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.

It feels like a long time ago, but the memory of that morning is crystal clear.
The Sunday Times was on the mat when I set off for a run. I saw a very brief mention at the bottom of the front page, Diana had been involved in a car accident in Paris
I remember thinking "She can't be injured then or there'd be shock horror headlines".

It seems like a lifetime ago.

The friend I was with when I heard about it died in 1999, and it feels like he's been gone half a lifetime.

It was a long time ago, but stories about her - in one form or another - seem to be in the UK press almost always. People are reminded constantly. And now The Crown.

Also not getting the hype in my 40s.

Yes!
Also I've never forgotten the way my mum told me by waking me up that morning and saying "guess who has died??". Obviously I immediately thought it would be someone we knew and felt really worried. And then she told me it was Princess Diana. I lived in another country at the time (I'm not British) so it was a big deal but not as big as it was in the UK.

It does feel a long time. My eldest was born 2 weeks after her death.
He was 24 in September.

Yes it seems like a lifetime ago, it was before I was married and before DC.
I'd been out the night before and I vividly remember DDad knocking on my bedroom door to tell me 'Lady Di had been in a bad crash.'

I loved her sense of style and her vulnerability. Not a supporter of the Royal Family but Diana was fascinating. She had that magic quality that very few people have (none of the current Royals anyway.)

@LittleDandelionClock

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. 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.

I think Diana would be rolling in her grave at her younger son being made to walk behind her coffin in the view of millions at 12 years old, that's enough to fuck anybody up for life, I too would be getting away from those who treated my Mother so badly and turned a blind eye to my Father shagging Camilla while married to my Mother

I think significant and memorable events always seem more recent than they actually are. It’s the same as 9/11 which I can’t believe was 20 years ago now. That, Mrs Thatcher resigning and Diana’s death are the three news events I have the clearest memory of from my teens / early 20s.

@MarcelineMissouri @MillieMollieMandi my birthday twins (triplets) although I was only 13 that year.

When I did my psychology A-level the introduction to the chapter on memory involved writing everything we could remember about 31.8.97. Most of my classmates managed a few sentences, a couple remembered Diana. My teacher told me I'd written enough when I was in my 3rd side of A4 . I remembered everything about that day. What I ate, what I'd worn, what presents I had. Of course the thing we were meant to remember was Diana dying.

That time has flown

I remember being very confused about the public's reaction to her death

Never seen anything like that in the uk. I mean people were devastated as if they had lost somebody close to them

I was 18 and didn't understand the hype

It was a shock that a very public figure had died in the manner that they did but the way much of the nation descended into borderline mass hysteria and emotional incontinence was equally unnerving and embarrassing.

I was 20. Remember coming home from a club at about 4am (another life!) and hearing on the radio shed been in a crash. Assumed it was minor and didn’t think much of it, so it seemed unreal later to hear she’d died.

I find it very strange that my DC barely know who she was. She was so famous.

Yes, I wish she could rest in peace.
She was very attractive ? beautiful - none of the actresses who have acted the part are as stunning as she was. I'm not sure what she had but she had something special looks wise. Which partly lead to the harassment from the media.

It feels like a lifetime ago.

It does. I moved from my home country to the UK just after her death but before her funeral, and I thought the country had gone nuts.

I was 7 when she died and it was the first time I’d ever seen my dad cry. I think it was just so shocking that a princess could be so human as to die in a car accident.

Yeah I was a kid so …

@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.

I'm nearly 30 and have no memory of her being alive

Yes feels years ago. I was at home and mum woke me up to tell me. It's a whole lifetime ago

I was 10, heard it on the radio whilst I was getting ready for a wedding. I didn't realise how significant it was or woupd be to to other people. To me at the time it was a rich woman dying that I didn't know much about, sad but not really relevant to me.

My mum only found out on the way to the wedding venue as we had the radio on in the car. I commented that I had heard earlier that she passed and mum asked why I hadn't told her. My answer was that I didn't think it was important, we weren't not going to the wedding as a result.

It was only after when I saw the news and watched the funeral that I realised she had touched a lot of people's lives. I did find the outpouring of grief weird though especially when I saw people on the news sobbing when they had never met her and her own sons kept it together. It was also the first time I had seen a funeral of another faith and I was surprised that the immediate family weren't crying.

I was in the middle of uni repeat exams so it is very vivid in my mind still. As is 9/11 as I was away on my first ever trip abroad for work.

Both feel very close still, but also a complete lifetime ago at the same time.

Gosh yes, I was a child. I do remember being aware of who she was when I heard the news so I guess I had heard of her but I have no recollections (now) of her prior to that if that makes sense.

I remember we talked a lot about the death and the funeral. As kids we were fascinated by alllll the people laying flowers. So many flowers.

@Agadorsparticus

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 funeral was on a Saturday so you would have been off school anyway.

I was 18, about to leave for my gap year. I remember my mum waking me up to tell me and I was pissed right off she had interrupted my lie-in.

It didn't really mean anything to any of us, my family or friends. The way people lost their heads about it was a much bigger story than the event itself.

Yes it feels like a lifetime but I remember it vividly. I lived in Geneva at the time and was getting ready to fly to London for work. Once onboard my flight, the pilot announced that she'd passed away and many passengers were crying. It was surreal.