I’m not a royalist or a Diana “fan” or anything, but I got quite emotional watching this. It really brings back what a shock it was at the time.
Exactly! I've never experienced the feeling, before or since, of simply not being able to believe that someone had died.
I remember lying in bed that Sunday morning, and I heard my friend, who I was sharing a house with, go downstairs. And then hearing her pelting back up the stairs, and I remember thinking, in those split seconds, omg we must've been burgled, why is she running back up?!
She burst into my bedroom and said Princess Diana is dead!
I'll never forget it, I sat bolt upright and said "she can't be!" .
I just couldn't fathom it. I think it was because, that Summer, she had been in the papers so much, and just in general, she was just in the news so much.
You just couldn't believe she was gone.
And that whole week afterwards, until her funeral, such a weird kind of atmosphere.