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My mother carried a different truth and so possibly taught us to be wary of media representations and ways they can shape cultural memories. I searched for my own truths that would question some of the silences around my refugee families and loses endured during the Holocaust. I value social theories that could somehow hold on to notions of truth and so resisted the notions that ‘truth’ was an effect of discourse. I wanted to shape a formative social theory that could engage with the different levels of lived experience and ways that memories are embodied so that, as Freud recognised, often it was a question with how much truth people could live with.

When people returned to normal life it could be difficult to recall the emotion of those days and as the years passed they can seem like distant memories. But for many these memories remain as a touchstone even if 10 Remembering Diana they have not been publicly legitimated. Many people had felt an inner connection and sense of responsibility for Diana that translated into a concern for her children when she died. This helps account for the widespread goodwill that was felt towards William and Catherine and the willingness to celebrate on 29 April a love that seemed a more real and equal relationship that could hopefully help to alleviate the pain of past losses.

Through elevating ‘feeling to the highest position’ she was identifying with a cultural transformation of voice that recognised that people felt not only entitled to their rights, as Thatcher has realised, but also to be listened to and their feelings as much as their opinions respected. This represented a challenge to a postmodern cynicism that can find it difficult to believe in anything but feels that it must, in Bauman’s terms be ‘travelling light’ since beliefs can get in the way of your individual success and achievement.

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