it only feels like yesterday, that dreadful day when the world came to a standstill
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Liverpool V Newcastle was called off iirc??
What’s the last thing that went through Diana’s mind before she died?
Her arse.
Splat!
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U2 played Lansdowne Road that night
The 4 boys in the Lemon. Cracking show.
It was a Sunday morning when the news came through, I was living down in Cork at the time, the place came to a standstill, you could see the shock in peoples faces
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We were all coming down off pills and tearing into buckfast when we heard the news… We did a little train around the sitting room singing ding dong the witch is dead…
Great night.
if anyone has a spare 5 hours, this is a great watch, the raw emotion was something savage, her Brother gave some speech at the funeral
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Was in Long Island coming to the end of one of the best summers I’ve ever had. The word came through on the tv news. There was shock in the room. Went out to the pub, Irish DJ, mentioned her death, the death of a ‘Princess’ then he played Sunday, Bloody Sunday…
I was actually down in Kellys myself with the family. It was a dank day, the pathetic fallacy was strong. My young mind couldn’t fully comprehend it. My parents, brother and sister wept for hours over it. It ruined the remainder of our 3rd holiday that summer.
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I was at that gig. Savage night.
I was living in London at the time. It had an unbelievable effect on people there.
Love the cover of private eye
I came in from the Oirish pub in Warsaw (Olly Morgan’s) around 3am and turned on the telly for the BBC news. They were reporting the accident. I went to bed and when I woke up she was brown bread. RIP.
She stopped 10 in a row
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I was at that gig and at the Mayo v Offaly All-Ireland football semi-final at Croke Park (Canal End).
There was a beautifully observed minutes silence for the late Princess before that match and many of the crowd were in tears. Or was that just the rain, it could have been the rain now that I think of it, because it rained a lot that day.
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@Tassotti - I thought Mariella Frostrup made a great point on Newsnight there - though Diana’s death proved that fairytales do not always have happy endings, in the end, the soul of Diana lives on through her sons, and the informality, the down with the real peopleness that she sought to bring to the Royal Family, and suffered tremendously for, would eventually be accepted as the norm, and the traditional stiff upper lip stuffiness we previously associated with them would be blown away.
The tragedy is that it took Diana’s death to bring that about.
Diana truly was a martyr to the noble, heroic and just cause of getting the Royal Family to be a bit more informal and down with the real people.
You’d have to compare her to the likes of Emily Davison, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, who similarly were martyrs to noble and just causes which would endure and prevail after their deaths.