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The official website of the British Royal Family and biographies of other members of the Royal Family
as well as other books on the Royal Family and the monarchy were used as secondary sources in the
thesis. The books used include four biographies on the Queen, Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our
Times by Sarah Bradford, A Brief History of The Private Life of Elizabeth II by Michael Paterson, The
Queen’s Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words by Ingrid Seward, and Elizabeth
The Queen: The Woman Behind the Throne by Sally Bedell Smith. In addition, The Queen and Di by
Ingrid Seward has as its topic the relationship between the Queen and Diana. Penny Junor’s
biographies on Princes William and Harry, Prince William: Born to be King: An Intimate Portrait and
Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son, and Charles: The Heart of a King by Catherine Mayer were also
used as secondary sources when it came to life after Diana’s death. Furthermore, The Firm: The
Troubled Life of the House of Windsor by Penny Junor was used as a secondary source as well. Some
of these secondary sources were used more than the others, but all of them added something that
was otherwise missing from the research.
In addition, some other books on the monarchy and the Royal Family were read to gain a broader
knowledge of the topic at hand. These books include On Royalty by Jeremy Paxman, Diana, Princess
of Wales: How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy by Beatrix Campbell, Not in Front of the Corgis
by Brian Hoey, The Prince of Wales: A Biography by Jonathan Dimbleby, The Royals by Kitty Kelley,
Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen by Sarah Bradford, Prince Charles: The Passions
and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith, The Royal Encyclopedia: The Authoritative
Book of the Royal Family, edited by Ronald Allison and Sarah Riddell, and Charles: Victim or Villain?
The Explosive and Revealing Biography of the Prince of Wales by Penny Junor. These books,
however, were only used to gain more insight into the topic and were not used as a reference in this
thesis.
1.2 Victimology
According to Glick (2004), the study of victims and their patterns of victimization, in other words
victimology, is a distinct area of scholarly study similar to other fields in the social sciences.
Victimology is closely related to criminology and criminal justice, but, as opposed to criminology, it
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puts an emphasis on explaining why some people experience victimization instead of why certain
people engage in criminal activity
(pp. 453-454). Victimology is most often used in connection to
criminology and victims of crimes, but can also be used in other settings because it is more widely
understood as:
An academic scientific discipline which studies data that describes phenomena and
causal relationships related to victimizations. This includes events leading to the
victimization, the victim’s experience, its aftermath and the actions taken by society
in response to these victimizations. Therefore, victimology includes the study of the
precursors, vulnerabilities, events, impacts, recoveries and responses by people,
organizations and cultures related to victimizations. (Dussich, 2006, p. 118).
This explanation of victimology allows victims to be seen and understood in a variety of ways and
because of that, for example, victims of verbal and emotional abuse are victims of abuse just as
victims of physical or sexual abuse, even though no visible harm has been done to them and because
of that they are not considered victims of crime. These kinds of victims not connected with crime
are called “general victims” meaning “people that have been physically, financially or emotionally
injured and/or had their property taken or damaged by someone, an event, an organization or a
natural phenomenon” (Dussich, 2006, p. 118). When looking at victimology according to its wider
explanation it can be used to look at certain people and specific situations or factors in their life,
and, in that way, it can be used as a theoretical framework in this research into the life of Diana and
the way in which she may possibly be viewed as a victim in some aspects of her life.
According to Dignan (2004), victimization is a highly complex process encompassing many possible
elements. The first of these elements, which is often referred to as primary victimization, is
composed of any interaction that has taken place between the victim and the offender during the
victimization and the after effects of the victimization, which in the case of Diana consist of her
interactions with Prince Charles and the Royal Family and what has happened afterwards. The
second element includes the victim’s reaction to the victimization, in this case meaning how Diana
has reacted to whatever she has seen as victimizing her. The third, and last, element consists of the
possible further interactions that take place between the victim and others, which in the case of
Diana could be the media, her friends, and other people she is in contact with or who are aware of
what has happened. However, not everyone that has been victimized sees themselves as victims
because becoming a victim is a social process that starts with the offence, but in addition requires
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