One of the most notable headlines that surrounded Princess Diana in the weeks before her death was one on August 10, 1997, in the “Sunday Mirror” that read simply “The Kiss.” The front page was primarily a grainy photo of Diana and Dodi Fayed caught in a kiss, and it was sold for a reported £1 million. In the Season 6 trailer for “The Crown,” that newspaper with its sensational headline is being shown to an unhappy Queen Elizabeth, played by Imelda Staunton. The newspaper’s subheadline also fueled rumors of a potential engagement, even though Diana and Fayed hadn’t been dating long.
What’s perhaps most notable about that picture, and why we just knew it had to make it into “The Crown,” is that it was the one that made Diana and Fayed’s relationship public. That, in turn, likely fueled the frenzy for getting additional photos of the two together. If you could get a million pounds from capturing a photo of the princess and her new beau, that’s a pretty good payout.
As for how it impacted the royal family, in the trailer, the newspaper headline seems to be emphasizing to the queen that there’s going to be an ongoing public interest in Princess Diana, even though she had been divorced from then-Prince Charles for nearly a year, and that would be a problem to be managed.
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