Princess Diana: The Mourning After 25 years old

A complete suspension of reality by the British people.

In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's grief", tries to uncover the few voices of sanity that cut against the grain of contrived hysteria. His findings suggested that the collective hordes of emotive Dianaphiles sobbing in the streets were not only encouraged but emulated by the media. In the aftermath of Diana's death a three-line whip was enforced on newspapers and on TV, selling the sainthood line wholesale. The suspicion was that journalists, like the public, greeted the death as a chance to wax emotional in print, as a change from the customary knowing cynicism, to wheel out all those portentous phrases they'd been saving up for the big occasion. Sadly, they just seemed to be showboating; the eulogies, laments and tear-soaked platitudes ringing risibly hollow.

Credits

Princess Diana: The Mourning After Cast

Name	Character
Tony Blair He was 45, now 70 years old	as Himself (archive footage)
Christopher Hitchens He was 49, 62 years old when he died	as Himself
Diana Princess of Wales She was 37, 36 years old when she died	as Herself (archive footage)

Princess Diana: The Mourning After Crew

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