In this magazine cover image released by Newsweek, a
computer-generated image of …
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest Newsweek cover contains a ghostly
sight: a computer-generated image of a stylish Princess Diana, as
she might look now, walking with Kate Middleton.
The article inside was written by Diana biographer and longtime
provocateur Tina Brown. She's also Newsweek's editor-in-chief,
having taken over after her online publication, the Daily Beast,
merged late last year with the decades-old publication.
"What would she have been like?" Brown writes of Diana, who
would have turned 50 on Friday, nearly 14 years after her death in
a Paris car crash. "Still great-looking: that's a given."
The magazine's new issue also features an imagined Diana
Facebook page and a slideshow comparing the fashion styles of Diana
and Middleton, who married Diana's oldest child, Prince William, in
April.
About the cover, a Los Angeles Times headline asked, "Shocking,
brilliant or just plain cheap?" An Atlantic Wire headline added,
"How Creepy Is Princess Diana's Ghost on the Cover of
Newsweek?"
Brown's answer: Not at all.
"We wanted to bring the memory of Diana alive in a vivid image
that transcends time and reflects my piece," she said in a
statement Tuesday.
