Princess Diana once again gets the last laugh after Queen Camilla posts photo with JK Rowling

Lady Di forever.

Mark Mark
Jul 2, 2026 - 20:00
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Princess Diana

People have been paying tribute to Princess Diana… and it’s not just because today would have been the late Royal’s 65th birthday.

Yesterday, the Royal Family’s official social media account posted a photo of Queen Camilla, the wife of King Charles. In it, she’s standing next to transphobic author JK Rowling. The two women spent time together while the King and Queen were in Edinburgh.

“With a shared passion for books and a deep commitment to children reading for pleasure, The Queen and author J.K. Rowling have met at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh,” said a caption for the photo.

“Her Majesty and Ms Rowling discussed the importance of ensuring that young people have access to books and the vital part reading plays in opening doors for future generations.”

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In recent years, the Harry Potter author has become one of the most vocal critics of trans rights. Although she claims she’s motivated primarily by a desire to protect biological female-only spaces, she routinely misgenders trans people on social media and has suggested she’d happily face incarceration rather than respect some people’s pronouns or state that trans women are women.

Unsurprisingly, the photo of the Queen and Rowling prompted clapbacks from supporters of trans rights.

Diana

However, it also prompted an outpouring of tributes for the late Princess of Wales.

Social media influencer and campaigner Matt Bernstein reposted the Royal Family’s tweet, but added photos of Princess Diana meeting people with HIV back in the 1980s and early 1990s.

“In a time of unimaginable cruelty towards people living with AIDS, when nurses would leave trays of food on the floor outside their hospital rooms, princess diana transformed public perception by simply hanging out with them and treating them like people,” he said.

In a follow-up tweet, Bernstein added, “She humanized the most reviled and scapegoated people alive because that’s what it means to use the bully pulpit to bridge divides and create empathy. your posing with the richest author alive to do *gestures vaguely* whatever this is, is not that.”

Others made similar comments.

Besides her advocacy for those living with HIV, others pointed to Diana’s work raising money around the dangers of landmines in conflict zones.

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Diana’s birthday

Diana Spencer was born July 1, 1961. She married the then-Prince of Wales, Charles, on July 29, 1981, when she was 20 and he was 32.

It was later revealed that Charles had continued an affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles for much of his marriage to Diana. The royal couple divorced in August 1996, and Diana died in Paris a year later, aged 36.

Many have paid tribute to her on what would have been her 65th birthday.

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