Princess Diana at Age 50: Newsweek's Computer-Generated Image

By Tracey Harrington McCoy Posted Jun 28th 2011 07:05PM

Princess Diana's 50^th birthday is only days away and to honor the late princess, Newsweek wrote a cover story speculating what her life would like now--complete with digitally-altered images showing what she'd look like in 2011.

The cover image shows an aged Diana superimposed on an image of out-and-about Duchess Catherine. Attention-grabbing? Yes. Creepy? Maybe a little.

Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and Diana biographer, penned the cover story, which also includes an imagined Facebook page kept by the Princess. PEOPLE reports that Brown also predicts Diana would have moved to New York, indulged in Botox and engaged wholeheartedly in the social networking site, Twitter.

"Diana would have been 50 this month," Brown wrote. "What would she have been like? Still great-looking: that's a given."

Princess Di was killed in an auto accident on August 31, 1997.

Tags: Kate Middleton, Princess Diana

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Wednesday 29 June

By Mia

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This is gross, plain and simple. Why not show a pictorial of her life, while she was alive, to celebrate what would have been her 50th? And the writer of the article sounds like a total moron, who knew nothing about Diana- she'd be botoxed and on twitter? Really??? What a waste of print. I wish people would boycott the magazine for being to tasteless. Really.

By Bonbon

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Who freaking made lovely Di look like that, what a moron, 50 year old woman would not look like that, what dummies, she looks 80, Newsweek you are azzholes, who buys that magazine anyway, i didn't even know they still sold it!

By yeah, right

first off, had she still been alive, the mags would have airbrushed what tiny few wrinkles she might have had. secondly, she is dead so lets make her look 65? This is how mags turn to rags

By Jim

Its ridiculous what the magazines and all the rags will do to make money. It's a sick world when the dead cannot rest in peace.

By Kristen

Let her rest in peace!!!!!!! gosh

By amber

I could see if it was something that was of shallow interest, but I was really sad when she died and I was eleven living in Queens NY rapping to Biggie Smalls, so i can only imagine how her kids feel. Its like people who have access to this technology have nothing to do but make people upset. I thought it was supposed to help find people or make my face into something else on my iPhone, you know the important stuff.

By Sheri

This must be so upsetting for William and Harry. Not in good taste.

Thursday 30 June

By Francis

It's good to notice that earlier and spare from any danger brought by that info.

Saturday 02 July

By Diana

wish everyone would chill out its interesting to see what Di might look like at 50 and walking with Kate very nice...it helps to keep her memory alive to see her on a magazine cover again walking with what would of been her daughter-in-law.. I thought the pic was done in good taste and I think the royal family would like it and if u dont like it who cares!!

Friday 01 July

By erodway

this is VERY disrespectful and I am SURE her sons and anyone of the Royal Family do NOT appreciate this picture. How low will these newspapers sink to sell their rag sheets???

By Michael

REALLY? Very tacky!!! Don't buy this issue.

By vanessa pegan

Diana is dead and so is Newsweeks journalism. Hypothetical speculation is not news! The death of print media is announced with the utterly tasteless cover of Diana at 50. Why not Marilyn Monroe at 50? John Kennedy and Martin Luther King at 50? Reporting why we are in an economic meltdown must be too hard for you to cover. You managed to point out in the same issue the plight of children with missing fathers that are deployed overseas, how about the children that never have a father in their lives?

Sunday 03 July

By Sara

Besides the disturbing photo, the more disturbing thing is the things that were written. Botox, facebook, and twitter? Sounds more like Miley Cyrus at 50 to me... absolutely disrespectful to her memory as a caregiver and idol

Tuesday 05 July

By conway0013

Very distasteful....what's the point of this pic anyhow? We'll never know how accurate this 'altered' picture is...the woman is dead. Let her rest in peace for the love of God. And the mention of the 'imagined Facebook page' she may have is just too stupid. Who the hell do they have writing these stories?!!

Wednesday 06 July

By Jen

There is something very unseemly about this and most likely it has to do with sales related profit. No one should be surprised by Tina Brown who is an immigrant opportunist. Britain has so many tabloid publications that this seems right for Ms. Brown. She should have stayed in Britain. Unfortunately the USA is going crazy with tabloid weasel stories.

Monday 11 July

By victoria petrun

The only one that could show what Dianna would of looked like is Wiiiam & and Harry since they are a part of her.No one else you got the picture!!

Tuesday 12 July

By S D. St. John-Brainerd

Why was that cow on last week's cover of Newsweek.

Wednesday 26 October

By Kelly

I think this issue is ridiculous. Does it really matter what she would have been like? or what she would have looked like? Instead they should have made the focus of this issue a rememberance of Princess Diana. Society is so concerned with the nonimportant things that we forget what IS important. We forget that these people are real and not just the people we see in magazines. Instead of worrying whether or not she had a Facebook or would she have gotten botox, what about her children? How would they have been different if she were alive?

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