Daily Inspiration Quote by Lorna Luft

Celebrity romance is never just romance; it is a public audition staged by people who don’t have to live with the consequences. Lorna Luft’s line lands because it names, bluntly, the hidden job description of dating Princess Diana: you weren’t simply a boyfriend, you were an accessory to a national myth. “No one seemed to think he was good enough for her” isn’t really about Dodi Al-Fayed’s character. It’s about the way Diana had been claimed by an audience that treated her as communal property - a fairytale heroine who must be matched with a “worthy” co-star.

Luft’s intent reads as defensive and corrective. By framing the backlash as reflexive (“no one seemed to think”), she shifts the focus from any specific scandal to the general cruelty of the gaze: the press, the palace-adjacent commentariat, the dinner-party consensus. Her acting-world background matters here; she understands how casting works, and how people confuse performance with entitlement. Diana’s life had been serialized in tabloids, and Dodi arrived as a plot twist that threatened the established script: aristocratic expectations, racialized assumptions, class snobbery, and a discomfort with Diana choosing desire over decorum.

The subtext is grief seasoned with anger. Knowing how the story ends, the remark carries an indictment: not just that Dodi was judged, but that the act of judging was treated as harmless sport. Luft points to the cultural mechanism that turns a woman’s autonomy into a referendum and a man into a scapegoat for everyone’s anxieties about her.