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What were you doing the night Princess Diana died?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Had a conversation with an old flame the other day, topic came up, what were you doing the night Princess Diana died.
I remember, that was sitting in settee talking to a friend when we saw the news flash, what were you guys doing? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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funny i was having the same conversation with my mum..
I was living in Germany and watching Sharky & George on the TV when it got interrupted by a sky live broadcast. Remember running into my mum who was still in bed and she didn't believe me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was living at home, I'd been out the night before and was somewhat hungover so not overly pleased that my mother felt the need to wake me to tell me the "news". Quite why she thought I'd be interested is beyond me and I'm still as underwhelmed by her death as I was then. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mrs here. I was in ceskebudjovice, the home of the original bud beer, in the Czech republic. Was on a road trip across Europe with a bunch of mates when I was 18. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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On that night nlmy best mate broke up with his fiance and I spent some of the night driving her to where she lived (and telling her that I wasnt interested in fucking her, neglecting to mention that it was because she was a munter)
I was In the car with her, driving through a place called Churchdown when the first news of the car crash came through......I distinctly remember slowing down..... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Got the news the next morning and had to drive to Farnham from Guildford at about 10.am....remember hardly any cars on the road as many people were waking up to the bad news. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I was in the army,and was on guard at the main gate of barker barracks in paderborn in germany at the time."
omg lmao.. i was living in senelager lmao
small world hey |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Had a conversation with an old flame the other day, topic came up, what were you doing the night Princess Diana died.
I remember, that was sitting in settee talking to a friend when we saw the news flash, what were you guys doing?"
I was best man at my best friends wedding and we heard the news via the DJ |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
I was at uni....i remember going out on the saturday night.. and waking up very early on the sunday morning as I was entrusted with opening the local carphone warehouse store that I was working in.....
I remember ringing the boss, telling him, and asking if the shop should open.... after speaking to boss and area manager the decision was made to open..
had 2 customers in the shop all day, and leicester city centre was empty all day.. |
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Was living in Paris. Had been out for a meal at one of my favourite restaurants... which was pretty close to where the crash was. Didn't find out about it until the following evening when watching the news on tv.
Don't piss off the queen. I bet that, after those topless photos were published, Kate Middleton was shitting herself every time she went through a tunnel!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was at a 1 am screening of the Full Monty at the virgin cinema village in aberdeen!! When we got home all she had was a broken arm and leg apparently, wnt to bed and when we woke up she never did have those injuries she was pronounced dead at the scene ahhhh the lovely british media |
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We had been out and 4 of us had come back to mine and had a dvd on. We where busy chatting and didnt realize it had finished and swapped to the television. It was around 3am the first bulletin came on and it just said diana had been hurt in a car crash, then it said she had broken her arm(god knows where that came from). Then about an hour later it said she had been killed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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we were travelling back from a swing club in northampton.at the time they said dodi and the driver were dead and the bodyguard was seriously injured .diana had cuncusion,a broken arm and a badly gashed leg.we got home put the tv on and all was fine so went to bed .got a terrible shock in the morning when we heard she had died.can never forget the date as its our wedding anniversary |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Was at Butlins on hols with hubby and kids, spent most of the night complaining about the state of the room. We eventually got them to reclean it and give us clean bed linen so went off to bed.
Next morning the kids woke us up saying that Diana had died, but we didn't take too much notice until we saw news coverage on TV.
The funeral was on the following Saturday and we were on our way home, amazing, the M5 was empty which was great but it also meant that there was no possibility of being able to stop off for lunch as everywhere was closed, so we just hurried home and had an early dinner. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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was pregnant at time so early nite i had. hubby phoned me at 6 in morning to tell me i didnt beleive him so went bk to sleep. obviously wen i turned the tv on i did. |
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By *win PeaksCouple
over a year ago
Northamptonshire |
I was in Paris. I was a coach driver at the time. I was loading the luggage (next morning) when the tour leader told me. I didnt believe that it was true until we got closer to Calais and was able to pick the BBC on the radio.
Dave |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had been out to a Jungle rave (remeber those) just remember London being very quiet and eerie on the way home. Cab driver told us thought he was bullshiting till he put the radio on. |
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By *bend69Couple
over a year ago
twinkletown |
We had beento a wedding with friends and remember been woke up to the news! Didnt believe it.... Also the day i split from my ex husband every1 thawt i was crying over him? When it was over dianas death lol xx |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
I was dog-sitting at my mates while her and her boyfriend were at a Game Fair...my then husband rang first thing in the morning and told me to put the telly on - it was on all channels; sad news but I never worshipped at the altar of St Diana |
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"Taking a nightime tour of Paris in my old Fiat Punto, some idiot in a flash motor bumped into me. "
The French had a joke at the time that went along the lines of "It's better to be called Mercedes are drive around in a Dyane then the other way round" - it works better if said with French pronunciation than English.
(a Dyane was a type of Citroën 2CV... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Dyane) |
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By *aris23Woman
over a year ago
France |
Back then I used to sleep with the radio on. Can remember vividly waking suddenly just as the news reader made the first announcement. That was it - got up and sat in front of the TV for the rest of the night/day feeling horror/pity/sadness/anger etc.
Went over to Paris on the 5th anniversary of her death and laid flowers at the Eternal Flame. Have been to Althrop House and had a few words across the lake to the memorial statue and been several times to the Memorial Fountain by the Serpentine.
Very much a fan - she was a lovely woman, met her a couple of times and we even had our children around the same time...lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't actually remember wot I was doing that night but remember the next day hearing it on the news and know exactly where I was and wot I was doing - in the car trying to drop some football kit off at a house and couldnt find the house - remember feeling totally shocked |
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"I don't actually remember wot I was doing that night but remember the next day hearing it on the news and know exactly where I was and wot I was doing - in the car trying to drop some football kit off at a house and couldnt find the house - remember feeling totally shocked "
Must've been a helluva night. How did the team get home without their kit..?!?   |
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"Back then I used to sleep with the radio on... "
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"I WAS HAVING SEX AT THE TIME WITH G/F , IT CAME ON THE RADIO, G/F USE TO AV IT ON AT NITE IT HELPED HER SLEEP  "
Sorry to hear you guys aren't together any more  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't actually remember wot I was doing that night but remember the next day hearing it on the news and know exactly where I was and wot I was doing - in the car trying to drop some football kit off at a house and couldnt find the house - remember feeling totally shocked
Must've been a helluva night. How did the team get home without their kit..?!? "
u didnt read that properly - I can't remember what happened that night - opening statement ........... lol  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I never new until the morning and was on the radio ..... was a bell or big Ben ring out and them said she died in a car crash ......... I find some of that still strange .. why at the side of the road ambulance stopped and not take her straight away to hospital ? was she having a baby ? was she going to marry ..? why had her driver been drinking ? why was he going so fast? |
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i was in the bath with my new son my mum rang me and i didnt believe her i had to ring her back to apologise . i didnt feel a sense of loss or emotional until i watched the funeral and saw those boys walk behind their mums coffin that still brings a lump to my throat today! |
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I was at home OH came home at 5 am from newcastle and told me she had been in an accident dont think it had been let out she had died at that time.
I got up and put on Tv and cried all day. I still have many video tapes of the week including her funeral and a stack of news papers..
we took m mother to london at 5 am on the day after funeral and walked round kensington gardens..the flowers were stacked bunch on bunch the smell was incredible candles photos the place was crowded . we went to westminster and the wreaths and flowers were there to view .. A boxing glove in cream flowers from frank bruno..and many others then on to clarence house we couldnt believe the flowers . We have some lovely photos. sad day.
9/11 .. we had been shopping put on TV at around 1 to see the tragedy unfold. I thought it was a film at first..another day glued to the news in total shock. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Had a conversation with an old flame the other day, topic came up, what were you doing the night Princess Diana died.
I remember, that was sitting in settee talking to a friend when we saw the news flash, what were you guys doing?"
No idea as I have no idea when it happened.I do remember what I was doing when a far more important person in my life ie a friend died though. I was with him and trying to stop him from dying.
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Was in Oxford as my cousin had gotten married, spent the evening with family. Woke up to the news the next morning.
Saw pics on the news, of people laying flowers in front of the palace, both me and my mum thuoght the Queen Mum had died. Wasn't until we had heard the full news report, who it actually was |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"funny i was having the same conversation with my mum..
I was living in Germany and watching Sharky & George on the TV when it got interrupted by a sky live broadcast. Remember running into my mum who was still in bed and she didn't believe me. "
exactly the same, went to tell my mum and she didnt believe me either
good old bfbs |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had fell asleep on the settee with the tv on. The news broadcast woke me up. I woke the misses up to tell her. It was very strange the next day. I just remember seeing a local undertaker on the Sunday morning. As he walked past me he said, "just waiting for the call". What a sense of humour! |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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Was asleep but woke at my usual time to find half the t.v. network`s schedules thrown out of the window and coverage from the crash scene etc. Even QVC had suspended selling for the day!  Was on a charter train going to Holyhead on the day of the funeral. Never seen the country so devoid of people as we passed through! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I find some of that still strange .. why at the side of the road ambulance stopped and not take her straight away to hospital ? "
It is very difficult to administer effective CPR in a moving ambulance. If she went in to cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital stopping would have been by far the best way of trying to save her. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was a holiday rep and had just finished a bar crawl in Falaraki. Been in bed about 20 mins was woke to screaming as a holiday maker was watching tv. Bloody rude woman too waking me up ha ha needless to say didn't go back to bed as was glued to the tv coverage |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I was 16 just turned and had my first drinking binge at an engagement party. Waking up to my radio with a massive hang over I was dismayed that all tv and radio programs were canceled for what is a every day occurrence. A fatal car accident. Sad sure two people died, but something that is a daily occurrence and felt that life goes on regardless.
Al |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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was staying overnight with a woman who ended up being my wife (now ex).
Remember getting home around 7 the next morining and hearing the news on the car radio.
i was stunned by the news. |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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"I find some of that still strange .. why at the side of the road ambulance stopped and not take her straight away to hospital ?
It is very difficult to administer effective CPR in a moving ambulance. If she went in to cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital stopping would have been by far the best way of trying to save her."
Especially when they had to resort to literally massaging her heart directly to try and keep her alive! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I was with my ex who died in a motorbike crash the year to the date after.. It was spooky "
My partner was killed in a motorbike accident six years after on the same date. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
I had just got in from a friend's birthday party and put the television on to help me get off to sleep just as the first newsflash came in. I was up watching television the rest of the night and then called my mother as soon as it was light to let her know before she went to church. She was a big Diana fan.
I started a new job that Monday and was working from home. I had This Morning on and watched my replacement in my old job describing how sad the charity world was to lose her. |
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