Well then, with her love life settled, how would Diana have received Duchess Catherine?<\/p>\n
“The rising public adoration of Kate would have afforded Diana some tricky moments. Pleased, yes. But, like Frances Shand Kydd\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho, days before Diana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wedding, suddenly burst out, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have good long legs, like my daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDiana would have had to adjust to a broadening of the limelight. Her edge over Kate, of course, was her own epic of princessly suffering, which would always make Diana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story more interesting. (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Happily ever after\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will never have the same allure to the press as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It all went horribly wrong.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) Diana, rejoicing in her flawless Spencer pedigree, would have positioned herself as a firm defender of the Middletons against the palace snobs and ostentatiously made Carole Middleton, Kate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dynamic mother, her new BFF.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While “what would have Diana thought” was a common question around the time of the royal marriage, detailing her hypothetical love life and besties, and raising her from the dead (Photoshop is getting really advanced these days) for the cover of a magazine is a bit… uncomfortable, considering the circumstances surrounding the reason Princess Diana isn’t around for magazine covers or interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Considering that Prince William and (the former) Kate Middleton’s wedding was one of the biggest media events in recent memory, how do you take advantage of lingering royal interest? If you’re Newsweek, you raise the dead – in this case, Princess Diana, mother of the groom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4931,6125,3584,1486,6126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20362,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20359\/revisions\/20362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}