Our issues with Diana
The Princess may be yet another Diana documentary, but it’s not really another documentary about Diana. It’s about the idea of Di, the perception of her and how her story was presented at the time by a media that was variously craven, cruel, complicit and invasive. It’s also about those who considered themselves the people in that endearment “the people’s princess” and those who weren’t, but were still rocked by her death 25 years ago this month.
Which also makes it a study, of sorts, in mass hysteria. That’s whether it’s the Dianamania of the
