True story of Princess Diana’s trailblazing AIDS visit

Princess Diana made history when she opened an AIDS ward in 1987 and shook hands with an AIDS patient. (Photo: Anwar Hussein/Getty)

Bren Gosling sat down in 2018 with the intention of writing a one-act play, and immediately the image of Princess Diana holding the hand of a man living with AIDS flooded into his mind.

“I must have buried it away…