Princess Diana remembered

Lovely day at Kensington Palace 31st August be it from our sadness at remembrance of Princess Diana. 

A very connected day with other visitors & palace staff. 

We all remember the day of the dreadful news...I was booked on a late shift at St Thomas's hospital that Sunday when a friend rang early morning to say put the news on Diana is dead! It still sends shivers down me now recalling this. I took the train into Paddington bought a single rose from the station flower stall and felt propelled in a silent shock to the Kensington Palace gates.. Others were doing the same we couldn't speak in shock. When I arrived on duty I was allocated a mother who has presented with loss of fetal movements & staff confirmed no fetal heart. I was to help this mother deliver her stilborn baby. At first the plan on talking with the mother was she did not want to see the baby or hold. The baby girl was delivering breech and I commented on her beautuful slender feet and how she would have made a ballet dancer. Mother and the father became curious. We actually had quality time in that silent birth. We always take photos of lost babies but in this case ..there were family photos the couple holding their daughter.. A family for that moment. When the chaplain came to give prayers the room being facing West over parliament lit up with the most beautiful sunset.  We all felt and said oh Diana ..that will be her job in Heaven taking care of all the souls of babies and children lost to this earthly world.

It gave the couple a feeling something greater than us all.