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Letters: Diana – 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 London’s Kensington Palace. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock
The statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, at the sunken garden of London’s Kensington Palace. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock
Sun 11 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT
Consensus in the press finds Diana’s statue “dull”, lacking “vitality” and “frumpy” and it may be true that part of the explanation is that the “energy and purpose have been drained out of the art form” (“Diana, Wollstonecraft, Wilde… why do we keep getting it so wrong with our statues?”, 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 ....

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