Where Were You When the News of Di's Death Reached You?

Yes. I was living in Brooklyn and my mother had come from Massachusetts to visit me for the weekend. We walked to the corner store for some breakfast and saw the headline on a newspaper there. I bought the paper and my mother and I sat on my stoop and read the related articles while eating breakfast with breaks to shake our head and say "oh my god..."

Interesting you should post this here and now. The Tao is strong in this one, Obi 1.

I do not recall the moment; however, my wife and I just enjoyed watching "The Queen" last night on DVD. We so enjoyed the tensions that we only could hint at before. What a dramatic moment in the world that day. I hadn't remembered how close to Mr. Blair's election as new PM the event took place. What a burden to face - so young... Princess Di was somehow bigger than life in so many ways.

Now, JFK's assassination - yeah THAT and 9/11 - not likely to ever forget where I was on those days.

Yes, nobody will forget JFK or 9/11, Jared. You're right.

I was surprised, though, at the number of people who remembered the moment they heard about Di. I personally can't recall what I was doing, but keep an eye here. We'll have quite a few postings, I'm sure.

I know I was up in Upstate New York and I watched the news with horror. I loved Diana as I grew up British and she certainly was the people's princess. I remember that I had her hair cut in the 80's (in the days before the Aniston was the biggest hairstyle going.) I was so sorry to hear that she died and it would not surprise me one bit if they ever do find evidence that her death was a trifle odd and too coincidental for Charles to marry his HO!

I was watching TV with my kids and the local news station cut into the program with news of Diana's death. We were all shocked and couldn't believe it.

I was driving to a community meeting and had the radio on. It was a clear and warm day as well. The song "not a cloud in the sky" was playing. I felt it was a good choice for the day. Then the DJ was announcing something about Diana, at first I didn't know what it was about.. I remember thinking to myself "oh give me a break.. diana this, diana that".. suddenly she announced.. "she was 37 and leaves behind... " at first I thought I didn't hear it right, I was so shocked! and then more and more newsflash started coming up and it sunk in that she was really dead. I didn't know I cared so much until that moment.

Jamie, Diana was a bit of a ho herself.

I don't remeber what I was doing when I heard the news and I was quite surprised to know that it's been 10 years. I like Charles with Camilla. I think they're more suited to one another in age and looks.

Not a clue. I clearly remember being at high school when I was told John Lennon was shot - and then walking home and taking the day off... the chapel parking lot where I was pulling out when I heard about the Challenger on NPR... working at the Center for Creative Living in Lawton OK the morning of the OKC Murrah Bldg bombing... sitting at the airport bar at the hub in Atlanta watching CNN when the 2nd plane slammed into the World Trade Center (I had just asked the waitress to turn up the volume)... watching CNN live coverage at home as Columbia shredded itself on re-entry...

But Diana's death - I don't remember where I was when I heard.

Aye, she may have been but look what she had to work with at home! LOL...

I had just returned home from seeing Air Force One - such a high-adrenaline movie. Was still discussing it, feeling up and walked through the door, saw my mom's face and she said, "Diana was in a car accident." It was on the television, I saw the car...took me a few hours to go to bed, then when I woke up, first thing I saw on the tv was Diana 1961-1997.

My kids, babies at the time, remember, "Mommy cried when the princess died." I watched as much television the day of her funeral as I did when she got married. Sad.

I was vacationing in Hawaii, and it was as big a news stgory there as in the rest of the world.

I heard about Princess Di's death when I woke that morning. I will never forget it. I was glued to the TV, and remember crying & saying "I can't believe it." It seemed to be a dream. Princess Di are I were the same age. People I know and strangers have told me for a long time that I look like Princess Di. Not only that but I am the same height and very close to the weight of Di. I was a big fan of her. She truly was an amazing women.

I remember it vividly: I was in my bathroom; a glass stopper had slipped from my hand and rolled across the green-and-black tile floor. When it tapped upon the wall, a tile came loose revealing a meticulously carved secret entrance. At the back of this tunnel, delicately cradled in years of dust, was a bronze cigar box, patinaed with age. I opened it carefully, like a tomb, and inside rested all manner of memories from a childhood long gone-- photographs, marbles, tin soldiers, and jacks...

Oh wait... I'm confusing my life with the movies again.

Simon, you're right - it was a Sunday morning here. I was living in london at the time. It hit the capital very hard.

A few days later, before the funeral, my daughter had a dental appt near the Mall. We decided to walk down to Buck House. In the Mall, There were huge numbers of people waiting to sign the condolence book and leave flowers, they were in a continuous, snaking queue, three lines deep. It was hot and the stench of dying flowers from that blanket of flowers was overwhelming.

Then when we got to the gates of Buck House, it was extremely moving to see all the tributes - cheap flowers from petrol station shops, expensive bouquets and wreaths, all pinned with ribbons to the imposing railings and gates.

I will never forget it.

And, I'm not a royalist, I'm a Scots nat!

My husband and I were at a local flea market. He heard it on a vendor's tv and came to find me to tell me she was dead. I asked him to take me to the tv, so I could listen. I remember feeling shocked, and very sad. I asked my husband to take me home, so I could watch the news. I cried as I watched the coverage. My husband seemed puzzled by my reaction. Truthfully, I was surprized at myself. I've been a fan of hers for years - I watched her wedding, followed her stories in the news, and pretty much admired her for her beauty, her charity work, and her obvious love of her sons. Of course I never knew her, but I felt like I'd lost a friend. Wierd, huh?

my sis in law and her husband at the time were in town. we just went into the tv room and turned it getting ready to watch a movie and there it was. I was in tears.

Funny, I recall exactly what I was doing when I learned of JFK's death but not PD.
Long-term vs. Short-term memories i guess.. it's all relative.

No, nor Lennon, nor Bobby Kennedy, nor Martin Luther King, nor Marilyn Monroe. I do remember that I was driving and noticing the half-mast flags when Ray Charles died, but they were for Reagan.

I had just come to the U.S. I was sitting in my friend's studio when the news aired. I was shocked and didn't believe it at first....

I was in Zurich, Switzerland on a layover with the airlines, when my flying partner called me early in the morning to tell me to turn on the TV. I was shocked and glued to the news until it was time to go to the airplane to return back to the states. It was almost surreal. All the crew and the passengers were talking about during the flight. Someone has brought on a local newspaper that had been printed before the news that had said something about Diana putting herself in danger by becoming more and more involved in political news. Then the next day she was dead/ I was a big fan of hers, not too thrilled with Camilla. I do think it was a shame that Charles didn't marry Camilla first.. I think they make a good pair. If he had, he probably would have tired of her too. Everyone wants what they can't have.

I was only 13 at the time and spending the night at a friend's house. It was the middle of the night, around 3am maybe when my friend's mom came downstairs and told all of us what happened. I didn't really know much about Diana other than my mother really liked her. I just remember thinking about how sad Mama would be when she heard.

I was on a treadmill at the gym when I saw the news. I remember collecting all the magazines that came out with her on the cover as a young girl... a real life princess had a lot of appeal at that age. My brother found all my magazines and blacked out her teeth with a pen as an act of revenge for some mean sister act I inflicted on him.

I was 14 years old and I lay awake in the early weekend hours, laying in my bunk bed; I had been woken up by the TV, which was on pretty loudly, as it had been left the night before...I just thought how crazy it was, with the princes being around my age at the time. Then Mother Teresa died and not much coverage was given to it because of Diana's funeral. They were both great ladies, but Mother Teresa was a saint, so it was sad to see her brushed aside like that. Both of those were historic kind of moments I will never forget, just like I will never forget my ride to school on a certain Tuesday morning in September, 2001. I arrived to other horrified students who said the campus was closed due to the attacks and the radio played nothing else but reports about the terror attacks. Then, another historic moment, but a much happier one, I remember exactly where I was when Obama was announced as the next president. I was watching the election all night, dying to see the results, what a moment!