Di charity in Biden blunder
SHE embraced Aids sufferers and campaigned to ban landmines, but Princess Diana never strayed into the most controversial arena of all — party politics. Yet the Diana Award, the charity established in her name to empower young people, has, I can disclose, just blundered into the most contentious and fraught election of the year — the American presidential battle. ‘Young people could be a decisive force in the 2020 U.S. election,’ it announced on its official Twitter account — above an image of Barack Obama, with a hoarding in the background proclaiming: ‘Obama . . . Biden’. This provoked an anguished complaint that the charity was ‘using Princess Diana’s name to meddle in the U.S. election’. The Diana Award acknowledges that the image was ‘an error’. ‘It has missed the mark on our usual standards, for which we apologise,’ says a spokesman.