Princess Diana’s death affected more than just the Royal Family. It devastated and shocked the world. The Queen’s reaction to her death is worth noting.
Princess Diana’s death affected more than just the Royal Family. It devastated and shocked the world. No one could believe that the world’s most photographed woman could be dead at just 36. Conspiracy theories immediately sprang up about what might have really happened when Diana was involved in a car accident that claimed her life.
The Queen was at Balmoral with the family when she heard the news
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The Queen’s initial reaction itself is strange and worth noting. A royal expert and author, Ingrid Seward, detailed how the Queen first took the horrible news that Princess Diana had died. In her book, My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage, Seward describes the ordeal.
“The royal family, holidaying in their Highland fastness at Balmoral that summer, had no inkling of the crisis about to overwhelm them when they received the news that Diana had been killed in a car crash in Paris,” wrote Seward. “The call came through form the embassy in the French capital at 3.30 on the Sunday morning 31 August, 1997, and their first reaction was simply one of dazed bewilderment.”
