Diana 'still Britain's most favourite royal'

Nearly 14 years after her death in a car crash in Paris, Princess Diana is still the UK's most favourite Royal, a survey has found.

The late Princess of Wales has been named as the one Britons would most like to have a natter with if she were alive today, ahead of her elder son Prince William and the Queen, according to the survey.

William's wife Kate Middleton secured the seventh place with just four per cent of the vote in the poll. Above her came English King Henry VIII, Queen Victoria and Prince Harry while Camilla, Prince Charles' wife, came last.

Diana was also the only woman in the overall Top 10 list of celebrities with whom Britons would like to talk, according to the survey.

A look at the life and times of Princess Diana.

In June 2011, Newsweek magazine's cover generated quite a stir. Reason? It contained a computer-generated image of the stylish Princess Diana walking with Kate Middleton.

Newsweek's editor-in-chief and Diana's biographer Tina Brown tried her hand at doing some guesswork at how Princess Diana would have looked in the year 2011, the year she would have turned 50.

The magazine's issue also featured an imagined Diana Facebook page and a slideshow comparing the fashion styles of Diana and Middleton, who married Diana's oldest child, Prince William, in April.

It is true that even after 14 years of her death, people cannot get enough of her. Diana was an iconic figure and shall continue to remain so.

The toddler who would be Princess: Diana Spencer is shown in an undated family album photo at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, when she was a toddler. (AP Photo)

As a baby: Family album picture of Lady Diana Spencer in her baby carriage at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk in 1962. (AP Photo)

First Birthday: Family album picture of Lady Diana Spencer, at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, on her first birthday, July 1, 1962. (AP Photo)

Already a beauty: Family album picture of Lady Diana Spencer in Cadogan Place Gardens, London, during summer of 1968. (AP Photo)

Sibling ties: Family album picture of Lady Diana Spencer in Berkshire in 1968, with her brother Charles Edward, Viscount Althorp, a former Page of Honor to the Queen. (AP Photo)

The famous smile: Lady Diana Spencer at Itchenor, West Sussex, during the summer of 1970. (AP Photo)

Horsing around: Family album picture of Lady Diana Spencer with Souffle, a Shetland pony, at her mother's home in Scotland during the summer of 1974. (AP Photo)

The Prince's girlfriend: Lady Diana Spencer, 21, Prince Charles's girlfriend, is pictured in 1980 at the Kindergarten in St. Georges Square, Pimlico, London, where she works as a teacher.

Engaged: Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, pose on the grounds of Buckingham Palace after announcing their engagement in this Feb. 24, 1981 photo. (AP Photo)

Sealed with a kiss: Britain's Prince Charles kisses his bride, the former Diana Spencer, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London, after their wedding on July 29, 1981. (AP Photo)

Royal honeymoon: Prince Charles and the Princess of Wales, wearing a coral silk dress and matching hat, ride in an open carriage to Waterloo Station, July 29, 1981, to start their honeymoon at Broadlands. (AP Photo)

Child's play: Princess Diana and Prince Charles are shown with their son Prince William during a photo session at Kensington Palace in London in December 1982.

A mother first: This is a 1984 photo of Princess Diana with sons Prince William, foreground, and Prince Harry. (AP Photo)

The lonely princess: Princess Diana sits in front of the Taj Mahal in the Indian city of Agra, Tuesday Feb. 11, 1992. (AP Photo)

Moving apart: The Prince and Princess of Wales look their separate ways during a memorial service on their tour of Korea November 3, 1992. The Princess of Wales and her friend, Dodi Fayed, died in the early hours of Sunday August 31, 1997 after a car crash in Paris. (AP Photo)

Beatle mania: Princess of Wales, left, chats with British singer and former Beatle Paul McCartney, while McCartney's wife Linda waves to well-wishers as they arrive at the Music Palace in Lille, France on Nov. 15, 1992. The princess was attending the French premier of McCartney's classical Liverpool Oratorio during an arts festival focusing on Britain and the Commonwealth in France's northern capital. (AP Photo)

Princess in love: The front cover of “Princess in Love” by Anna Pasternak which tells the story of Major James Hewitt, who claims to have been Diana's lover for three years, and which went on sale in London on Oct. 3, 1994. (AP Photo)

Portrait of a beauty: In a file photo Princess Diana smiles at a charity dinner in New York on Dec. 11, 1995.

Sharing the pain: Britain's Princess Diana talks to amputees Jan. 14, 1997, at the the Neves Bendinha Orthopedic Workshop on the outskirts of Luanda, Angola. Sitting on Diana's lap is 13-year-old Sandra Thijica, who lost her left leg to a land mine while working the land with her mother in Saurimo, eastern Angola, in 1994.

Crusade against mines: Britain's Princess Diana tours a minefield dressed in a flak jacket and face sheild in Huambo, central Angola Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1997 during a visit to Angola to see for herself the carnage mines can cause.

The princess with Mandela: South African President Nelson Mandela, left, holds hands with Diana Princess of Wales during a photocall in Cape Town, Monday, March 17 1997. Princess Diana payed the courtesy visit to Mandela while visiting her brother, Earl Spencer, in Cape Town. (AP PHOTO)

For a social cause: Diana, the Princess of Wales during her visit to Leicester in this May 27, 1997 file photo, to formally open The Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and Arts.

Beauty and grace: Princess Diana arrives at the Royal Albert Hall for a gala performance of Swan Lake Tuesday June 3, 1997. (AP Photo)

Lady in red: Diana, Princess of Wales, leaves a Red Cross gala in this Tuesday, June 17, 1997 file photo, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington.

Powerful women: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets with Princess Diana at the White House Wednesday, June 18, 1997. On Tuesday night, the Princess attended an American Red Cross fund-raiser in Washington to aid land-mine victims around the world. (AP Photo)

The nun and the princess: Mother Teresa, left, says goodbye to Princess Diana after receiving a visit from her Wednesday, June 18, 1997, in New York. Princess Diana met privately for 40 minutes with Mother Teresa at The Missionaries of Charity in the South Bronx section of New York. (AP Photo)

Healing hands: Britain's Diana, Princess of Wales, right, chats with Mirzeta Gabelic, a 15 year-old Bosnian Muslim girl and landmine victim, in front of Mirzeta's home in Sarajevo, Sunday August 10,1997. Diana arrived for a three-day private visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina to focus world attention on the continuing plaque of land mines and to call for a complete ban on the production, sale and use of land mines. (AP Photo)

With her lover: Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed, walk on a pontoon in the French Riviera resort of St Tropez Friday Aug. 22, 1997. (AP Photo)

Final hours: Britain's Diana, Princess of Wales, arrives at the Ritz Hotel in Paris Saturday, Aug. 30, 1997 in this picture made from a security video. Just hours later, the Princess along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur died from injuries sustained in a car crash in Paris in the early hours of Sunday morning Aug. 31.

Crushed: Police take away the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales, died in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris in this Sunday, Aug. 31, 1997 file photo.

Grief and despair: The son of Diana, Prince William (R), and her brother Earl Spencer wait in front of Westminster Abbey in London to attend the funeral ceremony of Diana, Princess of Wales Saturday Sept 6 1997. (AP Photo)

The final journey: A bearer party of Welsh Guards carry the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales, into the Westminster Abbey in London 06 September, followed by (L to R) Diana's former husband Prince Charles, their son Harry, her brother Earl Spencer, her other son William and the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

Public mourns: A large crowd of mourners and sympathisers gathers at the gates of Buckingham Palace in London Sunday August 31, 1997 following the death earlier in the day of Diana Princess of Wales in a car crash in Paris. (AP Photo)

Together in death: A wine glass from the couple's last evening together, and an engagement ring inside a pyramid, are part of the permanent shrine, dedicated to the late Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, inside the Harrods store in London's Knightsbridge Thursday, Aug. 29, 2002. Diana was one of the most famous women in the world before the Aug. 31, 1997 car crash in Paris that took her life aged 36. (AP Photo)