Devoted Charlie Kirk Follower Compares His Death to Princess Diana’s, Says He Could’ve Been President

Isabel Brown, who once worked with late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, believes the world is mourning his death similarly to how people reacted when Princess Diana died.

During the Monday, April 27, episode of the Stay True Podcast, Brown — who is said to be one of Kirk’s protégées and contributed at his Turning Point USA organization, according to her LinkedIn — looked back on his September 10, 2025, assassination at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

“I think there’s been a difficult level of processing this that’s maybe confusing to the average person, but those of us who worked for him for so many years and who knew him personally all talk about it all the time,” she began.

Brown said that, following Kirk’s death, there’s been an “extra societal redefining layer of grief that I think we last honestly experienced in culture probably with the death of Princess Diana.”

Comparing Kirk’s death to that of the beloved member of the royal family, Brown said, “I haven’t seen huge prayer vigils all over the world and people leaving teddy bears on the sidewalk and lighting candles in their community and all of these things ever since then. And we were toddlers when that happened. So our generation certainly has no level of experience with this.”

The Princess of Wales — who died in a car crash on August 31, 1997, at age 36 — came as a shock to the entire world, with approximately 50 million people in the United States alone tuning in to her televised funeral.

Brown said that the day after Kirk was publicly killed at age 31, she saw people watching videos of Kirk or talking about his death and thought “this is a level of complete world-changing cultural change that I don’t really know how to process yet because for me it was just my friend Charlie.”

“I think our country certainly lost a moral leader of a generation,” she said of Kirk, adding that he had a bright future ahead.

“Maybe he would have been a president of the United States or a pastor or a saint,” she said. “I mean, who knows what Charlie could have been. But we’re seeing the effects of what’s happening when he’s not here already. And I think that’s been really devastating.”

However, Brown said she’s humbled by how people have responded to his death “in the most profoundly beautiful ways.”

“Instantaneously, everyone hit their knees in prayer all over the world,” she said. “You saw prayer rallies and vigils of millions of people in London and Sydney, Australia; and Seoul, South Korea; and Johannesburg, South Africa; and certainly everywhere in America, too. And that speaks volumes.”

Kirk’s sudden death gained national attention after he was killed while speaking at Utah Valley University as part of his American Comeback Tour.

“Words will never be able to convey how devastated we are that Charlie Kirk was taken from us far too soon,” Brown wrote in a lengthy post on X following his death.