scifisam said:
So ... they put Di on the cover a lot to make it seem more likely that there would be lots of paps after her? Is that the train of thought? That's the only one I can think of.
possibly yeah... I don't know. or to create a climate where news about Diana would have a maximum impact... yeah, to kind of create a storyline that would make sense, and a backdrop to the crash somehow, by making sure she was very visibly in the public eye at the time. once again, I am not saying that
is what happened- and there would legitimately be a lot of coverage of her on holiday with her lover anyway, I presume... the amount of coverage struck me as strange, before the crash... but if the crash hadn't happened I probably wouldn't have remembered this.
I worked in an old-people's home cleaning at the time, so I saw all the newspapers, well, all the tabloids anyway. and there was this sense I got that they were almost grooming her into this fairytale style romance, the 'princess of people's hearts' kind of image, as she came to be remembered. yeah, I thought the style of writing was weird, if I remember now, almost like she was being eulogised, yeah that's it, eulogised as if a fairytale princess had just reached her happy ending... I wonder if I could find an article online from the time...
anyway, it's something I initially mentioned in passing, and that I am musing on- there are far weirder allegations about the events surrounding her death... like this one-
New witnesses have told British detectives, leading a fresh enquiry into the fatal August 1997 accident, they saw a motorcyclist point a laser into the eyes of chauffeur HENRI PAUL, causing the Mercedes to crash inside the Pont De L'Alma tunnel in Paris, France.
One witness said he saw "an enormous radar-like flash of light", reports UK newspaper the Daily Express. article here