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On the 31st of August, 1997,

Diana Spencer, a former school teacher and mother of two young boys, was tragically

killed in a car accident in Paris.

The circumstances surrounding her death, her young age, and the fact her two small boys would be left without a mother were all aggravating factors that exacerbated the tragedy.

We are today a nation in Britain in a state of shock,

in mourning, in grief that is so deeply painful for us.

It is not easy to express a sense of loss.

So what I say to you now, as your Queen and as a Grandmother,

I say from my home.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself.

She was an exceptional and gifted human being.

In good times and bad,

she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with

her warmth and kindness.

In the days and weeks that followed, millions of people from around Britain skipped school, missed work, and travelled to London to lay flowers at her memorial, to stand outside Buckingham Palace, or to watch from afar as her funeral took place in a packed

Westminster Abbey. Even in Faraway, New York, 14,000 people gathered from a memorial service in Central Park.

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