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Tributes paid to princess Diana, 25 years after her death
Flowers and other tributes were laid at princess Diana's former London home and above the Paris road tunnel where she lost her life, to mark the 25th anniversary of her death.
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Visitors cut a cake depicting late Britain's Princess Diana in front of Kensington Palace, in central London, on August 31, 2022 during a gathering to pay a memorial tribute on the 25th anniversary of the Princess of Wales's death. (AFP/Carlos Jasso)
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lowers and other tributes were laid on Wednesday at princess Diana's former London home and above the Paris road tunnel where she lost her life, to mark the 25th anniversary of her death.
The former Lady Diana Spencer, whose fairytale marriage to Prince Charles captivated the world until it publicly unravelled with infidelity and divorce, died in a car crash in the French capital on August 31, 1997.
A trickle of well-wishers left flowers, flags and photographs for the self-styled "queen of people's hearts" at the gates of Kensington Palace, and at the Place Diana, above the Pont de l'Alma tunnel.
At the Spencer family home, Althorp House, where Diana is buried in a lead-lined coffin on a secluded island on the estate, her brother Charles Spencer lowered the Union Jack to half mast.
"She was a global celebrity," retired camera operator Claude Gautier, 79, who came to pay his respects at the makeshift memorial in Paris, told AFP.
"She was classy, sporty, elegant. Everyone's sad today. My flowers for her are on the inside," he said, touching the badge of his England football shirt.
"The flowers here will wilt but mine will never die."
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