Abstract
The death of Diana was a global media event and it was through the images that were circulating around the globe that cultural memories were produced but there were also tensions with the individual and family memories of those who lived through those days in London. Ever since she was married to Charles Diana had become a global media icon whose every move was watched and recorded around the world and it was a role that she skilfully learnt to play to her own advantage but it was also a constant intrusion.1
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For some helpful reflections on the growth and development of the global media and that part that global media icons and media events have come to play see, for instance, Daniel Dagan and Elihu Katz, Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992)
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Seidler, V.J. (2013). Global Media, Future Hopes and Cultural Memories. In: Remembering Diana. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371903_11
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