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There's no memorial. People usually leave flowers or stuff to the Flame of Liberty which is a replica of the end of the torch of the statue of liberty. There's a memorial for her in a publich garden (park?) in the quarter Le Marais.

When I was in Paris a couple years ago I didn't realize our cab driver was driving through there. When I realized where I was, it was truly chilling and I definitely teared up.

haha right, he was the considered the "cute" one when I was growing up.

damn testosterone. if he was a girl he'd have stayed perpetually looking like his 14 year old self.

mte

more like he's lucky he got as much of diana's genes as did considering how the royal family looks

Her funeral was on my 9th birthday, and I cried through pretty much every second of the day.

i remember waking up earlier than usually and my dad just turned around and said, "one of the princesses has died,cant remember her name" and sitting watching the news coverage

happy early bday

Me too, bb. <3 :sniffle:

mte. i never can really sense emotions from charles so its extra noticeable to see how sad his eyes are

I guess the same thing that is so capitvating about William and Harry and Kate. They are royalty. Diana was a different kind of royal. She a lot of great great charity work and seemed so down to earth.

From what I understand she was a humanitarian and inspired people by her work in that. One of those natural leader types.

Honestly? She did the same sort of charity/humanitarian work that all Royals are expected to do. The difference with her was that, apart from being very gorgeous (magazines followed her dress-style the way they do Victoria Beckham now), people also seemed to like that she was a bit of a "black sheep" royal for having divorced Charles and admitting that they both had affairs and that it was a rather dead marriage. The papers mostly loved her because she was glamorous and had a fancy love-life and did a lot of swanky things that rich people do.

Honestly, she wasn't hugely different from most royals -- I think she just was a little more likable/accessible/less-toffish than the rest so people liked her more.

She didn't greet people with gloves on. lol

She also picked up AIDS babies at the height of hysteria, and walked through landmines in Africa.

She was basically the most down to Earth royal there ever was, and what you see with the Royal family today is all thanks to her. She dragged them into the 20th century.

What was really sick is that Camilla and Charles "chose" Diana for him, figuring that she was too dumb to figure out what was going on. She couldn't leave that marriage in the early days. It would have turned into the Prince Edward event all over again. She was young and stuck. People connected to Diana. She was in the palace but was basically the outsider as someone just put it. Diana actually had more blue blood in her than Charles.

People have tried to rewrite her legacy, and she said just this before her death. They will turn her into a villain.

She was really charming in person, from everything I've heard. I know someone whose father-in-law was in the police and saw Diana on a visit to Canada in I think the late 80s (he was working security at one of the venues iirc), and she says her dad-in-law wouldn't stop singing her praises because Diana made sure to talk to every single person there - all the ppl working at the venue that day. Apparently Charles wouldn't talk to anyone, but Diana was the opposite - went out of her way to be nice. And as far as her kids were concerned, she was the one who insisted on sending them to regular (well, very posh but still sth other than homeschooling) kiddy school before they went to Eton, and tried to give them some 'normal kid' experiences.

Sure, she was screwed up and quite flawed too, but she did make an effort to connect to the people which is prob. why there's so much goodwill for her (and by extension, William and Harry) even today.

tl; dr - she was pretty ok when she was alive, people loved her bc she made some effort.

She was the first celeb I remember shaking hands with AIDS victims, which was a huge deal at the time. She was very young when she signed up for the job, about 19, and had to put up with her husband's mistress all the time they were together. Plus she wore really really good clothes for the time, for an English royal and for the 80s.

/have mysteriously developed 300 feels about this that I never knew about. But she was a Northampton girl like me ;D

she did things different. like she refused to use the word 'obey' in her wedding vows

I think she was really beautiful and I love how she seemed like such a good person. I like how she did a lot of charity work and seemed like she really meant it. Also, I like how she was open with her struggles (eating disorders, depression, etc) and not a lot of people in her place would;ve been. I also like how she was kind of rebellious against some of the other royalty.

ia with your first sentence, i can still remember. my mum yelled at me because she thought i was lying :(

yeah but she would have smacked him into next tuesday for dressing up as a nazi

oh, def :(

Yeah--pretty sure it's my first "I remember what I was doing when" moments.

ita. i was seven and i still remember seeing it in the paper that morning and my mom explaining it to me.

It was on my radio alarm when I woke up. And then I went to the cinema because I had a free ticket for 'Austin Powers' - which had a Charles-divorcing joke near the end that made the crowd ooh.

I was just saying this to my mother, re: remembering where you where you were. I was 9 and 'swimming' in our bath tub (lmao) because I was so hot, and she came in and told me Princess Diana died. I was speechless, and suddenly felt very cold.

I wasn't even really sure who she was (I was seven & I'm American), but I remember sitting with my mom in her bedroom and my dad coming in and saying that Diana had died. I don't know why I still remember it so well considering I wasn't familiar with her at the time

I remember being 16 or 17 and being on vacation at the coast. I was walking through the checkout line at the supermarket with my two girlfriends, and I made some kind of sarcastic comment about how the stupid tabloids are always talking about Princess Di... and then the cashier looked up at us and said, "You haven't heard? She died this morning" (or whatever time it was). It was like this shock of cold over me.

I remember telling off my foster brother, thinking it was some sick joke.

Although, I am loving Britain's "What this? This shit be tame." reaction to it all.

We were asleep at my dad's house since it was his weekend. He woke us up in the middle of the night telling us a princess had died and we watched the coverage for a little while. Idk how late it actually was, but I remember that so well.

I was in a hotel room a block away from where I am right now, and that's kind of creeping me out.

I remember SNL being interrupted by a news report.