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Letters: Diana â the dream and the reality Perhaps the ordinariness of her statue befits a princess who shone so brightly that she cast a disproportionate shadow The statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, at the sunken garden of Londonâs Kensington Palace. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock The statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, at the sunken garden of Londonâs Kensington Palace. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock Sun 11 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT Consensus in the press finds Dianaâs statue âdullâ, lacking âvitalityâ and âfrumpyâ and it may be true that part of the explanation is that the âenergy and purpose have been drained out of the art formâ (âDiana, Wollstonecraft, Wilde⦠why do we keep getting it so wrong with our statues?â, News). There is, however, a more fundamental problem. The idea of Diana, Princess of Wales, was always more significant than the real person. Even in an era of hy ....