Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, Britain's First Family has many significant problems that have nothing to do with Diana, and it is hardly her sole responsibility to solve them. Moreover, her hopes to modernize the image of the royal family are both admirable and almost inevitable. Clearly there are old traditions that have contributed to the dysfunctions evident in the system today...
...Still, Diana should be more careful as to what type of modernization she is striving for. A monarchy that airs its dirty laundry in front of the media, taking sides and constantly battling for the approval of the public, is not quite progress in the right direction, nor is it one of the aspects of our modern culture that is most enviable. Blind rebellion to values such as discretion, while certainly something new, does not automatically become something good...
Beyond the interview itself, there is the whole question of the public's over-whelming sympathy towards her. Seventy-two percent of the population makes for a powerful support group, and one wonders at the advantages of "telling all" in this day and age. What ever Diana had to say, the public would have been drawn to her the way the FBI takes to informants. Regardless of the part she played, at least she was telling them what they wanted to know when no one else would. Before opening her mouth, the Princess had this advantage over anyone else...
...addition, there is the notion that this type of public revelation is always the hardest to make, and that Diana made a gutsy decision. To this, one has to respond that Diana did not reveal anything that most people did not already know. We were aware of her bulimia, of her infidelity and of the difficulties of her former life. What Diana accomplished, in essence, was offering the public the first willing player with whom to identify, someone open to any sympathy and who, in her admitted bid for popular support, was, in fact, garnering it as a political tool...
...first to really let the British people in, not in an almost involuntary way, as with Charles' own interview several years ago, but with open arms. The public has time and again shown itself to appreciate this kind of "telling all," with Diana's case being no exception. Indeed, this was a fact on which Diana was surely banking...