Where were you when you heard?
Thursday marks 20 years since the death of Princess Diana.
![Front page of The West Australian from Monday 1 September, 1997. Princess Diana 01091997](https://images.thewest.com.au/publication/B88582984Z/GG816V33E.1-0.jpg?imwidth=810&impolicy=wan_v3)
It was a ‘where were you’ moment in modern history, when it was revealed the 36-year-old royal was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.
![An article in the Albany Advertiser, September 1997.](https://images.thewest.com.au/publication/B88582984Z/GG816V3BJ.1-0.jpg?imwidth=810&impolicy=wan_v3)
Memorials were held in Albany and Mt Barker shortly after her death.
Tributes collected were sent to Canberra and then to Britain as a collective tribute from Australia.
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