The Stacks: Princess Diana and the Day the Fairytale Died
The People’s Princess
When mourners were asked why they were weeping, they didn’t know. What was it about Princess Diana that made so many people love her so deeply?
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The business of writing obituaries may seem, at first glance, a morbid affair. Just think of the title of Gay Talese’s 1966 Esquire profile of the New York Times obituary writer Alden Whitman: “Mr.
