Difficult to know what Princess Diana might have done with the rest of her life had she survived that fatal car crash 10 years ago
The multitude of articles in the past few months regarding the 10 year anniversary of Diana’s death are staggering. Magazines from Time to Vanity Fair, and newspapers from all over the globe, have been spitting out countless pieces on the impact of the People’s Princess. It is interesting to see the sway that Diana obviously had on the press and how this influence has in many ways continued to exist long after her death.
It is an understatement to say that Diana was beloved by much of the world: every action was photographed by international paparazzi. Everyone had an opinion on her divorce with Charles, and pictures of Diana emerging after this split as a confident woman in her own right were on the front page of every newspaper.
Much of current media speculation on Diana is not simply a recurrence of unlimited adoration as it was in the past. Journalists & media watchers are wondering what Diana might have done had she lived. Some observers believe that Diana would have gone on to do numerous projects in Africa and around the world, much as she did in her lifetime. They imagine her to be as popular in the 21st century as she was in the 20th.
Other writers have not been as kind: they see Diana as being overrated and flaky. Their point now is that her influence was just a blip on the global radar, and that her star would have soon faded.
Diana was popular with a wide variety of people, and may have been able to remain relevant as the times changed. Regardless of what she would have been like in 2007, it is still valuable to understand her role in the late 20th century as a uniting force of different causes.
