Princess Diana’s Death Anniversary: More than 30 years after Princess Diana’s death, a time capsule left by her at a London hospital has been excavated. It is a small box buried by the late Princess of Wales, who was also president of London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). 
It was sealed beneath the foundations of the Variety Club building at GOSH in March 1991. The lead-lined wooden time capsule was found after construction work began on a new children’s cancer center, reports CNN. Inside was an interesting glimpse into life in the early ’90s.
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According to a press release issued by GOSH on Wednesday, employees born in 1991 or already employed there helped remove the capsule. It contained a pocket-sized television, a Kylie Minogue CD and some tree seeds. According to the report, two children, Sylvia Foulkes and David Watson, who won a contest on the popular children’s television show “Blue Peter,” chose the capsule’s contents.
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Christina Haynes, a British woman who once earned thousands of pounds by impersonating Princess Diana, told the BBC in 1996, “When I told the Japanese people who came to me that I was not Diana, they would cry.” A few months later, she announced that she was free from her duties as a Diana impersonator, saying that the work had caused her mental distress and illness. “I had become a zombie like her (…). The stress of public life was too much for both of us,” Haynes said.
Haynes was probably the most famous of the countless professional Diana impersonators, but she actually looked nothing like Diana, according to Edward White, author of the book ‘Dianaworld: An Obsession’. The book describes Diana as the common man’s princess. In other words, the book extensively highlights her public and private, real and unreal life.
It describes how some “common people” made Diana a celebrity. These common people belonged to a variety of communities, including fashion designers, courtiers, hairdressers, politicians, royal servants, sex workers, astrologers, homosexuals, newspapermen, fortune tellers, admirers, satirists and lookalikes.
The book Dianaworld describes a Diana who was important to many people in many ways. “If you dig deep enough, you will find Diana’s many identities, including being Jewish, American and Republican. There were many other aspects to her life. Most importantly, White says, she was a pale rose, with her British DNA, that adorned the Windsor monarchy.
She was free of any kind of class identity, snobbery or elitism.” Tony Blair once told an interviewer that Diana had reinvented Britishness. White believes it would be more accurate to say that through Diana, the Britons redefined their identity in a new way. White said that Diana was not liked as much at home as she was abroad. In a section of the British media, her popularity abroad was not given much importance.
White explained how Diana’s personality was popular globally. White writes that America used to claim that Diana was “an American princess”. He said that Diana used to be the dream princess for many people in America. The author said that,
Diana often expressed her desire to move to America, thousands of miles away, to escape the strictness of Windsor Palace and the conservatism of the British press. Although Diana could not do so, her son Prince Harry definitely settled in America with his wife Megan and children in 2020.
During his visit to Pakistan, India and countries of Africa and West Asia, Diana was given a warm welcome by the people. She was seen as a princess whose image was beyond all kinds of real and unreal social barriers.
White has mentioned a group of Pakistani women in the book. According to White, those women were thrilled about the idea of Diana’s possible marriage to British-Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
Before Charles and Diana’s 1986 visit to Japan, thousands of Japanese school children were gifted Diana robot dolls. Many girls looking like Diana started appearing in supermarkets wearing Diana wigs.
White says that there came a time when there was a competition among girls to look like Diana from Kensington in Britain to Kyoto city of Japan. There used to be a crowd of women looking like Diana on the streets.
In such a situation, it was difficult to tell at times where the real Diana was. Born on July 1, 1961, Diana died in a road accident on August 31, 1997.
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