Goodbye England’s rose. 31st August 1997

You did well to hold it together

It took every fibre of my being x

Like 9/11 I think we all remember where we were when the news broke.

This was one of my saddest days ever. The sense of loss was overwhelming. Even today I often wonder what Diana would be doing with her life. Her boys would definitely still be in each other's lives. An icon who to this day is missed, loved and adored. We miss you. X

I was a flight attendant at the time and was on the crew bus from Gatwick to Heathrow for an early flight to LA. The radio was playing somber music on every station and we couldn’t understand why. It was only when we got to the crew room in Heathrow that we found out (no mobiles then). We were absolutely shellshocked. Landed in LA 12 hrs later and the whole crew watched the footage non-stop for hours in the hotel bar. It was surreal

A day, we who are old enough, will never forget.

I was working at a factory bagging lettuce for the main supermarkets when I heard the news. Her death still upsets me now, she was so young and doing so much good in the world. I work in radio news now, and I still get upset breaking news like deaths, striking the right tone knowing that listeners are also going to be upset. You held it together well Kay x

It's hard to believe that it's 27 years since that terrible day.

Remember it like it was yesterday. As an irishman I wouldn't have much to say about the Royals at that time but I was very upset at this news she was one of a kind she was a real lady. Spent hours and hours glued to the coverage until the day of the funeral.

Still triggered not by her death but by what happened for the next few torturous days and weeks - the national psychodrama over a death of a woman that hardly anyone knew, who was dead as a result of insane world built for her to live in by the same people now mourning her