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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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branie2

I remember seeing her picture on television before the National Anthem was played and broadcasting on RTE ended for the night.

Framed10

I was on the over night ferry from Dublin to Hollyhead to see my first Liverpool match at Anfield. It was all over sky news on the ships TVs. Arrived in Liverpool the next morning only to hear on the radio in a Cafe that the match had been cancelled as a mark of respect for Diana

I was really gutted about the match.

[Deleted User]

Was in the front of the minibus en route home from the disco, news came on over the radio.

Was plucking up courage to make a move on the fetching young lady beside me.

Didn't

Should've

Spider Web

The hysteria over it really was all kinds of crazy.

minikin

I was on the phone to Eircell customer care complaining about the regular interference and lack of privacy of the calls on their network, when I heard the sad sad news,

Arghus

I'd have to say though it didn't really mean a lot to me. I was only a kid but I didn't really care about Princess Diana. I used to see the royals on TV on occasion and they always struck me as a right bunch of saps. I felt sorry that someone was dead, but it didn't move me in any meaningful way. The only celebrity death that hit me emotionally when I was a kid was Dermot Morgan. I was left stunned by that one.

Andrewf20

I was up at 4am getting ready for work in the food fair restaurant in Dublin airport when I turned on Sky news. I was very shocked even though I didnt really know much of her at the time. There was a real sense of this being a big tragedy and I dont recall there being a death of a famous person that was as significant since then.

Arghus

Andrewf20 wrote: »

I was up at 4am getting ready for work in the food fair restaurant in Dublin airport when I turned on Sky news. I was very shocked even though I didnt really know much of her at the time. There was a real sense of this being a big tragedy and I dont recall there being a death of a famous person that was as significant since then.

It felt significant at the time, but I think it was kind of a symptom of the time as well. There was a lot of media coverage and outlets for that coverage, but the news cycle wasn't as fast as it is now. Diana felt significant, in part, because it was allowed to play out for days and weeks. If an equally famous person died today there'd be wall to wall coverage for a much shorter while before the media quickly moved onto the next big thing.

jimmycrackcorm

Like most, back then I was sleeping in my rented house.

Unlike most now, you could actually rent a house.

Your Face

Wow, I never knew that her death would have such an impact on people, that they would remember exactly where they were.

Outlaw Pete

I had just got off a flight to Mozambique in Venice Marco Polo Airport as I was about to board another flight to Sydney, when all off a sudden I woke up on a futon in me Dad's gaff and seen it on Sky News that I'd fallin asleep watching on an old portable.

pebbles21

I was driving a white Fiat Uno in Paris,fiddling about trying to put a CD on,as i entered a tunnell i heard a bang!

Zaph

Came downstairs to get breakfast and my housemate at the time told me. Heard some of Matt Cooper's series on her death earlier and some guy was saying that where he worked everyone observed a minute's silence on the day of her funeral. Completely ridiculous sh*te altogether, wtf was wrong with people? Can't remember where I was when the funeral was on, but I know I wasn't getting sucked into that nonsense and I managed to avoid it completely. I find funerals tedious at the best of times, so I certainly wasn't going to be watching the funeral of a member of the royal family of another country.

machiavellianme

pebbles21 wrote: »

I was driving a white Fiat Uno in Paris,fiddling about trying to put a CD on,as i entered a tunnell i heard a bang!

Liar. Fiat unos only had a cassette deck on the top end model. Otherwise it was a standard fm/am radio.

the beer revolu

I'm pretty sure that the only reason I remember is because I was with a friend in Havana in the hotel room drinking rum, smoking cigars and joints and watching TV.

baylah17

Spider Web wrote: »

The hysteria over it really was all kinds of crazy.

Totally agree, from what I remember of her she was a very self serving publicity hungry celeb.
I will never understand the weeping and gnashing of teeth at her passing.

valoren

Was at home, was back to school, 6th year the Monday, so annoyed by default.
I remember thinking she was 36, and that seemed quite old to me then being 16.

I'm 36 now myself and she was still a very young woman. I guess she was so much in the public eye in those days that she seemed much older than she was. 2 other people had died, the bodyguard was in a critical condition, you'd swear it was just her who had been killed. I remember that annoying me, sort of like you only get attention if you happen to be famous. That's just the way things are.

I think the media coverage, in the aftermath and during her funeral definitely zeroed in on the cringe inducing grief merchants which gave the viewer the impression that the whole nation was in mourning. They weren't. Most people just felt sad about a horrible tragedy and felt sad for the two Princes who had lost their mother in quite ****ty circumstances.

branie2

And a few days later, Mother Teresa died

BrokenArrows

I was a kid watching the news on tv. Told my mum that some princess had died and they were making a big deal of it on the tv.
Mum started crying. I couldn't and still cant understand why anyone has any emotional attachment to a princess in the UK.

20 years later people are still going mental over her.

Its now the twentieth anniversary but even over the last 8 years ive lived in the UK she turns up in magazines or papers literally every week.

Boom_Bap

BrokenArrows wrote: »

I was a kid watching the news on tv. Told my mum that some princess had died and they were making a big deal of it on the tv.
Mum started crying. I couldn't and still cant understand why anyone has any emotional attachment to a princess in the UK.

20 years later people are still going mental over her.

Its now the twentieth anniversary but even over the last 8 years ive lived in the UK she turns up in magazines or papers literally every week.

That's nearly identical to my story. I was in another room watching TV, probably a recording of Eurotrash on low volume and my mam burst into the room, I recall frantically scrambling for the remote and ensuring the pillow on my lap remained in place.

She was getting me to change the channel to the news, she was upset by the whole thing and I couldn't figure out why.

NIMAN

U2 concert in the old Lansdowne Road.

farmchoice

i was working in a pub in london. the next day i bought the irish sunday independent .
it had an article inside and the headline was
''its do or die for Di and Dodi''
it was pulled form all the Irish editions but the international one had already gone out.

eviltimeban

NIMAN wrote: »

U2 concert in the old Lansdowne Road.

Popmart. I was at that as well. Great concert. Back when U2 were at their peak.

alchemist33

Boom_Bap wrote: »

That's nearly identical to my story. I was in another room watching TV, probably a recording of Eurotrash on low volume and my mam burst into the room, I recall frantically scrambling for the remote and ensuring the pillow on my lap remained in place.

She was getting me to change the channel to the news, she was upset by the whole thing and I couldn't figure out why.

Because you'd ruined a perfectly good pillow?

sbsquarepants

I was in a taxi on my way home from town, I didn't hear the news till about 3 in the morning.

I have to say I didn't really get the grief over her death at the time, or the appeal of the woman while she was alive at all.

It's sad when any young woman dies in an accident, but that's about it - it was no more or less sad than anyone else. I think since her death she's been elevated to some saint like status that just doesn't match the basically parasitic life she lived.

By the time she died, she apparently hadn't seen her kids for something like a month while she swanned around the world with her super rich boyfriend. Doesn't sound too saintly to me?

Benjamin Buttons

As I was very young at the time, most likely I was up my own fundament.

keano_afc

Sunday morning. I was in bed and woke to hear my grandparents talking about it. My grandfather was an old fashioned Republican, hated everything British. He liked Diana because she got away from the royal family. Both of them seemed genuinely upset by it.

ohnonotgmail

I was lying in bed with my girlfriend at the time when she got a text from her mate telling her that Diana had died. Needless to say i didnt get the ride that morning.

Ciaran_B

NIMAN wrote: »

U2 concert in the old Lansdowne Road.

Same for me. I was just back from a J1 in America, hungover and jet lagged to bits. Made for a surreal day in Dublin.

TresGats

We had the internet 20 yeas ago- dail up- and I was sitting up surfing late while my then partner was playing on his decks. I found out online, and told my partner and we wondered how London would be in 8 days when we were due to fly over for a holiday. We had Oxford St. to ourselves practically on a Saturday afternoon and everywhere was shut apart from this small Arab cafe where they were smoking those hookah pipes, tbh i was really frightened (culture shock!) sitting having a coffee, everyone was up the top of the St. watching her cortege go by.
No tears in our house.