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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mile from Erin Minky.

As you probably know, I tend to shy away from Noble Blood episodes featuring modern figures,

not least of all, because my aim is usually to uncover stories that haven't been told yet.

But Princess Diana is a figure that looms so large in her collective consciousness, defining

people's understanding of what it means to be a princess.

It seems to me that in some ways, the tragedy of her story emerged at the tension between

the modern and the traditional.

Here was a woman very much of the 90s trapped in an archaic institution, and here was

a global population with a very traditional obsession with the monarchy, with youth, with

beauty, with power, but now armed with modern tools, cameras, and helicopters, and motorcycles.

The myth of Diana looms so large, especially in the wake of her death and the conspiracy

theories that surrounded her.

That for me, actually getting an understanding of the woman beneath it all was daunting.

And so today, I've enlisted the help of the brilliant Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall

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