‘Charming’, ‘happy’ and… ‘ruthless?’: How should we remember Princess Diana, who would have turned 65 today?

But what is the point? Money? Prolonged collective therapy? Addictive re-traumatisation? What’s left is a tragedy fetishised in cycles; a private and public image at total odds. ‘Everyone above a certain age won’t hear a word against her,’ says my royal source. But ‘with great mythical figures, from Grace Kelly to Marilyn Monroe, the details get forgotten and the potency of legend overtakes the actual texture of life, because the outer image is what the public see and what they…