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The death of Diana
A carpet of flowers
Mourners left more than a
million bouquets outside
Kensington Palace in the
wake of Princess Diana’s
death in a car crash on
31 August 1997. The scale of
public grief “escalated to a
point when few people could
remember a precedent”,
says Dominic Sandbrook
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