Charlie Kirk Protégée Boldly Compares 'Societal' Grief of Podcaster's Murder to Princess Diana's Death: 'Our Country Lost a Leader'

The late Charlie Kirk’s protégée and supporter Isabel Brown still feels the pain of his death seven months after his assassination.

Brown, 28, appeared on a recent episode of Madison Prewett's podcast, "Stay True," where she compared the grief of the Turning Point USA founder's death to the passing of Princess Diana.

“I think there’s been a difficult level of processing this that’s maybe confusing to the average person,” Brown said.

“Those of us who worked for him for so many years and who knew him personally all talk about it all the time that we have to kind of process in two layers right now. You’re mourning the loss of this amazing person who meant so much to you intimately, someone who you owe your career to, someone who you owe your family to," she continued.

"I can’t tell you how many hundreds or thousands of families like mine met at a TPUSA conference and worked for Charlie, and we all have children now," the mother-of-one noted of collaborating with Kirk, who died of a gunshot wound in September 2025.

The conservative influencer went on: “There’s this personal aspect to it that, of course, takes years and years and years to get through, and that’s just grief when you lose anyone in your life, but especially in such a traumatic way. Then, there’s this extra societal redefining layer of grief that I think we last, honestly, experienced in culture probably with the death of Princess Diana.”

The late Princess of Wales died on August 31, 1997, after a fiery car crash in Paris. Her passing sent shockwaves through the world and greatly influenced the cult of personality surrounding her and the royal family.

Brown further contrasted the outpouring of love Diana received after her untimely death in comparison to the aftermath of "The Charlie Kirk Show" podcast host's murder.

“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,” Brown explained.

“We were toddlers when that happened, so our generation certainly has no level of experience with this," the Daily Wire emcee noted.

She then recalled the time she went to church and overheard two people talking about Kirk.

“I’m like, ‘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,” she said.

“I think that will take a lot of time to get through. I think our country certainly lost a moral leader of a generation. We are so hurting for what that could have turned into. Maybe he would have been a president of the United States or a pastor or a saint. I mean, who knows what Charlie could have become?" she wondered.