Newsweek Photoshops Princess Diana & Kate Middleton together: offensive?

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Is this Newsweek cover offensive? At first glance, I was all “WTF?” but as I keep glancing at through the morning, I don’t find it offensive so much as I find it cheesy. The whole idea behind it – “Diana at 50: What would she be like if she had lived?” is interesting, if macabre. Newsweek also Photoshopped an image of Princess Diana to look like she’s holding an iPhone, so it’s basically like Newsweek is just trying to cause controversy and be dumb about it. Beyond that, I think a lot of us do wonder: What would Diana have thought about Kate Middleton? Would Kate even have gotten this far if Diana was still alive? Would Diana love her daughter-in-law?

The Newsweek piece is written by Tina Brown, now of The Daily Beast, but she used to be major in the British press, and she actually knew (and covered extensively) Princess Diana. Tina Brown was also the editor-in-chief for Vanity Fair for those now iconic Mario Testino photos in 1997, which were Diana’s last formal portraits. Incidentally, Tina Brown also wrote one of the better Diana books, in my opinion: The Diana Chronicles, which is a totally decent weekend read if you ever feel like it. You can read the Newsweek piece here, and here are some highlights from Tina Brown imagining what Diana would be like today:

Diana’s style: Diana would have been 50 this month. What would she have been like? Still great-looking: that’s a given. Her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, with her cornflower-blue eyes and striding sexuality, was a handsome woman to the very end. Fashionwise, Diana would have gone the J.Crew and Galliano route à la Michelle Obama, always knowing how to mix the casual with the glam. There is no doubt she would have kept her chin taut with strategic Botox shots and her bare arms buff from the gym.

Remarriage? At least two, I suspect, on both sides of the Atlantic. Always so professional herself, she would have soon grown exasperated with Dodi Al-Fayed’s hopeless unreliability. After the breakup I see her moving to her favorite city, New York, spending a few cocooned years safely married to a super-rich hedge-fund guy who could provide her with what she called “all the toys”: the plane, the private island, the security detail. Gliding sleekly into her 40s, her romantic taste would have moved to men of power over boys of play. She’d have tired of the hedge-fund guy and drifted into undercover trysts with someone more exciting—a high-mindedly horny late-night talk-show host, or a globe-trotting French finance wizard destined for the Élysée Palace. I suspect she would have retained a weakness for men in uniform, and a yen for dashing Muslim men. (A two-year fling with a Pakistani general, rumored to have links to the ISI, would have been a particular headache to the Foreign Office and the State Department.) Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative would have become her new post-palace power circles. She would perhaps have caused a press sensation with an unplanned pledge from the CGI stage to raise $50 million to help educate women in South Sudan.

Politics: Politically, Diana would have been very much at home with David Cameron and all the old Etonians who now run Britain. She would, much earlier, have parted company with Tony Blair, stung by his failure to use her for big peacemaking missions overseas. He would have tried to woo her back each election cycle, but Diana was shrewd when it came to the conducting of feuds.

Prince Charles & Camilla: I believe her best male friend in later years would have been, poignantly, her reviled first husband. As the financier Sir James Goldsmith once put it, “When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy,” and Charles, having married Camilla, would suddenly have found the company of his ex strangely comforting. Diana, with time, would no longer have found Charles’s causes tiresome. Rather, she would have empathized, and asked his advice about hers. After so many loves and losses, she would finally have let go of her rancor toward Camilla. The duchess’s galleon-size Lady Bracknell hat at William’s wedding would have offered satisfaction enough.

Petty girl stuff: Among her global girlfriend set, she might view Queen Rania’s beauty, youth, and social conscience as a triple threat that should be watched. After some initial competitiveness with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, she’d have probably bonded with her at the G20 dinner over ways to dodge Berlusconi.

On Kate Middleton: And Kate, the newly minted Duchess of Cambridge? How would Diana have handled her son’s steadfast affection for a woman other than herself? The rising public adoration of Kate would have afforded Diana some tricky moments. Pleased, yes. But, like Frances Shand Kydd—who, days before Diana’s wedding, suddenly burst out, “I have good long legs, like my daughter”—Diana would have had to adjust to a broadening of the limelight. Her edge over Kate, of course, was her own epic of princessly suffering, which would always make Diana’s story more interesting. (“Happily ever after” will never have the same allure to the press as “It all went horribly wrong.”) Diana, rejoicing in her flawless Spencer pedigree, would have positioned herself as a firm defender of the Middletons against the palace snobs and ostentatiously made Carole Middleton, Kate’s dynamic mother, her new BFF.

On charity: In the world disasters of the last few years—9/11, the tsunamis, the Pakistan earthquake, Hurricane Katrina—you know Diana would have been first at the scene in a hard hat with a camera crew (and, by now, 10 million followers on Twitter). She would have kept her spotlight trained on individual sufferers whom she’d continued to visit and care for and touch. At a time when the world has disaster fatigue, I miss the generosity of her star power and what it could accomplish.

[From Newsweek]

Eh. I think Tina is right on about some things – Diana’s charity work would likely have continued and grown, and she would be the leading humanitarian in the world, I think. And I do think Diana and Charles would have buried the hatchet – they had already begun to when she died. But the rest of it… I don’t know. I don’t see Diana marrying and divorcing some American hedge fund guy. I’m not sure she would have ever remarried. And as for what she would have thought of the Kate Middleton… God, I don’t even know if William would have even stayed with Kate for so many years if he weren’t still so damaged by his mother’s death. He sought out Kate’s stability, you know? And if Diana was still alive, perhaps he wouldn’t have needed what Kate gives him. That’s just my theory.

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  1. asiont says:

    the cover is sick, Diana looks like a zombie

  2. fable says:

    if i was her son i would be mad. she would not look like that. just leave her be. it’s also a little creepy.

  3. Jackson says:

    Wow. I think it is really ‘WTF.’ Maybe, *maybe* just having her pic there, but aged, would have been ok. But not shopped with KM – it just seems wrong and tacky and cheesy. And this is from Newsweek?? I think using one of her pics from the last year or so of her life would have sold just as many mags. Totally unnecessary and kind of creepy.

  4. katnip says:

    It is in bad taste, but then most of what we see in the media now is more often than not IN BAD TASTE.

    They need to bring Diana into this. So even in death they are using her. SICK.

  5. Jeanette says:

    Wow, I always thought Harry got his looks from Charles but when you look at that cover picture…SO wrong!

  6. jen says:

    Tacky, but what do you expect from Newsweak? Standards?! LMAO!

  7. Eve says:

    Offensive, definitely.

    @ Katnip:

    They need to bring Diana into this. So even in death they are using her. SICK.

    That’s because even with all the media coverage, even with all the attempts at making this couple remotely interesting they (William and Kate) simply can’t hold a candle to what Princess Diana was. There isn’t a single royal family member today with same charisma she had (or at least close to that).

    It’s been almost 14 years since she died and ironically (considering the way it happened — she was being chased by paparazzi), the press misses her more than ever.

  8. Iggles says:

    This article is SICK!

    I hope Prince William and Harry sue their a**es for all they’re worth! Leave Diana’s memory in peace!

  9. Oi says:

    Newsweek could have at least given her some good photoshop. That looks like the intern did it.

  10. mln76 says:

    Tacky but here’s their problem Kate will never be as popular as Diana. She was a phenomenon and Kate’s just a bland, pretty girl who married well. The press won’t ever sell as many covers as they did with Di because Kate isn’t very dynamic.

  11. Kate says:

    Pretty disgusting display from an alleged publications purportedly dedicated to the reporting of FACT. Fiction doesn’t belong in news publications. Any shred of respectability Tina Brown had left, she just lost. So too, Newsweek.

  12. kazoo says:

    the cover is creepy.

    and i hate tina brown. ugh. GO AWAY.

  13. Krissy says:

    She looks like that scene in Beetlejuice when the couple is aging rapidly.

    I don’t think it was a bad idea, I just think they could have pulled it off a little better

  14. bookjunkie says:

    If I were poor William or Harry I would be so offended. Just leave her alone Newsweek….very bad taste and totally insensitive.

  15. curleque says:

    Kaiser: I was thinking the same thing about Kate ever becoming his bride had his mother lived. I do not think he would be married right now nor do I believe Waity would be a contender. I think Diana’s death made him grow up quickly… not that he is young to be married, but I think he would have been a bit more carefree for awhile longer.

    And, yes, the cover is tacky and inappropriate.

  16. Chrissy says:

    Notice the bracelet Diana is wearing in the pictures where William is a baby? Kate is now wearing something similar but hers has that “C” charm on it. Wonder what Princess Di’s had hanging on it?

    I think the pic of them together are just creepy.

  17. mimi says:

    Nah..not appropriate Newsweek. cringeworthy actually. Celebrities have souls too, wish the media would remember that.

    On another note, Diana really did have something “extra”. Kate is beautiful and seems to be loving her new life..but Diana was somehow more …captivating.

  18. itstrue says:

    Newsweek has really gone in the crapper lately. No real news and lots of People magazine type crap. I cancelled my scrip, but it just keeps coming and I’m actually annoyed when it arrives.

  19. danielle says:

    Yeah, that picture is offensive.

  20. Quest says:

    Let Diana RIP for god’s sake. Is there anything sacred in this world. I would be fuming, really tasteless.

    Don’t need to constantly compare the two ladies -totally different women, different personalities, similar royal connections, that’s all.

  21. BeckyR says:

    This is very much in the poorest taste! Shame on this magazine. The article is purely speculative and also in VERY poor taste. Remind me not to ever read anything else by Tina Brown and her ilk.

  22. Lou says:

    It’s not offensive to me because I think that more than anything, Diana would have loved to be alive now to see her son’s life blossoming. And it’s nice that she’s still remembered – how many people are all of these years later?

  23. Stacia says:

    MORBID!!

  24. P.J. says:

    It’s tasteless to speculate about what Diana’s life would have been like had she lived. Going a step further and introducing Kate Middleton into it makes it downright offensive.

    RIP, Diana.

  25. S says:

    woah thats just….flat. What freakin id*ot came up with that idea?
    Fire Tina Brown on the spot, and sue newsweek back to the middle ages, maybe others will learn… I mean shes dead right?

  26. Sally G says:

    I’m sure this sounds silly but I still miss her. I think this photoshop and article are tacky and emotionally jarring for her family (especially her sons) but I don’t mind saying I like thinking about her being happy and friends with Charles if she were still with us. I think she would have loved Kate and to see William so happy. She wanted William and Harry to have a more “normal” life and to see that they’ve both achieved this to some degree is quite a tribute to Diana.

    I’m truly shocked at Newsweek’s decision to do this; it seems so National Enquirer of them. Completely tasteless but I’m sure will sell a lot of copies. Ugh. It seems that’s what it’s all come down to these days; no standards, no ethics, no common decency at any level in so called “journalism”.

  27. Patricia says:

    NEWSWRETCH

  28. Laughternrain says:

    Very offensive to me. But then again I thought that wearing your dead mother-in-law’s engagement ring when you are marrying into the same establishment that killed her and not only that but that means that she now becomes the step-daughter of the woman who destroyed her husband’s mother’s marriage, is well, sick. Sorry but given the circumstances of the family she married into, I just felt it was ‘ghoulish’ to accept that engagement ring.

  29. bluhare says:

    Not so good, Newsweek. Hope you aren’t waiting for that William or Harry exclusive interview.

    Laughternrain: Even though that ring means the world to William? If it didn’t, he wouldn’t have given it to her.

  30. Mag says:

    @Kaiser: Agreed. There’s no way he would have married Middleton if his mother had been around. She fulfils the mothering role that was left – as long as she keeps doing that and he doesn’t grow out of the need for that (which I doubt will happen simply because he lives in an insular society – he hasn’t even lived overseas really) then they’ll stay together. I’m not saying he won’t cheat on her…

    Diana would have seen straight through the whole thing.

  31. NancyMan says:

    I think all of you have expressed my thoughts.

    Creepy, tacky, sick, disrespectful, f#*ked up. Besides, they made her look like crap.

    But, its hard to believe that Prince Charles ever looked that young.

  32. Laughternrain says:

    I know being his mother’s ring that it would mean the world to him, bluhare and probably if it were another family it wouldn’t really matter. But to me that ring symbolises pain. Kate married into the same institution that destroyed Diana. Whats more, her step-mother is now Camilla, the same woman that rendered that ring a symbol of broken dreams and fraud. As I said, too ghoulish to me, given what it symbolised for Diana. But thats just me. To me, it would be like if a guy fixed up his late mother’s or late-wife’s car that she had an accident and died in. Fixed it up, made it roadworthy, and then gave it to ME as a present and I drove around in the car that my partner’s mother/wife died in. Just – makes me very uncomfortable, thats all. I just couldn’t do it. (wear it/use it)

  33. Missy says:

    Ever since editor Jon Meacham (sp?) declared in 2008/2009 that Newsweek would become more of an opinion rag than a news rag (though I’ve always considered it to be the former), the magazine has gone to hell. I mean, who the hell thought a cover like this would be a good idea?

    Bye Newsweek…

  34. Justaposter says:

    Gah! Newsweek.. really?!

    I honestly believe that Di would be delighted with anyone that loves and is devoted to her boys. I really think she would have taken the ‘if you are happy, I am happy’ route.

    Interesting thought about her and Chuck.. that would have been quite delish to see played out.

    I also think she would have been quite protective of Kate, and made sure she wasn’t bullied by the ‘establishment’.

    It’s still horribly sad that she isn’t around to see all of this.

  35. janna says:

    two average jerky-like british females.

  36. Iggles says:

    Count me in that Kate and the Middletons wouldn’t have stood a chance if Lady Di was around!

    He craves the normalcy of their family and the stability she provides him. It’s slightly co-dependent, but in a way that works for them because it brings balance to his life.

    I think he would have been a different guy if Diana had lived. I think he would have chose a more dynamic partner who would have challenged him more, instead of a pretty girl, from a nice family, who will take care of him.

  37. layla says:

    Ummm …. Can we talk about the fact that KATE IS THINNER THAN DIANA!!!!

    Maybe its just the picture….

  38. spinner says:

    I hate to say it…but this was bound to happen in some form. Doesn’t make me like it any better but I have to keep in mind that everybody doesn’t think like me.

  39. Amy says:

    The cover doesn’t bug me as much as the article does. I’ve already seen plenty of magazines with fashion face off pictures of Kate and Diana so the cover is no big deal. But the article is merely supported by hunches and suppositions. Sure, it’s fun to wonder what Diana might have looked like and how her life might have turned out like. But I just think it’s tacky to publish this in a magazine like that.

  40. Hmmm says:

    The cover pic is just plain silly. Silly media!

  41. ladybert62 says:

    I cant decide – first off, I think Diana would never wear that hat! Aside from that, I wonder what sweet Kate and William think of it – it is somewhat creepy.

  42. SolitaryAngel says:

    This is so disgusting….this rag ought to go out of business. I can’t imagine the pain, shock and gut-wrenching surprise of getting up (if you’re one of the Princes) this morning to find THIS on newstands everywhere. I hope the Princes sue them into oblivion which is where this rag and Tina Brown belong!

  43. Anon says:

    The hate-on some have for Kate is ridiculous. Dianna is immortalized now more in death and made greater than she was. When she married it was several years before she got things right in terms of style and humanitarian causes. None of us can say where Kate will be in the future in terms of public adoration – if she continues to win the public and starts stepping out in her own humanitarian causes apart from the foundation of her, her husband and his brother, it’s quite possible that she will become as big as Diana.

    So far she’s seemed to handle things well, and her husband obviously loves her and chose her. Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows who is best suited for his life partner.

  44. truthSF says:

    @Eve:

    There isn’t a single royal family member today with same charisma she had (or at least close to that).

    ===================================

    I think Harry is the only one in the family that has his mother’s charisma, maybe not as much as Princess Diana (no one does), but she always said out of her 2 sons, Harry was more like her and would be more popular then his brother when they get older. And look at Prince Hot Ginge now. 🙂

    p.s. That cover is a capital insult to the late Princess, it should be burned.

  45. blonde on the dock says:

    I miss Diana. She had such warmth and a presence about her that will be hard to replace.
    She would have loved Kate Middleton is my guess.

  46. Lucky Charm says:

    I’m not sure that William and Kate would be married if his mother was still alive. Somehow, I don’t think Diana would be too impressed with miss Middleton or the thought of her becoming the future Queen. I think that Diana would have encouraged her son to find someone more outgoing and passionate, more involved with charities and willing to be more independent from the firm. Just from Diana’s personality and her fierce family pride, she would find this commoner….lacking.

    As far as this cover, it’s just downright tacky and in poor taste.

  47. Luna says:

    @Kaiser, I agree with you on most parts but “And if Diana was still alive, perhaps he wouldn’t have needed what Kate gives him.” This is a bit too harsh, seriously. Kate is not great but she isn’t THAT bad.

  48. shay kay says:

    Please no one photoshop my deceased father into my children’s graduation/wedding pictures because as much as I wish he would be with me at those times I do not want a fake visual of what is an emotionally meaningful moment that I will create in my mind’s eye for my benefit only.
    If it can be said that a mistress leaves a vacancy than how much more so a mother.I think Kate did provide the stability that William needed and it is debatable whether or not he would have needed it as much if Diana were still here.In some ways Diana’s choices created havoc in William’s life and may have continued to do so leaving Kate’s stability as a factor in William’s choice of partner.

  49. Kim says:

    This picture almost brought tears to my eyes just because of how much Diana loved her boys and lived to see them grow into men & i think she would get along grandly with Kate.

  50. Hanh says:

    wow. just wow.

  51. anne_000 says:

    i agree that they didnt give diana a good photo-shop. they made her look like a female version of 90 yr old prince philip. i think diana would have had some color to her face, not pale & ghastly. she wouldnt have had those ‘i want to eat your brains’ look in her eyes. too ghoulish.

    whoever did her photo-shop must have been paid off by camilla. even camilla looks better than this photo-shopped diana.

  52. teehee says:

    They shopped her to look 65 or older, adn not even good– comically bad digi shop job there. My mom is older at 51 and looks way younger than this– and you know with dianas spirit and resources, she would still be looking fit and amazing well into her 60’s.
    For some reason too– am I the only one?– the words “Diana” and “50” just dont compute in my head together at the same time. Her? 50? What!? we all know her as the shy 20 yr old and blossomed woman… but 50… its so hard to believe. Maybe also because she died in her late 30’s and remains forever 30 something.

    One major complaint: they make Diana out to be such a weasel in that article. They stoop to very petty assumptions that I doubt Diana would ever embody.
    Sure, had she survived, the fate of both her sons would all be very different.
    But at least they could add a dash of honor or respect to this tacky article and keep the snitchy-ness for some other day.

  53. AENFLEX says:

    viva lady di! just remember her how you choose…

  54. anti says:

    offensive and just WRONG.

  55. You don't say says:

    Tina Brown is a hack and is turning Newsweek into a tabloid. Sad, very, very sad.

  56. Onyx XV says:

    “What if [someone] had lived” stories are moot by definition. Diana did not live, she died. She is no longer here, so conjecture as to what might have happened had she lived is a frivolous and pointless waste of time.

    And that is absolutely horrid photoshopping on Diana. Distasteful, tacky, lurid and macabre. But it’s Tina Brown behind it, so I guess that’s not such a surprise.

  57. Laura says:

    Yikes-zombie Diana. Will they just let this woman rest in peace? She’s been gone over a decade. Her children are still with us and shouldn’t have to see a zombie version of their mother poorly photoshopped next to a real photo of Kate Middleton. It’s messed up and inappropriate and I could go on but I need to stop.

  58. JennJenn says:

    On behalf of all Americans, I sincerely apologize to the people of the UK for this hideously tacky cover image and pointless “news” story inside.

  59. original kate says:

    i don’t know it the cover is offensive but it is tasteless, stupid and bizarre.

  60. Erin says:

    In very bad taste. The woman has been dead for 14 years and we can’t let her rest? Honor her memory but do not go into “What if’s” because it will never be…this is probably very painful for her sons.

  61. C-DUB says:

    Tasteless.

  62. I find the newsweek article more offensive than the picture,and thats not a compliment.Diana loved those boys with all her heart.I think she would have embraced Kate,because Will’s happiness would have been her first prioriety.Diana was a beautiful women who loved her sons and loved the world.

  63. Jaxx says:

    Appalling and offensive.

    And I think Diana would have loved whoever made her boy happy.

  64. brin says:

    I prefer to remember Diana the way she was. Tina Brown should be ashamed of creating this tasteless trash.

  65. Micki says:

    A very careful sugar coating generously sprinkled with half truths.

  66. dr.bombay says:

    Uncalled for and extremely morbid and disrespectful, considering how she passed and why.

    Side note: Does anyone else think they aged her a bit much? I’m no Diana expert, but she would have been 50ish by now? She looks WAY over 50 there!

  67. Ron says:

    Overwhelmingly tacky. Seems like a cover of New of the World and the pic should be next to Batboy Baby.

  68. Eve says:

    @ TruthSF:

    You’re on the “Hot Harry” bandwagon, aren’t you?

    In a good day, he looks like Gisele Bündchen. But that Nazy halloween costume episode still makes me uncomfortable. However, and please don’t hate me for saying this, I really can’t see his appeal (nor William’s). Prince William and his wife bore me to tears so at least I’ll give him (Prince Harry) the fact he doesn’t seem so dull.

    If he works his issues, learns how to behave properly (I mean, according to his position) and if he grows up then (maybe) he’ll be able to show a little of his mother’s charisma. She was very elegant…she was graceful even when she admitted having had an affair.

    P.S.: every time I look at Prince Harry I remember the fictional tabloid cover featuring him getting drunk with Homer Simpson.

  69. eternalcanadian says:

    Whoa! Uber creepy and pointless of Newsweek! I thought it was supposed to be some sort of respectable real-life news magazine, not some daft gossipy TMZ crap.

    Seeing the sapphire ring on Diana’s finger in those old pictures just makes it even more creepy nw that Catherine has that ring. William clearly wasn’t thinking right when he proposed to Catherine and gave her that ring. Bad karma, that’s all I can say.

    And that gold link bracelet Diana is wearing in those old pictures? It’s the same one Catherine has now. The crown over the first letter of the name. Diana had a D while Catherine’s a C. I thought it was a “royal thing” but none of the other wives in the Firm have it (i.e., Sophie, Autumn, and neither did Sarah when she was married to Andrew). It is a William thing copying stuff his mummy had and foisting it on Catherine. Creepy!

    And I think even if Diana had not died 14 years ago, her life was so whacked out and unstable William still would have turned out the same way because his mother would have still depended on him for support until he finally escaped to go to university and met someone that was actually normal compared to his whacked out family.

    In any case, uber tacky for any magazine to do something like that. Also, one thing I thought was weird when William and Catherine made their plans to visit Canada this week, they will be in Ottawa on Canada Day which happens to be Diana’s 50th birthday. Can’t imagine the thoughts that will be going through William’s mind on Friday.

  70. MeMyself says:

    I think Diana and Kate would have shared a love of that heavy eyeliner, as in the photo of Diana in the cream colored hat.

  71. Meanchick says:

    Disgusting, creepy and offensive.

  72. Franny says:

    I think its interesting that they photoshopped her to look 70 with all those wrinkles, but then claim she would be having botox now to keep her chin taut.

  73. Jilly Bean says:

    really? there is NOTHING else going on in the world that is newsworthy? they should all be fired and required to give back thier journalism degrees, certificates or diplomas…

  74. Lisa Turtle says:

    Diana was so unbelievably beautiful. Such natural poise. She really puts the Middleton girl to shame.

    I don’t think Kate would have been the girl for William if his mother lived. I think William ultimately chose someone constant, someone dependable, someone who stayed loyal for many years, Kate proved herself. William needed that. He needed someone tight in his inner-circle, with a close knit family, to replace the mother & unconditional love that he didn’t have.

    If Diana had lived, William would have been more driven by passion, more like his brother Harry. I don’t think William is passionate about Kate. I think he loves her, but its the sort of love that you have for a dear friend, for someone whose stuck by you through thick and thin. However, I don’t think Kate & William will ever divorce, because I don’t think William needs passion. I don’t think he wants anything more than he has with Kate. He’ll probably have an affair one day, but it will be quickly swept under the rug & Kate will turn the other cheek.

  75. Streeet says:

    Kaiser, are you married? If so, what is your maiden name?

    Because we should probably just call you that. Forever.

  76. mln76 says:

    There is no comparing these two women and unlike what Anon #43 said from what I remember almost immediately people were fascinated with Diana and drawn to her before the charity work etc. She had the kind of charisma that a movie actress has. Something you can’t cultivate, the only other person who had that was Jacki-O and right now no one outside the entertainment industry is captivating in that way. The magazine industry misses that which is why they are trying so hard to make Pippa happen (she won’t). Because those two women sold a lot of magazines. I personally am glad that Kate is so boring it’s pretty much her only hope.

  77. beanie says:

    Horrible. I actually cringed when I saw that cover. It creepy and disrespectful. Let Diana rest in peace.

  78. Jaana says:

    Princess Diana would not have looked like that trust me.

  79. Shay says:

    While I don’t think it’s offensive, it is definitely bad taste and I would have thought that Newsweek would have had better taste than to sink to this low in order to shift copy.
    They have sunken to News of the World levels.

  80. Charlotte says:

    Creepy! I read the article online a couple of days ago and practically sprained my eyes from the continuous rolling.

  81. CeeCee says:

    inappropriate, heinous tack. Typical of Brit tabloid writers. Get a real job and let lovely Diana rest in peace.

  82. Lee says:

    Sad and sick and offensive….this is what Newsweek has stooped to. Diana was a lovely woman and died far too soon and so tragically.

  83. nolanative says:

    Offensive, yes.
    also add tacky and damned inappropriate.

  84. feebee says:

    I agree with all in terms of terrible photoshop on Diana, she would have looked much better at 50. Overall totally unnecessary cover esp from the likes of Newsweek. They didn’t even have the decency to photoshop Diana’s/Kate’s ring off.

    I’m over Tina Brown. She may have more of a connection to Diana than most but the considerable dining out on her still 14 years later is tedious and as inappropriate as the cover art work.

  85. DianaPrince says:

    This is wholly unnatural…and a pox on whoever thought this was a good idea and whoever in the seven hells ok’d this as being fit for print.

  86. “Newsweek Photoshops Princess Diana & Kate Middleton together: offensive?”

    Yes. Mostly because Diana looks like a reanimated corpse. Just a shitty, shitty photoshop job, guys.

    Personally, I think it’s a little offensive to posit hypotheticals regarding what impact the death of a parent as a child has on one’s current lovelife – but then again, I’m a little sensitive on that matter.

  87. jemshoes says:

    The article wasn’t too tacky a read, but like most other posters here I think the cover is sick and offensive. Like making a ghoul’s feast of William’s most private feelings, putting his dead mother and his new wife side-by-side.

  88. kikay says:

    had Princess Diana lived,there’s no way she would have looked like that,she would be the most gorgeous,fashion forward, most respected,and hot looking 50 years old mother of the hot ginge and prince boring.Waity Katy would have look like her sister.Still,photoshopping her like that is in very poorest bad taste.

  89. Val says:

    Tina Brown just took all of the fun out of the “dying young and leaving a good-looking corpse” belief.

  90. jane says:

    offensive

  91. really says:

    She was one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL mothers in the world. She was truly an angel! William was blessed to have her a mum!

  92. Ashley says:

    If she were here now… Lazy Katie wouldn’t be.

    I don’t think Di would have ever put up with such an obvious social climber. I also don’t think she’d like her son marrying such a lazy, stepford wife.

    I also don’t think Di would look that old. She got better with age, not worse.

  93. Pauline says:

    This is very tasteless. Why don’t you people leave Princess Diana alone and let her REST IN PEACE. This has got to be very hard on her boys as her birhtday approaches and her new daughter in law, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge. Catherine is not Diana and never will be. She will form your own path and will do a very good job at whatever she decides to do. Prince William loves Catherine and his mother so would you please leave Princess Diana to rest in peace and let her sons get on with their lives. Prince William has a very loving wife and Prince Harry has a very important career in the Army.

  94. loffle says:

    A lot of you’re psycho-analysing William based on nothing but you’re own projections.

    What you’re saying about if Diana had loved, whether she would have liked Kate etc, say far, far more about you than they do about William and Kate’s relationship, which hilariously you act like you have insider information on.

    Oooh, dead mother, William craves stabilty…LOL.

    Classic.

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