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NOVEMBER 2013
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HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM
Sixteen years a er Princess Diana’s death, her greatest romance
lives on in
Diana
BY JACQUELINE DETWILER
Love,
Indefinitely
SOME CONSIDER
the volume of
books, articles and movies about
Princess Diana released a er
her death excessive, even vulgar.
Naveen Andrews, who co-stars in
the latest of these movies, doesn’t
believe that’s always the case.
“It’s a testament to Diana’s power
that she can still ignite such strong,
passionate emotions,” Andrews
says. “But, from the very beginning,
I saw this as a very simple, pure
love story.”
That love story, called
Diana
,
shows Lady Di (a prosthetic-nosed
Naomi Wa s, above le ) falling for
the unflappable, privacy-obsessed
heart surgeon Hasnat Khan
(Andrews, above right), possibly the
most normal man she’d ever met.
The two were known to do chores
together and visit pubs—in short, to
do all of the tedious, ordinary things
non-royals do. The pairing was o en
confusing to the press, but Andrews
has a theory: “Hasnat seemed to be
inherently decent in a way that you
don’t normally see,” he says. “There
was something sort of reassuringly
old-fashioned about him.”
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culture
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THEMONTHAHEAD
ANewLook at
Old London
Having put a fresh twist on
the Artful Dodger in last year’s
novel
Dodger
, British fantasist
Terry Pratche has revived the
character for a children’s title
called
Dodger’s Guide to London
.
Here, some select lines from
the newbook.
THE DODGER ONCRIME
“Venturing into the alleys and courts
of the East End, any stranger might
expect to discover himself a possible
victimof pickpockets, plus any
number of tea leaves (thieves) who
would be ready to nick a turnip off a
stall, the laces out of your boots—or
a shiny coin unwise enough to be
looking for an adventure beyond its
owner’s pocketbook.”
THE DODGER ONCUISINE
“For me andmy chums, as we grew
up, a belly full of foodwas always
the reward for a good day’s begging,
stealing or—if all else failed—earn-
ing. And did it reallymatter if the
meat in the pie had a bit of what you
might call a dubious origin? Though
… I did tend to draw the line at eating
anything that I’d have to nail down to
stop it fromactually running away.”
THEDODGERONHAUTECOUTURE
“Likemost everyone else I knew,
I grewup thinking of clobber just
as something necessary, to keep
me dry—warm too, if possible. If
I wanted to look really flash, well,
there was always the shonky shops,
but Solomon then introducedme to
a world of nobby schmutter and it
was like a newworld. A tailor might
always be just a tailor, and the rest
just shine, but it’s a shine that is very
shiny.”
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