Princess Diana both sacred and secular

Princess Diana, like us all fascinatingly flawed)  embodied a wondrous mixture of forms of celebrity – sacred and secular. ‘Not only did she capture the spirit of the age,’ Andrew Morton writes  ‘but more than that the manner of her life and death formed part of a religious cycle of sin and redemption, a genuinely good and Christian woman who was martyred for our sins, epitomising our strange appetite for celebrity.

Watching Diana's tabloid blitzkrieg, in the  violence and sadism of public acclaim was in Motion's words ‘like watching a slowly spreading pool of blood seeping from under a locked door’.