London – The death of Princess Diana, who turned 25 on 31 August, had a profound effect on the United Kingdom, which lost an idolized figure and saw its monarchy fall into one of the biggest popularity crises in its history.
After Diana died in a car accident in Paris at the age of 36 and at the peak of her beauty, her ex-husband Prince Charles and ex-mother-in-law Queen Elizabeth were accused of insensitivity for not showing the same sentiments as Diana. took over the country and the world.
With the Queen’s continued popularity and greater acceptance of Charles’ current wife, Camilla, there’s nothing that time can’t heal. But one thing has changed forever: the way the press reports on celebrity deaths.
Death of the ‘ideal’ princess
This is the view of Ruth Penfold-Mounce, professor at York University. In a scientific paper examining the princess’s death, she notes that it’s a more on-camera turmoil than ever before, opening up a new avenue for the media to follow the disappearance of famous people.
In the analysis published in the academic portal The Conversation, Penfold-Mounce points out that the princess fulfills all the requirements of a bombshell: young, beautiful, mother of princes, marginal and advocating for relevant social causes.
She was divorced and dating a foreign millionaire. “And it all ended in a sudden, dramatic and unpredictable death,” she says.
For the teacher, Diana’s death was a media “tragedy”: an ideal story with an ideal hero.
And the series soon became a strong “rival”, but remained as evidence.
“The impact of the extent of Diana’s death far exceeded that of Mother Teresa’s death, which occurred five days later, whose life of sacrifice and sanctity lacked the media appeal of pure glamor equivalent to that of the Princess of Wales.”
The expert thinks that the worldwide news of Princess Diana’s death ushered in an era of media deaths that are no longer limited to just a statement.
“Instead, they began to be heavily covered by the media from all angles that were packaged for longer consumption than just the main news of the day.
Penfold-Mounce thinks that a 24-hour global media presence contributed to the almost inexhaustible succession of reports about Diana’s tragedy, further adding to the contrast with the coverage of previous celebrity deaths.
At the age of 18 at the time, the professor personally followed the scope that affected those who liked and disliked Diana or the royal family, while also enabling the prolific dissemination of visual recordings on an unprecedented scale:
The princess who chased after the media while she was alive was even more so in her death.
Princess Diana’s death was covered in the media, from the tunnel accident in Paris that caused her death in the hospital early on Sunday, 31 August, to her funeral the following Saturday. The teacher remembers being interpreted by Elton John at the funeral.
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famous shrines
Penfold-Mounce highlights another distinguishing element of Princess Diana’s death in the media: coverage of the mourning news in key places associated with the Princess:
“People, such as pilgrims visiting holy places, flocked to Buckingham and Kensington Palace with offerings in the form of flowers, plush toys and farewell messages.”
From the moment Kensington Palace, where the princess lived, became a mausoleum in memory of Diana, the tombs of other famous people who died later were also featured in the news and social media. , Remember.
While Diana was literally persecuted by the paparazzi who craved for her images, until the moment of her fatal accident, the expert thinks it was the extent of her death that helped the princess achieve demi-saint status:
“She will never grow old and her beauty will never fade. Princess Diana was frozen in time forever by the death of the media. ”
And it continues to inspire an inexhaustible amount of conspiracy theories to this day.
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source: Noticias
