One of those moments came for me the weekend that Princess Diana died in 1997.

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Princess Diana died, aged 36, along with her companion Dodi Al Fayed, 42, when the Mercedes they were in crashed in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in 1997.

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Not only because they supplied a good number of English kings and queens, from William the Conqueror on, but also because Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.

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