"high tide of feeling" - I rather suspect that's over-estimating the significance most people actually place on this stuff.

As for the relative merits of Diana and Camilla, I think that Julie Bindell, founder of Justice for Women, writing in the Guardian today has it about right:

"Next time my friends tell me what a worthy cover girl Diana was, I'll remind them she left all her millions to members of the royal family, not to charity, and you can see any number of women like her in Tatler. Camilla, though, if stripped of her class privilege, could be imagined working as a farm hand, mucking out the pigs."