IT’S the series everyone is talking about, and Netflix hit The Crown’s depiction of Princess Diana is causing quite the stushie.

Back in 1987, however, the real Princess could do no wrong on a visit to Glasgow.

Pictures of her smiling face adorned every newspaper front page, including our own.

“Caring Princess Diana brought sunshine to Glasgow today,” explained our reporter. “Cheers rang out as Diana spoke to Glaswegians who crowded round to say hello.

“The Princess was clearly delighted with the reception she received.”

Princess Di was in town to meet young addicts at the Possil Drugs Project, where she listened sympathetically to their stories.

One young woman told her how her boyfriend had died after injecting heroin mixed with battery acid; another revealed she had done irreversible damage to her heart through drug use; a third said she financed her habit by shoplifting.

Glasgow Times:

The Evening Times said project leader Alan Ferry had been impressed with the Princess’s approach.

“She was very knowledgeable ... and very concerned about the problems here in Possilpark,” said Mr Ferry.

The princess spent an hour at the project before visiting the Alcohol Recovery Unit next door and then moving on to the Southern General Hospital where she met recovering addicts and other patients.

One lady, Freda Lochrie, a long-term patient at the hospital, was so delighted when the Princess stopped to talk to her, she leaned over and hugged her.

“It was just marvellous,” she told the Evening Times reporter. “Princess Diana was wonderful, absolutely beautiful. I feel 100% better now.”

Our archives are full of pictures of the Princess, who visited the city on many occasions. In 1990, we caught her sharing a joke at the Garden Festival with Lord Provost Robert Gray, and in 1983, she was happy to open the new Maryhill Community Centre.

Here, she met five-year-old Judith Williams who was celebrating her birthday.

Little Judith said: “I thought the Princess was very pretty and I liked her.”

Glasgow Times:

On that occasion, Diana was accompanied by her husband Prince Charles who were in Glasgow to see at first hand a number of Princes Trust projects undertaken by groups from all over Scotland.

“As they arrived at the community hall in Maryhill Road crowds cheered Princess Diana who looked ­radiant in a grey coat and a black beret with a red band.”

Later, at a lifeguards project in East Kilbride, Prince Charles tried out the kiss of life on a dummy used for training.

The Royal couple were back in the early 1990s, where Princess Diana spent some time with the staff at Rottenrow Maternity Hospital in the city centre.

Glasgow Times:

The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice is named in their honour, presented to them as a ­wedding gift by the then Lord Provost.

However she is depicted in The Crown, a fictional account based on the life of the Royal Family, Princess Diana will always be remembered with fondness by the countless people she met on visits to Glasgow over the decades.