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“As news followed upon news, my young grandson asked me, ‘What happened?’ I told him: ‘There was once a beautiful butterfly here. She drew light from her own heart to scatter among lovers of radiance; she took color from her soul to bathe the darkness in splendor; she drew from her dreams to bestow gifts upon the deprived, the oppressed, the heartbroken—upon the elderly, the children, and the women. When she approached—a whirlwind of silk and fragrance—all things would go wild with enchantment; the world would close its eyes, lost in her verdant reveries.’ ‘What happened?’ he asked. I replied: ‘A foolish butterfly, weary of the sky, descended into the very heart of a crimson flame. She burned away in a gasp of light, leaving behind the deprived… and the oppressed…'”
In his book *The Legend* (Al-Ustura), Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al-Gosaibi writes about Diana—the shy teenager and the princess. With his signature style—hovering between fact and gentle irony—he recounts the story of the Princess of Wales’s death, shedding light on the reactions of her grieving husband, the Queen Mother, and the general public. Observing that sudden sunset, Al-Gosaibi paints a portrait of the Princess’s passing using a pen that scatters phrases rich in meaning, capturing the lingering pain over the loss of that “extraordinary” princess—a woman who captivated the globe, conversing with kings as easily as she did with the homeless children of the streets.
With his distinctive style and words of love, Al-Gosaibi pens *The Legend*, infusing it with the spirit of a novelist and a poet captivated by the world of love. He offers a tribute to the beautiful princess, explaining the most significant… …recounting the details and verbatim exchanges of his meetings with her—perhaps finding solace in these recollections for the loss of the “Butterfly Princess,” a legend lost to the world just as she was to the Royal Palace in London.
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