Above all, there was shock. That’s the word people use when they remember Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash 25 years ago this week.
The woman the world watched grow from a shy teenage nursery school teacher into a glamorous celebrity, who comforted AIDS patients and campaigned for land mine removal couldn’t be dead at the age of 36.
First, there was the outpouring of grief from the public who streamed to the princess’ home at Kensington Palace to mourn the loss of a woman most had never met. That forced the royals to recognize that Diana’s common touch had connected with people in ways that hadn't occurred to the House of Windsor.
But she appeared to blossom, becoming an international style icon the moment she walked down the aisle of St. Paul’s Cathedral on July 29, 1981, shrouded in lace and followed by a 25-foot train. “When I started my public life, 12 years ago, I understood the media might be interested in what I did. I realized then their attention would inevitably focus on both our private and public lives,’’ Diana said in 1993.
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