Princess Diana's death

[MikeG]

I was camping in the remote Kimberley region of NW Western Australia, so didn't hear about it until 3 weeks after it had happened. I was overcome with indifference.

 

[byegad]

I am sorry she died, but the over the top mourning at the time and the fact that the red-tops and gutter press keep on returning to it makes me totally indifferent to the anniversary.
According to the crawling press.
1. She was, prior to her marriage to Charles, 'a teacher' (No she wasn't, she was 19 and so at least 2 years to young to have qualified. She was playing at being a nursery nurse.)

2.She was a commoner. (Yes right, which is why her family is described as one of the UK's prominent aristocratic families!)

3. She was wonderful. (I've no idea, but I'd guess she'd have got right up my Atheist Socialist nose if I'd met her in a pub.)

 

[Drago]

I got the impression then that the press were stoking the national grief for their own ends and were driving the situation rather than merely reporting upon in. Twenty years on there's a chance to earn a few shekels so they're wringing the last drop out of it while they can.

 

[Bazzer]

Recall replacing an iron down pipe on the house with a plastic one on the morning after. Took bloody ages to cut through and noisy as hell with a grinder.
She appeared to do some good work for charities, but I felt sorry for her kids in the event itself and those leading up to it, as her personal life seemed to take priority over them.

 

[Salad Dodger]

We had been talking about going out to look for a new (touring) caravan.

When we woke up on the morning of Diana's death, we decided to go ahead and go out looking for a 'van. The dealership was very quiet, but we had plenty of time to look around and ended up buying one. It turned out to be a right dog.....

 

[matiz]

I remember driving home from holiday on the day of the funeral and having the roads to ourselves.
I reckon a lot of them London florists paid off their mortgages catering for the fake outpouring of emotion.

 

[theclaud]

I actually thought she was a very manipulative woman..

I would guess that all the nasty womenses strike you that way.

 

[TheDoctor]

I was driving to Heathrow and couldn't understand why the roads were so empty. Then I turned the radio on.
Day of the funeral, I went for a three-hour ride. The roads were even emptier. I saw one car.
But I'd sum it up as 'Woman I never met died. So it goes.'

*awaits flaming*

 

[swee'pea99]

I was living in a shared house at the time, and Sara approached me, all wobbly-lipped, and said 'Princess Diana has been killed in a car crash," clearly expecting me to reel in horror. I kind of shrugged my shoulders and said 'oh', and got the distinct impression that wasn't the response she'd been anticipating, and that she was taken aback by my heartlessness. As Drago said in #2, I didn't care then and I don't care now.

 

[smokeysmoo]

I don't really remember the day the story broke TBH, but I vividly remember the day of her funeral.

Me and Mrs Smoo were on holiday in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria. We'd gone to a local bar that morning that served decent breakfast, and they had the live coverage on the TV.

What hit me hardest I think was.............................my eggs were a little overdone, but other than that the breakfast was great

 

[Mugshot]

I was living in a shared house at the time, and Sara approached me, all wobbly-lipped, and said 'Princess Diana has been killed in a car crash," clearly expecting me to reel in horror. I kind of shrugged my shoulders and said 'oh', and got the distinct impression that wasn't the response she'd been anticipating, and that she was taken aback by my heartlessness. As Drago said in #2, I didn't care then and I don't care now.

I had a similar reaction from a work mate who asked me how I felt. I told her I was a bit meh and life went on. She told me that such a reaction was to be expected from a "heartless bastard" like me. I explained that I thought the death of someone at the age Diana was was a shame, but that I was not going to be prostrate with grief over the death of woman simply because she was a princess. I also asked her to explain to me why the death of an extraordinarily privileged woman that had been gifted the opportunity to do so much in her life, was so much more important than the deaths of 16 children that had been killed around 18 months earlier, that had never had the opportunity to do anything with their lives. My work mate stormed off then, I expect she told me to "fark off" too.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Went to Disneyland Paris to escape the lachrymose hysteria that attended her funeral. She didn't touch my heart, wasn't special to me, was not my people's princess, and she seemed to end up believing the mythology that grew up around her. One of her sons recently claimed "She was an ordinary 20 year old"; only if the definition of ordinary is child of an aristocrat.

My antipathy to my titled betters aside, she, like all traffic 'accident' victims, deserved better than having her life cut prematurely short in an avoidable RTC.

 

[rugby bloke]

I can remember being phoned up at around 6 am by my slightly eccentric aunt to tell me the news .... As we had a 10 month of child and were due to move house the next day I had other things on my mind.
My wife grew up in the village next to Althorp so she had a tangential interest, I was just bemused by the slightly bizarre display of public mourning.

 

[Black Sheep]

I was doing my Chief Scout award, for which I and another scout had to plan and undertake a hike and camp of our own without assistance.
Most of the troop had come along to make numbers up, so we were there with literally what we could carry in back-packs on Woolley Edge overlooking the motorway with no connection to the outside world other than a payphone.

There were some guides also on site who we bumped into while looking for firewood who told us as they'd got a radio, we didn't believe them thinking they were joking.

Heavy rain made us abandon hiking home and lifts were called, mum never had the radio on so it wasn't until I'd got home, got cleaned up and sorted my gear out that I saw the news on the TV.

 

[MontyVeda]

I was at a megadog allnighter watching Alvin Stardust's son kick out a banging drum & bass DJ set. Got home to the news. I not a 'royalist' so wasn't that bothered, but it did kinda dampen the comedown.