– When I was 17 I cut myself short, bleached my hair and wore big college sweaters and caps inspired by her “post-divorce look”. It was her best period, I think. Horten girl Olivia Branstad (21) has been interested in Princess Diana since she was 14. Every year she has a “giga-marathon”, and watches all the documentaries she can come across. – I know everything about Diana Spencer, says the 21-year-old. This year marks 25 years since the fatal car accident that shook the whole world. Diana was the world’s most photographed woman when she died aged just 36. When she got engaged to British Prince Charles in 1981, the 19-year-old from Norfolk in England became world famous. Now a new generation is pressing the unhappy princess to its chest. At the time of writing, #princessdiana has over 4.4 billion views on TikTok. Everything from glimpses of the princess’s visits to Aids patients, photos of her in the “post-divorce look”, and comparisons of Diana and Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla, are shared frequently. Diana’s style after her divorce from Prince Charles is praised by new generations on TikTok. Wasn’t alive when Diana died It was Branstad’s mother who introduced her to Diana. The mother’s generation remembers where they were when the news of the death came, the funeral and Elton John’s memorial song. Olivia Branstad was not alive then. Nevertheless, she, and thousands of other young people all over the world, have a huge interest in the world-famous princess. Caroline Vagle from “Se og Hør” and believes that “The Crown” has made many young people aware of Princess Diana. Photo: Sidsel Wold / news Se og Hør’s court reporter Caroline Vagle highlights the series “The Crown” as a reason for the great interest among young people. The last season of the Netflix series “The Crown” created a new interest in the princess’s short but dramatic and very public life. Diana struggled with bulimia, depression, jealousy, self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Season 5 of “The Crown” comes in November, where the divorce between Diana and Prince Charles and Diana’s death are the subject. DYSFUNCTION FAMILY: The picture was taken in 1989, when it was clear that Charles and Diana’s marriage was failing. Three years later, the separation was a fact. Photo: AP – The fact that there is such a large market for all the films and series shows that it is a great fascination for her. Diana’s life was like a kind of soap opera that captured all kinds of people, says Vagle. Diana’s life had all the ingredients: – Secrets, strife and arguments within the family, luxury, love, the little boys, infidelity and divorce, all the factors that make us humans very curious. NEW INTEREST: With season 4 of “The Crown”, where the relationship between Diana and Charles is the theme, a new generation got their eyes on Princess Diana’s story. Photo: Matt Dunham / AP Karpe piqued the interest of Sigrid (19) For Sigrid Margrethe Hoddevik Losnegard (19), the interest was partly triggered by “The Crown”. She herself was born six years after Diana’s death. FAN: Sigrid H. Losengard in Diana T-shirt with Diana ring But the Norwegian rap duo Karpe also triggered Losnegard’s interest. In the album SAS Plus/SAS Pussy, Diana and her lover Dodi Al-Fayed, who was also killed in the car accident, are a theme. – In several ways, I think Karpe renewed her image and gave her martyr status again through the music and the images they used of her and Dodi, says Losnegard. GREAT INTEREST: A woman reads the Italian magazine Chi which printed a picture of a dying Diana receiving oxygen after the car accident. Chi printed the image in 2006. Photo: ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP Losnegard believes her generation often romanticises the past. – The story of the young martyr woman who was exploited by the hideous prince is good, especially for young girls like me, who once dreamed of having their own prince. Diana’s example shows us that the prince of our dreams does not necessarily give us everything we need, but that we must find them within ourselves instead. Another film about Diana premiered this weekend. The documentary “The Princess” shows how closely and mercilessly photographers and the press followed Diana Spencer from the time she was 19 until she was chased to her death in the tunnel in Paris by paparazzi photographers. REVENGE: “The revenge dress” of Princess Diana has its own Wikipedia page. On the same night that she appeared in public in it, at a dinner in London, her ex-husband Prince Charles admitted that he cheated on her on TV. – A modern woman in a 19th century marriage Some celebrities continue to shine forever, like Marilyn Monroe. What makes Diana also in that class? – Princess Diana was a modern woman in a 19th-century marriage. She was married off to a man who wasn’t particularly interested in her, but chose her because she was “suitable”: A young, pretty girl who hadn’t had time to do anything wrong, says Hege Duckert, author of several books on women’s history. Author Hege Duckert believes Diana continues to fascinate because she had “everything”, just not what most of us value most: security and love. Photo: Berit Roald / NTB Diana understood that the world had changed, but that the royal house pretended that time stood still, Duckert believes. She was open and warm, talking about her feelings and about depression and bulimia – although that was not the norm among British royals. – People felt that she rebelled against her role. It’s easy to cheer for that. And when the British royal house did not want to give a state funeral, then Prime Minister Tony Blair named her “The People’s Princess”. – She was no longer one of them, but one of us, says Duckert. LOVED: Princess Diana in 1995, after the opening of the English National Ballet school in London. She reached out in a completely different way than royalty had done before her by showing a genuine interest in people, including society’s outcasts. Photo: Jacqueline Arzt / AP The message of the documentary “The Princess” is that the approaching paparazzi photographers made her life unbearable. Filmmaker Ed Perkins also shines the spotlight on all of us who gave the paparazzi an insatiable market. Did celebrity press itself go away after Diana died? – The reality has changed. There is little today that resembles the conditions when Diana died. Then the press was more merciless and less governed by rules and ethics than it is today, says Vagle in Se og Hør.
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