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Twenty years ago, a tall young woman with a shy smile flubbed her lines befo
Twenty years ago, a tall young woman with a shy smile flubbed her lines befo
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2024-10-04
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Twenty years ago, a tall young woman with a shy smile flubbed her lines before millions of people and became a superstar. On July 29, 1981, Lady Diana Spencer took "Philip Charles Arthur George"—she mangled the order of Prince Charles’ names during her vows—as her lawful wedded husband and entered a family hidebound by practices no outsider could fathom.
Diana, with her photogenic good looks, her sympathetic gestures and an air of vulnerability, seemed much more relaxed than the other royals, and much more accessible. She instantly clicked with the public, who couldn’t get enough of her.
Newspaper editors found the public was eager to lap up articles about Diana, her clothes, her style, her public engagements, how she was raising her two young sons. The ’80s, says Houston, were "the Decade of Diana."
Then, in June 1992, the carefully constructed facade imploded with the publication of Andrew Morton’s Diana: Her True Story. The book—written with Diana’s cooperation—exposed the princess’s battles with bulimia and depression, and reviled Charles as an unfaithful husband.
The revelations of Charles’ relationship with a married woman, Camilla Parker Bowles, sent the Prince of Wales’ popularity plummeting. But the revelations of Diana’s problems did not decrease the public’s affection for her. It only increased their appetite to know more.
The tabloid fodder kept coming: There was the royal separation, the two camps’ attempts to woo the public, the televised admissions by both Charles and Diana of adultery. After the divorce became final, in 1996, the media continued to follow Diana’s every move. And then, on Aug. 31, 1997, came the car crash in a Paris tunnel that claimed her life.
The massive outpouring of public grief made the Windsors sit up and take notice. "The amazing eruption of emotion over her death got through to them that their world has had to change," says Houston.
The person who really got the message was Prince Charles, who witnessed not only the public reaction but the grief of his own sons, William and Harry.
"One of the great discussions, especially since Diana’s death, is, how does the House of Windsor modernize itself?" says Houston. "They certainly learned the lessons from the decade of Diana in terms of accessibility, discarding some of the more pompous aspects of formality."
He says, "One of the greatest challenges the royal family faces is to overcome the apathy, however, the future looks bright for the royals. I think they’ve got a trump card in William." [br] The public found that Diana was ______ than the other royals.
选项
A、more graceful
B、more kind-hearted
C、less forbidding
D、less sensitive
答案
C
解析
第2段第1句对比Diana和其他皇室成员涉及两个形容词:more relaxed,more accessible,C与moreaccessible意思相近。为本题答案。B中的kind-hearted与该句中的sympathetic意思相近,但原文没有在这方面对比Diana和其他皇室成员,因此B的对比不成立;A和D缺乏原文依据。
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