This week someone close to Diana is seriously ill in hospital with Covid-19, so transgender issues are the last thing on her mind Were we still in a pre-pandemic world, I would now be preparing to undertake my first public speech in Diana mode.
Naturally, I began an intensive programme of outfit selection and development a good two months ago. I’d long since booked the appointment for a wash and blow-dry, and was pondering whether I could afford Samanta, the genius make-up artist who worked on this shoot.
This was as much a matter of necessity as vanity. All women are judged by the way they look and dress, but transwomen are additionally judged by the degree to which they resemble a woman at all.