Fifteen years ago, the world was in shock. The 'Queen of Hearts', Diana, Princess of Wales, was dead.
Chased by paparazzi, perched on motorcycles and creating strobe lights of their camera flashes, Diana and Dodi left the Hilton Hotel. They hurried into the back of a car, with their bodyguard, and a driver who was apparently drunk.
A few minutes later, that car was wreckage. It had crashed into a pillar and the walls of the underpass. Diana, Dodi and driver Henri Paul were dead. Only bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones survived to tell the terrifying tale of chaos, under the lenses of the press.
I remember it well. The news came during my birthday party. Nobody could quite believe it; and even the anti-monarchists looked stunned. I also recall one friend trying to lighten the mood again by quipping, "I wonder who'll play her when Hollywood makes the inevitable movie."
After a decade and a half, the wait is over to answer his musing. It's Naomi Watts, an actress who scrubs up quite well to look like the glamorous princess.
Naomi Watts has been named one of People Magazine's Top 50 Most Beautiful People.
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JoHarringtonSep 25, 2013
People are going to have their ideas about Diana for a generation yet.
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