deho@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-214 days agoOn Prince Andrews Road, a Frustrating Effort to Get a New Addresswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkOn Prince Andrews Road, a Frustrating Effort to Get a New Addresswww.nytimes.comdeho@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-214 days agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-214 days agoYou inspired me to do a search. there are currently NO roads in the UK that are named after Lady Diana. edit = Someone found one street. I abase myself
minus-squareApocalypteroid@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·14 days agoPerhaps not that surprising, considering the nature of her death…?
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoI hadn’t considered that.
minus-squaremjr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-214 days agoDiana’s Drove is named after her. Look at the nearby street names. It’s in the next town north from the royal estate at Sandringham. Edit: this is the first one I found. I’m pretty sure there are more.
minus-squareanothermember@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 days agoPrincess Diana Drive as well, built shortly after she died I recall, it was a bit controversial.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoAs a previous commenter pointed out, getting into a traffic accident on Lady Diana Drive would be a bit on the nose. Like getting killed by a Mansfield bar. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/mansfield-bars-trucks-save-lives/
You inspired me to do a search. there are currently NO roads in the UK that are named after Lady Diana.
edit = Someone found one street. I abase myself
Perhaps not that surprising, considering the nature of her death…?
I hadn’t considered that.
Diana’s Drove is named after her. Look at the nearby street names. It’s in the next town north from the royal estate at Sandringham.
Edit: this is the first one I found. I’m pretty sure there are more.
I stand corrected.
Princess Diana Drive as well, built shortly after she died I recall, it was a bit controversial.
As a previous commenter pointed out, getting into a traffic accident on Lady Diana Drive would be a bit on the nose.
Like getting killed by a Mansfield bar.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/mansfield-bars-trucks-save-lives/