Flags are flying at half-mast as the world today remembers Princess Diana on the 25th anniversary of her untimely death.
Well-wishers gathered outside the royal’s former home of Kensington Palace to lay banners, photographs and flowers in her honour.
Royal fans from all over the world descended on the spot in Paris where the Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash when she was just 36.
She was leaving the Ritz Hotel with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed who was 42, when the Mercedes they were travelling in smashed into the Pont de l’Alma tunnel.
The couple were killed, along with their driver Henri Paul, 41, while bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, then 29, was left seriously injured.
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. Her legacy and words lives on. pic.twitter.com/eAGN2nCPUp
— 🛡 Royal Reporter (@royal_reporter) August 31, 2022
Princess Diana and Prince Charles began their Canadian visit here in Halifax on June 14th, 1983. They spent time at a ceremony at the Garrison Grounds at the bottom of Citadel Hill on Sackville Street.
They later travelled to New Brunswick, P.E.I., Alberta, Ottawa and also visited, in the Royal Yacht Britannia, in Newfoundland for the 400th anniversary of the founding of Britain’s first colony in 1583. They departed for home July 1, Diana’s 22nd birthday.
At Princess Diana’s funeral on September 6th, 1997 over a half a million people gathered in London to say goodbye.
Elton John performed this version of “Candle in the Wind” for Diana that eventually sold millions of copies.
Hard to believe that was 25 years ago today.
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Rest in peace Princess Diana.
-Ian
