Today marks the 10th aniversary of the death of Princess Diana.
I will never forget the moment I found out the news.
I had been kipping in the cab of a Transit at Snetterton as we were doing a round of the KRC Endurance.
I woke up early on that Sunday morning as we had lots of stuff to do, switched on the van radio and heard the sad news.
Where were you when you heard the news?
I was living in Buckinghamshire at the time with my ex & my 2 daughters. I came downstairs with my girls and flicked th TV on while I went to make a cuppa. No Sky TV then and it didnt click for a minute why there seemed to be only news reports on all 5 channels.
I had just woken up, checked my e-mail and read that a friend in the States had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Put the TV on and saw the news, rotten day all round.
We were up about 5am getting ready to go to motocross at Whaddon, MK. I put the telly on to keep the kids occupied whilst I got ready and heard the reports, flicked channels and more of the same. No radio as they cut everything to just keep updated about it.
By the end of the day it was really annoying but very sad at the same time.
In The Army.
Got woken up at 6 am by my sister telling me she was coming to London (she lives in B’ham) because Diana had died in a car crash. I think the conversation was "what time in the morning do you call this … (she replied with news)… “Oh well thats nice bye”… put the phone down and went back to sleep.
Topped only by the day of her funeral, I was at Butlins Minehead on a stag weekend! Got us off to a flying start watching it in the bar!
In Hong Kong living with 15 other people in a three bed flat whilst backpacking. Heard it on local news…
Couldn’t give a rat’s arse then and frankly embarrassed now on behalf of all the people who wail and grieve and gnash their teeth over something like this…
I think the first jokes about corner taking and footy started minutes later.
What is wrong with the British people who lavish such praise and grief over someone that:
A they do not know personally or were related too
What did she do really…a bit of work for charidee whilst fluttering her eyelashes and telling people how hard it is to be Royalty.
In Paris, wondering where I could find a bodyshop open on a Sunday to fix the dent in my white Fiat… :Whistling:
Heard about the crash when I was in the back of a cab going from Camden to Finchley Central (where I lived at the time). The thing that bothered me most was when the cab driver then pulled over at Finchley ROAD station and said ‘there you go’ - had a huge row with him, during which I was accused of telling him the wrong destination (I may have been pissed but I knew where I lived) refused to pay, left the cab then had to wait for another one.
Heard the news she’d died the next morning, thought it was a bit sad but couldn’t (and still can’t) understand all these people in floods of tears, who had never met her ?!:unsure:
Now now !:rolleyes:
I was the on call Producer for German network RTL in London. At 1 am I was in the local pub having a lock - in, utterly smashed…by 4 am I had the coffee on and was in the office. I spent the next 7 days without sleep reporting the story, and the next month making up stories for our coverage just like every other network. Frankly, and I know I may offend some people by saying this, but as a Republican who can’t stand the current British cult of celebrity, I am sick to death of this woman. She’s dead. For god’s sake let it go. The government is NEVER going to reveal the true facts, the royal family is NEVER going to reveal the true facts. Let her boy’s mourn in peace.
For GOD’S SAKE SHUT UP ABOUT Princess BLOODY Diana!
Sorry, but its high time someone said that…ITS BEEN 10 YEARS! SHE WASN’T THAT INTERESTING…all she did was spend money, wear clothes and perpetuate the bl00dy Royal family.
Sorry to those I’ve offended, I’m just so sick of this debate and pictures of “the people’s Princess” - she was a rich, spoilt little sloaney girl…how come no one ever idolises the good work of poor people…? I mean if we’re idolising her cos she was so wonderful, why aren’t we also having a “10 years anniversary of Mother Theresa’s death” eh…its just pathetic rich celeb worshipping, perpetuated by the ruddy media cos of all the emotionally weak people out there who thought she represented the kind of person they wanted to be … and why…cos it sells bl00dy Newspapers…if they hadn’t told us day in day out for the last 2 weeks that it was the 10th Anniversary, how many of us would have actively remembered that fact…very ruddy few…
In spain, sitting in a villa having some brekkie whilst watching the telly! I was 13 at the time so i was more worried about getting in the pool than the death of Di.
Its strange though, how first the Dodo died,
Then Di died,
Then Dodi died,
Poor Dido must be crapping herself!!! 
On a caravan holiday in clacton at the age of 7 :blink:
Went kite flying on Epsom Downs.
I used to get the news of the world delivered in them days and was woken up by hubby chucking the paper on the bed! i was peeved he’d woken me up over something so trivial!!
Have to say i agree with Toby…
i could’nt really give a t*ss
Landing at Heathrow, coming back from our honeymoon.
Mrs Wiz and I had just moved into our house in Enfield a couple of days before and her parents were coming down from Northampton for lunch and, I suspect, to have a good nose about. We hadn’t had any TV or radio on that morning so when they arrived I opened the door, proud owner of nice new house, to be greeted by mother-in-law’s gloomy face and the words “Princess Di’s dead.” I confess my reaction was also, “So f***ing what?”
It was the day after I found a love letter from my (now-ex) husband’s lover, so I had more pertinent things to worry about :crying:
Bunch of heartless b******s aren’t ya?
I couldn’t care less either. 
I heard she was on the radio the other day too. And the dashboard, the windscreen…
Apparently she insisted on driving everywhere in a Mercedes, cos she wouldn’t be seen dead in a Skoda!
