I'd only add that the line about directing a hunt in the chorus is likely a reference as well to Diana the Huntress from Roman mythology. The idea of Diana at the head of a hunt in this song could refer to a press endlessly whipping the public up into a frenzy looking for someone to blame for her death, and the 'hunting' of Diana by the paparazzi in France which led to her death as her limousine driver sped to evade the photographers (burst tires are referred to in the first verse).
The repeated image of a disembodied head, a portrait endlessly plastered on newspapers, also connects to the idea of a hunt, as the head of the hunted animal is mounted on a wall. It's a gruesome parallel to draw, but the dehumanisation of celebrity figures does mean the person is decapitated from their public face, their 'image', when they're made into a figurehead. The grotesque reanimation of Diana to sell newspapers and whip up nationalist sentiment is exactly that.
I'd only add that the line about directing a hunt in the chorus is likely a reference as well to Diana the Huntress from Roman mythology. The idea of Diana at the head of a hunt in this song could refer to a press endlessly whipping the public up into a frenzy looking for someone to blame for her death, and the 'hunting' of Diana by the paparazzi in France which led to her death as her limousine driver sped to evade the photographers (burst tires are referred to in the first verse).
The repeated image of a disembodied head, a portrait endlessly plastered on newspapers, also connects to the idea of a hunt, as the head of the hunted animal is mounted on a wall. It's a gruesome parallel to draw, but the dehumanisation of celebrity figures does mean the person is decapitated from their public face, their 'image', when they're made into a figurehead. The grotesque reanimation of Diana to sell newspapers and whip up nationalist sentiment is exactly that.