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Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

freshpopcorn

I was about 5 and I was starting school the next day. I have no really memory of it. My mother says she told my self, my siblings and my grandmother.
She found out off my father/the radio. She was collecting him and his brother from a pub about 60km away. She was waiting hours. He came out of the pub and told her Diana Ross had died. She heard on the radio on the way home it was actually princess Diana.

Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

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xzanti

In the scratcher.

Mech1

In bed listening to 088 mobile calls on the scanner!

Zebra3

Had just got out of bed to go and play ball. It was a Sunday morning.

The fuss over it all here in Ireland was utterly embarrassing. Blubbering fools going on and on about her as if she was some sort of saint.

The rise of grief junkies started that day.

Bunny Colvin

At a hotel in Dublin, getting ready for Mayo and Offaly in the '97 All Ireland Semi Final. Can remember it like it was yesterday!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I've honestly no idea. I've tried to recall but it's just too long ago.

GBX

Just came home from Aslan midnight at the Olympia.

Erik Shin

Sat on my couch after a barrel load of Guinness, genuinely saddened at the time

freshpopcorn

Reign Thoughtless Runner wrote: »

I've honestly no idea. I've tried to recall but it's just too long ago.

Hopefully there isn't a survey on it!

Bunny Colvin

Mech1 wrote: »

In bed listening to 088 mobile calls on the scanner!

You could listen to random mobile phone calls back then? What was that like?!

roroliam

On a scooter coming out of a tunnel in Paris

gingernut79

Came in after 4 from the nightclub and heard it on the radio, used to listen to bbc radio 1 all the time, they were only reporting she was hurt, I didn't know she had died till I woke up and the station was basically off the air with sombre music and occasional announcements.

gramar

On the couch about lunchtime on a Sunday. There was a news flash to announce it. I don't know why I remember as I wasn't really affected by it.

Mech1

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

You could listen to random mobile phone calls back then? What was that like?!

Interesting / funny / sad

All local people some wierd **** goes on.

Uriel.

Sitting on the sitting room floor flicking channels when I saw it on sky news.
Ran upstairs to tell my mam who was (and still is) obsessed with Princess Diana. She didn't believe me.

But when she came down to see she was devastated. It was almost like a family member died.

Fratton Fred

making a dirty great big fry up after a load of ale the night before.

It was a weird day in the UK, Capital Radio just played sad music all day long.

Rubberlegs

I had slept over at my parents house and my mother came in to tell me that morning. It was shocking enough at the time I suppose, but can't understand it being in the news so much all these years later.

hairyslug

I would have been in my late teens, I think I was on a couch, watching a early morning football show on Sky Sports and they recommended that we turn over to a news channel.

SEPT 23 1989

Coming down off something or other

Mint Sauce

At mass. Not really paying attention, but woke up when the priest offered a prayer for the Royal Family.

retro:electro

I was 9 and sharing a bed with my older sister. My mam came in the room to wake my sister and tell her and when she said "they think Diana is dead" in my sleepy hazy state I thought she said "they think that Anna is dead".
I was like no mam I'm still alive!!!

Galwayguy35

Watching Sky News on the box when the news broke that she was dead.

Twas a fast 20 years.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I was 8 I think. Was a Sunday morning, my mam woke me to tell me. I remember telling her I didn't care. There was a football semi final or final or something on that day and school started the next day.

Arghus

In bed.

luketitz

I neither recall, nor care. Not exactly one of them 'seminal moments' in the life of the average thirty-something Irishman, i would posit!

eviltwin

We'd been at a house party. It was our first night out since our daughter had been born in June and we got locked. In the taxi home the driver told us there had been a car accident in Paris, Dodi was dead and Diana was seriously injured. I thought he was taking the piss out of us because we'd been drinking but when we got back we put on Sky news and watched for a bit before we went to bed.

The next morning I woke up with a banging hangover, himself went down to get coffee, I heard him go down stairs and then seconds later run back up to say Diana had died. I couldn't believe it, I think we spent that entire weekend watching the coverage of her body being returned to the UK and then the week up to her funeral watching and feeling a sense of shock.

I've tried to explain to my daughter just how famous Diana was. In a world before the internet where the only place to get information on celebrities was newspapers, tv and magazines Diana was everywhere. Think Kim Kardashian times 1000. Her death was shocking and I felt so sorry for her two sons especially seeing them walk behind her coffin at her funeral.

Teyla Emmagan

In Sydney. Buying drink in the offie, to be exact. The news was on the radio.

jluv

Was living in NY at the time and had just finished a shift as a waitress. Used to listen to a radio station notorious for playing pranks. Announced the death of Diana and thought "ah lads this is taking it too far" . When I realised it was true I went home and stayed up half the night watching news reports..

alchemist33

My cousins were bunking on my living room floor, being up in Dublin for (I think) a U2 concert. When I came down for breakfast in the morning they had the TV on and told me. It seemed a bit unbelievable for a time.

dreamers75

Getting ready to leave for my 1st Old Firm Derby................

It was called off.

screamer

On a game farm in south Africa drinking coffee and watching the sunrise over the reserve.