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Does it feel like a long time since Princess Diana died

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wereinheaven · 01/11/2021 19:52

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.

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DukeofEarlGrey · 01/11/2021 20:27

It does feel like a long time ago but less so lately, mainly because of The Crown and all the interest in Harry and Meghan bringing lots of renewed attention to her story. it never went away but seems to have been everywhere for the last few years. Netflix is brimming with various Diana documentaries, for example.

donquixotedelamancha · 01/11/2021 20:28

The Daily Express is that you? :-)

I always assumed this was massively exaggerated but there are two articles about Diana on the express today and two more that mention her. How can they be so obsessed 25 years later?

On the OP: I don't really follow celebs so it feels a very long time ago to me.

MadeOfStarStuff · 01/11/2021 20:29

Feels a long time ago to me, I was only 12 at the time so 2/3 of my lifetime has been after she died.

MillieMollieMandi · 01/11/2021 20:30

@MarcelineMissouri it was my 18th birthday too. I can always remember that date! Seems so long ago now though

QuicklyNowThen · 01/11/2021 20:33

It seems so long ago I was 13 and on a sleepover. We were just about falling asleep when the news reports of the accident began to come through was very sad.
The day of Dianas funeral we were on holiday at Butlins I think the Minehead one vividly remember the big screens up in all their entertainment centres showing it all live and people booing the Windsors like the crowds on the day. Very surreal and odd. Just remember it being a really sad time my family are all true royalist and my mum had seen Diana in real life she was very much our favourite royal.

Mynameismargot · 01/11/2021 20:33

It feels like a long time to me. I was a kid when she died so never really understood the hype.

Whitefire · 01/11/2021 20:40

It was just before I went off to university - so on one hand seems a lifetime away but on the other still feels really recent.

I was a kid when she died so never really understood the hype.

I was 18 and didn't understand the hype.

TheUndeadLovelinessOfDemons · 01/11/2021 20:44

Yes my 2 older DC were 5 and 4, now they're 31 and 29.

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ToykotoLosAngeles · 02/11/2021 12:36

There is a very, erm, strongly empathetic group of women who seem to have really identified with Diana as a wronged woman with a "difficult" set of in-laws. Most of them were 30s/40s when she died. I'm pretty sure they're the ones devouring all the Express articles.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 02/11/2021 12:40

My daughter is the same age as I was whn she died. Its history.

BashfulClam · 02/11/2021 13:09

I was 18 so yes it does seem a long time ago. My dad worked shifts and he watched it all unfold when he came home from backshift. He told my mum when he got to bed. I remember how long and drawn out the whole thing was. Dodi was buried within a day but a full week passed before they buried Diana. I had a problem though as I was drifting media and had to take an advert and bring the recording to class and talk about it..,well there were zero adverts on the Sunday (I’d set aside the whole day as I was working other days). I ended up improvising and using something else and got away with it.

JudgeJ · 02/11/2021 13:15

[quote MillieMollieMandi]@MarcelineMissouri it was my 18th birthday too. I can always remember that date! Seems so long ago now though [/quote]
It was on our wedding anniversary, very useful for pub quiz questions!

TokyoSushi · 02/11/2021 13:16

Yes, I was 17 and it does feel like a long time ago. I remember it being a massive media event which was unusual then, I can only imagine the circus that would surround it now.

JudgeJ · 02/11/2021 13:19

@Whitefire

It was just before I went off to university - so on one hand seems a lifetime away but on the other still feels really recent.

I was a kid when she died so never really understood the hype.

I was 18 and didn't understand the hype.

I was on my '40s and never understood the hype or beatification. The week before the newspapers had been vilifying her for her relationship with Fayed et al, the Sundays were quickly remade, a 180 degree turn of attitude. Private Eye published the pre-death headlines, they were very revealing.
CoalCraft · 02/11/2021 13:19

I was a toddler when she died. The obsession with her seems rather tasteless to me.

Saoirse82 · 02/11/2021 13:33

I was 18 and didn't understand the hype

I'm 39 and still don't understand the hype, she was a human being with many flaws just like the rest of us. She was in a very privileged position and yes she did some good but I'd like to think a lot of people in that position would do the same.

BasiliskStare · 02/11/2021 13:59

Dh always reads the news papers back to front ( goes straight to the sports pages ) - so he did not see the headlines. Did not realise she had died before he tried to get the radio for normal channels.

Friend went to Kensington Palace where flowers being laid and thought it was not an outpouring of grief more a tourist attraction.

I do not think the woman was a saint but she was massively high profile and I think for the sake of her sons best left alone - by all , including son & given the trauma - try to lay it to rest . .

ElftonWednesday · 02/11/2021 14:03

Yes it does seem like a long time. I was 22 then, travelling (so missed most of the hoo haa thank God) and about to do my final year at university. I'm 46 now, and yeah, a lot has happened in between. It does feel like a lot of years.

VestaTilley · 02/11/2021 14:05

I was eleven when she died, God rest her.

I still find it really shocking. I think the years since the millennium have flown by, so to me it feels just like yesterday - but it is in fact a lifetime ago.

Sadiequeenofscots · 02/11/2021 14:07

I was 16…feels like not so long ago…when you say 25 years I can’t believe it. I know it was that long ago, but I can’t believe I am old enough to remember clearly an event that happened that long ago.

I was very sad when she died. I cried when I watched the funeral.

VienneseWhirligig · 02/11/2021 14:15

I was 18 when she died, and went to a gig the day of her funeral in Nottingham. All the shops were closed when we got there, it was a very odd day. My boyfriend at the time was very scathing about the grief vultures sobbing over someone they never met, that was the first time I had seen that happen.

Comedycook · 02/11/2021 14:17

Definitely feels like a long time ago...I was 15... Am 40 now and life is so different both personally and in terms of society and technology. Feels like a totally different time.

jackstini · 02/11/2021 14:19

Ages. It was the night I met DH

LittleDandelionClock · 02/11/2021 14:30

It's odd. In some ways it does feel like the dim and distant past, and many YEARS ago, but in other ways it feels like it was just eight to ten years ago.

I loved Diana, and was sad when she died. Sad I don't give a shit what the haterz say, people have a right to be upset without having to explain or justify themselves...

I bet Diana is rolling in her grave at how her younger son has behaved, turning his back on his country......and his family.