Princess Diana's death 18 yrs ago today

I remember that day too. I was sitting in the stands at an Arab horse show in Cloverdale and a friend who'd just arrived told me that she'd just heard it on her car radio. I felt so sad for her, thinking about how unhappy she was in the preceding years ............ certainly didn't seem fair.
 
I was either at home or in a hotel room and my daughter called me and said she'd heard Princess Diana had been in a bad car accident and may have died. Then I turned on the news and they soon reported she had passed away. Very sad.
 

I remember it well - we had just moved and were in the process of unpacking. Stopped to watch a bit of TV and heard the terrible news -- followed this news for what seemed like weeks and cried buckets of tears.
 
I can hardly believe it was 18 years ago...terrifying prospect because the next 18 will fly even quicker...:eek1:

I had just got up for work and I'd been watching QVC the night before ( haven't watched that in probably 15 years now) and so when I got up at 5am and switched the tv on for the news there was QVC which was normally a 24 hour channel not transmitting but with the Union Flag and R.I.P, so I immediately presumed that something had happened to the Queen after all she was 70 years old then...never thought for a single second it would be the 37 year old vibrant young mother The princess of Wales .

On the day of her funeral , her body was taken straight up to her ancestral home, and it drove past the motorway close to where I worked ( about 1/2 an hour north of London) so we all went down to watch it go past and pay our respects... and even tho' I'd seen it on TV in the City I never in my wildest dreams expected to see the Thousands lining the motorway throwing flowers and sobbing uncontrollably..it was a very sad day!!
 
Debby said:
I remember that day too. I was sitting in the stands at an Arab horse show in Cloverdale and a friend who'd just arrived told me that she'd just heard it on her car radio. I felt so sad for her, thinking about how unhappy she was in the preceding years ............ certainly didn't seem fair.
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I felt the same. I was saddened for her sons too because she was an attentive mom even though she was a princess. Tragic loss.
 
A sad day for her and her kids, but it did bring to an end the scandal of her marriage and some peace to the Queen...
 
Yup, a tale of unintended consequences, and her son could finally marry the woman of his dreams and live happily ever after. What more could a mother want...
 
Charles and Diana divorced in 1996. He didn't marry Camilla until 9 yrs later.
I don't see how Diana's death brought "peace" to the Queen.
 
It changed the family dynamic and, after a perio of mourning, allowed peace to be restored to the monarchy...
 
" even though she was a princess. "

She was never a princess, she was a blonde bimbo in the mould of Wallis Simpson, and like Simpson she brought the House of Windsor to its knees.

Luckily Camilla has managed, with huge help from the boys, to restore a little dignity.

We were so lucky. We were about to set off on a two week holiday abroad, no papers, no TV, and by the time we got back the whole press fuelled frenzy was about over.
 
I personally saw it differently. I saw a naïve 18 year old who thought she was madly in love with her prince only to be used as a brood mare to produce the obligatory "heir and a spare" so hubby could go on cavorting with horse face, while longing to be her tampon.. He was and IS a PIG, and his present wife a home wrecker.
 
I never understood why Charles didn’t just marry Camilla in the first place. I recall reading something about it but I got confused. I do recall the Camillagate tapes. Eeewww.

I recall an interview where Diana said her marriage consisted of 3 people. We know who the third was.
 
"I never understood why Charles didn’t just marry Camilla in the first place."

I think, as in so many other families, Mummy didn't think she was good enough for him, and he knuckled under.

When he eventually asserted himself she showed her petulance by refusing to go to the wedding.
 
"I saw a naïve 18 year old"

Who never so much as blinked without calculating what was in in for Diana..

" cavorting with horse face,"

And that, in a nutshell, is the main reason for the love of Diana in America.

She was a leggy blonde, her successor is not.
 
Diana was no innocent, she had her affairs plus she manipulated the press and the public to suit her and they fell for it.

It is my belief that the two grandmothers had a lot to answer for, if it wasn't for their interference there wouldn't have been a marriage between Diana and Charles.
 
Her being a "leggy blonde" had nothing to do with it. The fact was she was used. Charles never had an intention of being faithful and planned to cheat on her with his "beloved" even before he married Diana is what does not sit well with me.
 
.........so blame the interference of the two grandmothers not Charles, they were both used as far as that goes.......Diana knew from the off that Charles wasn't in love with her, plus the fact Diana had affairs during the marriage as well................so was that alright for her and not him????
 
Bee said:
.........so blame the interference of the two grandmothers not Charles, they were both used as far as that goes.......Diana knew from the off that Charles wasn't in love with her, plus the fact Diana had affairs during the marriage as well................so was that alright for her and not him????
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And Diana personally told YOU what she knew and what she didn't? Interesting Bee.. Didn't know you were a Royal confidant. As for her affairs? I don't condone anyone cheating... but perhaps she was fighting fire with fire. She was young and hurt.. No match for the older two cheaters. Charles and Horse face.
 
Well seeing as I don't splash the whole of my life on forums, you don't know what I was or what I wasn't.

As for insulting Camilla by calling her horse face it says more about you than her and just shows how low you will stoop................obviously you were one of the public that Diana managed to manipulate.
 
The Queen has been a wonderful example of royal bearing and a good example for all. This alone makes the monarchy worth the cost.
 
I always thought the way Diana was treated by the royals was disgusting. This has left me with very little respect for the queen and her royal bearing and I won't even get started about Charles and Camilla. I like the kids, but as they also have all that aristocratic baggage, who knows how that will turn out?
 

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