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Article: CULTURE WATCH II Diana in Death - A fairy tale of another kind.
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- National Review
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- April 17, 2000
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POOR Lady Diana Spencer. Hers was truly a bewildering fate. Born into one of Britain's most ancient and aristocratic families, she seemed destined through marrying Prince Charles to be a beautiful and fitting Queen of England. The whole world instead became privy to the infidelities of this royal marriage and the gossip surrounding its messy breakup. A drunken chauffeur in Paris then had an accident at high speed, killing himself and his passengers, Lady Diana and Dodi Fayed, the man with whom she had been having some sort of romance that summer.
Mass emotion is always mysterious. One of its essential features, though, is the conversion of hard facts into wish ...