Diana wears gold hoop earrings and Armani jeans. An elderly woman dressed in a simple flower-patterned dress rests her head on the taller woman's shoulders and weeps. Their hands are clasped. In the foreground lies the grave of the woman's soldier son who, she tells Diana, was slaughtered in the Bosnian war.
This photograph, taken just a few weeks ago, depicts a world that is a million miles away from the jet-setting lifestyle more readily associated with the dead princess.
It is a world of AIDS victims and lepers, poverty and homelessness. A world the princess's friends say she felt deeply about and wished to change for the better. To a great extent she succeeded, even if her eventful personal life often threatened to overshadow the good deeds of Princess Diana, queen of hearts.
It was 10 years ago when a handshake from the princess did more than any government health programme to shift attitudes towards those with AIDS. Buckingham Palace had suggested she wear gloves when she visited the Middlesex Hospital. Diana had stood firm and warmly shook the hand of the AIDS victim as millions watched her on TV.
That was only the beginning. The following year she told Barnardo's annual conference of her fears as a young mother bringing up children in a society plagued by "prostitution, drug addiction and divorce". She visited the poor and homeless in New York receiving the New York City Charity Award, an honour previously bestowed on President Eisenhower and Henry Kissinger.
In all she was involved in 150 charities in Britain and overseas. When her decree nisi came through a year ago she resigned her position as patron of almost 100 charities because of the cost of running her private office. She remained patron to six organisations including Centre Point, The Royal Marsden Hospital, the Leprosy Mission, the English National Ballet, the National AIDS Trust and the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
There was no sign of the glamorous gowns recently auctioned by the princess when she embarked on her midnight visits to the London hospital. The princess made regular secret trips to comfort the sick and dying and patients often woke in the early hours of the morning to find a baseball cap-wearing princess sitting by their beds.
The curate at the centre of the AIDS controversy in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, informed Mass-goers yesterday of another incident where the princess offered unsolicited support. Father Michael Kennedy said that the princess had phoned him at the time to tell him "not to let the media get you down". He has urged parishioners to boycott British tabloids as a mark of respect to the late princess.
Princess Diana is said to have deeply admired Mother Teresa and cultivated a friendship with her. The princess first travelled to Calcutta in 1992. Mother Teresa described her as "a great friend in love with the poor".
Her contribution to all the causes she supported was a deeply personal one. She made a point of putting people before any political implications. "I am not a political animal . . . I think people need love and I want to give it," she said in her controversial Panorama interview.
Her recent visits to Angola and Bosnia to highlight the campaign for a worldwide ban on landmines caused some disquiet in the British political circles - one Tory MP called her a loose cannon - but the princess was not deterred .
She visited minefields, listened to the horror stories of amputees and, crucially for the campaign, captured the attention of the world's media.
Her death is a tragedy for all the causes that received her support. The Red Cross was discussing holding a global music concert to raise funds with her. She was due to visit AIDS victims in London over the next few weeks.
Ironically, the princess lost her life on the eve of today's conference in Oslo, where 100 countries will work to draft a text for a convention banning the use, export, production and stockpiling of landmines. A final treaty, if agreed, will be signed in the Canadian capital of Ottawa in December. But Diana, Princess of Wales, who played a pivotal role in placing the issue on the world stage, will not be there to see it.