Rumors about Kate's health did not prosper, but style in fashion remained closely checked - the press all over the world compared Kate with Lady Diana for months. But that was all. The comparison could not go any beyond the realm of fashion. It was only fashion, and fashion, and fashion.
Still, Diana has changed
monarchy in the UK in a
way nobody seems to realize.
At a point in such exercise, the media stopped showing the image of Lady Diana next to Kate's. We barely noticed that while eager to dress like the Duchess of Cambridge. Now that Lady Diana would be a first-time grandmother were she alive, it struck me that she has been left ostensively.
Diana would have turned 52 days ago, on July 1. The press took pains to curve out details, one of them being that in more than 120 years three generations of heirs to the British throne had not been pictured alive. Bizarre.
I keep imagining how Diana and his grandson alive would really make the event unique.
She would fly to the UK from California and light up the Lindo Wing she knew so well, walking along a charming non white partner (one of the sons of the former Egyptian owner of Harrods). She would meet Charles and Camilla there, resentments impossible to resist the time and the foy of the moment. Diana would make Camilla appear much, much older, and out of shape. I would love to really see that.
Kate wears Diana's ring. But that ring was meant - now I realize - to replace the person. Diana was reduced to something the Royals can possess and control. This is cowardice.
Monarchy is it is taken today
is just status quo. It is a out-fit regime
that entertains for the sake of it.
Now a few are proposing comparisons between Kate's and Diana's parenthood style. Deceitful, if not delirious. Kate has nothing to offer in defiant comparison, given Diana's altitude. Kate has been given the privilege to rush to her family's support anytime, in exchange of not upsetting the Royal dinasty she married into.
'Whatever happens, smile and smile', Kate was quoted in a recent report, while a counselor to Harry's steady girlfriend. So she keeps on doing.
Kate will not take up 'shocking' causes as AIDS was, when Diana embraced it. Will not dance with a John Travolta. Will not even wear a strapless dress or gown. The ring she exhibits says that Diana is dead in every way.
Still, Diana has changed monarchy in the UK in a way nobody seems to realize. Monarchy looks more popular than anyone would have envisioned fifteen years ago. But it does not mean the kingdom is moving forward.
Kate would not be the kind of futile star she is, were Diana alive. Carole, Kate's mother, is the only grandmother, what means a totally different scenario for the newborn - for worse.
The Cambridges are acting before the public as an ordinary couple. William shows in rolled-up sleeves, Kate repeats shoes. Pope Francis has been doing alike. That is the winning strategy for monarchies these days. But, we stress, what matters is the subjects' attitudes. And all people are playing more childlish.
Diana was pushing the nation to wake up. Now she is just a ring in an ordinary finger.
Monarchy is it is taken today, as the third in line arrives, is just status quo. It is a out-fit regime that entertains for the sake of it. We do not take economic issues in the upfront. We aim at uthe intangible factors that underpin all the rest. The Britons are happy, and have not only forgotten their problems by venerating the newborn member of the Royals. Lacking a leader like Diana, they make much less of their lives.
Britons are going to shop what Kate shops, downscaling, of course The collective project a bright future for themselves, through the imagary of the blue-blood one's own future. But that future is not feasible, as much as most of the Britons living today are unlike to see the coronation of the royal newborn.
If Diana were not only a ring, if she were alive, things would be very, very different. The monarchy would have a Spencer character. And so would the whole nation.
READ: The speech delivered by Diana's brother on her funeral (link soon)
