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Saturday marks 22 years since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Across the world, fans are honoring the "People's Princess" and remembering the legacy she left behind.
"22 years today … Remembering the beautiful mother and global icon," wrote "Dancing with the Stars" judge Bruno Tonioli on Twitter.
After being married for 15 years, Diana and Prince Charles divorced. One year later, in 1997, Diana and her boyfriend, Egyptian socialite Dodi Fayed, crashed in a tunnel in Paris. They had been chased by members of the paparazzi on motorcycles. But after conspiracy theories and rumors about her death, a 2006 investigation by the British police was the result of a crash and determined the car driver, Henri Paul, was driving intoxicated.
Gary Barlow, lead lead singer of the British group Take That, posted a picture on Instagram of the time his group Diana at an AIDS benefit concert at Wembley Arena in 1994.
"Princess Diana – always in our hearts – we were lucky enough to have some fun with this amazing woman.
American Actress Jamie Lee Curtis Reminisced About Having Just Missed Diana's short visit to her movie set, a few months before her death, because the actress was in the bathroom. But she said she wrote Diana and received a handwritten reply from Kensington Palace saying she hoped they would get to meet in the future.
"I thought about her life and the choices she made and how brave she was," Curtis wrote on Instagram. "It gave me a great life, it was complete, it was a great role model for me.
Celebrities were not only honoring Diana on Saturday. The British Red Cross honored her with a video commemorating her extensive work with the organization for 14 years.
"22 years after her death, we pay tribute to #DreditDiana's humanitarian work with the Red Cross both in the UK and abroad," the British Red Cross wrote on Twitter.
Her humanitarian work with dozens of charities and the world's attention. She famously shook the hand of AIDS – without gloves – to help break the stigma surrounding the illness. She worked on anti-land mine campaigns in Angola and Bosnia and traveled to other countries suffering from leprosy and cancer.
Acorns Childrens Hospice, wrote, "Today we remember the very wonderful Princess Diana who did so much for so many." Diana opened the first Acorn's Hospice in 1988.
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