Naïve Lord Stevens fails to kill Diana story
That Diana Princess of Wales believed Camilla Parker Bowles was the target of a royal plot might lead a sensible person to conclude that she was a little confused, a little paranoid perhaps. If true, this plot has so may twists it involved marrying her last year and has yet to reach a conclusion nine years on. Instead the claim appears to open a whole new angle for conspiracy theorists at mid-market tabloids.
The Express titles have always struggled to compete with the Daily Mail and have quite a reputation for obsessing over Diana. It’s been reported that it takes just sixteen full-time journalists to publish the Sunday Express (it’s not just the BBC that serves business poorly, the Express titles outsource all their city news) and making news up is clearly cheap as chips.
Lord Stevens’ strategy for killing the story is fundamentally flawed. He’s spent £4 million writing 832 pages that systematically counter the conspiracy theories. But conspiracy theorists are not rational beings. By paying attention to nonsense, Stevens has inadvertently lent it credibility and the Express now has 832 pages to fisk… enough to see it through to the end of the century.
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