Public Comment

I’m not sure what’s more horrifying- the amount of historical inaccuracy in Joanna Graham’s essay or the casual way she dismisses all of Scotland and Wales. 

The obsequious giddiness over the soap opera celebrity of English royalty enables Americans to trot by centuries of ruthless exploitation. If Ms. Graham sees “Diana as a sacrificial figure” it’s because she’s more interested in looking at history through the curious blinders of the myth of royalty than the hundreds of thousands whose lives and autonomy were destroyed in royalty’s name. 

And if Diana hadn’t figured out that she was a dynastic place-holder until her wedding night, then, with all due respect, she was an idiot.