Floods of tears and a sea of flowers
By chance Shropshire's Christine Barre and husband Geoff were staying in Kensington on a weekend break to London when the tragic news came through about Diana's death, and the couple were on-the-spot witnesses to a dramatic and swift response by the grieving public.
People rapidly took to the streets in huge numbers and flowers piled up higher and higher outside Kensington Palace. Christine photographed the scene and says television pictures never did justice to the spectacle.
"We were in London on the night she died, staying in the Kensington Hotel, directly opposite Kensington Palace," said Christine, from Oswestry.
"We had a room which overlooked the road and Kensington Palace and when we opened the curtains we saw all these hundreds of people. It was packed even at that time in the morning, between 7am and 8am. They had made a beeline for Kensington Palace.
"We went down for breakfast and asked what was going on, and we were told that Di had been killed in the early hours of that morning. Like everybody else we were stunned. We didn't know the details. We hung around a bit and took some photographs and had to get down to the station to catch our train as we were coming home that day.
"By the time we got out onto the street we could not get near the Underground because there were that many people coming up. We walked down to Marble Arch with our cases, with thousands of people appearing. It was just packed, with the roads packed and traffic at a standstill, with people standing on the road and stopping their cars.
"People were shocked and stunned, but there was not hysteria at that time. We weren't around there for very long. There were already a lot of people there and by the afternoon you could see on the television there were four or five times more people than that.
"It was amazing. I have pictures of the flowers which were more than knee high deep. The pictures on television do not do them justice.
"We were on a weekend away. They had had a big charity dinner at Nesscliffe Army camp and we went along with some friends and happened to win this weekend away at the Kensington Hotel, which happened to coincide with this unfortunate episode."
