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Princess Diana: How she has been remembered 20 years after her death
Fox News ^ | August 31, 2017

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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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: diana; princessdiana; richwhore; slut
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I can't believe it's been 20 years. Such a shame that she died as such a young age.
1 posted on 08/31/2017 8:18:07 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

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?


2 posted on 08/31/2017 8:19:57 AM PDT by BJ1
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To: EdnaMode

I remember that it overshadowed Mother Theresa’s death.


3 posted on 08/31/2017 8:20:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EdnaMode

This is so cultish it is creepy. She means nothing.


4 posted on 08/31/2017 8:20:54 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: EdnaMode

I’m getting real tired of her canonization by the press . . . enough already


5 posted on 08/31/2017 8:21:50 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: BJ1

Quite a bit, actually. The House of Windsor is a menace.


6 posted on 08/31/2017 8:22:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: raiderboy

the first cable media driven story...this chick was nuts.


7 posted on 08/31/2017 8:22:29 AM PDT by basalt
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To: EdnaMode

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.


8 posted on 08/31/2017 8:24:21 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: basalt

This idolatry is evil.


9 posted on 08/31/2017 8:24:44 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: basalt

This idolatry is evil.


10 posted on 08/31/2017 8:24:45 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: basalt

This idolatry is evil.


11 posted on 08/31/2017 8:24:45 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: laweeks

I’m getting real tired of her canonization by the press . . . enough already

Ditto, that. I remember thinking at the time “didn’t we fight a war to get AWAY from all this Royalty crap?”


12 posted on 08/31/2017 8:25:03 AM PDT by Pravious
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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?

That’s exactly as I remember events too.


13 posted on 08/31/2017 8:25:25 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: EdnaMode

I just checked my Givadam meter. It’s still at zero.


14 posted on 08/31/2017 8:25:37 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: EdnaMode

When I hear Princes Diana, I immediately think People Magazine, which I never read.


15 posted on 08/31/2017 8:25:46 AM PDT by robroys woman
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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.


16 posted on 08/31/2017 8:25:47 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Pravious

>>>I’m getting real tired of her canonization by the press . . . enough already

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.


17 posted on 08/31/2017 8:27:43 AM PDT by BJ1
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To: EdnaMode
Sick of seeing this non story.

I wish they would just let her die already.

18 posted on 08/31/2017 8:28:00 AM PDT by red-dawg (I want a statue of TRUMP in my city.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

>>>I just checked my Givadam meter. It’s still at zero.<<<

FWIW, I think it’s working just fine.


19 posted on 08/31/2017 8:28:24 AM PDT by BJ1
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To: BJ1

I remember I was sick of hearing about her all the time, like Bruce Jenner these days.


20 posted on 08/31/2017 8:28:30 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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