Sir Elton John pays tribute to ‘angel’ Princess Diana on 20th anniversary of her death

Jamie Lee Curtis also paid tribute to the “great role model”
Angel: Diana, Princess of Wales with Sir Elton John at a television awards ceremony in May 1993
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Emma Powell31 August 2017
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Sir Elton John has paid a touching tribute to his late friend, Princess Diana.

John, 70, described the Princess of Wales as an “angel” as he marked 20 years since her tragic death.

The world went into mourning when Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.

John remembered the mother-of-two on Instagram where he shared a photograph of himself and Diana smiling, alongside the caption: “20 years ago today, the world lost an angel. #RIP @ejaf.”

The Princess of Wales was declared dead in hospital at 4am, aged just 36, after the car she was travelling in hit a pillar in the Alma tunnel.

Driver Henri Paul, Head of Security at the Ritz in Paris, and Dodi Fayed, son of Harrods owner Mohammed Al-Fayed, were killed instantly.

John performed a reworked version of Candle In The Wind at her state funeral at Westminster Abbey on September 6.

William, Kate and Harry walk through Diana memorial garden

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The single became the fastest-selling in the UK, shifting 658,000 copies on its first day of release, and over 1.5 million in its first week before going on to sell 33 million copies worldwide.

Other stars paying tribute to Diana, include actress Jamie Lee Curtis who told her 600,000 followers that Diana was “an example to live by”.

Curtis posted a photograph of Diana on a log flume with sons William and Harry and explained how she never met the Princess as she missed her visit to the set of A Fish Called Wanda as she was ‘using the restroom’.

She wrote to Diana to apologise and received a letter the following day “thanking me for mine and understanding completely the need for nature to take its course”.

Curtis wrote: “I thought about her and her life and the choices she made and how brave she was, how she reached out to that young man with AIDS before anyone did, the mine fields, mental health and so much more and how much she loved her children, the image of them running into her outstretched arms after a long trip.

“It gave me comfort that although her life was short, it was complete.

“She was a great role model for me. An example to live by. I honour her this day.”

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