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Princess Diana survived a serious train accident when she was just 16 years old, an episode that was recorded in the memoirs of her brother, Charles Spencer. The collision occurred on December 24, 1977, at Glasgow's Queen Street station in Scotland, and caused a scalp wound that required stitches.
Almost two decades later, Diana died in a car accident in Paris, a coincidence that has led some to describe the episode from her adolescence as an unsettling harbinger of what would happen to her at the Pont de l'Alma. What happened back then?
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Diana was traveling with her younger brother, Charles, on a night train to Scotland when a locomotive crashed into the stationary convoy. According to the account of Earl Spencer, the impact was so strong that the mirror on the wall of their compartment shattered and his sister ended up injured.
The terrible accident occurred weeks after Diana met the then Prince Charles, who was dating Sarah Spencer, Diana's older sister, at the time.
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In his memoir, *A Very Private School*, Charles Spencer recalls the trips they both took between their parents' homes, who had separated years earlier, every weekend and during school holidays.
Their mother, Frances, had moved with her husband Peter Shand Kydd to Ardencaple, a farm located on the Scottish island of Seil, while their father stayed at the family home, Park House. Train journeys became part of the siblings' routine during their childhood and part of their adolescence.
Spencer describes the accident as an episode serious enough to appear on BBC news. According to his testimony, another locomotive rushed toward the station and struck the train they were traveling on.
Diana suffered a cut to the head that required medical attention, while the impact seriously damaged the sleeping car located at the back of the convoy.
“Diana and I used to travel together on the sleeper train from London to Scotland. We once had an accident at one of the Glasgow stations, serious enough to be mentioned on the BBC evening news (...) Diana suffered an ugly cut to her scalp that required stitches,” he narrates in the book.
The collision left 24 people injured, including the Spencer siblings, although no deaths were reported. Four passengers, the locomotive driver, and his assistant required hospital care, but were discharged a few hours later.
For Lady Di, that accident was marked as an episode of her youth that, decades later, would draw attention again due to the tragedy that marked the end of her life and which many have linked together.
As speculated on social media, the train accident was a prediction of how she would die at 36: in the middle of the night, far from home, and due to a collision accident.
It is worth remembering that the princess died on August 31, 1997; Diana died at age 36 in a car accident that occurred in Paris, 20 years after the train accident. Her partner, Dodi Fayed, 42, and the driver, Henri Paul, 41, also passed away.
Despite the comments linking both crashes, there is no evidence of a connection between the events.
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