Diana, 10th Anniversary: Strong and confident yet a vulnerable human being

In the first of a three-day series, Jill Lawless looks at the controversy Diana still sparks today. Some see her as manipulative while others recall a warm, kind woman.

THE mounds of flowers are long gone from the gates of Kensington Palace, but Princess Diana’s presence lingers.

It has been 10 years since Diana’s death in a Paris car crash, when many Britons were poleaxed by grief for a vivacious and troubled woman who was at once style icon, charity worker and tabloid celebrity.