Twenty years after her sudden death, on 31st August 1997, two princes will commission her statue to be installed in the public grounds of “Kensington Palace” where Prince William and Harry live. This will be fitting memorial for “People’s Princess” rather than the hastily constructed “Fountain” in Hyde Park Corner.
As two princes were 15 and 12 at the time, too young to stamp their preference, authority, this is the opportunity for them to remember and honour their mother, beautiful Princess Diana who captured the heart of every one throughout the world.
This is indeed fitting tribute to kind, caring and compassionate Princess who gained immense popularity through her charitable work, visiting NHS hospitals unannounced to comfort terminally ill patients and devotion for the poor, especially her crusade against land mines widely used in African civil war that kill and maim innocent civilians.
This may put Kensington Palace on tourist map where people, especially overseas visitors can come and pay their respect. Who can forget sea of sympathy and carpeting flowers that covered acres of ground where her distorted fans gathered after her tragic death in a car accident?
Kumudini Valambia
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