Remembering Princess Diana

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Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:05pm

8 years today that she left this world too soon.
England's rose can never be replaced.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Updated On: 8/31/05 at 03:05 PM

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:07pm

Thank you for this reminder.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:07pm

Wow, 8 years?? I was freshly out of college.

Very sad. This happened right after Versace's murder.

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re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:14pm

"Her glamor and style still captivate, her good works still bring comfort, her smile—captured in endless news footage and on countless magazine covers— still radiates." Time magazine 1998

This statement still holds true.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:21pm

It's still slightly surreal, isn't it?

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:32pm

Its so hard to believe that its been that long. I remember staying up all night long to see if she would make it out of that wreck alive. I was crushed when they made the announcement that she had passed away.

"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:35pm

This is another....."where were you when?" I was on Nantucket getting ready for a friends wedding when the news came over the TV....I ran out of the bathroom stunned by what I was hearing.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:39pm

I was at a bar in New Hope and remember looking up at the TV and seeing the speical report -- I was stunned -- they truned the music off to play the reports through the bar's sound system....

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re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:52pm

in the words of Billy Joel..."Only The Good Die Young".

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 4:00pm

of all places, i was in west orange, nj. i would rather have been in new hope with kmf.

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#11

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 4:02pm

My memory of that night...I was sitting on the outdoor deck at Dave & Busters in Philly, at a family engagement party. A woman came up to me remarking how I resembled Princess Diana.

It was just about that time the news was being spread around the deck that she had just been killed in that dreadful accident. It was a cold, strange feeling.

I admired her for her quiet dignity despite what she put up with privately I'm sure, her compassion for the less fortunate and others, and most of all her devoution and love for her sons, who happen to both be the same age as my two sons.

She and Fergie are 2 remarkable ladies.

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#12

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 4:05pm

I was living in Boston at the time, but came to NYC for the holiday weekend. I remember being in Triad on the UWS and it was a breaking news story at the bar. I went back to my Dad's apt, stayed up all night watching the coverage, and drove back to Boston almost in tears...

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland

#13

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 4:05pm

I was working on a show, and on my way to the subway after the evening performance walked by the Fox News building and it was on their screen. But they were saying that she walked away, so I thought she was fine.

The news later that evening was devastating. I sobbed like a baby when Sir Elton sang Candle in the Wind at her funeral.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

Updated On: 8/31/05 at 04:05 PM

#14

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 4:12pm

Oh God, Rath. That was devastating.

I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

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#15

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 4:39pm

I cried when they showed a close up of Harry's "Mummy" note on the casket.

#16

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 4:57pm

That is what got me newgirl. So sad.

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

#17

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 5:32pm

I was on safari in Africa, when the news came to us. With no access to any sort of broadcast or report we could only imagine what the rest of the world was doing!

It gave me an intersting perspective, however, to then spend the day in the middle of a Masai village in Tanzania with people who had never heard of the Princess. It's not all about our culture...

When I returned home, however, I was glad that my family had saved the newspapers, magazines and coverage of the funeral.

Mother Teresa passed at the same time, as I recall.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

Updated On: 8/31/05 at 05:32 PM

#18

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 5:49pm

I really don't remember what I was doing when I heard the news.
I can't believe it's been eight years though.

#19

re: Remembering Princess Diana

Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:25pm

We had just returned from spending a day with friends. As we walked in the door, she called and told me... at first I thought it was some kind of lame joke, but we turned on the tv to the terrible news.

Wow... 8 years. Seems like yesterday. Yet it was truly a totally different life away.

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