(06-20-2017, 09:07 PM)BIAD Wrote: I think I related this on another site, but involves my brother-in-law that lives in Paris.
He's an easy-going soul who originated from Tunisia and when in a rock band, met my
wife's sister and settled down in France.

He became a taxi driver and in the early hours of 31st August 1997 woke his wife to tell
her something he'd heard on his radio whilst driving around. Not appreciating UK royalty,
he explained 'the Queen or someone' had died in a car accident in their city.


The next morning, my sister-in-law discovered the death was of Princess Diana and after
explaining the situation, her husband told her of his experience earlier that fateful evening.

At the beginning of his shift at midnight, he is required to drive through the  Pont de l'Alma
tunnel to begin at his taxi rank at 12.00.pm and he said that he must've done it a hundred
times.
During those times, there were always traffic and at the very least, a vehicle in front of him
or behind him.

He had never known that stretch of road to without traffic, until that evening.
A year later, he told me that it was creepy after finding out of the death in the tunnel, but
he restated that it was very odd that no cars were around when he drove through the
tunnel ten minutes before midnight.

Princess Diana's crash occurred at 12.25.pm that same night.

Quote:

Prince Harry has revealed he suffered panic attacks at royal engagements and said the Invictus Games, the Paralympic-style competition he founded for injured service members, forced him to confront his own fears and reach out for help.

"Actually going through Invictus and speaking to all the guys about their issues has really healed me and helped me," Harry, 32, said in a new interview with Dave Henson airing today in the U.K. on Forces TV. "I have got plenty of issues. None of them really relate to Afghanistan but Afghanistan was the thing that triggered everything else and the process."

Harry, a former Apache pilot, said it was his two tours of duty in Afghanistan that prompted him to deal with the 1997 death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Paris car crash.

“If you lose your mum at the age of 12, you have got to deal with it,” Harry said. “The idea that 20 years later I still hadn’t really… that 15, 17 years later I still hadn’t dealt with it. Afghan was the moment where I was like, ‘Right, deal with it.'”

Harry, who shared earlier this year that he sought counseling in his late 20s, told Henson how he overcame his own fears to ask for help.
"I was like, 'Right, you are Prince Harry. You can do this. As long as you're not a complete t-- then you are going to be able to get that support because you've got the credibility of ten years' service and therefore you can really make a difference," he said.

Quote:Harry told The Telegraph's Bryon Gordon in April that he "shut down all [his] emotions” for almost two decades after Diana's death.
Harry, who started dating American actress Meghan Markle last summer, also described feeling completely overwhelmed having to live his life so publicly.

"I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle,” said Harry, who credited William with encouraging him to seek out mental health support.
Harry told Henson that he wanted to help himself so he could help others.

"When you can get your own head and self back on the right path, the amount of people you can help is unbelievable because you can tell the signs in people," Harry said. "You can see it in their eyes. You can see it in their reactions."

(06-24-2017, 10:58 AM)BIAD Wrote:
Alice Keppel, Camilla’s great-grandmother, who had been a
long-term mistress of Edward VII  -Charles’s great-great grandfather.