Princess Diana’s Apartment Will Receive an English Heritage Blue Plaque

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The London residence the place Princess Diana lived along with her girlfriends earlier than getting engaged to Prince Charles will probably be receiving an English Heritage blue plaque this yr. Diana’s plaque will probably be at her Coleherne Court flat, which she shared with three of her girlfriends, Carolyn Bartholomew, Virginia Pitman, Ann Bolton. 

“We predict our plaque to Diana, Princess of Wales to be very fashionable. She was an inspiration and cultural icon to many, elevating consciousness of points together with landmines and homelessness, and serving to to destigmatize sicknesses resembling HIV, leprosy and despair. It appears becoming that we must always erect a plaque commemorating her work and affect in what would have been her sixtieth yr,”Anna Eavis, English Heritage’s curatorial director, mentioned in an announcement.

Fans of The Crown will acknowledge the constructing because the setting for one of many happiest scenes in season four, when Diana announces her engagement to her friends. Prior to shifting to Clarence House the evening earlier than the general public announcement, Diana was continuously photographed by paparazzi exterior the Earls Court (the neighborhood between Chelsea and South Kensington) complicated. 

“How very pretty that this blue plaque will probably be going up exterior Coleherne Court – thanks, ⁦@EnglishHeritage, for commemorating such a really blissful place for Diana on this method.” Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother tweeted. 

There are nearly 1,000 blue plaques across London, each commemorating a notable historic figure. The tradition started in 1866 and, like many public memorials, the vast majority (86 percent) of the honorees are men. This is something English Heritage has sought to correct, and this year it will be honoring exclusively women. Crystallographer and peace campaigner Kathleen Lonsdale received the first plaque of 2021 and social reformer Caroline Norton, designer Jean Muir, former slave and campaigner Ellen Craft, barrister Helena Normanton, will also be honored with blue plaques. Diana’s blue plaque will be put up later this year.

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