Today marks 28 years since Princess Diana passed, yet it still feels like it happened only yesterday. I was just 11 at the time, and I remember the shock and sadness as if it were yesterday. My mother was utterly heartbroken, she watched everything, from the announcement of her death to the funeral, and cried herself to sleep night after night. At the time, I didn’t really understand why it felt so devastating. I knew Diana was a real princess, someone in the headlines, but I didn’t really know her.
It wasn’t until I watched The Crown that I began to see the woman behind the headlines. Emma Corrin and Elizabeth Debicki brought her to life in such a beautiful way. They showed her humour, her kindness, her warmth, and her courage. Watching them, I felt like I was finally meeting her, seeing the person she truly was, beyond the public image.
It’s remarkable that someone who lived such a short life could leave such a lasting mark. Diana had a way of touching people’s hearts, of making them feel seen and cared for. Her kindness, her spirit, and her humanity continue to inspire so many, all these years later.
Today, let us remember Diana for the extraordinary woman she was. Not just a princess, but a woman of warmth, empathy, and courage, a woman who, even now, continues to shine in our hearts.
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Legit the only member of English to royalty this Irish heart loved.
My thoughts are with William and Harry today.
I remember it so clearly. I was 12, and now I’m 4 years older than she ever got to be 😭
tremendous loss
Is the 19th slide from a movie?
I hate the English aristocracy with the heat of a thousand suns, but Diana was special and our world was better with her in it. RIP.
I was nearly 12 when she died and I remember it well. I was staying at my aunt’s house and woke up on the Sunday morning to my aunt and uncle being completely silent in the kitchen.
When I asked what was wrong my aunt said to me “Princess Diana’s died, I can’t believe it”
My uncle said the same
I said “who is that?”
I was a young boy who loved football and movies, I had no idea about any of it but soon came to learn everything about her in the coming days because of the news being on constantly covering the events
And literally the Tuesday after I was in Woolworths with my mum and sister and remember at the front of the shop two different displays, one had pictures of her and a couple of books and the other was filled with copies of a book entitled “The Prince Charles Guide To Marriage” and when you open the book all the pages were blank
I just remember how everyone was incredibly sad, it was crazy
When Lizzy died there was sadness but it was like a tenth of when Diana died
And when Thatcher died we all laughed and the entirety of the country North of Milton Keynes volunteered to dig a hole so deep that she could be personally dropped off to her ensuite room in Hell without the need for crossing the River Styx