Newsweek even mocked up an image of an older Diana and her new daughter-in-law Kate for the cover.
Had she lived Princess Diana would be Facebook friends with arch-nemesis Camilla Parker-Bowles, have 10million Twitter followers and an ‘it’s complicated’ relationship status. At least that’s what Tina Brown’s Newsweek thinks in a front-page lead article that imagines what the late Princess would be doing at 50. The piece hits newsstands days before July 1, which would have been Diana’s milestone birthday. And the cover features a superimposed image of the Princess which has been digitally aged, walking next to her new daughter-in-law, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. The picture shows Prince William’s wife giving her mother-in-law, who is still trim with barely a few wrinkles, an admiring glance. The article – entitled Diana at 50 – is written by British journalist Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek. In the piece Brown also imagines Diana would be living in New York, after having married two more times. She believes Diana would have dumped Dodi Fayed, the boyfriend who died in the August 1997 car crash that took her life. Brown paints a flattering picture of the Princess, saying: ‘Fashion-wise, Diana would have gone the J Crew and Galliano route a la Michelle Obama, always knowing how to mix the casual with the glam’. ‘There is no doubt she would have kept her chin taut with strategic Botox shots and her bare arms buff from the gym.’ Brown – who wrote the book The Diana Chronicles – says the mother-of-two would have a good relationship with ex-husband Prince Charles and be BFF (best friends forever) with Carole Middleton, William’s mother-in-law. She says: ‘I believe her best male friend in later years would have been, poignantly, her reviled first husband’. Brown also suggests that Diana would have made peace with Camilla. She says: ‘After so many loves and losses, she would finally have let go of her rancour toward Camilla’. While she would have liked her new daughter-in-law, Brown suggests that Diana would initially have felt threatened by her. She says: ‘The rising public adoration of Kate would have afforded Diana some tricky moments’. ‘Diana would have had to adjust to a broadening of the limelight’. The Newsweek piece also features an example of what the Princess’s Facebook page might look like. The mock page shows her having 107,623 friends, which would include U2 singer Bono, Chelsea Clinton, footballer David Beckham, Harry Potter author J K Rowling and tennis champion Rafael Nadal. The imaginary Facebook wall shows her befriending Camilla Parker Bowles, a move that Prince Charles would have approved by clicking on the ‘like’ tag.
For More Updates, follow us on
and
