PhotoWhen she was alive, Diana, Princess of Wales, never held much interest for me. I didn’t watch her wedding or pay attention to what she wore to parties and ribbon-cutting ceremonies or care that she was unhappy in her marriage to Prince Charles. When I worked at The Times in the early 1990s, we wrote about the scandals swirling around her gingerly, almost with distaste. What I didn’t know until later was that Diana had arrived at the same hospital not long afterward. La Salpêtrière was the designated trauma center that night, and the princess was taken there when her car smashed into a pillar along the Seine.

Source: New York Times August 31, 2017 19:52 UTC