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How Diana became Britain’s ‘queen of the heart’

Princess Diana greets a crowd during her first official visit to Wales, in 1981

I MET PRINCESS DIANA IN 1991, when I was 11 years old. I belonged to the choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and we sang services for the royal family on occasion. Diana came to talk to us boys in the cloisters after one such service, being the mother of sons close to our age. The conversation was mostly about the hardships of boarding school, and one of our number admitted to missing his family.

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