At its centre is a shy, kind young woman, who must, for some reason, be a virgin – everyone is fixated on this point. Yet Corrin has nevertheless captured something of the young Diana – her sensitivity and her loneliness, which feels real to people, and has fostered even more empathy for her unhappy life as a royal. “I was not unbalanced,” Princess Diana once famously told former Royal correspondent Jennie Bond. These days, many, many more young women identify as feminists, and as with the treatment of Monica Lewinsky, many of them are looking at the Diana story with horror. You can’t suppress the past; however much you may try, it has a habit of bubbling back up.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2020 07:52 UTC