| Diana: A Picture That Asks A Thousand Questions |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Wednesday, 19 July 2006 | |
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Page 4 of 5 It was (and still is) an enormous show of restraint that the press has held back from purchasing these pictures to sell them on to the public. A restraint no doubt helped by the fact that these pictures can be considered police evidence and the fact Diana was one of the most famous and publicly loved people of the 20th Century, a world figure who continues to enjoy a huge following and loyal support to this day. Even the blurriest images of the late Princess could be sold for thousands of dollars. This "last pic" of Diana has the potential of being a million-dollar sale....that is if people choose to buy publications showing the pictures. And clearly there is a market: just hours after the storm broke, copies of Chi magazine were being sold on eBay for around ten times the cover price, until the auction house bowed to criticism and removed the offending publication from sale. 
That is one man’s opinion. The harsh reality is Diana isn’t sleeping. She’s bleeding internally and close to death — a death that would shock the world and devastate many, many people, not least the Princess's sons. But if the appearance of Diana in these pictures isn’t the cause of the outcry, what is? Could it be that it is what cannot been seen in the pictures which make them so scandalous? Is it the fact that we know she is surrounded by the paparazzi who (legally acknowledged or not) played a part in the crash? The knowledge that not one of these photographers offered the victims assistance, choosing instead to relentlessy photograph the inhabitants? 
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