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The People’s Princess would have celebrated her 60th birthday this year. She was tragically killed in a car accident in Paris on August 31, 1997. At the time, Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed had been trying to escape the attention of the paparazzi.
Henri Paul, their driver, lost control of the car they were travelling in and crashed in a tunnel in the French capital.
Ms Collins said that Diana was the driving force behind the modernisation of the House of Windsor.
Writing in People magazine, the author said: “I think she brought the royal family into the 21st century.
However, Diana insisted that her interest in the cause was not politically motivated.
“I am not a political figure. As I said at the time, and I’d like to re-iterate now, my interests are humanitarian.
“That is why I felt drawn to this human tragedy,” she said during a speech in June of 1997 about her trip.
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