Yes, Princess Diana Was a Philadelphia Eagles Fan — and We’ve Got the Proof!
Super Bowl champs the Philadelphia Eagles have the ultimate royal seal of approval!Princess Diana was a fan of the NFL team (or at least its merchandise!) thanks to the late Eagles statistician Jack Edelstein, who met the royal at the funeral of Princess Grace in 1982.The two struck up a conversation during the funeral reception, talking about everything from the late Princess Grace (who was a family friend of Edelstein’s and a Philadelphia native), the U.S.
and the Eagles.“She thought football was like soccer,” Edelstein told the Philadelphia Daily News after Diana’s death in 1997.
“She asked,
