Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

Richard Hillman · 31-08-2017 09:46PM

The aul wan came into my room at about 9am, switched on the tv, lowered the volume and played a game of "Guess who died Charles or Diana?". I said Charles. It still cuts me up that I got it wrong.

lukesmom · 31-08-2017 09:46PM

Richard Hillman wrote:

The aul wan came into my room at about 9am, switched on the tv, lowered the volume and played a game of "Guess who died Charles or Diana?". I said Charles. It still cuts me up that I got it wrong.

storker · 31-08-2017 09:47PM

In my parents' kitchen. Sky news, the Jedi master of milking a story, was on. They announced the death and then a few minutes later said they were going over to their correspondent at the hospital for "an update" (boggle). I waited with bated breath in the hope that he might say "The latest news is that she's still dead..."

Ipso · 31-08-2017 09:47PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The aul wan came into my room at about 9am, switched on the tv, lowered the volume and played a game of "Guess who died Charles or Diana?". I said Charles. It still cuts me up that I got it wrong.

Charles hasn't forgotten about it either.

machiavellianme · 31-08-2017 09:48PM

Milking the cows and it came over the wireless on lw252.
Wasnt really paying attention and almost didn't notice a tail lifting.
Luckily I did and dived out of the way in the last second. My little brother behind me didn't though.
I still remember him covered in it and laughing at him for days. Good times.

scary · 31-08-2017 09:49PM

Got up Sunday morning looking forward to the live Liverpool match, dad told me the news then heard the football was cancelled, Sunday ruined and I cursed her.

Beasty · 31-08-2017 09:51PM

Think I'd heard she had been injured in an accident overnight on Sky news or possibly the BBC. Woke up to hear the news she was dead.

I then told my wife who was still in bed and unaware of the overnight news.

Was living just north of Manchester at the time and then drove over to Halifax. It was my wife's grandad's 90th birthday. The party went ahead and was a distraction during the day although when we got home it was a case of wall to wall coverage.

dr.fuzzenstein · 31-08-2017 09:53PM

Don't know and I don't get all the hysteria about her.
I remember working in an office in Dublin at the time and they held a minute's silence for her. Not everyone was happy with that.

Jobs OXO · 31-08-2017 09:54PM

Ironically enough fapping to a pic of the good lady herself !

blackvalley · 31-08-2017 10:01PM

Princess Diana has died !! OMG when !!!

kingchess · 31-08-2017 10:02PM

Jobs OXO wrote: »

Ironically enough fapping to a pic of the good lady herself !

She departed after you-ahem-arrived I hope.otherwise it could be in bad taste

meeeeh · 31-08-2017 10:19PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Don't know and I don't get all the hysteria about her.
I remember working in an office in Dublin at the time and they held a minute's silence for her. Not everyone was happy with that.

I wasn't overly affected by her death but I still remember where I was. The same as I vividly remember watching F1, seeing Senna crash and calling my cousin. And I couldn't stand Senna.

I also remember when Cobain died. I rang a friend of mine and conversation went something's like:

Me:did you hear?
Him: Yeah, it's a ducking mess.
Me: it is, well see you tomorrow.
Him: see you.

Next day in school we met some other friends and started talking about Cobain's death. He goes: Cobain is dead? And I said: sure I called you yesterday and you said you knew. His reply was: I thought you were talking about maths test.

Are Am Eye · 31-08-2017 10:27PM

Wasn't it some guy called the Wolf Man that gave her the coke that killed her.

feardeas · 31-08-2017 10:31PM

At mass believe it or not. The priest asked for prayers at the beginning.

Was just about to start TY in school. Now I'm almost the age she was when she died, frightening really.

This Fat Girl Runs · 31-08-2017 10:35PM

I was in a shop, in Edmonton where I was living at the time. The news on the radio was that she had been in an accident. By the time I got home, which wasn't far, and switched on the news she had passed away. I was sad to hear it. I remember when I was a kid I had a paper doll book of Diana and her dresses including her wedding gown. I thought she was lovely.

Senna · 31-08-2017 10:39PM

Was out the night before, came home slightly twisted and turned on the radio as I normal do, I remember the news said she was in an accident first, I went to sleep but still heard the news every hour, the reports got worse, seriously injured, then maybe at 6/7am they said she was dead.
I had spend the summer working in London and had come back a week or two earlier to get the leaving cert results, I remember trying to work out which of the pub locals will take it bad, it was actually all of them, seemingly the pub was empty for the next few days and the atmosphere was unlike anyone had experienced before.

31-08-2017 10:44PM

I was 8 and living in my Grandmother's house at the time. Just remember being annoyed that the tv show I was watching (probably Sabrina The Teenage Witch or something) was cancelled. Didn't get why it was such a big deal at the time.

A New earth · 31-08-2017 10:53PM

Arrived for a game of Golf and remember the spot where I was told.

Shpudnik · 31-08-2017 10:58PM

I wasn't born.

31-08-2017 11:02PM

No idea, but I was 8 years old so it wouldn't have meant much to me anyway.

Reading this thread makes me think Boards is full of old people..

lertsnim · 31-08-2017 11:09PM

I was watching a film when they interrupted it with a news flash.

Itssoeasy · 31-08-2017 11:10PM

I had just started secondary school and I don't remember where I was the morning she died exactly but it was probably at home. I do remember where I was for her funeral. I was never my aunts house and it was on the tv and we were watching it.

31-08-2017 11:11PM

Can't really remember where I was.

But can remember suffering through Elton John's "Goodbye England's Rose" mawkish tribute a few weeks later.

LollipopJimmy · 31-08-2017 11:13PM

My Dad woke me up to tell me. I was 12 and couldn't have given less of a ****e. No dosrespect but I was a child and she was just some aul one off the telly. He might as well have told me Peggy Mitchell had died

Toots · 31-08-2017 11:27PM

Uriel. wrote: »

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.

Are you my sister???

We were downstairs watching cartoons on Cartoon Network and then this scrolling newsreel came on over the bottom of the screen saying something like "please turn to the news channel for an urgent report" so we did, and saw that they were saying Princess Diana was dead. Went upstairs to tell my mum, and she was out of the bed like a shot and down the stairs. We still slag her about it sometimes

_Dara_ · 31-08-2017 11:30PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I was 8 and living in my Grandmother's house at the time. Just remember being annoyed that the tv show I was watching (probably Sabrina The Teenage Witch or something) was cancelled. Didn't get why it was such a big deal at the time.

I'd be annoyed if I didn't get to watch Sabrina too! :mad:

One_Of_Shanks · 31-08-2017 11:35PM

I wandered into the living room, my parents house. I was 17.

Surreal but I was more upset about the deferral of the Liverpool v Newcastle match which had to be pushed back.

That popped into my head immediately, as I figured the game could be postponed and I had been looking forward to it.
At the same time, obviously sort of shocked at the news and that was about it really if I'm honest.

People die every day. I had lost my Grandad not too long before it. I will never forget hearing the news, but without wanting to be disrespectful, the collective mourning thing is not for me.

mzungu · 31-08-2017 11:39PM

Hard the bulletin in the early hours whilst listening to the radio.

twill · 31-08-2017 11:40PM

riffmongous wrote: »

Reading this thread makes me think Boards is full of old people..

It'll happen to you someday...

I remember having a lovely couple of days in Cork with my mother and coming out of the hotel bathroom in the morning to hear it on Sky news. I thought it was sad for her children but didn't think too much more about it. The really shocking part for me was the overreaction to it, particularly in this country.

Hector Bellend · 31-08-2017 11:41PM

Havng just returned from Gran Canaria. We found out in Dublin Airport

Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

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