people's princess
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A nickname for Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997).
noun
A celebrity (usually female) who maintains a public image as down-to-earth, genuine, or attainable.
name
Alternative letter-case form of people's princess.
Example Sentences
- "With their sororal vibes and playful lyrics, they [Flo] are more the people’s princesses than lofty queens, though tonight – their most high profile gig yet – is being framed as a coronation of sorts."
- "The people’s princesses, Taylor Swift and Ice Spice, have released an amped up remix of “Karma,” an ode to allowing our enemies defeat themselves."
- "Tim Walz’s daughter has been called the “people’s princess” for her on-trend but accessible Gen Z aesthetic."
- "The outpouring of grief is a mixture of shock at the sudden tragedy, anger at the waste of a young life, compassion for private family anguish and sadness for public loss. And, mixed in with that, the numbing guilt that we, with our voracious appetite for ownership of the “People’s Princess,” are somehow implicated in her end."
- "There’s a story about Paula Yates bumping into Diana, Princess of Wales that Yates’s friend Belinda Brewin recollects in the documentary Paula this week. The People’s Princess turned to Little Miss Hypocrite (I’m selecting two of their tabloid epithets from a smörgåsbord) and said: “I love it when you’re on the front page of the papers because it means I’ve got the day off.”"
- "In Season 6, she returned to the story with the added challenge of playing the People’s Princess in the last weeks of her life."
Etymology
Coined by Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007), to describe Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997 following her death earlier that day.
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.
Inflected Forms
the people's princess (canonical)
people's princesses (plural)