THE NIGHT DIANA DIED
‘SHE SPOKE IN ENGLISH AND SAID, “OH MY GOD, WHAT’S HAPPENED?”’
IT WAS the place she’d come to in moments of quiet contemplation. Surrounded by lush greenery and her favourite flowers, Kensington Palace’s Sunken Garden was where Princess Diana found solace, particularly during the last tumultuous years of her life following her divorce.
And now her effigy looms large in her beloved garden – a reminder to all of her lasting legacy as not only a humanitarian, but as a devoted mother, fashion icon and all-round royal trailblazer who wasn’t afraid to break the rules if it was something she believed in.
As her troubled sons, Prince William (39) and Prince Harry (36), set aside their personal grievances to unveil their mother’s new statue on 1 July, on what would have been her 60th birthday, it was another reminder that although Diana has been dead for nearly 24 years, she will never be forgotten.
This much was clear when, in the days
