{"id":1070,"date":"2017-05-06T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2023-04-13T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:00:06","slug":"theres-always-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Always Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the rest of the royal story might be about to fail, even on account of old age, there&#8217;s always a reliable fallback in Diana. We note the uptick in&nbsp;media attention in the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of her death in August. Here is the latest one to appear, a slightly romantic reminisce on Diana&#8217;s five visits to Australia. The journalist, Neil McMahon, fails to identify&nbsp;Oz shock at seeing live, people we usually only see overseas and\/or on TV. We&#8217;re simply&nbsp;not used to it and it&#8217;s almost unbelievable.&nbsp;More pointed and&nbsp;analytical treatments of Australian visits as rites of passage for British heirs&nbsp;were written around the time of the first William and Kate visit in 2014 (see News of&nbsp;4 April 2014). [&#8220;The Princess Diana Effect: Australia under her spell&#8221; by Neil McMahon, Fairfax Good Weekend online 6-7 May 2017]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/good-weekend\/the-princess-diana-effect-australia-under-her-spell-20170425-gvs7wo.html\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the rest of the royal story might be about to fail, even on account of old age, there&#8217;s always a reliable fallback in Diana. We note the uptick in&nbsp;media attention in the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}