Diana S Britain
The sudden shock of Diana’s death demanded an immediate sense of heartfelt loss. But by the time Prime Minister Tony Blair, close to tears, caught the nation’s mood and dubbed Diana ““the people’s princess,’’ it was plain that something beyond normal sadness was in the air. Britons themselves were entirely unprepared for the scale of public and private grief they felt up to, during and indeed after Saturday’s funeral. ““One phrase you hear over and over again,’’ says Nick Partridge, chief executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust, Britain’s leading advocacy organization on HIV/AIDS, ““is “I never thought it would upset me so much’....