'We pour over pictures of Diana, our appetite never quite appeased, we’re making sense of the senseless, suspending our disbelief in the brutality of chance,' Raven__Smith on the enduring appeal of Princess Diana in the latest HeartoftheInternet column.
. As the former onscreen princess of Wales Emma Corrin passes the scepter to Debicki, I’m reminded of our royal fascination, history itself divided into eras of Victorians and Elizabethans and other throned rulers. Our appetite for royal news is the kind where we don’t realize we’re hungry, we’re just fed the pictures like cud and happily chew without too much engagement. It’s not a new phenomenon: We have been observing the codes of royal refinement for centuries.
There’s a very tired princess rhetoric for young girls, which we needn’t dwell on today, but all modern-day princesses adhere, like their likenesses on stamps, to strict rules that enforce an antiquated model of quaintness. There’s an impossible expectation for princesses to be ballerinas in tiaras, moving gracefully through the world and barely speaking.
. After a few tortured years, Princess Diana buckled under the pressures of the palace and the media. Meghan couldn't curtsey backwards across the moat fast enough.will focus on the ramifications of 1997’s crash for the Queen and her direct family, but when Diana tragically died in Paris, the public grappled with the impossibility of losing a global royal icon.
Dialing-up conspiracy theories used to be harmless because we could balance their falsity against the pillars of reality—our diligent newscasts. But like Marty McFly’s hand at the Under the Sea ball, what we know to be true is fading. We can’t trust our tweets. We can’t trust our eyes. As fake news reigns and trust disintegrates, we're battered by political and societal turmoil. World events are disjointed and brittle but conspiracy theories offers us something to sink our teeth into.
It’s too terrifying to admit that life is a great twister of chance and we’re Hermès scarves in the updraft. With each Google of Pizzagate, with each nod to UFOs, we’re sticking our heads into the sand, ostriching ourselves from harsh reality. As we pour over pictures of Diana, our appetite never quite appeased, we’re making sense of the senseless, suspending our disbelief in the brutality of chance.
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