![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She had a natural cunning, and she would lay down false scents to confuse her pursuers. From the moment a reporter peered through binoculars and caught the 19-year-old "Shy Di" slipping behind a tree while Prince Charles fished in the river Dee in Scotland, to the final high-speed race with paparazzi that led to her death at age 36 in August last year, Diana dreaded the stalkers of the Celebrity Age.īut as with so much in Diana's life, her dealings with the press were far more complicated than she ever let on. Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this: a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age."įor the more than one billion viewers of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, those bitter words, spoken by her brother, Earl Spencer, from the pulpit of Westminster Abbey, defined Diana's relationship with the press. ![]()
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