Diana Spencer: Princess of Wales, Queen of Hearts. There are many epithets used to remember Lady D. She passed away on August 31, 1997, yet just naming it generates emotion; her memory is still alive and her legacy lives on. It is as if since her tragic death the world has appropriated her, to restore an image for use and consumption by the media.
Diana has become an iconic figure on a global level, one of the most popular and loved women of the last century, and this for a series of reasons: first, she embodied the ideal of the romantic heroine, with all her good dose of pain and tragedy . A young and innocent princess who discovers her Prince Charming in love with someone else, an evil witch who has ensnared him and taken him away from her. But also a woman who, despite her fragilities, finds within herself the courage to tell her version of her story to escape a script that others have written for her. Putting herself at the service of those who lead a painful life, champion of the least.
Diana is today a pop icon and the journalists Eva Grippa and Antonello Guerrera tell you about her beyond the clichés, to reveal the person behind the character and explain why Lady D is still “alive” today, not only in people’s hearts, but in a popular imagination that our culture draws on almost daily. Diana Forever.
EPISODE 1 The POP icon. How Diana became a symbol and why
Diana’s life ended with a crash and our story begins from there: at the beginning of the summer of 1997, her last summer, Diana could say she had reached the peak of her “professional career” and after two decades of heartbreak, crying and accusations, self-harm and pain, he even seemed to have achieved the happiness he had longed for, and perhaps deserved. Then the tragic death, and Diana is consigned to myth. No one dared to write or say anything against her anymore, fearing that they would offend the sensitivity and susceptibility of more than her. Diana is a myth that continues to live because no one has ever had and will ever have the courage to dismantle it. Remembering only what was good about her is fun for everyone; there Dianamania he handed her over to the iconography of the contemporary world, made her part of the heritage of a collective imagination, made her a pop icon.
EPISODE 2 The sad princess. Diana’s unhappy life
The marriage of the Princes of Wales never really worked, despite the fairytale aura that initially surrounded their union. Yet the reasons for Diana’s unhappiness must be sought beyond Prince Charles. Further back in time, compared to the marriage poisoned by misunderstandings, and in a family different from the real one, amidst insecurities and pains that affected their growth. In this new episode of Diana Forever we travel through the princess’s life through her feelings, and in doing so we also review the list of her flirtations. How many were Diana’s lovers? And who among them did the princess really love? Our news abandons the hagiographic story that has always prevailed when talking about Lady D, to return a very human image of a woman in constant search of love.
EPISODE 3 The first royal fashion influencer.
From the bag that bears her name to a certain way of wearing jeans and blazers, many trends still bring us back to Diana. If the Princess of Wales has been a source of inspiration for fashion addicts on social media for decades and, above all, for ordinary women, it is not only because of her undoubted taste in dressing, but because Diana has made fashion an instrument of communication and power. Diana wasn’t born a queen of style – we all remember her, at her debut in the spotlight, bundled up in long skirts and wool sweaters with dubious prints, shirts with pie collars and unlikely dungarees – but she certainly became one.
Diana consciously used clothes, hairstyles and make up to express feelings and moods, dress to express, and to build her public image, dress to impress. Thanks to fashion, Diana has developed a language and also for this reason fashion still suffers a collective love for her: “dressing like Lady D” is not just copying her style, certain that the combination is the right one. There’s much more.
EPISODE 4 – The friend of the last. That is, Diana’s spiritual legacy.
When she was still alive, it was her empathy, her human warmth, her compassionate spirit, that conquered people, but why is the world still so in love with her? Diana was an absolute innovator in the royal family, one who asked doctors to combine treatment with hugs and who shook hands with AIDS patients while the other royals greeted the crowd from the top of the Palace with cold waves of gloved hands. Diana was a pioneer from many points of view: among the first public figures to put her experience at the service of others, she spoke about eating disorders when many women still bore the burden in silence and the medical community struggled to even diagnose them. To suggest a new way of looking at her is Gen Z, who considers Diana “inspiring” in his rising to role model not only for the generation of young women of her time, but also for many others after her.
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