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| Diana, Princess of Wales, commemorative statue in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace in London |
“When the royal family enfolded Diana, they thought they had got a
rather dim girl from the landowning Norfolk aristocracy—not exactly the stuff
of revolution. They could not have known that she would be transformed into an
international superstar who would make their lives hell.” This from an article,
“Diana’s Britain,” by the editors at Newsweek magazine published the
week after the princess’ funeral. Some feminists of the time were also fooled
by “the mouse that roared.” British journalist Beatrix Campbell wondered how
more conservative Britain could become when this pretty, inexperienced girl
from old landed gentry married into the stale confines of royalty. Calling her
wedding gown “a shroud,” she feared Diana would disappear within a dusty
patriarchal construct. But Campbell and others began to see it differently.
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