Does it feel like a long time since Princess Diana died

[wereinheaven]

Next year it will be 25 years since Princess Diana died, when you look back does it feel like a long time or not since she died? My DS who is now an adult was born 5 years after she died which when I think about it makes me realise just how long ago it was and people who are under 25 will have no memory of her being alive.

Well now I feel old....!

It does feel like a long time to me! I was 18 when she died, which feels very distant.

I was kneehigh to a grasshopper so yea feels like a lifetime ago.

Wish the media etc would let her rest in peace

I was two years old when she died and now I'm a fully grown adult so I'd say yeah it seems like a long time to me

Yes it feels like ages , I was pregnant when she died . Many adults never even knew her when she was alive , for them she has always been dead .

Yes because I was16 and also the bloody media won't let the woman rest in peace and drag stuff up about her almost daily

No, it doesn't seem that long ago to me.

Yes, it does. That's the year that my father died, and somehow people thought I should be upset about this rather privileged woman that I'd never met should mean more to me than he did.

I really doesn't seem like 24 years ago. I'm in my fifties though, so remember before she joined the RF and remember her dying very well.

It was on tv , 24/7 for ages, it does seem ages ago. A very sad time.

Yes, I was a child when she died and it feels like a long time ago to me.

It feels like about 24 years ago. Which was ages ago. And kind of yesterday.

I remember the day, reading the news story on Ceefax. Now that does sound long ago.

I agree because we never stopped hearing about her, it doesnt seem that long ago.

Yes, it does, I was 16 and had the day off school to watch the coffin drive past. It was a cold day out there.

The Daily Express is that you?

Yes, it happened two weeks before my DS was born, so all of his life ago. I remember it very clearly.

feels a long time ago to me - but then DS not even born at the time. I would not wish any young woman to go through that but it has happened - personally I feel time to let it be with the family & not be dragged up

@MasterBeth

It feels like about 24 years ago. Which was ages ago. And kind of yesterday.

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She died on my 18th birthday so I’ve always been very aware of exactly how long ago it was! And yes it seems like a lifetime ago!

It is a long time ago.

She was so famous - it's slightly strange to me that my young adult kids have no clue about her, other than they know of the name.

Not to me. I remember the complete shock as the news came in that she’d died & listening to her funeral on the car radio as I was driving home.

Yes, because I was 12, and no, because it wasn't long after that we all got the internet and a 24 hour news cycle that drags it up annually (plus every time one of her sons blink in public).

My eldest was a baby when she died. So, to her, she's like Marilyn Monroe was to me really. I now notice how often younger colleagues don't get my cultural references so much.

Yes. A long time ago. On the night she died I went to the house party of a friend celebrating her birthday, and a mutual friend brought along her new born baby and she was the first of all our circle to have a baby.
After that house party some of us went into central London to a club to celebrate the 33rd birthday of another friend. We stayed til the small hours and got home at something like 4am and slept in til midday so by the time we heard the news Diana was confirmed dead.

On the Monday, I started a new job in Kensington. That was odd too, so many tourists, so much activity.

It was all before I had my children and before I really feel I grew up. A lifetime ago.

It seems like a lifetime ago to me. I was 9 and had only recently moved to England from Ireland. Her death was when I learned that princesses still exist. I thought they were only in Disney movies. I also remember several neighbours commenting on the local corner shop owner closing for the day of her funeral. He never closed his shop and even opened on Christmas Day because he hated the thought of someone having to go without because the shops were closed.