I Know It Would Be Tasteless

but, alas, true, to say that Lady Diana Spencer
'had a car crash marriage'. That was her demise.
But from the start her life was a privileged, but bumpy, ride.

Long before she took that last short ride,
hounded by photographers who wanted to be
the last to photograph her alive, the Royal Family
led her towards a long slow demise from teen pin up
to her being ostracised for acting out the sense of privilege
that they had taught her as long - as she was one of them.

The Royal Family understood how much P.R.
was like the hunting with hounds they supported:
first find your bait that leads away from yourselves
then set the pack running, and Diane had the misfortune
of having the mix of being both photogenic and having
low self esteem, which made the photographers
snap harder after her. This could only increase
the gap between her sense of esteem vs her adopted royal status. 

Today's princesses have less charisma,
and with that present themselves
as tamer and more sensible people.
Long may they resist the wilder extremes
of the new monster P.R. machines
looking for who they may devour,
unrecognised, in new best selling regimes.