- Title: FILE - Profile of Princess Diana to mark the 25th anniversary of her death
- Date: 30th August 2022
- Summary: ETON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - SEPTEMBER 1995) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** DIANA, HARRY, WILLIAM AND CHARLES AT ETON SCHOOL
- Embargoed: 13th September 2022 04:01
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- Country: UK
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Europe,Royals
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Wednesday (August 31) marks a quarter of a century since Princess Diana's death at the age of just 36.
Diana was killed on Aug. 31, 1997, when the limousine carrying her and her lover Dodi al-Fayed crashed in the Pont de L’Alma tunnel in Paris as it sped away from chasing paparazzi photographers on motorbikes.
Her death plunged the monarchy into crisis, coming after the highly public disintegration of her marriage to heir Prince Charles with its revelations of feuding, adultery, and the misery she had felt in her royal role.
Millions globally mourned the "people's princess", as the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair described Diana.
Twenty-five years on, her allure shows little sign of faltering.
There has been "Spencer", a movie about the tumultuous end of Charles and Diana's marriage; "The Princess", a documentary by Oscar-nominated director Ed Perkins; while the hit Netflix drama "The Crown" has focused on Diana in its recent series.
There have been books, countless newspaper articles, numerous TV programmes, recriminations over a controversial 1995 interview she gave to the BBC, and even "Diana, The Musical", a much panned and short-lived Broadway show.
For the royals themselves, Diana is still omnipresent, not least for her two sons, Princes William, 40, and Harry, 37, who have spoken of the trauma her death caused, and how it affected their mental health for years afterwards.
They were just 15 and 12 when they walked slowly behind their mother's coffin, past a throng of mourners, through the streets of London to her funeral.
Prince Charles has slowly emerged from the shadow cast by his ex-wife's death and has now been married for 17 years to Camilla, the woman Diana held responsible for their relationship failing.
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