In my generation we’re not really talking about her. I was a child when she died so I knew very little about her and my opinion is basically that she did lots of good, died tragically young, and she and Charles should never have married and hopefully had she lived they’d both be happily married to the right person as he clearly is.
As someone who didn’t live through the 80s and was a kid for much of the 90s, the fashion side of it holds no appeal – all those shoulder pads, pleated skirts, kitten heels, and the short pouffy hair don’t really appeal to me!
One thing it would’ve been interesting to experience would have been the mania/celebrity around her. It’s hard to get that same feeling seeing pictures of her as a historical figure essentially and just reading about how she captured the nation’s imagination.
I don’t remember her being around. But she seemed to have been a loving mom and I feel bad for the raw deal she got with Charles.
It’s hard to miss someone you’ve never met and who died a decade before you were born.
I respect Diana for what she did and for her empathy with people, but that’s it.
I was more annoyed they scrapped the hollyoaks omnibus the morning she died….
Because she died young. People who die young are easier idolized than people who grow old.
And she went public with her personal problems in her marriage or with her eating disorder. That was new …she was young, the perceived victim and if she did something wrong, her parents or Charles and Camilla were given the fault. That’s like that since today.
So people put her on a pedestal.
I grew up around the LGBTQ community, my mom has several friends who died of AIDS and several more still living with HIV. You just cannot overstate how impactful it was for the community when Diana started hugging, and shaking hands, and doing advocacy work. Overnight many people literally stopped treating them like lepers. I’m not a fan of her to be clear but I will always deeply respect her for these actions, and her face always pops into my mind if I’m ever thinking or talking about HIV advocacy or honestly even other diseases/disorders that are so widely misunderstood and stigmatised. She was brave and had a big heart.
Because she is iconic. A beautiful princess who shattered many barriers and did good and died young. Her life was a tragedy. She was not perfect. But I will always adore her.
I was an adult when she was around. What she did to destigmatise having aids was ground breaking. In the days before she met people with aids, tabloids had stories saying how dangerous this could be for her to meet people. I assumed beforehand she would be wearing ppe. And then she turned up and touched someone.
The stigma of aids then was immense. If you caught it, you probably died soon after first symptoms appeared. Even many nurses were refusing to nurse patients with aids. Over night she changed attitudes.
This is why the lgbt community held her in such high esteem. Prejudice back then was really bad and famous straight people rarely did anything to help. She was one of the few who did.
Right from the start she had charisma. You don’t have to be a fan, but certain people do have charisma and she did. It’s why she was always on magazine covers and tabloids, the public interest was high throughout the years.
Because she was popular with ordinary people, especially working class women, it became trendy amongst certain intelligentsia to mock her. These were people who were never going to be interested in any royal family members, but her popularity made them zone in on her. Private eye is a good example of this trend.
Just to add, she was always fashionable. The photos shared are always during the dynasty look trend in fashion. But she later had her hair short and not at all puffed up. If she was still alive she would be wearing the latest fashion
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In my generation we’re not really talking about her. I was a child when she died so I knew very little about her and my opinion is basically that she did lots of good, died tragically young, and she and Charles should never have married and hopefully had she lived they’d both be happily married to the right person as he clearly is.
As someone who didn’t live through the 80s and was a kid for much of the 90s, the fashion side of it holds no appeal – all those shoulder pads, pleated skirts, kitten heels, and the short pouffy hair don’t really appeal to me!
One thing it would’ve been interesting to experience would have been the mania/celebrity around her. It’s hard to get that same feeling seeing pictures of her as a historical figure essentially and just reading about how she captured the nation’s imagination.
I don’t remember her being around. But she seemed to have been a loving mom and I feel bad for the raw deal she got with Charles.
It’s hard to miss someone you’ve never met and who died a decade before you were born.
I respect Diana for what she did and for her empathy with people, but that’s it.
I was more annoyed they scrapped the hollyoaks omnibus the morning she died….
Because she died young. People who die young are easier idolized than people who grow old.
And she went public with her personal problems in her marriage or with her eating disorder. That was new …she was young, the perceived victim and if she did something wrong, her parents or Charles and Camilla were given the fault. That’s like that since today.
So people put her on a pedestal.
I grew up around the LGBTQ community, my mom has several friends who died of AIDS and several more still living with HIV. You just cannot overstate how impactful it was for the community when Diana started hugging, and shaking hands, and doing advocacy work. Overnight many people literally stopped treating them like lepers. I’m not a fan of her to be clear but I will always deeply respect her for these actions, and her face always pops into my mind if I’m ever thinking or talking about HIV advocacy or honestly even other diseases/disorders that are so widely misunderstood and stigmatised. She was brave and had a big heart.
Because she is iconic. A beautiful princess who shattered many barriers and did good and died young. Her life was a tragedy. She was not perfect. But I will always adore her.
I was an adult when she was around. What she did to destigmatise having aids was ground breaking. In the days before she met people with aids, tabloids had stories saying how dangerous this could be for her to meet people. I assumed beforehand she would be wearing ppe. And then she turned up and touched someone.
The stigma of aids then was immense. If you caught it, you probably died soon after first symptoms appeared. Even many nurses were refusing to nurse patients with aids. Over night she changed attitudes.
This is why the lgbt community held her in such high esteem. Prejudice back then was really bad and famous straight people rarely did anything to help. She was one of the few who did.
Right from the start she had charisma. You don’t have to be a fan, but certain people do have charisma and she did. It’s why she was always on magazine covers and tabloids, the public interest was high throughout the years.
Because she was popular with ordinary people, especially working class women, it became trendy amongst certain intelligentsia to mock her. These were people who were never going to be interested in any royal family members, but her popularity made them zone in on her. Private eye is a good example of this trend.
Just to add, she was always fashionable. The photos shared are always during the dynasty look trend in fashion. But she later had her hair short and not at all puffed up. If she was still alive she would be wearing the latest fashion
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