Diana might lead us on to the other thing that makes

This mention of Diana might lead us on to the other thing that makes the Queen a pure visual icon: the fact that she is probably the last in the line of Royal icons. Diana would be the only other Royal that got close, her image adored and venerated, still the subject of exhibitions just about her appearance – but her death was too tragic to really allow her face to be used in as light-hearted a way as the Queen's sometimes is.