Princess Diana’s legacy lingers as fans mark late Royal’s 60th birthday

Diana’s walk among the landmines seven months before she died in a Paris car crash is just one example of how she helped make the monarchy more accessible, changing the way the Royal family related to people.

Most people wouldn’t volunteer to walk through a minefield. Princess Diana did it twice. On January 15, 1997, Diana walked gingerly down a narrow path cleared through an Angolan minefield, wearing a protective visor and flak jacket emblazoned with the name of The HALO Trust, a group devoted to removing mines from former war zones. When she realised some of the photographers accompanying her didn’t get the shot, she turned around and did it again.