Princess Diana has been honoured with a blue plaque in London - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity Princess Diana has been honoured with a blue plaque in London By You Magazine - September 30, 2021 Diana, Princess of Wales, has been celebrated with an English Heritage blue plaque, in the year that would have marked her 60th birthday. The charity has honoured Diana with a ‘memorial tablet’ at the flat in Chelsea where she lived before marrying the Prince of Wales in 1981 (as seen in series 4 of The Crown). She shared the flat with friends and is said to have had a sign above her door saying ‘Chief Chick’. Getty Images Between 1979 and 1981, Diana lived in 60 Coleherne Court close to King’s Road with a number of friends. One of these friends was Virginia Clarke (previously Pitman), who helped unveil the English Heritage plaque during a ceremony on Wednesday 29 September 2021. She said: ‘Those were happy days for all of us and the flat was always full of laughter… Diana went off to become so much to so many. It’s wonderful that her legacy will be remembered in this way.’ Getty Images According to Andrew Morton’s book Diana, In Her Own Words, Diana described the years she lived in the three-bed flat as ‘the happiest time of her life’. Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, also confirmed the plaque’s location on Twitter. ‘How very lovely that this blue plaque will be going up outside Coleherne Court – thank you, @EnglishHeritage, for commemorating such a very happy place for Diana in this way,’ he shared back in April. How very lovely that this blue plaque will be going up outside Coleherne Court – thank you, ⁦@EnglishHeritage⁩, for commemorating such a very happy place for Diana in this way. pic.twitter.com/FiDk3ZtLpG - Charles Spencer (@cspencer1508) April 1, 2021 Diana was nominated by the London Assembly following a campaign asking Londoners to suggest women worthy of a blue plaque. Anna Eavis, English Heritage’s curatorial director, said: ‘It was considered in the normal way and the panel felt it was a really good case. Diana is undeniably a really significant figure of the late 20th century. She made a huge impact and was very popular.’ Getty Images Eavis also highlighted how Diana raised awareness of issues such as landmines and homelessness, and helped to destigmatise sicknesses such as HIV, leprosy and depression. ‘It seems fitting that we should erect a plaque commemorating her work and influence in what would have been her 60th year.’ Princess Diana would have been 60 on 1st July 2021. As well as the Princess Diana blue plaque, English Heritage expect to put up 12 plaques for the London scheme this year, Eavis said. Half of them are to be for women as part of their ‘plaques for women’ campaign. Since the first blue plaque was erected 150 years ago, there are now over 900, but only about 14 per cent are for women. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved