People's Princess

people's princess English Proper noun 1 People's Princess en people's princess. 1 September 1997 w:Suzy Menkes Her Death Is Less a Morality Play Than a Modernized Greek Tragedy: The Royal Superstar https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/01/IHT-her-death-is-less-a-morality-play-than-a-modernized-greek-tragedy-the.html The outpouring of grief is a mixture of shock at the sudden tragedy, anger at the waste of a young life, compassion for private family anguish and sadness for public loss. And, mixed in with that, the numbing guilt that we, with our voracious appetite for ownership of the “People’s Princess,” are somehow implicated in her end. 15 March 2023 Zoe Williams It’s a good time to think again about Paula Yates. She was the other Diana: hounded by the press for being herself https://web.archive.org/web/20230315171231/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/paula-yates-diana-press-documentary-tabloids-woman There’s a story about Paula Yates bumping into Diana, Princess of Wales that Yates’s friend Belinda Brewin recollects in the documentary Paula this week. The People’s Princess turned to Little Miss Hypocrite (I’m selecting two of their tabloid epithets from a smörgåsbord) and said: “I love it when you’re on the front page of the papers because it means I’ve got the day off.” 29 January 2024 Lisa Rosen ‘We understood what we were putting into the world.’ Elizabeth Debicki on Diana’s last days https://web.archive.org/web/20240129114129/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2024-01-29/elizabeth-debicki-princess-diana-the-crown In Season 6, she returned to the story with the added challenge of playing the People’s Princess in the last weeks of her life.