A RADIANT Princess Diana is welcomed to a concert at St Nicholas' Chapel in Lynn, the opening event of the 33rd King's Lynn Festival, by the festival chairman, General Sir Harry Tuzo (right), the Rev Geoffrey Lang, Vicar of St Nicholas', and the Duke of Kent.

The Princess arrived in the town in a royal helicopter which landed at The Walks, where a crowd of 1,500 had been waiting patiently.

Cheers and clapping and cries went up as the Princess of Wales stepped out of the bright red helicopter and she spent ten minutes talking to people in the crowd – and she told a youngster sporting a skin-head style haircut that he should grow his hair.

Then she was whisked away in a Rolls Royce to St Nicholas' Chapel for the concert, where there were kisses for the Duke of Kent and for her maternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, the festival's founder president. There was also a touch of nostalgia when she met her former headmistress at Silfield School in Lynn, Miss Jean Lowe, who had recently retired.