While Europe was busy toppling monarchies, Britain had somehow turned its own into a tourist attraction, a soap opera and a national religion with better hats. Diana epitomised that craze. For the world of the 1980s and 1990s, Princess Diana was the shy nursery teacher who married the future king, became the photographed face of a modernising monarchy, and left that world as a woman far more adored than the institution she had entered.
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