Click to play videoNew Delhi: It is an eventful day in London and while former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto decides on her future course, the country will remember Princess Diana on her 10th death anniversary.
A memorial service will be held in an army chapel near Buckingham Palace and both Prince William and Prince Harry will be there along with their father Prince Charles and the Queen.
But Charles' wife Camilla, whom Diana blamed for her divorce with Charles, will not be attending the service.
And as preparations go on for the memorial service, Diana’s iconic image and popularity remains firm in public memory.
Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 with her boyfriend Dodi al-Fayed.
In the days that followed, an estimated 1 million bouquets were left outside Diana's Kensington Palace home and over a million people lined the route of her funeral procession.
"They saw her as real. Many members of the royal family, both current and past, didn't really have a connection. Diana was seen as very much one of their own,” said former editor of News of the World Phil Hall.
According to Martyn Gregory, author of the book Diana: The Last Days," her premature death increased her status as an icon, and put her on the list of dead legends with rock stars, actresses and US presidents.
“I think that because Diana died young, at the age of 36, she joins James Dean, JFK, Elvis and John Lennon, all icons who died young. And because she died young and in an accident she and her memory is preserved as if an aspic - forever," Gregory said.
When she died, Diana was at the height of her fame. She had married the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, in 1981 - a ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral that was televised around the world. The couple had two sons, William and Harry, but divorced in 1996.
Despite her widespread charity work, Diana often appeared on the front pages of the tabloid press, which was interested in her relationship with the British royal family and boyfriend Dodi Fayed. Paparazzi photographers followed her every move, both in London and abroad.
“I always described it as a win-win-win," Edwards said. She used to win because she used to use the media to publicise the things she wanted highlighted. We (the photographers) used to get great pictures and the paper used to get great pictures and sell the paper,” said photographer for Sun, Arthur Edwards.
And her popularity remains to this day - the biggest bane even today for the Royal family.
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