Posted on 08/31/2017 8:18:06 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Diana died on Aug. 31, 1997, after she was in a car crash which killed her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and the couple’s driver, Henri Paul. Her funeral at Westminster Abbey in London was reportedly watched by 2.5 billion people worldwide.
The princess left behind two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, who were 15 and 12 years old, respectively, at the time. Now in their 30s, they went to Kensington Palace on Wednesday to visit a memorial garden for their late mother.
Here's how Diana has been remembered ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death.
Prince William and Prince Harry
Diana’s two children participated in a BBC documentary, “Diana, 7 Days,” which will premiere on NBC on Sept. 1 and looks at the week after their mother’s death.
“I couldn’t understand why everyone wanted to cry as loud as they did and show such emotion as they did when they didn't really know our mother,” William said in the program, admitting that he sometimes felt protective about it.
He said that “looking back over the last few years I’ve learned to understand what it was that she gave the world and what she gave a lot of people.”
The two princes also participated in “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy,” which premiered on HBO in the U.S. in July.
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I remember her as some slut who was whoring around with the press in tow. Shaming her son’s and the Royal Family in the process. Am I missing anything?
I remember that it overshadowed Mother Theresa’s death.
This is so cultish it is creepy. She means nothing.
I’m getting real tired of her canonization by the press . . . enough already
Quite a bit, actually. The House of Windsor is a menace.
the first cable media driven story...this chick was nuts.
I mark this day as a milepost in the decline of Western Civilization in which Diana died a celebrity martyr, worshipped in death by millions for little more than her status as a celebrity. I know this is heresy to many, but I do not think she was a great, or even a particularly good person, joining her feckless husband in marital infidelity and not such a saint in the rest of her private life, either. Compare the global mourning for her and that for Mother Theresa, a woman who really dedicated her life to good works at supreme personal sacrifice.
This idolatry is evil.
This idolatry is evil.
This idolatry is evil.
I’m getting real tired of her canonization by the press . . . enough already
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Ditto, that. I remember thinking at the time “didn’t we fight a war to get AWAY from all this Royalty crap?”
>> I remember her as some slut who was whoring around with the press in tow. Shaming her son’s and the Royal Family in the process. Am I missing anything?
That’s exactly as I remember events too.
I just checked my Givadam meter. It’s still at zero.
When I hear Princes Diana, I immediately think People Magazine, which I never read.
I think the emotional reaction to her death was one of the the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever witnessed. I knew people who were crying for days...as if their own mother had died. Male and female. For what? For someone none of them knew personally and who probably wouldn’t have deigned to acknowledge their presence had they run into her.
>>>I’m getting real tired of her canonization by the press . . . enough already
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Ditto, that. I remember thinking at the time “didn’t we fight a war to get AWAY from all this Royalty crap?”<<<
The obsession with her is a reflection of what is important to American women. Diana had youth, beauty, fame, rich and privileged beyond compare. Taking all of that into one package and poof, 20 years later she’s still a sensation.
I wish they would just let her die already.
>>>I just checked my Givadam meter. It’s still at zero.<<<
FWIW, I think it’s working just fine.
I remember I was sick of hearing about her all the time, like Bruce Jenner these days.
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