Princess Diana said this during her 1995 interview with the BBC's Martin Bashir, one of the most watched pieces of television in British history. "I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved," she said. "I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that." She was not describing an abstract idea. By that point in her life, giving that kind of attention to strangers had become close to a full-time occupation, carried out in hospital wards and hospices most public figures avoided entirely.
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