Diana, 27 Years Since the Tragedy: Why William and Harry Are Big Disappointments

The princess’s premature death forced the Windsor dynasty to change to survive the new times.

In the early hours of August 31, 1997, Princess Diana died from injuries sustained when the Mercedes she was driving crashed into a pillar in the Alma tunnel in Paris. She was not wearing a seatbelt and suffered internal bleeding.

Her boyfriend, Egyptian playboy Dodi Al-Fayed, and her driver, Frenchman Henri Paul, also died. The only survivor was British bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones.

Three photographers who chased the car on a motorbike and supposedly caused the driver to speed faster than allowed have been convicted of violating French privacy laws. They paid a nominal fine.

Twenty-seven years after the tragedy that shook the planet, Diana’s body continues to rest on an island in the middle of Althorp, her family’s traditional estate north of London. Only relatives have access to the tomb.

Her sons, William, 42, and Harry, 39, are not up to the priceless legacy of the People’s Princess. Number one in the succession to the throne occupied by Charles III, the eldest behaves like a royal bureaucrat. He has inherited his mother’s beauty, but not the courage to shock.

He follows the instructions of his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth II: he sacrifices his personality to submit to the rules of the monarchy. We don’t know much about what he thinks of the world. William looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy who does all the bidding of his handler – in this case, the protocol determined by Buckingham Palace. Even the awkward Charles was more interesting as a young man.

Harry proved even more disappointing. A rebel without a cause since childhood, he showed Diana’s courage in confronting the dictatorship imposed on the members of the Windsor clan. He was pleasantly surprised to marry a woman of black origin, the former actress Meghan Markle, breaking a racial taboo in the kingdom, but from then on he made countless mistakes.

When he rebelled against his family, he exaggerated his role as a victim and tried to turn public opinion against the monarchy. Instead of public support, he aroused antipathy and distrust. The couple’s charisma crumbled to dust. Today Harry is seen as an ungrateful man who does nothing useful in life, living only in war with his father, his brother and his sister-in-law, Princess Kate Middleton. Even his recurring, meticulously staged appearances on American TV have not improved his image.

Meanwhile, Diana’s legacy remains intact. The autonomy she fought for during her unhappy marriage, her dedication to social causes (especially against prejudice against people affected by HIV and support for victims of war), and the global uproar over her death brought the monarchy down from its pedestal and closer to its subjects and to the reality of the world.

In addition, the princess’s elegance remains unsurpassed. Many try to copy her, but no one comes close to reproducing her magnetism. As she herself predicted in a thunderous interview on the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ programme, Diana has managed to become “the queen in the hearts of the people” – and since her departure, no other celebrity has attracted so much media attention.

Source: Terra

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