With the tenth anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a Paris car accident coming up on Friday, Syntagma readers may be interested in an objective look at her character and story in our Royal Anecdotes site.

Even ten years after, the shock of that August night still reverberates around the world and has the power to disrupt her belated Memorial Service at the Guards Chapel in London.

What is the truth about Diana? Was she the secular saint portrayed by her supporters, or the “devious moron” proclaimed last week by the feminist writer and academic, Germaine Greer?

Whenever a person polarizes opinion in the way Diana did and still does, we must suspect a multi-faceted personality at work. How else is it possible that one observer can be repelled, like Greer, while another becomes a devotee for life?

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Syntagma readers may be interested in a review of the much-hyped UK Channel 4 documentary on the death of Princess Diana, which was broadcast last night. It raised many questions about press freedom and the so-called wisdom of crowds, beloved of social networkers and the Web 2.0 internet.

You can read it over on our sister site, Royal Anecdotes :

The C4 Diana Documentary Reviewed.