Princess Diana was just 36 years old when she died following a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997. Her death came almost exactly one year after her divorce from Charles was finalized on August 28, 1996, closing a deeply scrutinized chapter of her life and beginning another that would ultimately be far too short.
Yet nearly three decades later, public fascination with Diana has hardly faded.
Photographs from her years as Princess of Wales continue to be examined, shared, and discussed. Some capture her warmth and connection with the public. Others offer glimpses into royal life, her relationship with Charles, and the highly choreographed world in which the couple lived.
Among those photographs is a seemingly ordinary image taken at Balmoral in 1981, the year Charles and Diana married.
At first glance, there doesn’t appear to be anything unusual about it.
Charles is wearing a green sweater, while Diana stands beside him in a tan jacket. He has one arm around her, and the Scottish landscape stretches behind them.
