Lest I acquire a reputation for beating up exclusively on innocent correspondents, how about this horrifying sentence from Salon?

Diana, queen of the English-gossiping world in the last two decades of the 20th century, the celebrity princess, was anything but discrete herself (CBS was responding to rival NBC's recent airing of tapes recorded by the princess talking about her marriage and confrontation with Camilla Parker Bowles in the early '90s).  [full story]

I understand that Princess Di wasn't necessarily her own person, but was she really not distinct and distinguishable from other members of the royal continuum?