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

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

William will be 26 in June and Harry will be 24 in September - wikipedia knew, I didn't!

arf @ expat

Haha! Almost my age...only the figures are the wrong way round.

goodness - would never have put you at 62 rebel...

I'd do Philip for Euro millions rollover. With Andrew, Edward, Anne and anyone else they'd care to throw in.

they could bring a cameraman, too, alfie, so long as i got that dosh out of it .

Boak at Philip. Even for Euromillions

Kew! I was talking about 'Arry!

Oh, no, I'd forget all about it as soon as our private-chartered jet took off for Spain, Slouchy, beleive you me!

We'll go 50/50 eh expat? Or 60/40 in your favour if you take care of Philip!

expat, you're still a ho!

Actually for the money, maybe I could do an Ashley Cole.
Bonk - break off for baok - swill mouth - continue...

Nah, shagging the Royal Family for money would make me a hooker. In the immortal words of the 1990s hip-hop duo 'Salt n Peppa': 'The difference between a hooker an' a ho ain't nuthin but a fee.'

I'd go for the 60/40 deal, alfie! You're on.

Good girl expat! That's what I like to hear!

Read in the paper today that Wills has told Kate he will propse in 2009 if she survives a year without seeing him while he does his military stuff.

I can't stand Kate. Too obvious. He could do better. She is not good enough Too desperate and not who I would want as my Queen.

really? i think she's pretty. apart from that i don't know a single thing about her. what's the problem with her?

She does seem a bit more calculating than Diana, NAB.

But then, I don't know her.

Di always had her own title, FWIW, having been born to that.

Phillip apparently threatened her once, telling her, 'If you don't behave we'll take your title away' and she reminded him that her own title was far older than his .

She is very pretty, that Kate, though!

Can't believe it's 27 years...that makes me feel ancient. I had a "Charles and Di Souvenir Scrapbook" (I think my Mum still has it somewhere) and I diligently cut out and glued in every newspaper and magazine article I could find about them. I was a very odd child.

I was 9 and very very soppy about it. Thought Lady Di was the most exquisite creature that ever lived. Still have my 'Ladybird Book of the Royal Wedding'.

My sister and I were crazy into weddings then, Soren. We followed all the preparations as much as we could. I have to admit, Diana made a very endearing bride - she didn't seem haughty or calculating, the quentessential blushing bride.

We were dizzy with excitement the night before the wedding and hardly slept, especially because for us being in a different time zone we had to wake at 4AM to start watching it.

my italian friend kept a lady di scrapbook as well, that was the first place i saw the shots of her with her baby bump. were they in Oggi or paris match or something? they weren't published here, i remember, the press thought it was a disgrace that she'd been snooped on by the euros. how times change...

You know, when she died, what made me cry? Not her death exactly. But one of my two best friends lost her mother to cancer when she was a teen. When Diana died I remember my pal and I driving in the car and it came on the radio and my pal saying, very quitely, 'I remember when she got married and my mom and I got up at 5AM and popped popcorn. Her poor boys. You never get over losing your mother, you know?'

She had fab maternity clothes! She left hospital like a day after having the baby and my mother and grandmother, very old school, were shocked she was up walking about.

My gran kept saying, 'That lady's going to faint!'

aw expat, it was a big day, that day, for a lot of people in a lot of ways.

you know, i also LOVED the dress, but again my mum and grandma thought it was awful. i remember them going 'omg it's CRUSHED!' and me thinking she was like a fairy princess.