Diana: Queen Of Style Review – ‘England’s Highest Goon?’

Key points: 

• The Princess of Wales is given a role as a trailblazer, a #MeToo pioneer.
•  ‘A definitive force to be reckoned with’ and considerably more in a narrative that delights in ridiculously revisionist history. 

I’m hesitant to say that the adolescent has found Diana, Princess of Wales. Possibly we’ll need to go through this each age now – something else to add to the rundown, alongside sex and medications, that any associate coming into its larger part thinks it has designed once more. Exactly when you figured individuals couldn’t get more tedious. 

Talking of tedious, we go to Channel 4’s 49-brief (I know since I continued to check the number of were still left to go) narrative Diana: Queen of Style. She was “a definitive powerhouse”, we are guaranteed, with the program promising to follow how she turned into “the ideal symbol for now”. 

And afterwards, it was 47 minutes of practically unadulterated guff, produced by individuals who should know better. Maybe the producers had – for reasons known uniquely to themselves – needed to keep drag star Bimini Bon Boulash’s independent, decontextualised affirmation that “Diana was the greatest troublemaker to emerge from England” in the program, and accordingly needed to decrease everybody to a comparative degree of stupidity so it didn’t stand out something over the top. I don’t have the foggiest idea why I’m coming so hard thus far for pardons. I guess it is the regular human impulse to attempt to figure out things that appear to be odd. A defensive measure against the infringing entropy of the universe, maybe, of which Instagrammer Eloise Morgan’s conviction that Diana’s dark dress, worn to the Serpentine Gallery on the day Prince Charles uncovered his issue with Camilla to the world, was “the most remarkable second in her story” would somehow appear to be undeniable evidence. “Everybody needs to look great after a separation,” Morgan added. “Also, I can truly identify with that.” 

Diana was likewise, we are educated, a pioneer of the #MeToo development since she didn’t do what the male-centric society needed. (“She was this early women’s activist symbol.”) Think of her as Christine de Pizan in Christina Stambolian. 

Endlessly we went, falling and confounding history, filling styles and Diana with importance, and purging them of it simultaneously. Strong tones and polka dabs are “hers”. There was an “exacting transformation” when she rose out of the carriage in her gigantic, Emanuel-planned wedding dress. It had, its co-maker Elizabeth recognized, got a piece wrinkled in there and when she saw it, “My heart halted briefly.” But it’s OK now because – as they did with Diana, you see – individuals cherished the defect, and Elizabeth currently thinks it “reflected what happened later”.