{"id":412585,"date":"2025-09-10T07:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412585\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:40:11","slug":"looking-back-at-when-diana-princess-of-wales-visited-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412585\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at when Diana, Princess of Wales visited Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  On her first official visit, in July 1985, she met children at a Red Cross adventure camp for youngsters with disabilities at Hindleap Warren, in Forest Row.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a diary entry from the time, then-chairwoman of the Activenture camp Eileen Nicol said: \u201cThe Princess of Wales was charming. She has so much compassion for the children. She spoke to every one of them.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Diana speaking to children at the Red Cross adventure camp Activenture at Hindleap Warren in Forest Row in 1985\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Diana speaking to children at the Red Cross adventure camp Activenture at Hindleap Warren in Forest Row in 1985 (Image: Argus Photographic Archive) The much loved royal met Body Shop founder Anita Roddick the following year at the store\u2019s now demolished headquarters in Littlehampton, with Anita giving the princess a demonstration of some of the products.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"The princess at the Body Shop headquarters\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The princess at the Body Shop headquarters (Image: Argus Photographic Archive) The Body Shop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/24674810.body-shop-relocating-head-office-brighton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced in October 2024<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that it was moving its headquarters from Littlehampton to the Plus X Innovation Hub near the University of Brighton.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/25446710.princess-wales-attends-rugby-world-cup-brighton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess of Wales attends Rugby World Cup in Brighton<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Sussex success story, the brand was founded by Dame Anita in 1976.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 1987, the Princess of Wales returned to Sussex at Arundel Cathedral to attend the wedding of her friend Edward Fitzalan-Howard, then Earl of Arundel, and fianc\u00e9e Georgina Gore.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Princess Diana with broadcaster David Frost in Arundel after attending the wedding of the then Earl of Arundel\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Princess Diana with broadcaster David Frost in Arundel after attending the wedding of the then Earl of Arundel (Image: Argus Photographic Archive) In 1988, the princess visited Lewes Magistrates Court. The same year she was photographed with conductor Mark Wigglesworth at a concert in Brighton.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Diana with Mark Wigglesworth\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Diana with Mark Wigglesworth (Image: Argus Photographic Archive) In 1989 she chatted to residents at the Eastbourne Disabled Housing Trust.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Princess Diana chatting to residents at the Eastbourne Disabled Housing Trust 10 May 1989\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Princess Diana chatting to residents at the Eastbourne Disabled Housing Trust on\u00a0May 10, 1989 (Image: Brighton Argus) After opening the International Congress for the Family at the Brighton Centre in July 1990, which was stormed by a group of gay activists, Diana went on to the Sussex Aids Centre in Kemp Town later that day\u00a0to speak to people\u00a0with the virus.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Diana outside the Brighton Centre\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Diana outside the Brighton Centre (Image: Argus Photographic Archive) Diana\u2019s last visit to the county before her untimely death was a fleeting one, catching the Gatwick Express train from Victoria with sons William and Harry in April 1997, as they prepared to fly to the Caribbean.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She was 36 when she was killed in a car crash in a Parisian tunnel on August 31, 1997, as her driver Henri Paul was fleeing paparazzi. Her companion Dodi Fayed, son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, and Paul also died in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On her first official visit, in July 1985, she met children at a Red Cross adventure camp for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-412585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115178872680247295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}