Diana's faithful pay tribute on anniversary
Diana's faithful pay tribute on anniversary
10 years after her death, the princess is still an object of fascination
LOYAL FAN: Mr Terry Hutt, 72, from Cambridge, visits Kensington Palace every year on Princess Diana's death anniversary. -- PHOTO: AP
LONDON - MOURNERS gathered in London and Paris yesterday to remember the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, still revered by many around the world as well as remaining an enduring object of fascination at home.
Flowers, photographs and messages were attached to the gates of Kensington Palace, her London residence, overnight, although in far fewer numbers than a decade ago, when a vast outpouring of grief stunned the nation almost as much as her death.
In Paris, where she died in a high-speed car crash alongside her lover Dodi Al-Fayed, a number of mourners gathered and left flowers at the Pont de l'Alma tunnel where the fatal incident occurred.
A memorial service, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Diana's ex-husband Prince Charles, her two sons Princes William and Harry, as well as other royals and celebrities, including pop star Elton John, took place at midday at a chapel near Buckingham Palace.
'To lose a parent so suddenly at such a young age, as others have experienced, is indescribably shocking and sad. It was an event which changed our lives forever, as it must have done for everyone who lost someone that night,' said Prince Harry, who was 12 when Diana died.
'But what is far more important to us now and into the future is that we remember our mother as she would wish to be remembered, as she was: fun-loving, generous, down to earth and entirely genuine,' he added at the memorial service.
Prince Charles' second wife, Camilla, with whom he had an affair while still married to Diana and whom the princess referred to as 'The Rottweiler', declined to attend the service to avoid controversy, although she was invited.
Egyptian millionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of Dodi, led two minutes of silence yesterday for the couple at his Harrods department store in London.
Mr Fayed, who believes the couple were killed in a British establishment plot, was not invited to the royal memorial service.
Diana, who was 36 when she died in the early hours of Aug 31, 1997, is still remembered as the 'People's Princess' in Britain and elsewhere, and revered by millions of people who never met her.
She was once the most-photographed woman in the world.
Ten years after her death, Diana remains the subject of constant discussion and debate, as well as controversy and speculation, especially over what might have happened had she lived and how exactly she came to die.
An official inquest into the deaths will begin on Oct 2, once again propelling Diana back into the headlines.
In a sign that perhaps, with hindsight, Britons feel that they may have overdone the grieving, a survey conducted by Sky News showed that 55 per cent of people thought the mourning had been excessive.
10 years after her death, the princess is still an object of fascination
LOYAL FAN: Mr Terry Hutt, 72, from Cambridge, visits Kensington Palace every year on Princess Diana's death anniversary. -- PHOTO: AP
LONDON - MOURNERS gathered in London and Paris yesterday to remember the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, still revered by many around the world as well as remaining an enduring object of fascination at home.
Flowers, photographs and messages were attached to the gates of Kensington Palace, her London residence, overnight, although in far fewer numbers than a decade ago, when a vast outpouring of grief stunned the nation almost as much as her death.
In Paris, where she died in a high-speed car crash alongside her lover Dodi Al-Fayed, a number of mourners gathered and left flowers at the Pont de l'Alma tunnel where the fatal incident occurred.
A memorial service, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Diana's ex-husband Prince Charles, her two sons Princes William and Harry, as well as other royals and celebrities, including pop star Elton John, took place at midday at a chapel near Buckingham Palace.
'To lose a parent so suddenly at such a young age, as others have experienced, is indescribably shocking and sad. It was an event which changed our lives forever, as it must have done for everyone who lost someone that night,' said Prince Harry, who was 12 when Diana died.
'But what is far more important to us now and into the future is that we remember our mother as she would wish to be remembered, as she was: fun-loving, generous, down to earth and entirely genuine,' he added at the memorial service.
Prince Charles' second wife, Camilla, with whom he had an affair while still married to Diana and whom the princess referred to as 'The Rottweiler', declined to attend the service to avoid controversy, although she was invited.
Egyptian millionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of Dodi, led two minutes of silence yesterday for the couple at his Harrods department store in London.
Mr Fayed, who believes the couple were killed in a British establishment plot, was not invited to the royal memorial service.
Diana, who was 36 when she died in the early hours of Aug 31, 1997, is still remembered as the 'People's Princess' in Britain and elsewhere, and revered by millions of people who never met her.
She was once the most-photographed woman in the world.
Ten years after her death, Diana remains the subject of constant discussion and debate, as well as controversy and speculation, especially over what might have happened had she lived and how exactly she came to die.
An official inquest into the deaths will begin on Oct 2, once again propelling Diana back into the headlines.
In a sign that perhaps, with hindsight, Britons feel that they may have overdone the grieving, a survey conducted by Sky News showed that 55 per cent of people thought the mourning had been excessive.
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