A commemorative statue will be installed next year on what would have been Diana's 60th birthday.
The statement, issued by Kensington Palace, said that the statue will be installed on what would have been Diana’s 60th birthday: July 1, 2021.
The palace said that the statue, which was commissioned on the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death, is meant to “recognise her positive impact in the UK and around the world.” Its progress has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. It was designed by sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley and which will be installed in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace, where Harry and Meghan Markle“The princes hope that the statue will help all those who visit Kensington Palace to reflect on their mother’s life and her legacy,” the statement concluded.Princess Diana was killed on August 31, 1997 after a car in which she was a passenger crashed in Paris. The wreck also killed her partner at the time, Dodi al-Fayed, and the driver, Henri Paul.
“I still feel 20 years later about my mother, I still have shock within me 20 years later,” William said in the 2017 BBC documentary ““People go, ‘Shock can’t last that long,’ but it does,” he added. “You never get over it ― it’s such an unbelievably big moment in your life that it never leaves you. You just learn to deal with it.”
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