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Queen Elizabeth II managed to claw back popular support after the PR disasters around her handing of Diana’s divorce from Prince Charles and her response when she died.
From lockets for Henry VIII’s wedding to tea cups for Charles III’s coronation, there is a long history of royal souvenirs.
The relationship between Princes William and Harry is fractured, and can be explained by what’s known as the ‘family systems’ theory. Repairing it will require the Royal Family to change.
How Prince Harry using a psychic to contact his dead mother, Princess Diana, isn’t that unusual.
Children and the adults they become need to choose how they grieve. That may include sharing their experiences and getting angry.
Sharing administrative tasks and reminiscing on family moments can bring siblings together during tough times.
The new queen was a subversive model for American women of the 1950s, and many traveled to London for her coronation. Their daughters and granddaughters will be among those mourning the monarch’s death.
Conspiracy theories help people make sense of chaos and tragedy by finding a ‘reason’ behind the coincidences.
Far from the romance of 1981’s made-for-TV films, Spencer is trapped in a frozen Sandringham setting, gasping for air.
Diana is no longer limited to photographs and interviews in her lifetime. She is experiencing a successful posthumous career without her consent.
The late Princess of Wales has become a vehicle for others to reflect their own feelings.
Reactions to the new figure embody the problems that come with recreating the images of modern icons
Critics of the UK’s public broadcaster will be sharpening their knives over the latest scandal.
Oprah Winfrey brought emotion and empathy to her bombshell interview with the couple – two qualities sorely missing in public debate these days.
Royal confessions disrupt the careful balance between transparency and secrecy on which the monarchy is based.
The chorus of disapproving voices declaiming The Crown’s approach to royal storytelling are angling for the biographers’ holy grail and seeking to protect their own lucrative market share.
In this new season of The Crown, Queen Elizabeth has two rivals for centre stage: Margaret Thatcher, played dazzlingly well by Gillian Anderson, and Diana Spencer.
Princess Diana’s bad experience with a ‘tell-all’ book in 1992 should have been a cautionary tale for her son.
If we’re ever to move past outmoded values of gender, race and class, we need to wish Prince Harry and Meghan Markle well — and challenge those who would prefer everything remains the same.
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Associate Professor of English, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, Criminology, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer in Media, Lancaster University
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of History, Boston University
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Medical Doctor, Epidemiologist and Biostatistician, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus of Death Studies, University of Bath
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Co-Chair, Humanities, Medicine and Sciences Programme, University of Malta
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Professor of Gender, Culture and Media Studies, University of Warwick
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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Researcher in the Australian Research Council for the History of Emotions, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
