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Britainâs Princess Diana carriers a bouquet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on Feb. 2, 1989, as she arrives for the Welsh National Operaâs American debut of âFalstaff.â File/AP
Susan Ragan
Princess Diana with Amber Lightfoot Walker and Beth Rudin DeWoody, gala co-chairs, and Elizabeth P. Valk from People magazine, event sponsor, 1989. BAM Hamm Archives/ProvidedÂ
Diana, Princess of Wales, with children in attendance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Royal Gala on Feb. 2, 1989. Courtesy of BAM Hamm Archives
Itâs all very true. In 1989, I attended a lavish, spare-no-sumptuous-detail $1,000-a-plate gala in the presence of Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales. The occasion was her first official visit to New York City.