Ok, Let's break it down. Princess Michael, married to a first cousin of the Queen's, lived next door to Diana in Kensington Palace, formerly a German Baroness, and a Catholic. This is from Wikipedia. I don't want to put too fine a point on it, but I will-- she's a Nazi from back in the day and her best friends were David and Wallis. "Early life and ancestry Princess Michael was born Freiin (Baroness) Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz[1] on 15 January 1945[2] in Karlovy Vary, then part of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and officially known as Karlsbad in the German-populated Sudetenland, now in the Czech Republic. She was born at Jagdschloss Inselthal, the family estate inherited from her Austrian maternal grandmother, Princess Hedwig von Windisch-Graetz (1878–1918), the eldest daughter of Alfred III, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, who served as the 11th Minister-President of Austria and was President of the Imperial Council from 1895 to 1918.[3][4][5] Marie‑Christine was born into the Reibnitz family, an ancient (uradel) German noble house from Silesia whose lineage can be traced back to 1288 with Henricus de Rybnicz.[6] The ancestral seat of the family was Burg Läusepelz, today Rybnica in present-day Poland.[7] On her paternal line, she descends from the Burggrafen of Dohna, Herrand III von Trauttmansdorff, and the Nostitz family, lineages that also appear among the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II.[8] She is the younger daughter of Freiherr Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz (1894–1983) and his second wife, Countess Maria Anna Carolina Franziska Walburga Bernadette Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár (1911–1988),[1] the daughter of Count Friedrich Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to Saint Petersburg at the outbreak of the First World War.[9] Through her mother, Marie‑Christine descends from the House of Lobkowicz and numerous other Austrian princely families, connections that link her by blood to her husband, Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III.[10][11][12] She is also descended from Henry II of France and his wife, Catherine de' Medici, and from Henry II's longtime mistress and rival of Catherine, Diane de Poitiers, a connection she has noted in her historical writing.[13][14][15] Through this line, she also descends from Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish Baroque painter and diplomat who was knighted by both the Habsburg and Stuart monarchs.[16][17] Marie‑Christine's father was a member of the Nazi Party and served as a cavalry officer in the Waffen-SS during the Second World War.[18][19]" She famously said, "They bred Diana like a racehorse." This is the first fact that should probably be understood clearly as the essential basis of the Queen's relationship with Diana. I should add that according to an imminent historian, the Queen was never intimidated by any woman, except Diana. She was intimidated by Diana, among all the women on earth. She didn't like Diana, certainly. They weren't "enemies" in the beginning. It's not a secret their relation lost control and slid sideways. To put everything is some perspective, at the time Diana famously visited the hospital and shook hands with AIDS patients, the Queen had specifically told her not to do it, and even though Diana felt hurt by this, Diana shrugged it off and the rest is history. Diana couldn't be bossed. For Diana's part, she loathed the Windsors, the whole lot of them, except her husband. She once famously wrote they were akin to a viper's nest and said the Queen Mother was the head viper. Thank you for reading forum! And now a word to kids today... Don't be distracted by shiny objects in a story more that full of them. Start from the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana and work forward until you feel you understand the characters' perspectives and then you will be able to piece together a realistic narrative. You weren't there. The media started out telling a ridiculous fairytale. The media are still at it. Nobody is blaming you. But today's pedantic thought is don't take things out of context.

Yeah, there is a good solution. Withdrawal. Full stop.

The New Yorker picks up the story, during a visit to the Faust Harrison showroom. https://archive.is/EyWA4

The Medical Context (Giant Cell Arteritis) If "GCA" refers to Giant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis), "fixing" it is a time-sensitive medical emergency to halt systemic blood vessel inflammation and protect the patient's sight. 1. Emergency Systemic Suppression Immediate High-Dose Glucocorticoids: If GCA is highly suspected, treatment must start immediately—even before a biopsy confirms it—to mitigate the risk of permanent blindness. Oral Protocol: Usually initiates with high-dose oral prednisone (typically 40–60 mg daily). IV Pulse Protocol: If the patient is already presenting with acute visual changes or transient vision loss, they require immediate admission for intravenous "pulse" therapy (typically methylprednisolone 1,000 mg daily for 3 consecutive days) to protect the optic nerve. 2. Confirming with a Temporal Artery Biopsy While blood work looking for elevated inflammatory markers like Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate ($ESR$) and C-Reactive Protein ($CRP$) helps guide suspicion, a temporal artery biopsy remains a gold standard for definitive diagnosis. Locate & Mark: Pre-op. The surgeon uses a Doppler ultrasound to locate the superficial temporal artery on the side of the forehead and marks the path. Local Anesthesia: Incision Prep. A local anesthetic is injected around the marked path to numb the area completely while keeping the patient awake. Isolate & Resect: Surgical Execution. A small incision is made along the temple. The surgeon isolates a small segment of the artery (ideally 1 to 2 cm to account for "skip lesions" where inflammation is patchy), ties off the remaining ends safely, and removes the sample. Closure & Pathology: Post-op. The skin is closed with stitches or staples, and the tissue sample is sent to pathology to look for inflammatory giant cell infiltration in the vessel wall. 3. Long-Term Maintenance and Tapering The 12-to-18-Month Taper: Steroids cannot be stopped abruptly. Once inflammatory markers return to normal and symptoms disappear, the dose is incredibly slowly tapered over a year or longer to prevent dangerous adrenal drops and disease flares. Steroid-Sparing Biologics: To minimize the systemic side effects of long-term high-dose steroids (such as osteoporosis, hyperglycemia, and hypertension), an IL-6 receptor antagonist like Tocilizumab is frequently introduced as an adjunct therapy. Which of these frameworks matches the problem you are trying to solve right now?

Got home to find our rockery flourishing [image: 1780655237532-20260605_103854.jpg] SWMBO plants whatever and wherever It simply dwarfs what was meant, at least in my mind, to be a prominent centrepiece 3' monolith amongst alpines. Really lovely flowers [image: 1780655466860-20260605_103905.jpg]

30 years ago today, l asked my childhood sweetheart, my best friend and the most gorgeous woman l know to marry me. All three said no.

Probably scoop up some water and turn it into wine. Not entirely off topic: Your Tax Dollars at Work: The Trump Regime’s New Christian Persecution Propaganda Film

Your comment about deciding "how bad I feel" to take a pill describes this morning perfectly... In the midst of another cluster, but so glad there is something that can put it on the back burner for the day.

I’d imagine being an author would make the home’s history…intriguing Quirt’s clients should eternally grateful for his Diligence.

Good idea. Too bad the technology (or the budget) is not there to make the balls crystal and seamless.

Sounds delicious and healthy. Going into the bookmarks.

Both of these incidents are terrifying to me. I feel like there’s less news attention to ICE’s activities, but the activities themselves continue.

[image: IKQ7HYOFINFIJMSPYHCPTZ4RH4.jpg?auth=5a5fdc2d282f1ada0a865ffc14dec1eb33e9eaea7d92a07926c41c0fccb96409&width=1280&smart=true&quality=90] Big Boy is in our area. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/here-he-comes-million-pound-steam-locomotive-big-boy-rolls-into-chicago-area-this-week/3943201/ @steve-miller - Coming your way very soon! https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/06/big-boy-no-4014s-northeast-ohio-route-is-set-see-the-towns-it-will-roll-through.html

I knew fog was creepy. Did not know it was infected.

Erin Brockovich gets involved: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/erin-brockovich-says-people-angry-165957745.html For now she's not taking side (at least not overtly). She's just advocating for more transparency and crowd-sourcing information about plans for data centers.

Good use of ill-gotten gains. I've read that the wine industry in Georgia is booming. Never had one but I'm sure we will.

Well, "science" is a interesting topic but like any sub-branch of any epistemological system, science is not an exact science (pun intended). Questions like these aren't "solved" and then set in stone or displayed in a glass case. "Measurements suggested the giant planet's rotation rate was changing over time, as if Saturn were somehow speeding up or slowing down. That puzzling result left scientists searching for answers." I'd venture to say it appeared to be "changing" in fact because it was and is always changing. This isn't so much a mystery as it is the nature of the universe. I just posted about this topic in my Chronos and Kairos thread. https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/3681/kairos-the-ancient-greek-art-of-knowing-when-to-act#:~:text=Kairos%3A The-,ancient,-Greek art of We human beings have to be vigilant continuously about what Karl Marx (the writer whose work is canonical among intellectuals, not the "communist" we all love to hate) called reification. Reification involves setting up a continual feedback loop where we "play back" what we think we know in a way that the only outcome is our belief, whatever it was when we started believing it, can only end up being fallaciously reinforced. The planets, the galaxy, the universe-- are never static and if a human being truly wanted to map their machinations, he or she would die trying...