Oh my goodness, what sad timing to be right there. It had to seem almost like being intrusive, but not..
I was at Publix and someone came to the customer service desk and said Princess Diana is dead. No one really believed her, but she’d heard it on the radio (how quaint, news from the radio). The manager had a little TV and he and several customers went to listen- and of course it was true. An older fellow said “she’s too beautiful to die”.
Great description. I moved my departure for home up two days, leaving England before the masses arrived for Diana's funeral.
Princess Di's untimely death is one of those we will always remember where we were when we heard the news.