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"The Diana Phenomonen". The Diana Phenomenon The sudden death of Diana
Princess of Wales at the end of August 1997 sparked off a ...
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The Diana Phenomenon
The sudden death of Diana Princess of Wales at the end of August 1997 sparked off a massive display of emotion in the world, especially in Britain. The event provided the opportunity for the expression of what appeared to be a short-term and superficial, but undoubtedly sincere, manner by a large number of people. "An emotion felt throughout the countryside was that many people saw themselves in some way connected to this public figure and able to grieve for her as if she were an acquaintance." (Lambert 54) However, there remained clear borderlines between what the public, who thought they knew her, and the immediate family who did.
The Princess's funeral brought together a gathering of the powerful (English royalty) and the beautiful (Hollywood's finest), and the poor. More than a million mourners crowded the streets of London to toss flowers upon her casket. Even as it was happening before their eyes, no one could believe it was real. In the days and weeks that followed her death, everyone was trying to figure out what she had meant and why the world was responding to her death with such grief. Was it her flaws, her failures, her struggles with her weight and her self-esteem, and her refusal to be inhibited by them? Was it her good works and the way she touched the common people, the handicapped, drug addicts, and lepers. Could it have been the way she broke away from her failing marriage and reinvented herself as a single mother but still the "Queen of people's hearts", her courage, standing up to the queen, going public with her troubles. Or was it just the fact that she died so young? " We don't know" mourners said. "Our grief has surprised us, too. We didn't know how much we loved her.' " (Lambert 50)
Long ago, in 1981 to be exact, Diana Spencer retired her role as kindergarten teacher to become the future queen of England. It was like a Cinderella story right out of the book. But this Cinderella's...
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