Princes William
and Harry were on hand Sunday at London's Wembley Stadium
for a star-studded pop concert in memory of their mother,
Princess Diana, on what would have been her 46th
birthday.
The brothers
greeted singer Nelly Furtado and 1980s chart-toppers Duran
Duran, two of the acts taking the stage to remember Diana
almost 10 years after her death in a Paris car crash.
The princess died
August 31, 1997, along with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed,
and their driver when their Mercedes crashed inside the Pont
d'Alma tunnel while media photographers pursued them.
The memorial
concert, organized by her sons, featured music from some of
Diana's favorite acts, including Tom Jones, along
with younger performers such as Kanye West,
P. Diddy, Joss Stone, and Lily Allen.
Security for the
event was increased after the discovery of two
unexploded car bombs in central London on Friday and an
attack on Glasgow, Scotland's airport on Saturday
that involved a Jeep Cherokee slamming into the main
terminal and bursting into flames.
Police said they
believed Saturday's attack was linked to the car bombs,
and the United Kingdom raised its terror alert to
''critical''--the highest level. At least 450
officers were on duty to police the concert.
The show also
included a performance by the English National Ballet and
songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber in honor of Diana's love of
dance and theater.
A family of fans
from Portsmouth in southern England said they had come
to sample the wide variety of acts all playing under the
same roof but that the memory of Diana's death was
also in their minds.
''I was
devastated,'' Karen Moore, 50, a restaurateur, said of
Diana's death.
Her husband,
David, 52, and the couple's daughters, Lucy, 23, and Katie,
21, said they were there for the music but also wanted to
express their sympathy for the princes.
''William and
Harry are the same age as us,'' Lucy said.
Diana is
remembered for her glamour, for her extensive charity work,
and for her tempestuous marriage to Prince Charles,
heir to the British throne. The pair married in 1981
in a ceremony watched by millions around the world but
divorced in 1996 after admission of adultery on both sides.
In an interview
with the BBC, William said the concert was a chance for
people to ''remember all the good things about her because
she's not here to defend herself when she gets
criticized.''
''After 10 years
there's been a rumbling of people bringing up the bad,
and over time people seem to forget--or have
forgotten--all the amazing things she did and
what an amazing person she was,'' William said in the
interview, which was recorded earlier in June and
broadcast Friday.
Tickets for the
concert cost $90, with proceeds going to causes Diana
supported, including land mine and AIDS charities.
Harry, 22, said
the brothers had asked Elton John to play ''Candle in the
Wind,'' the song he played at Diana's funeral in Westminster
Abbey. Originally about Marilyn Monroe, its lyrics
were reworked in tribute to Diana, and it became a
worldwide number 1 hit in 1997. (AP)
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