The River Wild

A life jacket may have saved Princess Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd, from drowning in Scotland. On a fishing expedition with friends, the veteran angler, 64, was standing in the water when she fell into a deep hole. "The freezing water went over my waders, and my whole body was becoming colder by the second," Shand Kydd told a local reporter. Buoyed by her life jacket, she used her rod to drag herself to the shallows. "She's a competent fisherwoman," says Frank Law, who oversees fishing on that section of the River Spey. "I think she just lost her balance."