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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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To: EdnaMode
About ten years ago I was talking with a Catholic Priest who told me there was no way the Catholic Church was going to let her marry a Muslim.
21 posted on 08/31/2017 8:28:34 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Government can make you feel so small and mean.-John Steinbeck)
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To: BJ1

Just as with the Kennedys.


22 posted on 08/31/2017 8:28:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: pgkdan

It did give us a great quote, when Keith Richards said of Elton John, “His writing is limited to songs for dead blondes.”


23 posted on 08/31/2017 8:30:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EdnaMode

Media's fascination with those inbreds will never stop...

24 posted on 08/31/2017 8:31:17 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: EdnaMode

She was Britney Spears with rich parents.
Flitting from one wealthy guy to the next.

She made photo-op charity a moderate priority to shield her from some of the scorn that promiscuous people without a full time public relations firm recieve.

I haven’t forgotten for a moment who she actually was without the smoke and mirrors.


25 posted on 08/31/2017 8:31:21 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Snickering Hound

Ain’t no way.....no way those two came from Charles’ loins.


26 posted on 08/31/2017 8:31:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 4yearlurker

> About ten years ago I was talking with a Catholic Priest who told me there was no way the Catholic Church was going to let her marry a Muslim. <

Do you mean the Church of England there?


27 posted on 08/31/2017 8:32:03 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: dfwgator
I remember that it overshadowed Mother Theresa’s death.

Yup, yet they worship a celebrity instead of a Saint.

28 posted on 08/31/2017 8:35:25 AM PDT by PROCON (#MAGA!)
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To: EdnaMode
Prior to WWI, Europe had a lot of monarchs because “that's the way we've always done things.”

After WWI a lot of those monarchs were gone, and those remaining had to find a way to justify their existence.

The UK eventually figured out that a media-friendly royal family full of celebrities would help the monarch remain somewhat relevant. This worked OK for young Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and others. Diana was the next generation of glamour and she took it to an even higher level of celebrity.

And then the dark side of the cult of celebrity appeared.

Hollywood can do this better. Lyndsay Lohan is great — until she self-destructs. Shia LaBoeuf is great — until he self-destructs. These people are interchangeable. They have their 15 minutes of fame and then someone else is on the cover of People Magazine.

It's different for the Royal Family. You're kind of in there for life, and that can prove embarrassing if the chosen celebrity self-destructs. In the end, I'm pretty sure that everyone in the British upper class (except her children) was relieved that she had an accident.

29 posted on 08/31/2017 8:36:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: PROCON
Yup, yet they worship a celebrity instead of a Saint.

Says it all, doesn't it.

30 posted on 08/31/2017 8:37:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EdnaMode

The Bodyguard was ex-SAS.

20 years after the crash in the middle of a messy divorce his soon-to-be ex-wife stated that her husband had told her that Diana had been killed:

She was carrying the muzzie playbook Dodi’s child.

there would be a (sort of) Queen of England with a Muslim child and that was (and should be) unacceptable.

In their defense I don’t believe any of them really wanted to kill her.


31 posted on 08/31/2017 8:37:29 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Leaning Right
Yes,actually he ran down a brief history of the Church of England and stated for that reason she could not be allowed to marry a Muslim.
32 posted on 08/31/2017 8:37:40 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Government can make you feel so small and mean.-John Steinbeck)
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To: JewishRighter

Princess Anne did magnitudes more charity work than Diana without all the drama and without dragging the paparazzi around with her. It’s irony that the paparazzi ultimately were instrumental in Diana’s death.

The lesson here is don’t use a prozac addled drunk for a chauffer.


33 posted on 08/31/2017 8:41:40 AM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
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To: dfwgator

I remember that also, thinking why is she overshadowing Mother Theresa’s death? It was the media that built her up and manipulated the masses. The outpouring of mass grief was hard to believe. I have a recollection of somebody writing words to the effect, “Please everybody, we will survive, we will overcome this.”


34 posted on 08/31/2017 8:45:34 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: dfwgator

"First thing I'm going to do when I get home ..."

35 posted on 08/31/2017 8:54:27 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: dfwgator

And i thought mother Teresa got a smaller halo than princess Diana, then i realized dianna’s was a steering wheel.


36 posted on 08/31/2017 8:54:39 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: 4yearlurker

She wasn’t Catholic.


37 posted on 08/31/2017 8:54:56 AM PDT by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: JewishRighter

It’s not a competition, and I suspect Mother Teresa would be the last person to begrudge Diana her fame, or to envy it for herself. In all probability, she would have eschewed any mourning at all, since she truly believed she was bound for Glory.

That said, the fixation on a shallow, glamorous, but deeply flawed celebrity instead of a godly woman of deep conviction reflects more on us than it does on either the Princess or the Saint.


38 posted on 08/31/2017 8:55:51 AM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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To: EdnaMode
I have never understood the fascination with Diana. I remember seeing someone on a flight I was on reading a biography of her (this we before her death). I could not imagine why anyone would find her life interesting enough to read a few hundred pages about it. I seem to remember a poll of the "greatest Britons" in which she either edged out Churchill or was not far behind.

And I never found her attractive at all. She looked to me like one of her sons dressed up like a woman.

39 posted on 08/31/2017 8:56:33 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: BJ1

I remember her as the loon who advocated doing away with landmines, while I sat on the border between South and North Korea, safer because I had a wide belt of those evil objects between me and the Norks ...


40 posted on 08/31/2017 8:58:13 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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