England’s Rose:

The Party of the Year for Diana, Woman of the Century

By Colin Tipping.

England is readying itself for a posthumous birthday bash in the form of a star-studded concert on Sunday, July 1st — the tenth anniversary of her passing. It is being given by her sons as a tribute to her life and her fun-loving and generous spirit. It is likely to fill all 90,000 seats at London’s Wembly Stadium. She would have loved it — far more than any church service. It’s also in line with her mission because music opens the heart. Obviously, her son’s really get it!

In the year 2000, as the millenium turned, there was much discussion in the media about who should be named ‘Personality of the Century.’ At a family dinner party, I was asked who I thought should be "Woman of the Century." Unhesitatingly, I said "Princess Diana."

She got my vote, not because of her comparatively modest worldly achievements, but because of what she achieved at the soul level, both for herself and for the country. Diana came into this lifetime with a mission to open the heart chakra of Great Britain and, without doubt, she succeeded. (I explain this at length in my book, Radical Forgiveness, Making Room for the Miracle. The specific section can also be downloaded at no charge from my website, www.radicalforgiveness.com)

She did it by first choosing (at the soul level before incarnating), a lifetime of emotional discomfort, self-loathing, abandonment, humiliation, rejection and pain that would, courtesy of the mass media, be made extremely public. (Bear in mind that this was in a country renowned for keeping emotional pain totally repressed, out of sight and, if displayed at all, subject to intense shame!)

Then she chose to break that deeply rooted taboo by sharing her wounds openly and intimately with the whole world. By so doing she single-handedly liberated the British people from their stuck emotional selves and from the emotional history of the entire race. She completely blew open their first, second and third chakras!

And yet, powerful as that was, it did not break open their heart chakras. That required the unfolding of the next part of the Divine plan - her seemingly violent and tragic (though in truth perfectly timed, divinely orchestrated), death. That event finally connected people to their deeply buried pain. They were able to then feel it and express it openly. And so they did - in front of the whole world - for days on end. Diana had enabled them to heal many generations of collective pain. The British heart chakra had opened at last. Mission accomplished! Time to go home!

Diana is my Woman of the Century because her story is the ultimate Radical Forgiveness story. It is everyone’s story. It teaches us to see that, beneath the apparent circumstances of our lives, a Divine plan is unfolding and everything is perfect. It lifts us up by finally giving meaning to our seemingly little lives. It teaches us that death is not real and that in fact, we all have a mission. Diana’s story enables us to connect to the Divinity in ourselves and to realize that we all qualify to be the Person of the Century – because we are all ONE.

Even though I shall not be physically present at the concert, I will be there in spirit to celebrate her life and to give thanks for her willingness to fulfill such a large and important mission. As an Englishman, and therefore someone who shares the collective consciousness of that country, I feel my heart open every time I think of her. That was her gift to us all and I give thanks to her.

She is still England’s Rose and, for me, Woman of the Century..

© Colin Tipping, 2007