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Princess Diana - 19th Anniversary of her death

Pearlee — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:20:13 GMT

It's hard to believe 19 years have gone by since Diana was killed in the car crush in Paris. I think she would be very proud of her two sons. I'm sorry she didn't live to see her two beautiful grandchildren. RIP Princess Diana.

I remember I had been out to dinner with a friend at a little inn about an hour away. I arrived home late, turned on CNN as I usually did back then, and later heard the breaking news about Diana being in a car crash, that Dodi had died but she was still alive. I stayed up watching until the awful news that she had not survived the accident. I'll never forget that.

http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20395222_20949230,00.html

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:31:59 GMT

She was born just a few months before me, married a few months before me and had her first child a year before my one and only son was born. I still miss her and the joy she gave others with her true giving heart to the less fortunate. Diana leaves a beautiful family legacy for generations to come. They seem to be following her lead very well and proudly.

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meallen616 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:47:04 GMT

Princess Diana,

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Pqfan — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:03:41 GMT

@Pearlee Thanks for posting this.

I still miss Diana to this day and I never want to forget her.

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Greeneyedlady21 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:13:24 GMT

Hard to believe it has been that long. I loved her, her beauty and style and elegance. Several years ago I took a trip with my mother to see the Diana exhibit at Foxwoods Casino in CT. It included her wedding dress and other dresses. Also childhood mementos. I also saw the traveling exhibit of her dresses at a local museum, I think it surrounded the charity auction. I felt so fortunate to see both.

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Pearlee — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:24:37 GMT

@Greeneyedlady21 I remember when the exhibit with her wedding dress went around the country. It was even in my city but was one of those things I intended to go to but never got around to it, and I regret that.

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151949 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:39:09 GMT

I am amazed it has been that long.I always felt that she was a very troubled young woman. Her sons seem to have turned out well. Everything about her marriage seems to have been for all the wrong reasons - he married her just to get heirs and she married him because she wanted to be a princess. If only they had been honest with each other in the first place!

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Pearlee — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:42:01 GMT

@151949 wrote:
I am amazed it has been that long.I always felt that she was a very troubled young woman. Her sons seem to have turned out well. Everything about her marriage seems to have been for all the wrong reasons - he married her just to get heirs and she married him because she wanted to be a princess. If only they had been honest with each other in the first place!

@151949 I disagree with your last sentence. Yes, he married her to get heirs (and there was that virgin requirement back then) but from everything I've read about them, she truly loved him -- at least at first. I don't think you are giving her enough credit with your assessment.

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151949 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:45:02 GMT

I disagree - I think she loved WHO he was - the prince - but not the man. I know she loved her sons, but no one can possibly know what was in her heart toward her husband.

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Pearlee — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:49:06 GMT

@151949 wrote:
I disagree - I think she loved WHO he was - the prince - but not the man. I know she loved her sons, but no one can possibly know what was in her heart toward her husband.

Is that your opinion only? My statement is based on quite a few things I've read over the years, the sources being female friends of Diana's.

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:58:11 GMT

@Pearlee wrote:
@151949 wrote:
I disagree - I think she loved WHO he was - the prince - but not the man. I know she loved her sons, but no one can possibly know what was in her heart toward her husband.
Is that your opinion only? My statement is based on quite a few things I've read over the years, the sources being female friends of Diana's.

She loved him and he broke her young girl's heart. Even though she was no longer 19 when she realized he was no longer Prince Charming. I think a part of her heart at 36 was still in love with him from her desire to have a family, home, and hearth. Just my opinion and I have read to more books ect.... than I can believe myself.

Sure her being a virgin satisfied his parents and his being a future King would satisfy most all of ours and absolutely her parents.

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chrystaltree — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:19:15 GMT

@meallen616 wrote:
Princess Diana,

Please....lol She was a flesh and blood woman who was as flawed as any other person. She certainly made her fair share of mistakes. She wasn't an angel or anything close to it. If anything, her untimely death is shows what can happen when we people drive when they have been drinking. Even a chauffeur who is driving one of the weathiest and most privileged women in the world.

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Tinkrbl44 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:42:05 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
@meallen616 wrote:
Princess Diana,

Please....lol She was a flesh and blood woman who was as flawed as any other person. She certainly made her fair share of mistakes. She wasn't an angel or anything close to it. If anything, her untimely death is shows what can happen when we people drive when they have been drinking. Even a chauffeur who is driving one of the weathiest and most privileged women in the world.

@chrystaltree

Drinking and driving is never acceptable, but Diana wasn't wearing her seat belt. Her injuries would have been much less if she had been wearing it.

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chrystaltree — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:44:35 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@chrystaltree wrote:
@meallen616 wrote:
Princess Diana,

Please....lol She was a flesh and blood woman who was as flawed as any other person. She certainly made her fair share of mistakes. She wasn't an angel or anything close to it. If anything, her untimely death is shows what can happen when we people drive when they have been drinking. Even a chauffeur who is driving one of the weathiest and most privileged women in the world.
@chrystaltree

Drinking and driving is never acceptable, but Diana wasn't wearing her seat belt. Her injuries would have been much less if she had been wearing it.

I forgot about the seat belts. That didn't get much play here in the US but it did in British papers. Like I said; she was just as human and flawed as anyone.

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Himi lover — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:59:44 GMT

I will never forget her. She was so beautiful and stylish. The press would not leave her alone. She certainly seemed to get more attention than Prince William's wife. I don't think Prince Charles really loved her. It was always Camilla.

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SunValley — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:41:39 GMT

@Pearlee wrote:
It's hard to believe 19 years have gone by since Diana was killed in the car crush in Paris. I think she would be very proud of her two sons. I'm sorry she didn't live to see her two beautiful grandchildren. RIP Princess Diana.

I remember I had been out to dinner with a friend at a little inn about an hour away. I arrived home late, turned on CNN as I usually did back then, and later heard the breaking news about Diana being in a car crash, that Dodi had died but she was still alive. I stayed up watching until the awful news that she had not survived the accident. I'll never forget that.

http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20395222_20949230,00.html

Almost my exact scenario on hearing the news. I think I had turned on a football game after an evening with friends, and when they announced the accident I tuned in CNN. I was in disbelief. And yes, she missed so much.

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bri20 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:44:15 GMT

I remember seeing the mangled wreck on TV and thinking how could anybody make it out of that alive.

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Greeneyedlady21 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:47:28 GMT

@Pearlee wrote:
@Greeneyedlady21 I remember when the exhibit with her wedding dress went around the country. It was even in my city but was one of those things I intended to go to but never got around to it, and I regret that.

We were lucky that we could take a bus from close to where we live, we spent the day at the casino then took the bus back from outside the lobby. It was interesting to see her dress, it looked so dated obviously but still so special. I think Diana said later in her life that she didn't care for it and would have chosen a different style if she could have. I think Kate's dress was timeless and will probably still be considered to be in style decades from now. Like Grace Kelly's dress.

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YorkieonmyPillow — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:33:15 GMT

It has been noted that Princess Diana ALWAYS buckled her seat belt.

She was found out of a seat belt. That doesn't mean she didn't buckle it.

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sharlee — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:09:05 GMT

If nothing else, she certainly seemed to be a devoted mother - her sons clearly adored her and miss her to this day, and both make a point of carrying on with her work.

A troubled young woman, yes, but I still feel she was far more sinned against than sinning.