They hit the road after dining at the private salon at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, and while trying to flee the paparazzi, the driver, Henri Paul, reportedly approached the entrance of a road tunnel at approximately 70 mph. The speed limit was 30 mph. According to the reports, Paul lost control of the car and collided into a pillar in the middle of the highway. Her sudden death brought unprecedented mourning to UK and the entire world.
The televised funeral was watched by over 2. In , Prince William and Prince Harry commissioned two documentaries to mark the 20th anniversary of her death. In season five and six of the show, Tenet actor Elizabeth Debicki will play the Princess. There was almost a sense that the public was waiting for him to get married and settle down. More than two decades on from her tragic death at 36 in a car crash in a Paris underpass in , her legacy still occupies a unique position in the British public consciousness—and beyond.
It seemed like a whirlwind romance—the young, beautiful ingenue swept off her feet by an older man who would one day be king. As depicted in The Crown , Diana was much younger than Charles when they first met; when they married, she was 20 to his Yet fascination with royal weddings was not a new phenomenon; particularly when the newcomer to the family was a young woman. An overwhelming number of Victorian crowds turned out in the streets of London to get a glimpse of the new princess.
As TIME reported in August from London as Charles and Diana married, the spectacle seemed like a real-life fairy tale—visually dazzling and watched by an estimated million people around the world:. Except that this moment and the ones that came before and after were real, for all to observe. And even while spotlights on royal weddings were nothing new, Diana did command media and public attention in a distinct way. Her youth, and the fact that she worked part-time as a nursery teacher and lived in a flat in London with her girlfriends, suggested a down-to-earth personality, which the British media amplified.
While she was in boarding school, Diana failed her O-level exams twice before dropping out of school. She later enrolled at a finishing school in Switzerland but was only there for one semester before meeting Prince Charles and dropping out.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially met when she was 16 years old and Charles was nearing According to The Sun , Prince Charles and Diana's older sister, Sarah Spencer, were rumored to be dating in , before the royal couple got together. In fact, the older Spencer sister even reportedly takes the credit for introducing Charles and Diana. I'm Cupid," Sarah Spencer reportedly said at the time.
Despite their almost year age difference, Prince Charles and Princess Diana's courtship moved quickly. However, according to Town and Country , many of their conversations took place over the phone and it's reported that the pair only met in person a dozen or so times before they married. From the very beginning, Diana appeared to be a young woman totally in love.
However, she still had her doubts about her soon-to-be husband. I thought, 'What a strange answer. According to Brides , the ring was designed by crown jeweler Garrard but was chosen by the princess-to-be from a catalog, meaning that technically anyone could have purchased the sapphire and diamond ring.
According to Vogue , the royal family didn't approve of this and didn't want commoners having the same access to jewels fit for royals. Today, however, the ring is priceless. When Prince William asked Kate Middleton to marry him, he proposed with his late mother's stunning engagement ring.
The dress was designed by husband-and-wife team David and Elizabeth Emanuel and featured sequins, lace, 10, pearls, and a foot train. Prior to Princess Diana becoming a mother, it was usually custom for members of the royal family to give birth at the palace. So The Crown lingers on the foreknowledge of that moment with exquisite care.
It features shot after shot of her slipping into the back seat of a black Mercedes like the one she died in; shot after shot of the paparazzi coming in too close, just as they did on the night she died. Not just in tellings and retellings about Diana herself, but in the stories of other virgin sacrifices, other famous women who match the Diana archetype. The picture that made Princess Diana famous was taken when she was still known as Diana Spencer, before she was engaged to Prince Charles.
She was just his unremarkable new girlfriend, the one the tabloids had dubbed Shy Di because of her trick of ducking her head and laughing nervously when the paparazzi photographed her. Then one day in , a photographer from the Evening Standard came to the kindergarten where Diana worked and asked to take a picture. From then on, whether or not a love affair blossomed between Diana and Charles, there was certainly a love affair blooming between Diana and the media. Diana was a lovely girl, but there were plenty of lovely girls hanging around Prince Charles in What made the picture iconic, and what made Diana an instant sensation, is the fact that she clearly did not know her legs would be visible in the photograph, that she clearly had no intention of showing them off, and yet there they were anyway.
Diana would manage to preserve that contradiction all the way through to her wedding day. This idea that sex appeal is at its most appealing when it is unintentional, a product of innocence, is a familiar one. Her skirt was caught by the passing breeze of a subway train.
It just happens. The archetype of the sexy schoolgirl was already a play on the idea of adolescent innocence intertwined with adult sexuality, and whenever Spears spoke about it in public, she did so with wide-eyed incredulity at the idea that anyone would consider her outfit to be provocative. It goes without saying that this contradiction works best with a blonde. You will always have more power than she has. Princess Diana had to be a virgin.
The Windsors were very clear on that: The woman who married Prince Charles, the woman who would someday be queen, had to walk to the altar virgo intacta. By , this view was already so retro that wags would crack that Charles married Diana solely because she was the only aristocratic virgin left in England. It had to be protected from any threat of scandal. Diana, I can assure you, has never had a lover. A furious Diana issued outraged denials. I have never even been near it.
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