Table of Contents

Preface
Diana's Funeral and British Values
Diana's Funeral and Fairy Tales
Identity Crisis
Diana's 1992 Provocation: The Hostility of Courtiers
Values and National Identity
Monarchy: A Symbol of Equilibrium
The Royal Court, Households, and Shifts in Values
The Diana Effect
Diana and Consumer Culture
Conclusion: Guilt, Shame, and Magnificence
Bibliography
Index

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Examines Princess Diana's role as a symbol of British national identity and of changes in British society.

About the Author

JOHN A. TAYLOR is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. His other books include British Monarchy, English Church Establishment, and Civil Liberty (Greenwood Press, 1996) and British Impiricism and Early Political Economy: Gregory King's 1696 Estimates of National Wealth and Population (Greenwood Press, forthcoming).