Word: princess
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...this confusing and defining moment, the British are looking to both their future King and the current head of government to draw the country into the modern era while finding a way to keep the kingdom united. In fact, this was a process that began well before the princess's death. Tony Blair campaigned as "new" Labour, and as a Minister puts it, "Modernize is one of Tony's favorite words." Having transformed the old-line left into a party of personal responsibility and community spirit, speaking the language of healing, empowerment and openness, he was ready to apply...
During the preparations for Diana's funeral, when the nation demanded strong direction, the mediagenic Blair stepped in. His public footing was sure, indelibly linking the citizenry with the royals in the phrase people's princess. In the days before the funeral, he spoke out in defense of the royal family, calling criticism of it "unfair." He also worked unobtrusively inside the palace to bolster Charles, consulting several times with him to help devise a more populist event. The Blair forces suggested and implemented the loudspeaker system that allowed people on London's streets to hear the service inside Westminster...
...innately diffident. As he paid tribute to his sister's glorious, pained life in the most watched eulogy in history, he inveighed against a rapacious press, denounced, however subtly, the monarchy's benighted stoicism and emerged suddenly as a controversial hero in the drama of Princess Diana's death--a powerful executor of her spiritual will...
...death in 1992, Spencer spoke openly in the press about his distaste for Raine, likening her redecoration of Althorp to "the wedding-cake vulgarity of a five-star hotel in Monaco." This, as well as the Lasson episode, was one of the many instances in which Spencer, like the Princess of Wales, used the media to his advantage, despite a long-expressed loathing of its intrusiveness. In fact, after university, Spencer joined the press corps, taking a job as a light-news correspondent on NBC's Today show, for which he reported directly from the wedding of the Duke...
THOMAS SANCTON, our Paris bureau chief, has been piecing together the whereabouts of Henri Paul, the Ritz Hotel deputy security chief, in the hours before Paul took the wheel of the car in which he, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were killed. Sancton and his staff interviewed dozens of people, from Paul's tennis partner to bartenders to reluctant employees at the Ritz. This week, teaming up with the CNN/TIME Impact show, which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. E.T., Sancton spoke with an eyewitness who comforted injured bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones and made the first emergency call to police. Says...