Famous people words on Diana

She was very concerned with the poor. She was very anxious to do something for them. That is why she was close to me.
Mother Teresa on the Princess

How many times will we remember her, in how many different ways--with the sick, the dying, with children, with the needy? When, with just a look or a gesture that spoke so much more than words, she would reveal to all of us the depth of her compassion and her humanity. She was The People's Princess.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, following the Princess's death


I am utterly devastated. The whole of our country, all of us, will be in a state of shock and mourning. Diana was a wonderful, warm and compassionate person who people, not just in Britain, but throughout the world loved and will be mourned as a friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, particularly her two sons, and with all the families bereaved in this quite appalling tragedy.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
August 31, 1997
 

She was The People's Princess, and that's how she will stay, how she will remain, in our hearts and in our memories forever....I feel, like everyone else in this country today, utterly devastated....We are today a nation in a state of shock, in mourning, in grief that is so deeply painful for us.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, August 31, 1997

I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness....No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never even met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her....May those who died rest in peace and may we, each and every one of us, thank God for someone who made many, many people happy.
Queen Elizabeth II, September 5, 1997

You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.
a quote in Diana's office at Kensington Palace


People related to her because she's a very compassionate person, and she was concerned for those who were vulnerable around the world, those with dire human needs. She reached out to them. She held them in her arms....She gave of herself. She was a passionate person who truly cared.
Elizabeth Dole, American Red Cross president


The Princess was a much loved national figure, but she was also a mother whose sons miss her deeply.
Geoffrey Crawford, the Queen's Press Secretary

Later, she called from Kensington Palace. "We are all sitting here suffering the most awful withdrawal symptoms," she said. "We've had the most wonderful holiday of our lives."
Mohamed Al Fayed, commenting on one of the Princess's last vacations


She was undoubtedly one of the best ambassadors of Great Britain. I found her very grateful, highly intelligent and committed to worthy causes and was tremendously impressed by her warmness.
South African President Nelson Mandela


It is with dismay and great sorrow that I learnt of the tragic death of Britain's Princess Diana. Many people in Germany loved her because of her openness and humanitarian engagement.
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl


You either have charisma or you don't. She had it. She was so brilliant with everyone--everyone just adored her. There are loads of movie stars and celebrities but there will only be one Diana.
Elizabeth Emanuel, designer of Diana's wedding gown

I met her so many times and she was always such a laugh. We used to go for lunch, she liked to dish about everything. That's why she was such a laugh. She was always very, very good and very thoughtful with the people who worked for you. There would always be some sort of flowers and things that would come the next day after an event when she was happy with her frock. One of my fitters who is retired now still gets Christmas cards--or did--even after I stopped getting one.
Bruce Oldfield, designer


Diana had been subject to the rule that members of the Royal Family must not be touched. One of her ladies-in-waiting confessed to a moment of torment when "the Princess was crying most poignantly. It was when she had just learned of her father's death and I was alone with her. I wanted desperately to put my arms around her. It was what any decent person would have done in ordinary circumstances. But it would have been unpardonable to have done so with the Princess of Wales. An important code would have been broken. No, no, I couldn't bring myself to do it. So I slipped quietly out of the room. I've never forgiven myself for that. I think it will haunt me to my grave."
Anne Edwards: "Ever After: Diana and The Life She Lived"


The world has lost a princess who is simply irreplaceable.
Mohamed Al Fayed

Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.

-- read by Lady Jane Fellowes at the funeral of Diana

Candle in the Wind

A song sung by Elton John in the Princess's funeral ceremony

Goodbye England's Rose. May you ever grow in our hearts.
You were the grace that placed itself.Where lives were torn apart.
You called out to our country,And you whispered to those in pain.
Now you belong to heaven,And the stars spell out your name.

And it seems to me you lived your life,Like a candle in the wind:
Never fading with the sunset,When the rain set in.
And your footsteps will always fall here,Along England's greenest hills;
Your candle's burned out long before,Your legend ever will.

Loveliness we've lost; These empty days without your smile.
This torch we'll always carry ,For our nation's golden child.
And even though we try,The truth brings us to tears;
All our words cannot express,The joy you brought us through the years.

Goodbye England's Rose, From a country lost without your soul,
Who'll miss the wings of your compassion,More than you'll ever know.

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