Saturday, August 30, 2008

...princess diana - the fairy tale princess...

It has been eleven years now, "the people's princess" of England, Princess Diana (nee Lady Diana Frances Spencer), was killed in the tragic car crash along with Dody Fayed and the driver. That accident on 31st August 1997 shocked and sent the world in mourning.

Princess Di (1st July 1961) made headlines worldwide when she married the Prince of Wales - Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II on July 1981. Millions of viewers were glued to their television sets around the world to watch the fairy tale wedding which was broadcasted live.

Her first son, Prince William was born in 1982 and her youngest and last, Prince Henry in 1984. During her reign as a princess, she was always in the public eye and also a trend-setter to the fashion of the 80s. Every female (and some male) in the world copied her fashion. Everywhere she went, she is featured in every fashion magazines and tabloids.

Then in that fateful night, she made the world headline for the last time, when the car she was travelling in with Dodi Fayed collided with a beam near the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. On 6th September, this time world watched solemnly on the small screen, her funeral.

If she would have been just Lady Diana Spencer, I guess her divorced in 1996 would be less scandalous. It's never easy at the top...the higher you are, the harder you fall...


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