Princess Diana would have celebrated her 50th birthday this coming Friday if she had not been involved in a fatal car crash in 1997. To honor her birthday, Newsweek‘s Tina Brown wrote a cover story speculating what Diana’s life would be like today had she lived this long.
Along with this imaginative story which includes a mock-up of Diana’s Facebook page, as if, you will find digitally-altered images showing what Diana would look like in 2011, including the one on the cover which shows an aged Diana walking alongside the Duchess Catherine.
Creepy? Absolutely. But if you aren’t completely weirded out yet, here are some excerpts from the feature article:
What Diana would look like now:
“Still great-looking…Fashion wise, Diana would have gone the J.Crew and Galliano route à la Michelle Obama…There is no doubt she would have kept her chin taut with strategic Botox shots and her bare arms buff from the gym.”
Her love life:
“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.”
Her stance on Kate Middleton:
“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.”