Chapter 45 - Imagining Princess Diana in 1986 (Patreon)

This article was a great help in imagining Diana in 1986.  She was only 25 years old.   Tried to embed the link to the article, but Patreon failed me yet again.

https://www.biography.com/royalty/princess-diana-concorde-1986-vienna-austria

______

American Diplomatic Flight. On route to the United States.

Diana, normally a fan of forlornly staring out the window when flying on the many diplomatic missions, goodwill tours, or official visits that were expected of her as Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, wife to Prince Charles the next in line to the British throne, barely took in the beautiful sight. Sunlight was glistening, like millions of sparkling diamonds, on the waters of the Atlantic so far below them as they flew to the United States.

The plane itself was beautiful and well appointed, decked out in a sumptuous white leather and rich wood paneling, used to ferry around high-level American officials on diplomatic missions around the world, and that’s what this was, of a sort, a diplomatic mission of a type that she had certainly never partaken of before since she had begun her public life as a Princess. The Americans truly loved to remind everyone else of their wealth and status on the world stage, didn’t they? At least the trappings of wealth that the British monarchy were proud of displaying were from another era, usually centuries before modern times.