The Princess of Wales visited Angola in January 1997 to see the work of the Red Cross in helping mine victims. Here she wears protective headgear on a visit to a minefield
The year before she died, Princess Diana campaigned for a ban on the manufacture and use of landmines. The Princess’s will to help these landmine workers demonstrates how directly connected she was to the people. She cared about them enough to make sure she was involved enough to personally protest what she thought to be wrong. Time magazine writes, “First she became the patron saint of victims, the sick, the discriminated against, the homeless”