Got much planned for summer? Clear it – it's now the law that the only thing you'll be able to see, hear, read or think about over the next three months is the messy way that Princess Diana died in a French tunnel a decade ago.
The year 2007 is an important one – not only is it the tenth anniversary of Princess Diana's death, but it's the tenth anniversary of the birthday that Princess Diana celebrated on the year that she died. Both of these events will be marked with a never-ending stream of TV shows, books, concerts and massively distasteful commemorative Scalextric sets about Princess Diana, and the latest of these is an American interview with Prince William and Prince Harry where the biggest revelation seems to be that they both miss their Mum a bit. Who'd have thunk?
Here in Britain there's an ancient law stating that if someone you don't really like dies suddenly, you have to immediately beatify them and buy as many copies of the subsequent ill-judged Elton John memorial single as you possibly can. This is what happened in 1997 when Princess Diana shocked everyone by dying in a car crash and now, a decade later, it's time to look back fondly on all the warm memories she continues to bestow upon us from heaven, and also watch pictures of Princess Diana's smashed-up almost-dead body on Channel Four. So it is written.
Of course, monumentally tasteless documentaries about dead women in cars aren't the only way to remember Princess Diana. There's also the abnormally creepy Princess Diana concert next month, where Rod Stewart and Andrew Lloyd Webber will try to do a seance in order to get the ghost of Princess Diana to do a duet with Lily Allen, or something, plus all the 'I met Princess Diana once in 1987 for three seconds which obviously makes me a titting expert' cash-in books that are due to be published this summer.
What's a little more unexpected, though, is that Princess Diana's sons – Prince William (the one that heartlessly dumps girls) and Prince Harry (the one that gropes girls and then falls over) – have decided to be interviewed for American television about their thoughts on the anniversary of Princess Diana's death. And, surprisingly enough, they're both quite sad about it. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
The sons of England's Princess Diana said in a television interview that they still think about their mother's death all the time. "There's not a day goes by I don't think, you know, that I don't think about it once in the day," said Prince William. Time also hasn't stopped Diana's sons from wondering — like much of the public — whether her death could have been avoided. "When people think about it, they think about her death. They think about, you know, how wrong it was. They think about, you know, whatever happened," Harry said.
The full interview with Matt Lauer will be broadcast on Monday on both Today and Dateline NBC. We're yet to see it, but we're told that Princes William and Harry both feel that their grieving process over Princess Diana was an especially long one because of all the media attention they constantly get. We know this because they said it in a high profile TV interview on a major American network to publicise an enormous outdoor concert that they've organised.
Read more:
Diana's Sons Still Dwell On Her Death – San Francisco Chronicle
Mithaearon says
Princess Di is dead??? When did this happen?
erry says
what have princess diana and the queen mother got in common!?
.. they were both pushing 105 when they died!
tamara says
The manic mourning, the flowers, the sickening re-write of the Monroe tribute song, yes cringe, OTT. But the card on the coffin to ‘mummy’ – anyone remember that? Have a fucking heart. Diana mania is splattered all over the media as this article details -if they didn’t say anything about their mum what would another article be criticising? They are young men, shagging, drinking, dumping birds – but their mum died. Just because the whole world knows them does that mean it’s easier for them to deal with and justifiable to slag them off? If it was someone you know whose parent happened to die when they were children, have a laugh about it would you?
Mithaearon says
No seriously… She’s dead? This aint a wind up? So that women with Charles ain’t Di? I thought she was looking a bit old…