If anything happens to me, do you think people will see me as another Jackie Kennedy?" Diana, princess of Wales, asked in Colin McDowell's new book Diana Style.

Whether the shy country-girl-turned- world-famous royal was able to attain Kennedy's fashion-icon status is debatable, but Diana most certainly is deserving of a seat next to the former first lady at fashion's head table.

Aug. 31 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day Diana, the most photographed woman in the world, was killed in a car crash in Paris.

Ten years later, we're still captivated by the princess. Tall, thin, sleek, generous, beautiful. One-time wife of a prince. Mother of two, one of whom will likely be king one day.

It was a fairy tale in the making: At just 20, Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles - often referred to at the time as the most eligible bachelor in the world - complete with a Cinderella-worthy glass carriage and grandiose gown with a train measuring a whopping 25 feet.

As Diana grew up in the global spotlight, we became enchanted by her transformation. Her fashion sense morphed from corduroys and Wellingtons to haute couture and Jimmy Choos. Her cropped blond haircut was requested in salons worldwide. And then, as her marriage ended in scandal, she changed yet again - goodbye proper, stuffy skirted suits. Hello, va-va-voom Versace.

But she wasn't just about giving good clothes, shoes and hair. Diana's humanitarian work was notable. Land mines in Angola. HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Sick children in London. The late Gianni Versace called her "the Mother Teresa and Cindy Crawford of our time."

"She had something I'd only ever seen before from Nelson Mandela, a kind of aura that made people want to be with her and a completely natural, straight-from-the-heart sense of how to bring hope to those who seemed to have little to live for," Sunday Times war reporter Christina Lamb says in Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles.

It's that aura, that generosity, that keeps the fairy tale alive.

A life on camera

Want to know more about the death of Princess Diana? Sunday brings a full slate of programs that pivot between reverential and muckraking. This doesn't include the local and network coverage we can expect leading up to the 10th anniversary of her death on Aug. 31.

• Diana Remembered: This three-part BBC America series looks at Diana's life and how she affected Britain. (3 p.m.)

• The Murder of Diana: Was the Princess of Wales murdered in that Paris tunnel? This Lifetime movie has an American reporter exploring the possibility. (7 p.m.; review 2)

• Diana's Last Day: Never- seen pre- and post-crash photos are featured in this documentary, told through the eyes of the paparazzi. (6 p.m., E!)

• Diana: Memories of a Princess: TV Guide Network explores why we loved the world's most-photographed woman. (6 p.m.)

• Diana: In the Name of Love: Diana's marriage to Prince Charles fell apart; so did her parents' union. This BBC America production looks at the similarities. (6 p.m.)