{"id":2523,"date":"2022-09-01T05:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T05:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/mourners-mark-25th-death-anniversary-of-princess-diana-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T05:54:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T05:54:55","slug":"mourners-mark-25th-death-anniversary-of-princess-diana-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"Mourners mark 25th death anniversary of Princess Diana in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Mourners marked the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana\u2019s death in Paris<\/li>\n<li>Princess Diana died in a car accident on August 31, 1997 in Paris<\/li>\n<li>Locals and tourists laid flowers and left messages on the bridge above the underpass where she was killed in a car crash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PARIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mourners marked the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana\u2019s death in Paris on Wednesday, laying flowers and leaving messages on the bridge above the underpass where she was killed in a car crash.<\/p>\n<p>Blooms and pictures of Diana adorned the gold-leaf covered Flame of Liberty, a replica of the torch of the Statue of Liberty at the Pont de L\u2019Alma\u2019s northern end that has become her unofficial memorial in the French capital.<\/p>\n<p>The Princess was just 36 when the limousine carrying her and her lover Dodi al-Fayed crashed in the tunnel below the bridge as it sped away from photographers who were chasing it on motorbikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeja 25 ans (25 years already),\u201d read one of the cards left on the memorial, where a trickle of locals and tourists \u2013 surrounded by media camera crews \u2013 came to pay their respects, leave flowers and take pictures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForever in our hearts,\u201d read another with a Diana picture left by someone who identified herself as Monique from Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>People also left floral tributes outside Kensington Palace in London, Diana\u2019s former home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of being 25 years, it\u2019s like yesterday. It transports you right back to those days,\u201d said Jane Crook, 64, a school worker from Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Hindle, a 23-year-old support worker from Manchester said: \u201cShe was such an amazing person and an icon and I think she meant so much to so many people\u2026 I think she\u2019s someone who needs to be remembered forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Millions globally mourned the \u201cpeople\u2019s princess\u201d, as then British Prime Minister Tony Blair described Diana, in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>She was one of the world\u2019s most recognised and photographed women and a high-profile supporter of humanitarian causes \u2013 including children\u2019s charities and land mine clearance \u2013 when she died.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of princes William and Harry, her death plunged the monarchy into crisis, coming after the disintegration of her marriage to heir to the throne Prince Charles with its revelations of feuding, adultery, and the misery she had felt in her royal role.<\/p>\n<p>The continued fascination with Diana\u2019s life was illustrated on Saturday when a black Ford Escort that she drove in the 1980s was sold auction in Britain for 724,500 pounds ($844,000).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theasialive.com\/mourners-mark-25th-death-anniversary-of-princess-diana-in-paris\/2022\/01\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourners marked the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana\u2019s death in Paris Princess Diana died in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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