The chapter in the book, in which she wrote over it, was titled: Foreshadows of the Future'.
In the following excerpts from the book "With Love from Diana" are coloured emphasized and inserted the corresponding capital letters of the data mentioned into square brackets words, which let a connection with events assume from the night 31 of August 1997 in Paris - when she died. That may be in as much of importance as the events of Paris happened 1997 still 8 years after (!) her dream and still 2 ˝ years after (!) her book publication.
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"In the second dream, which I will recount in the present tense since that is how I recorded it in my diary, I am sitting in a sand dune having a picnic. Diana comes towards me, dressed in white with a black cloak around her [A] .
She sits down besides me. I feel awkward and unprepared for her sudden and unannounced arrival. She is telling me about someone who is called Peter, who has been fired because of her [G]. Apparently he is going to France [F] and will be undergoing plastic surgery [F] to conceal his identity.
She goes on to talk me about William, and while she does this, she holds up a large figure 3 [I].
She then begins to cry, and I comfort her, urging her not to give up on the marriage. She recovers her composure and I take up the topic of Peter, refering to him as a past relationship. "Its's not over. It's very much on, " [K] she says. .....
I escort her out to her car, and when I return, William is seated in the same chair. He is much older [C] {1989 William was 7 years pld} and sporting a beard.
He says to me. "They don't tell me everything, you know. For a few minutes we lost complete radio contact with them ... "
As he was saying this to me, I saw an event from an aerial point of view [J]
Two police motorcycles [D] and a white car [E] streaming ahead [E], leaving a black car [B] on its own.
Two vans [H] approch from either side [H] and prevent the black car [B] from moving forward. [!]
The dream ends in chaos and I hear my own voice saying, "Isn't anyone going to do anything ...?"
"...sitting at a large desk, was Her Majesty the Queen. She was delivering a somber speech, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't hear what she was saying...."
"[Charles and Diana] were posing for photographs
and were seated...on a child's rocking horse. Diana was laughing and Charles
was urging her to be more responsible and to look serious for the cameras.
There was a flash and a large explosion. All that was left on the
stage was an empty car seat on
a raised dais.[L]"
Original
book text (page 76): "
Charles was not recovering from his injury as well or as quickly as he
had hoped, and the prospect orbis being unable to play polo again was deeply
depressing for him. According to Diana, he was intolerable to live with, moody,
unapproachable-impossible. During the phone call, in light of her musings over
events happening in threes, she was to remind me of a conversation we had had a
few days before Christmas or, more particularly, the two dreams I bad discussed
with her.
Dreams are
more than the stuff of mindless imaginings. Clearly an element of sifting
through day-to-day events and processing our experience is part and parcel of
the function of dreams. But a dream is much more than a psychological shuffling
process. In a dream's cryptic imagery lies not only the inner landscape of the
psyche in the Jungian sense, hut the shadows of past and future events.
In the
summer and autumn of 1989, I had what Jung might have termed two "big
dreams." In the first, I was in the front row of an audience watching a
play. The curtain went up and on the stage, sitting at a large desk, was Her
Majesty, the Queen. She was delivering a somber speech, but no matter how hard
I tried, I couldn't hear what she was saying. I knew only that it concerned the
future of the monarchy. My eyes were then drawn to Charles and Diana, who were
just behind her. They were posing for photographs and were seated - Charles
behind Diana - on a child's rocking horse. Diana was laughing and Charles was
urging her to be more responsible and to look serious for the cameras. There
was a flash and a large explosion. All that was left on the stage was an empty
car seat on a raised dais.
In the
second dream, which I will recount in the present tense since that is how I
recorded it in my diary, I am sitting in a sand dune having - a picnic. Diana
comes towards me, dressed in white with a black cloak around her. She sits down
beside me. I feet awkward and unprepared for her sudden and unannounced
arrival. She is telling me about someone called Peter who has been fired
because of her. Apparently he is going to France and will be undergoing
plastic surgery to conceal his identity. She goes on to talk to me about
William, and while she does this, she holds up a large figure 3. She then
begins to cry, and I comfort her, urging her not to give up on the marriage.
She recovers her composure and I take up the topic of Peter, referring to him
as a past relationship. "It's not over. It's very much on,"
she says.
The scene
changes to my then home, Bramshott Court. Diana comes into the sitting room
with a large gift-wrapped present, which she bands to me. When I open it, I
find a strange-Iooking object about three feet in size - the only thing this
object vaguely resembles is the ornate hand of a large clock I am embarrassed
at the enormity of the gift and refuse it, saying Prince Charles might be cross
if she gave it away. I escort her out to her car, and when I return, William is
seated in the same chair. He is much older and sporting a beard. He says to me,
"They don't tell me everything, you know. For a few minutes we lost
complete radio contact with them . . ." As he was saying this to me, I saw
an event from an aerial point of view. Two police motorcycles and a white car
streaming ahead, leaving a black car on its own. Two vans approach from either side
and prevent the black car from moving forward. The dream ends in chaos and I
hear my own voice saying, "Isn't anyone going to do anything . . . ?"
Analysts
will clearly have a field day with the offerings of my own personal unconscious
here, but aside from taking the dreams apart on a strictly psychological
level, there are some intriguing foretastes of the future here -
and the past.
During our
December '89 conversation, the topic of reincarnation had come up. Diana
confided that she was becoming more and more deeply involved in a spiritual
path that she not only believed was her role in this life but something she had
done in a past existence. Given that "Peter" was a key
figure in the second dream and that we were by the sea, I wondered if there was
an echo of the time of Christ here. "Oh, yes. . ." she said
emphatically, "I was a martyr."
I will return to the premonitory aspects of these dreams in Chapter
VIII, but suffice to say, the images in the second dream convey a wealth of
information about the current state of play in Diana's life - more specifically
that there was a strong possibility of an ongoing relationship
