burrell said, become part of the 'fixtures and fittings' at Kensington Palace.
There were even plans to prepare some of the rooms in Diana's apartment for her lover. Dr Khan's identity was also well known in the upper echelons of the Royal Family.
Princess Margaret - Diana's closest neighbour at the palace - was, in particular, aware of all her 'clandestine comings and goings'.
Most importantly, the surgeon had been introduced to Diana's sons with the intention of paving the way for something more permanent.
However the couple split during an emotional rendezvous shortly after Diana's 36th birthday in July 1997.
'I remember it coming to an abrupt halt because it happened in a park, in Battersea Park, late at night, and the princess came home that night very distressed and said that she had had it. She had tried everything she could to bring this man out into the public spotlight and he was having none of it.
'He did not want to become a public name, he didn't want to become known, and they had reached a stalemate situation.'
Later the butler had a meeting with Dr Khan.
'He explained to me one day he worked very hard and had come from nothing to achieve what he had and had now become an eminent heart surgeon. 'He was achieving what always dreamed of and wasn't prepared to put that on hold for the princess.'
Days later, a distraught Diana flew off with Mohamed Al Fayed on holiday, where she met his playboy son for the first time.
While she quickly became fond of Dodi, the relationship was dismissed by Mr Burrell yesterday as a '30-day' fling.
Diana's highly public romance, he insisted, was part of her attempt to 'get back' at Dr Khan.
Asked why she would want to humiliate a man she had cared for so much, Mr Burrell replied: 'I don't think that a relationship that lasted for 18 months was gone overnight.
'The princess was still burning a candle for Mr Khan. She was still in love with him.'
Mr Burrell was dressed in an ice-blue shirt and tie, his face tanned from the sun in Florida, where he has bought a luxury home on the back of two tell-all books about his former employer.
He was subsequently accused by her sons, William and Harry, of a 'cold and overt betrayal' by bringing out the books. He has also been a contestant on I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!

Accession : Chariots of Fire

"Dodi had all the money in the world, but he wanted fame. 

He died with the most famous woman in the world. 

He couldn't have scripted it better."
His later film ventures were less distinguished than his first, though Robert Mandel's F/X (1986) was an intriguing, if far-fetched tale of a film special- effects expert who is hired to stage a fake assassination and finds himself part of a sinister real-life crime. 


Lyons said she looked like an angel, serene, with a smile on her face and only a small cut on her forehead. 

The photograph has never been published.



It contrasts with photographs taken of her companion, Dodi Al Fayed. The car crash that killed them in Paris in 1997 was so violent that Fayed's jeans had been ripped off. 

His chest was opened as doctors had tried to resuscitate him with electric paddles and open heart massage. The images are unprintable.



F/X (1986) was an intriguing, if far-fetched tale of a film special- effects expert who is hired to stage a fake assassination and finds himself part of a sinister real-life crime

Friday 14 July 2017

Mindfulness

Be Mindful of The Living Force, Young Padawan.


The Sisko : 
I EXIST Here.

To the best crew any captain ever had. 
This may be the last time we're all together, but no matter what the future holds, no matter how far we travel, a part of us, a very important part, will always remain Here on Deep Space Nine. 

O'BRIEN: 
Here, here. 

BASHIR: 
Cheers. 

Accession : Camilla is Nothing But a Decoy




Parker Bowles to escape prosecution over car crash

Camilla Parker Bowles will not be prosecuted over a car crash in a country lane while driving to the Prince of Wales's Highgrove Estate, it was announced yesterday.

The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that there is insufficient evidence to bring charges over the head-on accident involving Mrs Parker Bowles, 50, and Carolyn Melville-Smith, 53, last month. Neither woman was seriously hurt in the collision between Norton and Easton Grey, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

Ms Melville-Smith, of Easton Grey, whose Volvo estate car turned on its side in the accident, leaving her trapped by her skirt, which was caught in the car door, claimed Mrs Parker Bowles "appeared like a missile" at the wheel of a Ford Mondeo before the impact.

Mrs Parker Bowles left the scene of the accident to use her mobile telephone to call the ambulance service and police from a nearby hill. She then called the Prince, who was expecting her for dinner at nearby Highgrove House, his Gloucestershire home.

He sent his own police bodyguard, to the scene with two of his valets and two other members of staff. Mrs Parker Bowles told the police she had not remained at the scene of the accident or exchanged details with the other driver, as required by law, because she was concerned about the security risk.

Ms Melville-Smith, an interior designer, of Easton Grey, said yesterday: "I don't want Camilla to be prosecuted because it won't get me anywhere. So long as I am not left out of pocket I am happy to let the matter rest. At the moment we are sorting it all out through our insurance companies but if I don't get full compensation I think I will write to Camilla. It would be really bitchy if I did pursue it because Camilla has a hard enough time anyway and she would only get more bad press."

The decision not to bring charges was partly due to Ms Melville-Smith's refusal to make an official complaint. However, even she had complained, it is understood that there was still insufficient evidence to bring charges. A police spokesman said: "There were no independent witnesses to this accident and the evidence available at the scene, such as skid marks and other marks, when taken in isolation, was not sufficient to justify or support a prosecution."

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 Prince Charles' flame Camilla Parker Bowles, blamed by Princess Diana for the failure of her marriage, was slightly injured in a car accident near the prince's home in southwest England.

News reports said Parker Bowles, 49, suffered a head injury and a sprained wrist when her car hit another head on.

Police said the collision happened Wednesday night as Parker Bowles was driving between two villages close to the prince's Highgrove estate at Tetbury. She was alone.

Although dazed, she managed to call the police post at Charles' estate on her mobile phone.

The other driver, a woman, was treated in a hospital for chest injuries, then discharged.

News reports said after giving a statement to police, Parker Bowles was taken to the prince's estate. She returned to her nearby home Thursday morning.


I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me & encourage me to keep strong & hold my head high — this particular phase in my life is the most dangerous — my husband is planning "an accident" in my car. brake failure & serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy. 

Camilla is nothing but a decoy, so we are all being used by the man in every sense of the word.

I have been battered, bruised and abused mentally by a system for 15 years now, but I feel no resentment, I carry no hatred. 


I am weary of the battles, but I will never surrender. 

I am strong inside and maybe that is a problem for my enemies. 

Thank you Charles, for putting me through such hell and for giving me the opportunity to learn from the cruel things you have done to me. I have gone forward fast and have cried more than anyone will ever know. The anguish nearly killed me, but my inner strength has never let me down, and my guides have taken such good care of me up there. Aren't I fortunate to have had their wings to protect me.

Killer Decoys For The Rut

Welcome to the rut. Bowhunters across North America have been waiting and working for this time of year since this time last year. It’s an exciting time to be in the woods. Anything can happen. Whether you’ve been watching a slammer for months or not, now’s the time one can walk into your life. If he does, will you be ready?

Put a decoy to work and prepare for the big show! You just never know what you might see.

Put a decoy to work and prepare for the big show! You just never know what you might see.

Deer are curious creatures. They also are social creatures. And during the rut, bucks are territorial and aggressive. Put all those pieces together, and you’ve got the perfect ingredients for using a decoy.

If ever there’s a time to be aggressive – to switch your hunting tactics from passive to active – it’s now. Bucks can be lured in by calls, scents and by decoys. Heck, using all three can be deadly.

But what should you look for in a decoy? What’s one that will work where you hunt?

Here’s a quick rundown on some killer decoys for the rut..

Flambeau Boss Buck 

Let’s start out with the biggest and the baddest. Flambeau’s Boss Buck is about as big as decoys come. It’s about the size of a 170 pound deer, with a 120-inch rack. For looks, it’s dead on. It’s very realistic.

The Boss Buck from Flambeau.

The Boss Buck from Flambeau.

But if you’re going to use the Boss Buck, or one of a similar size, you’d better have some big, mature bucks in your hunting area. If you hunt an area where 3.5-year-olds are considered “mature,” then don’t go for the Boss. In my experience, this decoy intimidates a lot of bucks. It seems like only the biggest, toughest bucks on the block will take on the Boss. If you’ve got such deer around, then this decoy is lethal.

It’s a bit heavy – 22 pounds, to be exact. So hauling this decoy into the field will be a chore. You might not like it if you have to travel very far on foot. But if you don’t have to go far, then this is a decoy that will catch a buck’s eye from a long way off. It won’t disappear in a cut cornfield.

Plan on setting The Boss upwind from your stand, but down wind from where you expect deer to approach. A buck most likely will want to check the decoy’s scent before initiating a fight, and that means he’s likely to circle down wind of it. Hopefully, that should take him between your stand and the decoy. So don’t put your decoy any more than 30 yards from your stand.

Face the decoy toward your stand. Approaching bucks like to look an intruder in the eyes. By facing the decoy toward your stand, you are further encouraging the buck to walk between you and the decoy.

Montana Decoy Dreamy Doe

Montana Decoy Dreamy Doe

MT Decoy Dreamy Doe

Another decoy that’s good for use while hunting from a tree stand or ground blind is a doe decoy. The Montana Decoy Dreamy Doe is a two-dimensional decoy that you would stake into the ground within bow range of your position.

Tack a white handkerchief to the butt, and run a length of fishing line to your stand or blind, and you can make that doe’s tail twitch. Such signs of life often are just the trick to convince a buck to move closer.

A lot of hunters don’t like to use lone doe decoys. I’m one of them. You’ll attract too many deer you don’t want to shoot, such as fawns and other does. Having all those eyes, ears and noses around is never good. You will end up getting busted.

If you’re going to use the Dreamy Doe, use it in conjunction with a buck decoy. The buck will keep the does and fawns away. Only a buck is likely to venture close to such a tandem.

 Lucky Duck Renzo Buck 

As I said, peak rut is the time to get aggressive with your tactics. And what is more aggressive than getting on the ground and stalking deer behind a decoy? Basically, you are the challenger.

Lucky Duck’s Renzo buck decoy is ideal for spotting and stalking rutting bucks. It’s a photograph of a

Lucky Duck Renzo Decoy

Lucky Duck Renzo Buck Decoy

young buck that will certainly aggravate any buck over 1.5.

This is a two-dimensional decoy, so you simply walk toward a buck while hiding behind the decoy. Down wind, of course. Use the Renzo decoy stakes, and you can set this decoy upright, while kneeling behind it with your bow at the ready.

Move in slowly and stop often. See how the buck reacts to your encroachment. As long as he’s moving toward me, I stay still. As long as he stays still, I’ll move toward him.

This decoy works best, I’ve found, when you can obscure an approaching buck’s view of it. Use it in tall grass, or just over the top of a hill the buck must climb. Just give him a glimpse of the decoy, and watch him go wild.

Be prepared for this tactic to spook many bucks. It doesn’t always work. Like calling and decoying a big old spring gobbler, you’ve got to find the right buck, in the right mood. When you do, hold on to your hat. You’re in for a new level of bowhunting excitement.

Non-Traditional Decoys 

Wanna be the decoy? Add this hat to your arsenal and you'll be set up for a decoy experience like no other.

Wanna be the decoy? Add this hat to your arsenal and you’ll be set up for a decoy experience like no other.

So not all of us like to march in a straight line. Some of us like to do things a little different. Here are a couple of decoys that might fit your taste.

Be The Decoy makes a foam hat that looks like the head of a deer. The idea is, you stay low, and sneak in on a buck while only exposing your head. Obviously, when using this or any decoy on a spot and stalk hunt, be careful! When you are pretending to be a deer, it’s possible to get shot by another hunter.

Primos makes the Waggin’ Whitetail decoy, which is a

Nothing seals the deal when decoying like motion. The Primos Tail Wagger brings your decoy to life.

Primos Waggin’ Whitetail.

remote-controlled, wagging deer tail. You can attach it to a 3-D decoy or to a fence post. Hit the remote and the tail twitches.

Finally, the creme-de-la-crème of electronic decoys is the Custom Robotic Wildlife bedded deer

decoy. It’s basically a taxidermy deer in the bedded position, and the head and tail move under battery power. Of course, this one costs $1,500, so it’s not going to be practical for everyone.

If you’ve never tried decoying deer, give it a shot right now, while the rut is raging, and see if it doesn’t help you fill your tag. If you do, I guarantee you’ll never forget the experience.

The Echo Over The Voice



You Won't Survive to Witness The Victory of The Echo Over The Voice

Accession : Hunting with Hounds

The Big Man: 
Rapists and murders may be the victims according to you, but I, 

I call them dogs

And if they're lapping up their own vomit, the only way to stop them is with a lash. 


Grace: 
But dogs only obey their own nature, so why shouldn't we forgive them? 

The Big Man: 
Dogs can be taught many useful things, but not, 

NOT 

if we forgive them every time they obey their own nature.


Do you know what 'Nemesis' means? 

A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent, personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt : -

Me.

Lyons said she looked like an angel, serene, with a smile on her face and only a small cut on her forehead. 

The photograph has never been published.

Diana 
The Latin designation, popular in Europe since the Renaissance, for the goddess of the hunt, in Greek Artemis, who by this time had only allegorical or symbolic meaning. Statues of Diana with the crescent-MOON in her hair, bow and ARROWS in her hand, accompanied by hunting DOGS, adorned especially the gardens of the baroque period.

On occasion, the legendary scene is represented in which ACTEON, having observed the chaste Diana bathing, is transformed into a stag (see DEER) and tom apart by his own hunting dogs. 



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Exclusive extract from Mr Paparazzi in tomorrow's Good Weekend magazine, free with The Sydney Morning Herald.
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AN Australian paparazzo who has powerful images of the Princess of Wales close to death will give evidence next week at her inquest.

Darryn Lyons, the owner of one of the world's largest paparazzi photo agencies, will give evidence on Tuesday by video link from a barrister's chambers in Phillip Street, Sydney, accompanied by his British lawyer, Hugh Carlisle, QC.

The original images were confiscated by police in France and London in 1997 but Lyons has copies and has described in his new autobiography, Mr Paparazzi, one particularly strong image of the princess just before she died.

Lyons said she looked like an angel, serene, with a smile on her face and only a small cut on her forehead. The photograph has never been published.

It contrasts with photographs taken of her companion, Dodi Al Fayed. The car crash that killed them in Paris in 1997 was so violent that Fayed's jeans had been ripped off. His chest was opened as doctors had tried to resuscitate him with electric paddles and open heart massage. The images are unprintable.

Lyons believes he has been called as a witness because his London office was broken into soon after the accident. He says nothing was taken and that he had handed over all the images that had been sent to him in London on the night of the crash by his Paris agent, Laurent Sola.

One of two photographers working for Mr Sola appears to be the first person at the crash scene.

Lyons writes that David Kerr and the other photographer, Fabrice Chassery, were driving cars and lost the Mercedes driven by Henri Paul as it left the Ritz Hotel. Paparazzi on scooters roared on ahead, chasing the car, but Kerr and Chassery agreed to call it a night.

Lyons says Kerr headed home via the Alma tunnel and came across the crash scene, where he said there were no witnesses. He estimated the accident had occurred two minutes before.

Kerr parked outside the tunnel then returned to find four other photographers who had been riding on scooters.

(Kerr and Chassery subsequently sued the British television network Channel 4 for "stealing" some of their pictures for use in The Witnesses In The Tunnel, a documentary which was screened in Britain last year. They said the images were held by police and copies must have been stolen.)

Lyons said he believed early news reports that the princess was only concussed and had a broken arm. He alerted the News Of The World that he had a photo of her and says he was offered £250,000.

He writes that the then editor of the paper, Phil Hall, who he says was in contact with its proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, then called Lyons to say the princess was dead and the paper was pulling out of the deal.

Lyons says the paper claimed the image never got to the printing process, "but I have it on good authority that thousands of newspapers were pulped".

In 1998, Lyons says, he was approached by someone who said they were acting for The New Yorker, offering $3 million to $4 million for the crash photos. He said he would never sell any of them.


These details of the crash and its aftermath are told in his autobiography, Mr Paparazzi, to be published on Monday by Viking.

Lyons yesterday visited Geelong, which he left 20 years ago to make a career in London. He worked for The Daily Mail before establishing his own photo agency, Big Pictures.