Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some five minutes, she delivered her lines as she always had: plainly and coolly. And her words were reminders of how different the Princess was from the elder Royals that survive her. "No one who knew Diana will ever forget her," she said. "Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her." For some of those millions, seven minutes of rehearsed sympathies seemed a frustrating display of royal reticence. But at least one subject interviewed afterwards by reporters felt that he understood: the Queen, he insisted, had said all she could...
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Dignitaries and celebrities ? including Princess Diana ? who encountered the tiny four-foot-eleven figure all agreed she was an extraordinary woman. Journalists were no exception. "She exemplified the Christian virtue of self-giving in a most dramatic way," said Richard Ostling, TIME's religion correspondent. "She brought back the image of the old-fashioned, self-giving nun at a time when modern feminist Catholic images were coming to the fore...
LONDON: There are few precedents for what is happening today. It isn't a state funeral, since Diana wasn't officially Royal at the end of her life. She lost the title H.R.H. along with her marriage. But somehow the nationwide outpouring of sentiment has made this somber event more than the usual pomp and circumstance. The Union Jack is flying half-mast at Buckingham Palace for the first time in the history of the monarchy ? a triumph of public pressure over traditional protocol. Neither President Clinton nor President Chirac are attending, but that doesn't matter to the estimated...
...Diana was the people's Princess, this is most definitely the people's funeral. Across the country shops will shut, trains will stop, soccer matches and horse races will be cancelled and a two-minute silence will be observed. Westminster Abbey's program combines "traditional and modern elements" ? that means Elton as well as Elgar. Even the Palace has been infected by the need to accomodate an overwhelming grief: the Lord Chamberlain's office is manning a media-friendly "Command Center", connected to over 20 million phone lines...