on this day in 1981. Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer announced their engagement.

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

So if you clearly remember this from an incredible 27 years ago, then you're no spring chicken!

And the significance is ? Is it just an opportunity to wheedle out the oldies ?

I remember it well

OH God what a travesty all round.

ndp - the significance is only how shocked I am at how fast the years have whizzed by. I spotted the 'on this day' article whilst reading online news and nearly had a seizure when I realised it's nearly 30 years ago.

LOL norksbride.

I wasn't born at that point, so I'm just that I can't join in the trot down memory lane

i remember actively avoiding the wedding and related tripe at my young age then
and laughing out loud at those collars ffs and her 'style'
load of shit then
load of shit now

When they actually got married, my mum dressed me head to toe in red, white and blue and took a pic of me standing in front of a poster of the happy couple which was in my mums front room window

I can't believe it was 27 years ago

Was it really 27 years ago?

(I'll take an extremely large sherry and a comfy chair in the corner, so I can sit and wonder where all the years have gone!)

Oh my word, I remember it. NDP, you weren't born? MY, I'm old!

rofl @ patriotic nutcracker

I was 16 and (not) studying for my O levels that summer (GCSEs to you young'uns!)

oh it was exciting, though i was only 12. my sister fell for it big time, and bought loads of lady di books. she also started to wear alot of high frilly collars.

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I have a hazy memory although that's more to do with disinterest in teh Royals than being too young

i remember my grandma and mother being horrified that she was so young, lots of disapproving 'sacrificial virgin' comments etc and i thought she was ANCIENT. she was only 19 or something, wasn't she? god, i can't believe her family let her go, in retrospect...

Those spotty frocks! And that haircut!

I was 9, remember the comm mug from school and the day off school. My dad was ever so about it, so I watched the whole show on the black and white portable with my granny and grandad.

Oh yes I remember the comment about being in love "whatever that means". I thought at the time that he was a stupid stuck up repressed man who could not express his feelings, but of course, I can see his reticence in a different light now.

another thing that caused my female relatives to purse their lips and predict doom, that comment...

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We lived next to some Americans when the engagement was announced and omg, they went mad with ecstasy over it, as though they'd been witness to the actual event. They bought armloads of 'Royal' magazines to send over to rellies in the US. Barking, eh?

Do you think she was in love with him?
I know she was very young and idealistic etc (and not awfully bright) but she mustb have known this was a dynastic thing above all else. Surely?

I remember it - also as a 9 year old. Had almost forgotten she was 19 at the time My Christ, a family you would not want to marry into until at the very least 29 in terms of being comfortable in your own self. I wonder what impertinence caused the Beeb reporter to even ask if they were in love - can you imagine nowadays?! Publicist would have you taken out back and shot - and that's just for a celeb, not a royal!