10th Anniversary of Princess Diana's Death

Once again this historical event people can tell you what they were doing when they heard the news. I listened to the news that evening at home and was dumbstruck at the news. There are not many time I shed tears for someone famous but I did for her.

Princess Diana's family solemnly marked the 10th anniversary of her death Friday at a service organized by her sons,Harry and his brother, Prince William, while admirers tied scores of bouquets, poems and portraits to the gates of her former home.

Britain's Princes William and Harry, sons of the late Princess Diana, arrive for the Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Diana at the Guards' Chapel at Wellington Barracks in London, August 31, 2007.

"To lose a parent so suddenly at such a young age, as others have experienced, is indescribably shocking and sad," Prince Harry said at the memorial service at the Guards' Chapel near Buckingham Palace. "It was an event which changed our lives forever, as it must have done for everyone who lost someone that night," said Harry, who was 12 when Diana died.

"But what is far more important to us now and into the future is that we remember our mother as she would wish to be remembered, as she was: fun-loving, generous, down to earth and entirely genuine," he said.

"To us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world," Prince Harry, her younger son, said in a eulogy. "When she was alive, we completely took for granted her unrivaled love of life, laughter, fun and folly," Harry said.

"She was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love us to go unspoken or undemonstrated."