Some royal accounts say that the current King Charles III once told his ex-wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, before their separation, that she could learn a bit more from Sarah Ferguson, who had great charisma and was very pragmatic about palace matters. More of a smile for the outside world and less vulnerability behind closed doors was what he demanded of the mother of his children, a woman who suffered greatly at his hands not because of his own personality but because of the way he treated her. This statement resonates more than ever these days, now that we've learned that the cheerful and pragmatic Fergie was even worse than we imagined: a ruthless woman capable of acting without any principles to achieve her goals, which were almost always material. Just to give one example: after Epstein was convicted of pimping and attempting to prostitute a minor in 2008, she took her two daughters to meet him at the Florida mansion where he was under house arrest. As if to ingratiate herself with the millionaire who we now also know supported her for almost a decade. Like a kind of offering. If Diana had been like Ferguson, as her husband asked her to be, Charles III might not be king today, just as his brother is no longer a prince...

No matter how many years pass, the figure of Lady Di will always be surrounded by an aura of glamour and fascination. This was confirmed once again this week when the time capsule that the princess buried in 1991 to mark the laying of the foundation stone for one of the buildings at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London was opened. Inside the lead-lined wooden box, among other things, a Kylie Minogue CD, a solar-powered calculator, and a passport were found.

The weight of a person's symbolism is decisive in any public initiative they may undertake. Or to put it another way: what an individual represents in the social subconscious will always redefine any project they wish to champion. Not only is he an arrogant person who treats people like idiots, but the charitable initiative ceases to be a charitable act and becomes a device designed to clean up the image of the fraudster who created it. No one makes stylistic decisions to stay home alone. This week we had an example of redefinition through the transmission of person-object values that, if style studies were serious, they would incorporate into their syllabi forever. at the 2025 Met Gala Georgina Rodríguez wanted to pay homage to none other than Lady Di. But not in a subtle way, something that could have been achieved with enough money for the production and a good media campaign, but in an obvious way. That is, by copying. In fact, the term to pay homage has come from the environment of Cristiano Ronaldo's wife, but if we practice journalism we should use the term emulateAnd if we take into account the final result, we should use the verb parody.