No good person voluntarily symbolises a nation state. Europe T hat is an abstract morality. The House of Windsor, like the House of Orange in the Netherlands, is a permanent anti-Europe campaign. Even without eurosceptics, every symbolic act of the British monarchy is both explicitly British, and explicitly non-European. Like the other public members of the Royal Family, Diana presented herself to the British nation, as national symbol, and invited them to celebrate the nation's existence.
Every nationalist knows that.
From outside Britain, the assessment of Diana's death depends on attitudes to Europe. Opponents of nationalism can not. The first reactions have now crystallised into a national cult of Diana in Britain, encouraged by the Blair government. All that is missing now is a conspiracy theory, in which Diana was murdered by the European Commission. All Rights Reserved.