Diana and Democracy FROM THE PUBLISHER
From the flower power of the sixties we have moved on to the flowers outside Kensington Palace which grew in the weeks following the death of Princess Diana.
Diana's death and its aftermath raised crucial questions about the nature of monarchy and the concept of democracy, about how "the people" are defined within modern Britain, about the nature of the constitution, the power of mass authority and the nature of legitimacy and popular consent.
Essays here explore such topics as the connections between that intense moment of collective mourning and the Labour landslide of May 1(st); the public representations of Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher and the different ways in which they shaped the feminization of contemporary politics; the circulation of emotion; British funerary culture; and the history of the Court.
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