Memories of Diana


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I remember making sure I watched the news (on only twice a day during the 90s and no cable tv at my place) when Diana would be on tour. There would always be footage of her. The last tour I really remember is when she went to Japan in the 90s.
 
We used to get quite a few photos of Diana, Princess of Wales, outside her favourite restaurant - "San Lorenzo", in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge - in her heyday. (In Australian magazines, well before the internet.)

Diana with her mother, with William and Harry, getting in and out of cars, on the steps, on the footpath - it seemed to be a place where she was regularly snapped.

In one of this week's magazines there is a full-page article about some reminiscences of some-one who used to work there, and served Diana many times.

Now an actor, (in Channel Seven's "Wanted" with Rebecca Gibney, Oz posters - he's playing the really bad baddie chasing the ladies about the outback if you're watching this show) - Mirko Grillini was young and couldn't speak English.

The first time he met Diana they almost collided as he entered the kitchen from the dining area, and she was entering via the back door.

At times he was a waiter and at other times the water boy, serving Diana still mineral water, while William and Harry, as children, opted for sparkling.

When Diana asked him how he was, he could not answer and just kept bowing over and over to her.

Good on him to share his memories.

He went onto model for "Versace" and now, as mentioned above, acts.
 
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How sad in a way that he couldn't have a short conversation with her, but he still has the memories of course.

I remember Diana's Australian tours quite clearly especially waiting to see her on an evening engagement in Melbourne on the 1983 tour, and seeing her in her pink silk dress. The crowds were so enthusiastic and loved her so much. I still miss her.
 
When Diana died, my first thought was, "I'll never get to see her in person." My husband did, in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1983. That's the closest I've come.
 
How sad in a way that he couldn't have a short conversation with her, but he still has the memories of course.



I remember Diana's Australian tours quite clearly especially waiting to see her on an evening engagement in Melbourne on the 1983 tour, and seeing her in her pink silk dress. The crowds were so enthusiastic and loved her so much. I still miss her.


Beautiful memories I still miss her too.


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For some odd reason I watched part of Diana's funeral today. It's 2016, I still caught a lump in my throat and my eyes filled with tears throughout the service. September 6th 1997 was truly a painful day for everyone. I still find it hard to believe Diana is gone.
 
my mum was travelling back from dropping me and my big sisters at Dad's circa mid 90s and she saw Diana at a set of traffic lights Diana waved and smiled at her best day of her life i reckon
 
For some odd reason I watched part of Diana's funeral today. It's 2016, I still caught a lump in my throat and my eyes filled with tears throughout the service. September 6th 1997 was truly a painful day for everyone. I still find it hard to believe Diana is gone.


That's how I feel too ?


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I feel the same as well, I think of her almost every day. She was only one year older than me, and our children were similar in age. My youngest son has William as his middle name. It's a shame, I felt she was on the verge of some really pivotal changes in her life, I would have loved to have seen what she had in store.
 
Been listening to a lot of Sarah McLachlan's album "Surfacing" which I listened to a lot after the death and funeral, a line from Sweet Surrender sums it up nicely remembering Diana "I miss the little things, I miss everything about you"

How just a simple gesture or look of hers could make me melt, smile or cry.
 
I met her once, and I went to see her hearse going past on its way to Althorp..
 
From an old magazine - a fourteen page article on Diana and her son's having a post Christmas holiday on Nevis Island in the Caribbean. (I'm supposed to be having a clean up, but re-reading these old publications is obviously a better idea!)

On an eight and a half-hour flight - after not being able to spend Christmas together - William and Harry, aged ten and eight, sat in first-class with their bodyguards, while their mother sat in economy.

Diana, back in row 26, had a friend with her - and spent the flight reading "In Touch With Infinity".

The boys got to go to the flight deck and talk with the pilots.

At least on her first day on the beach, Diana got her crystal glass of water served to her on a silver tray - by a uniformed butler.

Everyone mucked in - William and Harry, the children of Diana's friend and the children of the owners of the resort they stayed at.

Even hotel staff played beach cricket with the young princes - as did the Scotland Yard escorts -and photos show the action.

From travelling in the back of a pick-up/ute to boogie boarding and jumping off a boat - all was photographed.

Can't imagine such an article today - even with every member of the public carrying mobile phone cameras and the internet.

A fourteen page article - so many photos.

And such happy photos of Diana.
 
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Y'know, even with all the threads here that discuss Diana and all aspects of her, all aspects of her life and her accomplishments and her troubles and ups and downs and sometimes sideways, I do think of Diana daily as I scroll through and read and respond to the day to day posts about William and Harry.

In her two boys is where she continues to live and still make her mark on the world and it gives us something physical to actually see and know that in a way she really is still with us. I do think that sometimes when we see a smile, a touching gesture and a compassion that visibly reaches out and touches whomever meets her sons that if we look quickly enough, we will see Diana.
 
Yes indeed. In those days magazines really did rule the roost, didn't they? Most women would buy at least one a week and pore over pages and pages of Diana and her fashions, Diana and her boys, her new hairstyles, her warmth and enthusiasm when she undertook her public engagements. Nowadays print media is just fighting for its very survival.

Harry has just been to the Nevis islands hasn't he, on this tour. It's been over twenty years but I wonder what memories he has of holidaying there with his mother and brother? The heat, lazy days on the beaches, water sports, the playing cricket? When Harry gets home he might mention this to William. Perhaps it's all just faded now, though.
 
I don't think memories such as those fade away all to easily. Diana and her boys took many wonderful trips together and if there's one thing I can say about Diana is that she excelled at being a mother to her two boys. Not only the fun and games vacation times but she wanted to know and cared about all aspects of their lives and very openly showed how much she loved them. Those kind of things stick with you forever.

I can imagine that getting together around the holidays both William and Harry both do a lot of "remember when..." kind of reminiscing. Even as older adults, my brother and I still like to recall those days when we were kids growing up with mom and dad and different occasions.
 
Yes indeed. In those days magazines really did rule the roost, didn't they? Most women would buy at least one a week and pore over pages and pages of Diana and her fashions, Diana and her boys, her new hairstyles, her warmth and enthusiasm when she undertook her public engagements. Nowadays print media is just fighting for its very survival.

Hah.
Ugh the odd time I look at a magazine nowadays, I can't beleive teh people who are the subjects of articles.. So i dont read them,
 
The Australian women's weekly has photos and memories of Diana special. Really lovely
 
Yes, my daughter snaffled that one before me from the newsagents, so I'll read it after her and then keep it! A policeman at work guarded her on her first trip to Aus and I put his lovely memories of her and their conversation together on another thread.

I remember seeing her on that trip in a lovely silk gown for an evening engagement in Melbourne, looking soft and lovely, just like a little peach, then in England, with William and Harry when they were still young. Then in Australia again with equally enthusiastic crowds when things privately were going haywire, though you wouldn't have known it from her bearing and her smile. She has a special place in my heart.
 
William's own words on his mother .....

"She smothered us with love that's for sure"

I think of all the good Diana undoubtly did (the list is endless) in her young life, being the best mum she could be to her boys is mostly likely her proudest and effortless achievement.
 
Yes, and on two of those occasions it was cold weather, but I'm so glad I turned out and saw her. I thought and think Diana was wonderful.
 
She had a radiance about her that was just beautiful. I can well believe that people who met her felt the charisma.
 
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