I do not know about you guys but my mother loved Princess Diana. We had this big picture of her that hung in our living room. Even though we lived in The US as a kid I had grown to love her too. I remember exactally where I was when she died. I was in my bedroom and my friend Erin had come to spend the night. My mom woke us up and told us she had died.
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.
I was watching TV in my living room at home, I think I was watching The Pretender. At some point there came news that Diana had been in a crash in a tunnel in Paris. I recall distant live shots of the tunnel entrance, but of course it was night time and I couldn't make anything out.
I'm British and I felt a sense of total horror. I will never forget how I prayed and prayed "Please let her be fine, please let her be fine." The very first bits of reporting said only something about a broken leg. How I wish that had been all it was.
I actually said Hail Marys and Our Fathers, and I'm not a conventionally "religious" person.
It was a few hours of agony before we actually got told it was all over and probably had been when we were told only about the crash, that Diana in fact had died.
I cried like it was family. I cannot tell you how much grief I felt. The next few days for me were no easier than if my own loved one had died.
For silky-smooth legs, I use Occam's Razor!
I hate to say it like this but its a relief to know there is someone who experienced things like I did. I mean it was almost like watching a movie. I remember praying and hysterically crying. I had grown up watching this woman my entire life and I felt like I knew her. I did in fact love her very much back then and still do of course but I remember being devistated.
I am a complete sap..lol..I watched an interview on Lifetime today with Princess Diana and it was heart breaking to watch. I mean you can see all those years of pain in her eyes but then he mentioned her children or the children in the hospitals she has helped and she just lit up I mean. It was insane...
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.
It was so shocking for a death like this to happen to such a vital, lively woman in the prime of her life, and who was doing so many good things. I was a wreck!
I still find it hard not to tear up when I see or hear anything about Diana. She moves me; I can relate to some of her life's hurts and slights and some of her vulnerabilities.
For silky-smooth legs, I use Occam's Razor!
Yeah me too...It was a tragic thing that happened. I cant imagine how much more she would have had she been given the chance...
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.
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She was an amazing person and changed so many lives like I said I had grown up watching her on t.v. and reading about her in all of the books my mother had I guess thats why her death impacted me so much.
I was too young at the time the OKC bombing occured to really know what was going on. I remember how much of an impact 9/11 had on me though now that was devistating event.
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.
I was actually in London at the time living and working there. I remember my boyfriend walking in my room as I was sleeping and saying "Princess Diana is dead!" I couldn't believe it. Thought it was all a mistake. Those who lived in the states knew about it before a lot of us who lived in London because it happened so late at night our time, that most of us in England woke up to the news the next day.
We lived along the route that they had the funeral procession, so we walked outside and saw her car pass. It was all very surreal. Still is at times.
my mother met her after she married charles....but i was in school and me and a bychn of gurls all satred cryning
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I saw beautiful footage of her the other day dancing with John Travolta...I had forgotten about that...
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.
I don't understand all the blubbering sentimentality over the death of Diana. In an earlier era, as an adulterous queen she would have been found guilty of treason and executed. That people ever held Diana in high regard is incredible.
I recall thinking at the time of her 'accident' that if this was truly an accident it was the luckiest accident in the history of the British Empire. No right-thinking Englishman would want the future king of England placed in a position to be so influenced by Muslems.
Whoever picked her to be the wife of Charles should have been sacked and exiled for life.
Well if you are going to put it that way..Charles should have been sacked a long time ago.
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.
I was at a friends house late and came home to turn on the news and hear about the accident. I was praying that she was ok. Then finally they said she had died, and I bawled. I was in shock for days, still can't believe it, and it's been 10 years. I think her presence made the world a better place, even if you never met her. You knew she was here and doing good, charity, etc, and lighting up ever room she came into!! I heard that Elton talked with the boys before they did the recent concert in honor of her birthday, and the 3 of them just sat around telling Diana stories and cried...
I know a lot kids have lost their mum's, but the world loved Diana, and wept for her, and still feels the loss.
I agree. Diana made a tremendous impact on so many people. I still cry when I see video footage or pictures of her. She was such an amazing person and it is sickining that she died so early...
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.
I was watching tv when a newsbreak flashed on. I asked my wife who was also watching the breaking story, "You give a $hit? Me neither." and I changed the channel.
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