Remembering Princess Diana 25 years later

HIS RESIGNATION TAKES EFFECT AT THE END OF THE DAY. NO YOU KNOW IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE. BUT TODAY MARKS 25 YEARS SINCE DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES, WAS KILLED IN A CAR CRASH IN PARIS. >> TWO AND A HALF DECADES LATER THE PEOPLE’S PRINCESS REMAINS A SOURCE OF FASCINATION AROUND THE WORLD. IAN LEE REPORTS. >> Reporter: GOOD EVENING. BRITAIN LOST A PRINCESS TODAY. >> THE WORLD STOOD STILL. >> Reporter: IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF AUGUST 31, 1997. PRINCESS DIANA DIED IN A PARIS CAR CRASH AFTER BEING CHASED BY MEDIA. >> I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT.

GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS. I COULDN’T BELIEVE SHE HAD DIED. >> Reporter: DIANA WAS JUST 36. AND MORE THAN A ROYAL, SHE BECAME A FORCE FOR GOOD, USING HER FAMOUS NAME TO SUPPORT CAUSES LIKE AIDS AWARENESS AND THE CLEARING OF LAND MINES. >> DIANA’S UNIQUE QUALITIES WERE VERY MUCH A HUMANITARIAN MISSION, A TACTILE NATURE, A CARE AND CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS. >> Reporter: PRINCESS DIANA LIVED HERE AT KENSINGTON PALACE, A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE STILL COME TO REMEMBER HER 25 YEARS LATER. >> WHEN I SEE THE PICTURES AND SOMETHING ON TV IT MAKES ME SAD. >> Reporter: IN RECENT

YEARS, HOLLYWOOD HAS INTRODUCED A NEW GENERATION TO THE PEOPLE’S PRINCESS WITH THE NETFLIX HIT SERIES THE CROWN TO THE LATEST MOVIE DEPICTING HER LIFE, ONE FULL OF HELPING OTHERS. A QUARTER OF HER

CENTURY AFTER HER DEATH, DIANA’S SONS, WILLIAM AND HARRY, ARE STILL FOLLOWING IN HER FOOTSTEPS. >> I HOPE WE CAN REMEMBER MY MOTHER’S LEGACY BY RECOMMITTING TO THOSE THAT WE SERVE. WHOEVER AND WHEREVER THEY MAY BE. >> Reporter: SHARING THEIR MOTHER’S SPIRIT TO KEEP HER MEMORY ALIVE. TONYA, MICHAEL, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COMING ALL DAY HERE TO KENSINGTON PALACE TO PAY RESPECT. THEY ARE LEAVING

CARDS, LITTLE MEMENTOES, THEY ARE LEAVING FLOWERS. REALLY WHEN YOU SPEAK WITH PEOPLE, EVERYONE REMEMBERS WHERE THEY WERE THE MOMENT THEY HEARD THE NEWS. >> IAN, WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT WHERE WE WERE AT THAT TIME. CAN YOU TELL US HOW ARE PRINCE WILLIAM AND HARRY PAYING TRIBUTE TO THEIR MOTHER TODAY? >> Reporter: YEAH WE HEARD FROM PRINCE HARRY EARLIER. WHO SAID THAT HE HOPES HE MAKES HIS MOTHER PROUD. HE WANTS THIS DAY TO BE ONE OF REMEMBERING HER GOOD WORKS. HE WANTS TO SHARE HER SPIRIT WITH HIS CHILDREN. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ANY SORT

OF PUBLIC COMMEMORATION, THE PRINCES REPORTEDLY SAID FIVE YEARS AGO ON THE 20th ANNIVERSARY, THEY DON’T WANT TO DO ANY MORE PUBLIC CEREMONIES. SO TODAY BOTH OF THEM ARE REMEMBERING THEIR MOTHER PRIVATELY. >> YOU KNOW SUCH A TRAGIC EVENT. BUT IN A WAY ALSO A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE SHE LED AND ALL HER ENDEAVORS. IAN, HOW HAS THE WORLD CHANGED AS A RESULT OF PRINCESS DIANA’S DEATH? AND WHAT IS BEING DONE TO PRESERVE THAT LEGACY WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING? >> YOU KNOW, IT IS PRETTY AMAZING HOW MUCH SHE ACCOMPLISHED IN HER SHORT LIFE. SHE WAS JUST

36 YEARS OLD, BUT SHE DID SO MUCH FOR HIV AIDS AWARENESS. SHE WOULD TOUCH SOMEONE WHO HAD HIV, WHICH WAS REALLY UNHEARD OF AT THAT TIME. ESPECIALLY FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS PART OF MONEY ARK CAN I. SHE REALLY BRIDGED THE GAP BETWEEN THE MONARCHY AND THEIR CENTURIES OF TRADITION AND A MODERN WORLD. SHE WAS SEEN AS THE PEOPLE’S PRINCESS BECAUSE SHE HAD THAT COMMON TOUCH. YES, SHE WAS SEEN AS SOMEONE WHO WAS GORGEOUS AND ICONIC AND SHE GRACED PAGES OF MAGAZINES. BUT SHE ALSO HAD THAT PERSONAL TOUCH. SHE COULD TALK TO YOU AND THEY FELT

LIKE SHE WAS ON YOUR LEVEL AND THERE WASN’T THIS AIR OF SUPERIORITY. AND SHE REALLY CHANGED THE MONARCHY. YOU HAVE WILLIAM AND HARRY, TWO PEOPLE WHO LOOKED UP TO THEIR MOTHER AND THEY ARE REALLY, HER LEGACY IS LIVING ON THROUGH HER SONS AND THE WORKS THAT THEY CONTINUED TO DO IN HER NAME. >> IT IS TRUE. SHE REALLY DID CHANGE THE IMAGE OF