Princess Diana, Prince Charles’ wife, but more importantly, a cultural gem that created her own rules, broke out the world in grief and resentment against the monarchy and press. To this day, her actual cause of death is not known completely and probably will never be after another 25 years passes.
Officials blamed it on a ‘traffic collision’, but loyal friends, family, and community members know just how much of a lie that statement is in reality.
Hundreds and hundreds of documentaries were published in her honor, but none hit it home quite like the most recent one by HBO, ‘The Princess’. Being that it is upfront with both her glamor and flaws, the production is “simple, yet effective”, historians have added to the reviews.
Her wild spirit brought her many attacks from outsiders, so it was hard to not make a documentary biased; however, HBO made a multitude of watchers and Princess-lovers content with a neutral timeline of events.
Audio and footage came directly from her lifetime, there were no ill-intentions to twist her words or actions from marriage to death. Not even people that knew her could be a part of the intimate film. Producer, Simon Chinn, served the late princess justice properly, like no one else could- she was just too much of an enigmatic figure to portray “correctly”.
There were many pieces to the puzzle of her soul, but Chinn found a means to simplify her story by any degree he could without smudging the lines.
As for her story, you should go watch the documentary for the full effect, but in short, Princess Diana embraced her individuality. She never truly wanted to be tied down to one specific place, thing, or even person. Expectedly, that led her to a messy divorce and one-too-many love affairs to count. While a handful shamed her for those decisions, the other majority still continued to look up to her. She had the people in a culture-shock spell.
If beauty and grace could be considered talents, we are sure of ourselves that it is proper to describe her born-stardom as how she found the key to almost all hearts. She single-handedly altered the way the world views royalty- i.e. not just from your school textbooks.
Somehow managing to be show-stoppingly beautiful and charismatic, she did not fall short of also maintaining her relatability and personableness. Biographer, Andrew Morton, explains, “She turned a rather stuffy institution into this glamorous international family with a fascinating narrative. Everyone, especially in America, was transfixed by her.”
With all eyes on her, she took the opportunity to promote charities and raise donations in paparazzi photos or other forms of digital film. She even spoke out in People Magazine, 58 times!
As she was just as much of a human as the next person, the average human never had cameras following them around criticizing them for every struggle of theirs. Just like us all, Princess Diana went through trials and tribulations like postpartum depression, eating disorders, affairs, and then, divorce. She stirred the media, but not on purpose, “People just responded to the vulnerabilities and the virtues,” Morton makes sense of the hectic ordeals.
Now, as a society, we are more involved than ever with the royal family and their royal events happening in their life. It is safe to say, we all have kept up with the new additions and the disruption of the monarchy all in due diligence to our very own Princess Diana- a game changer in human form.