Public figures like Diana are consumed as archetypes, not people.

Evidence

You can’t write or speak about the princess without explicating and embellishing her myth. She no longer exists as herself, only as what we made of her. Her story is archaic and transpersonal. “It is as if,” said the psychotherapist Warren Colman, “Diana broadcast on an archetypal frequency.” — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 273

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘archetypal frequency’ idea is worth chasing — what makes certain people broadcast on it and others not?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 273
• XREF: connects to: Exposure of royal bodies as sexual objects began with Diana — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1185