Proof that Diana was a Gen-Z star, 25 years ahead of her time
telegraph.co.ukThe Princess, a new documentary about Diana, Princess of Wales. It is hard to believe but this September it will be 25 years since the People’s Princess was fatally injured in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris in a drunken car crash.
It was a defining moment; my parent’s generation talk about where they were when President Kennedy was shot. Babyboomers and Gen X talk about where they were when Diana died.
For me, that’s easy. I was the Features Editor of The Telegraph. I spent most of the frantic week that followed desperately trying to read the public mood, commissioning articles from her friends – including Lady Annabel Goldsmith – and trying to understand the huge outpouring of grief sweeping the nation.It did feel a bit like the world had gone mad, as the late Christopher Hitchens remarks in The Princess – with a tin ear – in front of the thousands who were piling bouquets outside Kensington Palace.
Several people overhear and remonstrate with him. Seeing the footage of the crowds lining the M1 out of London and throwing flowers at Diana’s hearse as it made its way back to Althorp, her family home in Northampton, made me cry.
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