Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

TresGats · 01-09-2017 10:38AM

farmchoice wrote: »

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.

I also remember reading a piece in the Observer the next day comparing her Iq to that of a plant pot! It had already gone to press, I believe it was "Mrs Blairs Diary"

_Roz_ · 01-09-2017 11:26AM

I was 9, and didn't really know who she was. I was coming downstairs the morning it was being reported and my mum was upset in the living room. She told me what had happened.

MonkeyTennis · 01-09-2017 11:35AM

Hungover to bits. My mum came in and told me. I informed her that it was no concern of mine ( words to that effect).

RobertKK · 01-09-2017 11:47AM

Sitting in the car waiting for everyone else to come including the driver at 3:30am after a night out dancing at the nite club.
Turned on radio BBC5live which one could get clear at night and they were saying she was in a crash, but not sure if she had been declared dead or in a very bad way at that stage.

twill · 01-09-2017 12:48PM

Your Face wrote: »

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

It might be the strange nature of the media hoopla at the time - I'd never seen anything quite like it and haven't since. The event itself meant nothing to me but I remember it clearly.

alchemist33 · 01-09-2017 12:51PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

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.

I remember when the BBC did their "greatest Briton" programme and she made it into the last six. She was obviously going to pale in comparison to Newton, Churchill so they made one of the categories "compassion".

She was famous and glamorous, and may well have been a nice person, but I don't see why so many people say they identified with her. Not many people have much in common with a princess.

NIMAN · 01-09-2017 12:57PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

I remember when the BBC did their "greatest Briton" programme and she made it into the last six. She was obviously going to pale in comparison to Newton, Churchill so they made one of the categories "compassion".

She was famous and glamorous, and may well have been a nice person, but I don't see why so many people say they identified with her. Not many people have much in common with a princess.

For me she was always held in too high esteem.

OK so she was nice to terminal patients etc, and recently they have made her out to be a great mother, yet she didn't see her boys for a full month before she died because she was off partying in the Med and Monaco with her latest flame (one of MANY I must add, I think if she was still alive she would have shifted me by now).

She was a bit man-mad from all reports. Her kids seemed to be secondary to her concerns.

kfallon · 01-09-2017 12:59PM

Woke up with a hangover after a Saturday night out and on the way to the bathroom for a Jimmy me ould lad told me. Liverpool v Newcastle was called off as was the Old Firm game on the Monday so I was rightly peeved.

Called up to a mate on Sunday afternoon and we sat on his couch flicking thru the TV channels, wall to wall coverage of her death on every channel. He turns to me and says, " Let's have a minutes silence......for the death of television!!!"

Found it very strange how people were grieving over someone they never knew. Wasn't she the self proclaimed "Queen of hearts"? Geebag

Ger Roe · 01-09-2017 01:24PM

I was in London with the wife that weekend and we had gone to see Buck Palace in the late night/early hours of the morn on our way back to where we were staying. It was our last night in London and we hadn't been there yet so we stood at the gates for a bit before heading to bed for an early start in the morning.

The apartment we were staying in had no tv or radio so we headed to the airport train in the morning unaware of what had happened until passing a newspaper stand at the station. Once at the airport all tv screens were reporting on the incident and the whole place was almost totally silent.

It turns out that we had been standing at Buck Palace gates at the same time that the events were unfolding in Paris.

LordSutch · 01-09-2017 01:51PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

Sunday morning, waking up in bed totally shocked and bewildered as to how she had died in a tunnel in Paris?

A few hours earlier as I went to sleep, the last thing I saw on the Tele was an advert for one of tomorrows papers, with a picture of Diana & Dodi livin it up (on a speed boat in the Med), so how could she have died in a car crash in Paris was my initial thought :cool:

TerrorFirmer · 01-09-2017 01:56PM

I don't deny for a second that she did tremendous work but I can't quite understand the obsession here - girl at work took the day off for the anniversary because she was so upset.

ectoraige · 01-09-2017 02:07PM

73Cat wrote: »

It was shocking enough at the time I suppose, but can't understand it being in the news so much all these years later.

Because it was a historic moment, as exhibited by the fact so many people on this thread do, for whatever reason, remember where they were.

For the record, I was in my house in college watching videos when my housemate called down from his room, he habitually listened to the BBC world service. We spent the rest of the night listening to the news updates.

Beanntraigheach · 01-09-2017 02:42PM

I watched events unfold live that night on Sky News. I remember that before the announcement of her death by an ashen-faced newsreader, the latest reports had been that she wasn't actually as seriously injured as earlier suggested.

The hysterical grief from some that followed was utterly bizarre to me at the time - all for a woman who lived her life never knowing they even existed. There were half-serious suggestions that some sort of Diana Cult would form

The reaction of the North Koreans to the death of Kim Jong-il was the closest thing to it in recent times.

Here's a great documentary from Christopher Hitchens on the period following her death:

osarusan · 01-09-2017 02:47PM

Was out on the lash, so heard nothing until the next morning when I went to my parents' place.

It's one of the first 'celebrity deaths' I can remember, and, then as now, I was surprised by the levels of sadness and grief from people who didn't know the celebrity at all.

A Little Pony · 01-09-2017 02:53PM

Some guy phoned a radio show saying he cried more about Diana than over his dead wife.

byronbay2 · 01-09-2017 03:24PM

NIMAN wrote: »

She was a bit man-mad from all reports. Her kids seemed to be secondary to her concerns.

That's the British aristocracy in a nutshell!

Like many on here I found out from my mother (while hungover) on the following morning. Was shocked but not upset.

Ms Doubtfire1 · 01-09-2017 03:34PM

Driving back from Monte Negro to Holland with my hubby. We followed it all on the radio during the drive, it was heartbreaking.

Barry Badrinath · 01-09-2017 03:43PM

I was in my parents sitting room and it was on tv.

I was a typical 16 year old who didnt care....no change 20 years on.

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dancingqueen · 01-09-2017 04:03PM

I was at home on the couch on the Sunday morning, I was 12. My parents and brother had gone to mass and my Mam was pretty mad at me for not going with them. I saw it on the news and was waiting for them to come home, and ran out to the car before they even got around hte house to tell them. They didn't believe me. My mam cried when she saw it on TV herself.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 01-09-2017 04:16PM

Was playing a game on the PC when my Dad came down the stairs and told us.

byronbay2 · 01-09-2017 04:20PM

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I always felt that she was quite manipulative herself (that pic at the Taj Mahal etc.) but I remember one particular picture of her that made me feel the press had gone too far. It was obviously taken by a hidden camera when she was working out at the gym. She was on some kind of thigh trainer and had her legs wide open with her knees bent. Absolutely horrible photo to take of any woman!

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byronbay2 · 01-09-2017 04:32PM

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I always wondered how that picture could have been published but you have answered it above. Thanks!

quickbeam · 01-09-2017 04:40PM

I was 21. It was the first "where were you moment" in my life (technically I was alive for Elvis's death but was too young to remember it).

I woke Sunday morning, turned on the radio and heard the news. My first reaction was Pffft. I was far too cool to care. But then they said something about how her boys had to be woken up in the middle of the night to be told the news, and suddenly I felt very sad - not for her, but for them (I generally hold that death is only sad for those left behind, those who died are beyond that).

I went to the shops to pick up the Sunday papers as I used to do back in the day, and there wasn't a scrap about it in them - it had happened too late to make the first editions.

I can't remember after that - I probably caught more information on the TV. I do remember that I resolutely avoided the funeral though, exept for a few clips I couldn't avoid from the news.

TheChosenOne_ · 01-09-2017 04:46PM

I was in my house. I went to the fridge, and cracked open an ice cold bottle of Heineken.

Elmer Blooker · 01-09-2017 05:39PM

I remember I was standing on a grassy knoll in Dallas when I heard the news.

MoodeRator · 01-09-2017 05:40PM

Online playing Wolfenstein, someone said in the chat there had been a crash.

branie2 · 02-09-2017 09:43AM

I remember Miriam O'Callaghan was visibly upset on TV that day

Irish Guitarist · 02-09-2017 10:33AM

I was at home. I got up late and my mother told me she had died.

It's my ambition to someday be somewhere interesting when someone famous dies so I have a better story to tell.

Here's actual footage of the plot to kill her by the way.

Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

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