Sadly, the Queen of Hearts, Princess Diana died aged 36, in 1997, however, in her cut-short life she changed the British Royal family forever.
What a long way the Royals have come in only 23 years. How much of that can we attribute to Diana's legacy? Did she modernize the monarchy more than we'll ever know?
In September 1997, the British public had a decidedly different mood toward the royal family. At that time, after Princess Diana’s death, their collective confusion and subsequent outrage over the royal’s inaccessibility during the tragedy and the family’s perceived coldness towards Diana - who had been stripped of her HRH title after her divorce from Prince Charles - caused a large segment of the population to question the very existence of the monarchy.
In life, Diana revitalized the British monarchy and in death, she changed it forever. Today, her legacy lives on in everything from the Windsor’s more accessible approach to the public to William and Harry’s charity work to virtually everything Kate does. Nearly twenty years after her death, ‘The Diana Effect’ is alive and well - and a guiding principle for today’s modern British monarchy.
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