The public display of grief that accompanied the funeral of the
late Princess of Wales drew attention to the many Britons who had
found an affinity with Diana. Seeking an explanation for this
affinity, Taylor argues that, during Diana's brief time in the
world spotlight, Britain underwent a change in values and a shift
in national identity from a system based almost exclusively on
household and family values to one more accepting of individual
autonomy and self-interest. Accustomed to royalty as symbols of
national values and identity, persons of resentment (women, people
of color, and homosexuals) found the divorced princess an apt
symbol of their transvalued values. These groups declared ignoble
the Queen, Prince Charles, and others who had previously been the
patterns for nobility in British society, and they held up Diana as
one truly noble.
The British monarchy had come to symbolize household and family,
but disaffected groups found themselves excluded from this model.
While royal adultery and divorces were long characterized by a
double standard, the Princess of Wales was able to win over
considerable public sympathy to her plight. By the 1990s, British
household size and structure had changed so dramatically that a
challenge to a traditionally based family value system was well
timed. Women, people of color, and homosexuals saw in Diana's life
their own transformation in identity that now found greater
acceptance in the larger society.
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