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The princess was killed in a car crash alongside her companion Dodi Fayed/FILE

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‘Unforgettable Diana’ honoured at Paris shrine

“So our priority today was to come here,” he told AFP.

Likewise, Jocelyn Knott from the region of Toronto, was in Paris with a whole tribe of 15 family members en route for a reunion in the Netherlands – and together they made a detour via the monument.

“We thought it would be special to stop by and see the memorial,” said the 52-year-old. “I think it’s a wonderful tribute to her and her life.

“I remember the day she got married and the birth of her children, her charity work, how she tried to raise her boys as normal as possible. It was so sad she had to die that early.”

Sylvia Fricot brought her eight-year-old daughter all the way from southern France to show her the shrine to the “princess of hearts”.

“She was a beautiful woman, elegant and generous,” she said. “I still remember when I learned of her death. I had just woken up, and it took me some time to come to terms with it.”

The princess’s untimely death was a blow for Priyani Wijesinghe, a 66-year-old Sri Lankan doctor who now lives in Paris, and who has lovingly collected Diana memorabilia ever since her royal wedding to Charles in 1981.

“She’s the only Diana, there won’t be another,” she told AFP. “I don’t know why she was taken away.”

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