What Diana's week of mourning revealed about 20th-century British psyche

The week of mourning after Diana's death got its momentum from what I would call 'the Diana moment'

It has been 20 years since Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash in Paris, ushering forth a wave of mourning that encapsulated a critical moment in Britain’s cultural history.

Two years after Diana’s death, I wrote about “Diana Week” – the spectacular period of public mourning following her sudden death. But this outpouring of national grief did not happen in isolation. It was the product of a change in the second half of the 20th century in how Britons dealt with trauma and loss. And it all came to a head in August 1997, because