Princess Diana was often the centre of attention during her numerous royal excursions abroad. The Princess of Wales travelled overseas to represent the crown alongside her then husband, Prince Charles, now 70. The couple visited India together, after the Prince of Wales had made a touching pledge to take his wife there during an earlier trip, as well as Australai and Canada. Yet prior to their split, in 1996, their marriage had soured - although their royal duties overseas remained.
Royal author Sarah Bradford detailed how Princess Diana’s trip to Belfast, shortly after their visit to India in 1992, had sparked a “message” to the wider royals.
In her new book Queen Elizabeth Her Life In Our Times, Sarah wrote of the short-haul trip: “The public took sides, most of them with Diana.
“On a visit to Belfast at the end of June she paid a spectacularly successful visit to the Falls Road, Republican heartland and stronghold of the IRA.
“An estimated 2,000 people came to ‘shout for Diana’.”
She added: “As the Daily Mirror put under a banner headline: “We want Di”, and frontline Belfast had a ‘message for the royals.’
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