“One of the picture’s final images is of a young Prince Harry at his mother’s funeral the pain in his eyes is moving,” a New York Times review of the documentary says. In just the last year, she’s been the subject of an Oscar-nominated film ( Spencer starring Kristen Stewart as Diana), a Broadway musical (Diana), a TV miniseries (season four of The Crown), and most recently, an HBO documentary, The Princess.Īrianne Chernock, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of history, says it’s important to think about Princess Diana in the context of royal British history, “where she is one of a long line of wronged women who continue to haunt, inspire, and motivate the public to be curious about them.” Photo by Cydney Scott Hailed as the “people’s princess,” she is also credited with helping to modernize the monarchy.Ī quarter century after her death, she is as much a fixture in popular culture as she was during her lifetime. Throughout her life, Diana was a devoted mother to her sons, William and Harry, and a lifelong advocate for children, AIDS-related causes, and victims of landmines. After a messy divorce, Diana became estranged from the royal family. Their marriage ended 15 years later in an acrimonious divorce, following charges of infidelity by both.

Her death unleashed an outpouring of grief, and her funeral at Westminster Abbey drew a television audience of 2.5 billion people.ĭiana was just 20 when she married Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, in 1981. For readers out there who love The Princess Diaries series, or other works by Cabot, I recommend you guys to add this one on to your list.Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, who was killed at age 36 in a high-speed car crash in Paris after being chased by paparazzi. *long distance relationship wreck alertttt*.Īnyway, I think this is yet another fun, light, fluffy young-adult romance written by Meg Cabot. Oh my God, did nobody remember that Mia spent all the money of the student council last year?īut those things were almost insignificant compared to the big surprise that Mia received: her boyfriend, Michael, were going to Japan for a year to make a robot that could operate on human. After she hardly passed the Algebra and Geometry, she had to face Precalculus! It wouldn’t help her lead Genovia much in the future, she always thought, but she had to anyway.Īnd THEN, again, Lilly, nominated her to be the leader of the student council one more time. She was no longer the leader of the student council (as Lily, her best friend replaced her) but her problems didn’t end there. Princess Mia was one step closer to her graduation day out of high school.

Princess on the brink