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'Diana was a devious moron'
20/08/2007 09:32 - (SA)
London - Germaine Greer, the Australian academic and feminist, has launched a verbal attack on the late princess Diana in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of her death, a British newspaper reported on Sunday.
"I have come to the conclusion that she was a devious moron," Greer told the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday, according to The Independent on Sunday newspaper.
Diana, princess of Wales, died on August 31 1997, in a Paris car crash, aged 36. She had divorced the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, a year earlier upon which she lost the title, Her Royal Highness (HRH).
Greer severely criticised Diana during a presentation of her new book, which is about the life of William Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway.
'Her life was a mess'
While Greer described Hathaway as Shakespeare's "angel," she used the platform to express her view that Diana was no angel at all, the weekly paper said.
"One of the things I have been puzzled by is why her whole life was such a mess," Greer was reported as saying.
"She made a mess of being princess of Wales, but that is fine because the job is not do-able. It is an insane job and, in history, all but one of the princesses of Wales have come to a sticky end - stickier than hers.
"I am also interested in why she couldn't manage life after being HRH."
She went on to criticise Diana's alleged relationships with "married men."
"And this is the angel that people want to crown," Greer added.
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