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Just for clarification, olebabs, I was suggesting what the reaction would have been like had Charles been the one who died in the summer of 1997.
Reading this suggestion put me in mind of perhaps a better comparison to put the mass hysteria of the public more into focus. We take 2 former members of the BRF with the same standing just about. Diana and Captain Mark Phillips, Anne's first husband. Only difference is that Diana's sons were the heir and the spare to Charles. Both were parents of the Queen's grandchildren. Should it have been that Mark had been the one to die in a horrid crash, I really doubt that there would be anything close to that almost state like funeral that was accorded Diana and the media coverage perhaps wouldn't have made worldwide news. Then again, Anne and Mark's relationship and divorce were not highly publicized by the media as the War of the Wales and their divorce. it boils down to public popularity.
In this perspective we really see how much the death of Diana was a time of extreme chaos. When Diana died so suddenly, there really was no former set precedent of how things were handled. Blame the media, blame the PM Blair for fueling "the people's princess" image or blame it on a full moon even but to put HM at fault in this situation is to be totally unrealistic.