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Princess Diana...
was born July 1...
1961 at 19:45...
weighing 7lb 12oz...
park house...
sandringham...
had her christening...
at
her full name is...
Lady Diana Frances Spencer...
she married prince Charles of
the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II...
her first son was born...
prince William Arthur Phillip Louis Windsor...
two years later...
Diana's second and youngest son was born...
Prince Henry Charles Albert David Windsor...
later on she said that...
the time she was expecting Harry...
it is said...
this was the best time she and Charles ever had...
then...
"Fairy tale" marriage ended...
on august 31st 1997...
much of the world...
was in a state of mourning...
the
beloved...
Princess passed away in a car accident with Dodi Fayed...
along with the driver of the car...
Diana...
Princess of
why could we not avert our eyes from her...
was it because she beckoned...
or was there something else wE longed for...
dubious influences...
century's villains and antiheroes...
captivating romances...
when Love was the adventure...
what was it about Diana...
Princess of
that brought such huge numbers...
of people...
from all walks of life...
literally to their knees...
what was her special appeal...
not just to british subjects...
but also to people the world over...
a late spasm...
of royalist hardly explains it...
even in
for many true british monarchists...
despised her for "cheapening"...
the royal institution...
by "behaving more like a movie star"...
or a "pop diva"...
than a princess...
to many others...
however...
that was precisely her attraction...
Diana was beautiful...
in a fresh faced...
English...
outdoor girl...
kind...
of way...
using her big blue eyes...
to their fullest lead...
melting the hearts of men...
n' women...
through an expression of complete vulnerability...
Diana's eyes...
contained an appeal...
directed...
not to...
any...
individual...
but...
to the world at large...
she was...
0nE...
of the richest...
most glamorous...
powerful women in the world...
this combination...
of vulnerability...
and supremacy...
was perhaps her greatest asset...
Diana was a princess...
but...
there are many princesses...
but none of whom...
ever came close...
to0...
capturing...
the admired imagination...
the way she did...
Diana not only married...
into the British monarchy...
but was the offspring of a family...
the Spencer’s...
that is at least as old as the british royal family...
sO…
Diana...
had snob appeal...
to burn...
but that all0nE...
they say...
would not have secured her popularity...
most of the people who worshipped her...
who read every titbit...
about her...
in the gossip press...
and hung up pictures of her in their rooms...
were not social snobs...
she was a star...
who never actually appeared in a movie...
in a sense...
her whole life was a motion picture...
a serial melodrama acted out in public...
with every twist...
and turn...
of the plot...
reported to a world audience...
Diana…
was astute...
enough...
to understand the power of television...
and the voracious brit tabloids...
newspapers...
and mass media was a stage for projecting...
the radiant society beauty...
the compassionate princess...
the mourning princess...
crying at funerals...
they needed her to feed the publics...
appetite...
for gossip...
and she...
for her public performance...
but what she hadn't...
bargained...
was that her melodrama ran on without breaks...
everything she said or did was fair copy...
after deliberately making her private life public...
she soon discovered there was nothing private left...
a sense...
the quasi religious mystique...
of royalty came full circle with Diana...
monarchy...
used...
to be based on divine right...
but just...
one of the most traditional roles...
of religious idols is a sacrificial one...
people project their sins onto them...
and they bear the crosses in public...
Diana was a sacrificial symbol...
in several ways...
first she became the patron saint of victims...
the sick...
the discriminated against...
the homeless...
then...
partly through her real suffering...
at the hands of a rigidly...
formal...
family trained to play...
rigidly formal public roles...
ethnic...
sexual...
social...
like many religious idols...
she was openly abused and ridiculed...
in her case...
by the same press...
that stoked the public worship of her...
finally she became the ultimate victim of her own fame...
pursued by paparazzi...
it is in the nature of religion...
that forms...
change to fit the times...
Diana...
celebrity...
tabloid princess...
mater dolorosa of the pop and fashion scene...
was...
if nothing else...
the perfect idol...
for our epoch...
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