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Lady Diana's last summer

2021-08-19T14:32:17.581Z


STORY - The last weeks of Lady Di's life were also those when her existence could have turned upside down. Two months when everything went very quickly, from his relationship with Dodi Al-Fayed to the fatal race of their Mercedes, on August 31, 1997, under the Alma bridge.


It is with a heavy heart that Lady Diana approaches, without knowing it, her last summer.

However, she has been free for almost a year: on August 28, 1996, her divorce from Prince Charles was finally pronounced, ending 14 years of an unhappy marriage.

Diana is free, but restrained.

Admittedly, her status as a glam icon is in good shape: five months earlier, it is a frank, calm and smiling woman that Mario Testino photographed on the cover of

Vanity Fair

.

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And who, on June 21, celebrates the first day of summer with an auction at Christie's in New York, of 79 dresses that belonged to him: they will bring in 3.25 million dollars (about 2.7 million euros,

Editor's note

), all redistributed to charities.

And help him, perhaps, to draw a line on his past.

Her aura of "

princess of hearts

", too, has never shone so brightly: everyone has in mind the images of Diana in Angola, engaged against anti-personnel mines, advancing bravely

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Source: lefigaro

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