“They don’t register just how much it matters, or how much she mattered.”For those at least 30, however, Diana’s death remains a cultural touchstone. “Apart from people in their 20s or younger, it’s something that we all share,” Mr. Power Sayeed said. Younger Britons, for example, find it far harder to buy property than their parents did at their age. Diana’s death occurred just as many of these economic tensions began to emerge, said Shiv Malik, the co-author of “Jilted Generation,” a book documenting the challenges faced by British millennials. “It was almost at that moment,” said Mr. Malik, in a reference to Diana’s death, “that life chances started to diverge.”

Source: New York Times August 30, 2017 03:45 UTC