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Princess Diana’s London flat expected to be honoured with a blue plaque

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Published date01 April 2021
Date01 April 2021
English Heritage is honouring Diana with a “memorial tablet” and will announce its location later in the year, but it is thought be the Earl’s Court flat she lived in before marrying the Prince of Wales in 1981.

Diana is the highest profile former member of the monarchy to be bestowed the honour, and was nominated by the London Assembly after the body ran a campaign asking Londoners to suggest women worthy of a blue plaque.

Anna Eavis, English Heritage’s curatorial director, said the princess’ campaigns to highlight issues like HIV/Aids and landmines – and her enduring appeal as “an inspiration and cultural icon to many”, were deciding factors.

Diana’s parents bought her 60 Coleherne Court, a property in a mansion block close to the fashionable King’s Road in Chelsea, when she settled in the capital as a young woman.

She shared the flat with a number of girlfriends and was said to have a sign above her bedroom door which read “Chief Chick”.

Diana described the few years she lived in the three-bed flat as “the happiest time of her life”, according to Andrew Morton’s book Diana, In Her Own Words.

“It was juvenile, innocent, uncomplicated and above all fun. I laughed my head off there,” she said.

When she began dating Charles...

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