IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

LADY DI-THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

Socialist Challenge No. 207, 23 July 1981 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 259 words

The scan: sc-no207.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 8 of the scan

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The girl next door, Diana, as she was at three—at Park House, Sandringham Socialist Challenge 23 July 1981 Page 8 REGARDLESS of the actual Diana Spencer, the 'Lady Di' image is built from nothing to She must have NO Simpsons) - so her father assures journalists she never had a She must, of course, be Aristocracy - so her Family Tree discovers a common ancestor in the homosexual Henry VI. She must be fertile, but not earthy, attractive but not astounding, bright but not a know-all.

She will lead fashions, change definitions of intelligence and beauty, must be constructed as the personification of SO that we, families, will identify with her.

Thus we see 'The Lady Diana' slumming it in Kensington, doing her own shopping and even working in a kindergarten - a job she gave up as soon as she got engaged.

This identification works twice level of wish-fulfillment, the fairy story, and at the level of families we know. In her ordinariness we are meant to forget her class, her wealth, and rejoice in the assured continuation of another Royal Famipublic... but above all, from our own - at the She knew how to shoulder her new responsibilities...

She plunged through the crowd SUN It gave Britain an uplift .......... It caused cleavage amongst the DAILY EXPRESS up'

page 9 of the scan

position, unat or the nurer. WHILE SHE is rapidly constructed to fit the Future Queen, he occupies a position constructed over the centuries

← BEHIND THE WEDDINGLady Diana →

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